jodrellblank

9 ms·

91.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
The UK is currently going through the analogue copper landline shutdown, with a scheduled cutoff of Jan 2027 (already pushed back once). The gov website says: > ""Analogue networks have been in operation for decades and have re
92.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
from L'Affaire Siloxane? ( https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/laffaire-siloxane ) (subtitle: "How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station")
93.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
There's arguing from fictional evidence[1] and there's being "driven nuts" by the suggestion that more people are entertained by fighting than by stoic political discussions. Look at current day TV and stadiums (boxing,
94.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
A low-effort comment from a new user account which I remember from this other low-effort comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734579 either you're still fat, or at 45 you should be long past boasting on the
95.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
> " They assume they're right so disagreement is a sign of a defect " Take a step back and look at the original linked blog post through this lense, and you'll see an article where the author is a priori correct and o
96.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
but you don't need to be a subject matter expert on wind turbine material strength and recycling options to accept that President Trump's claims that they kill whales is nonsense: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wo
97.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
> " But if those standards of mine are met... " > " Biblically accurate angels descend onto earth, to everyone, and submit themselves to scientific testing, which conclude they are made of something non-physical. "
98.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
That is a false claim. Voting for taxation to support the less wealthy is almost a defining feature of what it means to be 'left'. Voting for taxation to support international aid and outreach and healthcare is very common. The &#
99.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
I don't know where the logic " we're supporting horrible things, but if you look down on us for it that makes you worse! Yeah! " came from, but it's not very good.
100.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
92 years is 33,000 days of being alive, that's plenty of time to rack up damage without doing anything for "too long". If she had tooth decay or dentures would you say she must have been "chewing for too long"?
101.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
> " relatively large player in the British DefenseTech space via QinetiQ " After he donated £1m to The Office of Boris Johnson, £270k to the Conservative Party, and the Conservative government gave QinetiQ an £80m defence contr
102.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
Christopher Harborne isn't Russian, and Thailand isn't Russia.
103.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
I see no mention of that in the picture I linked for me to have 'forgotten'? Or in the longer article where it appears: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jdv.17660 That seems to be so
104.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
I have no idea what the numbers were, I took it in as a system idea: more time in sunlight, more UVB, more Vitamin D. Then UVA breaks it down slowly, so more builds up in the skin, more is being broken down, acting as a control-feedback bra
105.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
UVB makes it. UBA denatures it[1], which I thought was how we avoid overdose levels building up in the skin when outside, but can't find a source for that. Suggested as a reason why fair-skinned indoor workers are getting more melanoma
106.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
Photo claiming to be a 92 year old woman who used suncream on her face, but not her neck, for 40 years: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ITlo7TAy_Hs/maxresdefault.jpg (She also appears to have Frank's Sign: https:&#x2
107.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
What weirds me out is how empty it is of humans. These are some, but mostly empty rooms, empty roads, parked cars, empty gardens, empty warehouses, empty shops, empty chairs... page after page even of places like Mexico City or Berlin Germa
108.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
If I follow your comment, then a politician who is elected based on how they look while eating a bacon sandwich[1] is better at synthesizing third-order effects of a legal proposal because they are a politician? (i.e. Politicians are sele
109.
by jodrellblank 3mo ago
“Millions a day” is quite a low estimate; “””here are the best estimates of how many animals are killed every day on a per-species basis. Chickens: 206 million/day Farmed Fish: Between 211 million and 339 million Wild Fish: Between 3 b
110.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
Which is why we have https://old.reddit.com/r/NotMyJob/
111.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
> "the public believe it every time" This reads a lot like GB News announcing in Feb 2026 " The "biggest scandal in British history" [South Asian child grooming/rape gangs] has been blown wide open this week
112.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
Here's 114 companies formerly nationalised in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_nationalised_i... or currently nationalised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-owned_enter
113.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
Collectively (as in, the collective action problem): - Areas with few/no cars are nicer to be in. To breathe, to talk quietly and hear others talking, to walk around safely. - Transport moves more people in less space and less overall
114.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
Someone who says “I volunteer to do maintenance work” is volunteering to do some work, no matter how many times you say “nuh uh”. The work need not be “for me” and nowhere did I say it was or ought to be.
115.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
Here: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t... > "You are responsible for keeping your Account secure." That is a non-zero amount of work. > "You may not use GitHub
116.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
No, what is not what? What I'm getting from you and akerl_10 is "la la la I don't want words to have meanings so I'm just going to deny that they do".
117.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
Go on then, which part of my earlier post do you disagree with, specifically? 1. The difference between ‘abandoned’ and ‘maintained’ is that ‘maintained’ is bounded at the lower end to a greater-than-zero amount of maintenance work. Not a s
118.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
We're not talking about someone who "just happens to be within earshot" of something that is inside your private garden and not open to the public. If you put a note on the public noticeboard saying "I have planted some
119.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
“This is abandonware” And “This is maintained and I am the maintainer” Are different states. 'Maintenance' is not work-free or effortless, so the second sentence is explicitly volunteering to do some non-zero amount of work, rig
120.
by jodrellblank 4mo ago
Explain why the metaphor doesn’t operate here? Bonus points, don’t use the word “entitled”.

More ›