My favorite was when Priti Patel suggested we should use wave machines to drown migrants trying to cross the channel.

The only problem was she was home secretary at the time, and actually in charge of the borders.

You’re never quite sure if mockery or horror is the right response.

"Because of my views - and they’re lawfully held views - they are missing out on this opportunity, and that’s the part that is absolutely galling.

And it’s also a lawfully held view for scope to think she’s so terrible that they want nothing to do with her.

Fucking coward. If your only justification for your views is that it’s “lawfully held” you need to admit to yourself that you’re a bad person.

If the data is present but difficult to restore, it’s annoying. You might need to spend a few days fixing stuff.

If the data is gone, it’s devastating and can bankrupt a company. On a personal level it’s the same as having all your photos destroyed in a fire. And backups not containing the right data are very common.

Petition for the UK to ship reform off to the colonies.

It’ll make both countries smarter.

Most of the country wants it but the politicians don’t want to give the far right any excuses.

What we’re seeing is closer and closer alignment until we end up as a defacto member of the common market, but without a say over the rules.

If we end up rejoining it will probably take more than a decade and it will be under the default rules, just because the EU can’t be bothered to deal with British exceptionalism again.

I’m not being funny but it can be both.

Square root is an operator that maps a number to the positive number that when squared returns the original number, but there is also a square root symbol.

Similarly, % can be an operator that maps a number x to x/100, but there’s also a percent symbol.

It just depends if you’re talking about functions or fonts.

Long and generic text without actually making a point, and no actual facts.

I’m not saying it was written by an LLM, but it might as well have been.

Congrats, the game is now non-finite (you can just keep drawing forever).

No, you just use a standard technique like word2vec.

Basically words are considered similar (and embedded to nearby locations in a high dimensional space) if they are likely to be used in the same context.

And because slurs are used to indicate that you don’t like someone, they tend to occur in the same kind of context.

So they’re all very similar. This is actual natural language processing being used, but it’s a shit post and the graphics aren’t very clear.

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Streeting is fucking awful. He’s super Christian, and consistently makes terrible faith based decisions - he’s anti trans and anti right to die - while pretending he’s making them for non religious reasons.

He’s even talked about how he was brought up to be a self-hating gay person because of his faith. Apparently he did just enough therapy to realize his church was wrong about gay people, but he can’t extend the same awareness to trans issues.

I don’t mean that the people selling UPFs are part of a grift, but the people that talk about it are.

It’s targeting middle class people and says you should feel bad about eating cheap and easy to cook food. As such, it feeds into product differentiation and empowers capitalism, by telling people with more money that they have a moral necessity to eat more expensive food.

Alienating and bullying poor people is just a side effect of the grift.

The reason I say it is a grift, is because the whole thing is run entirely on vibes. The people selling the idea of UPFs struggle to say if particular foods are UPFs or not, and they can’t identify harms that make it meaningful to talk about them.

Are there foods that are bad for you? Yes.

Are they all UPFs? No.

Are all UPFs bad for you? Also no.

Is it true that most UPFs have almost zero nutritional value? Absolutely not.

So instead of engaging in a meaningful debate about specific harms and what can be done about them, UPFs just tell you to spend more time and money on food or feel guilty.

The environmental harms are the same. The article made no attempt to actually say what the harm is e.g. per packet of m&ms, but because of economies of scale and their long shelf life means they can be shipped slowly, we should be very suspicious of any claim that they are particularly bad vs. more gourmet alternatives.

Ultra-processed food has a pretty standard definition. Briefly, it’s food that has been highly processed by some industrial methods.

It’s worth looking into the history of the term some time. Basically, it’s always been intended to target poor people’s food, but they kept screwing up the definition, and catching e.g. slow cooked stew or pasta sauce in their definition.

The addition of “industrial” to the definition is the latest attempt to exclude socially acceptable/ higher status complex foods.

If you look at the current definition from the byline.

Industrially made foods involve several ingredients and processes to put together,

This is now completely redundant. It could just read “industrially made food”. All industrially made food has a process to make it, and maybe only ice doesn’t have multiple ingredients.

I’m convinced ‘ultra-processed food’ is a bullshit term used bully poor people for their lifestyle. It seems designed to split food into expensive handmade (which is always good, regardless of what it’s made out of) and industrial processed (which is always bad).

What about the environmental cost of expensive air shipped food like lobster or the very fancy single origin coffees? It will absolutely dwarf the cost of a packet of m&ms.

Bottom has infinite density and will collapse into a black hole killing everyone, and destroying the tram and lever.

I mean Nando’s was originally a South African company, and now it’s just a big multinational. Not sure what they have to do with the Netherlands though.

If your posts turn up in /c/all they’re going to get treated accordingly.

And this is fine. /c/all should let users downvote posts they don’t like so popular stuff can rise to the top. That’s what makes /c/all sometimes worth looking at.

Otherwise, it’ll just fill up with all sorts of crap from communities with no downvoting rules, including edgy borderline racist stuff that’s not quite bad enough to get banned, or just shitty positivity memes copied from somewhere else.

Your problem is that you can’t delist your community from /c/all. That sucks, but right now your posts are turning up in two different communities with different expectations and you just need to deal with that.

I’m amazed a reviewer read the code.

This is actually a Tory policy, where the law was passed by the previous Tory government and came into force under labour.

That’s not a get out of jail card, because they could have stopped it, and instead choose to continue it, just like they continued the NHS anti trans policies. Or the way they choose to continue the same austerity budget rules.

At this point, I’d say they’re exactly as right wing as the Tories.

There’s a contingent of very vocal minicab drivers and tradesmen that constantly complain about sharing the road.

This kind of being a dick to cyclists plays well with them.