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letsgo ,

We've got some in the UK, like this one at the Shell petrol station at S60 5ND (pic from Oogle Gearth)

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/0ee21d2c-7bc2-4bcd-8e1c-3beea88b1532.webp

letsgo ,

No, intermediate. They eat half a meal and leave the rest.

letsgo ,

Lexus GS300. Great car to drive. But every fucking thing that went wrong was at least £400. Door check strap? £400. Windscreen wiper? £400. Parking sensor? £400, and all eight of them need doing, and that's £400 PER FUCKING SENSOR. Everything's main dealer only. Merc was no better. £600 for a fucking HOSEPIPE. Also tried BMW (bike). Same problem. Had a CANBUS system. I started calling it a CAN'T BUS cos every tiny thing that went wrong shut the entire bike down. Duff indicator? Sorry, won't start the engine until it's fixed. Yes that means it's got to be trailered to the dealer.

No more fancy marques for me, they can all fuck off until I'm a billionaire. I drive Volvos now.

I'm still not quite over it. Whenever the garage tells me there's going to be a big bill on my Volvo I think OMG how many digits, but then they say something like £150. That's a big bill? Hahahahahahahahaha.

letsgo ,

Some people just like being a dick instead of getting on with their lives. My answer to those people is to slow down until they pass, and it's fairly common that I get under 10mph and think I'm actually going to have to stop before they get the hint.

letsgo ,

Actually I quite like it...

letsgo ,

Nothing. I have some Kebu on pause in VLC, a bunch of YT browser tabs open with some vids I plan on watching when I get round to them, but apart from a gentle hum from my PC's fans the house is silent.

letsgo ,

I'm not your willy, zilly

letsgo ,

No, for several reasons.

Death is final. There is no coming back from it.

A cure, or at least an effective treatment, might be just around the corner. HIV used to be a death sentence; it isn't any more (and from what I understand, carriers can now have unprotected sex without passing it on). I wonder how much medical research into treating HIV wouldn't have been possible without sufferers to try out potential treatments. Maybe it would still be a death sentence today if assisted suicide had allowed people to escape it.

There is no way to be 100% certain someone isn't being pressured to die. If they answer all the questions correctly, that only shows they know the right answers; it doesn't show they are being truthful.

Justifying assisted suicide on the basis of the worst cases is not sufficient. There will always be worst cases. Let's say we define a limited set of the worst cases; those are now effectively solved and everything else jumps up a level. There is now a new set of worst cases. How long before someone catching the common cold gets put to death? You may say this is ridiculous but the worst case justification means that the cold WILL eventually rise to the top, and there WILL be arguments like "giving evolution a helping hand", or "for the benefit of the species", and as we will by then be routinely applying AS there'll only be a low bar to jump.

If palliative care isn't producing sufficient quality of life, we can put people into a medically induced coma (IANAD so there may be good reasons we can't, but idk). There they stay until (a) a cure or treatment is available, or (b) they die naturally anyway.

Obviously this needs sensible public healthcare in place. Where medical treatment is expensive and life is cheap, this won't work. I'm in the UK where healthcare is provided by the state and we have the luxury of considering life to be priceless.

For those who say we euthanise animals - well society in general doesn't want to pay for their healthcare and doesn't consider their lives to be infinitely precious. Also there is the question of how much they understand what is happening to them; maybe the terror of being hooked up to a machine would make their QOL effectively non-existent anyway.

letsgo ,

Two blue and one pink. If I can only have one of each, swap a blue for a black.

letsgo ,

I didn't get a job I applied for a few years ago for a broadly similar reason. Also they thought (correctly) that I didn't know a lot about web development.

So I was rejected for being simultaneously overqualified and underqualified.

letsgo ,

I googled "backdrops", then saw something interesting and refined that to "4k backdrops". Then I just picked out some images I liked - Mandelbrots, scenery, some fantasy etc. I might have switched to Images view at some point but it was a while ago now and I can't remember exactly.

letsgo ,

What about the past participle though? With Google it's easy - I Googled it. But DuckDuckGoed? That doesn't sound right. DuckDuckWent?

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letsgo ,

So, what you're saying is that white people shouldn't use AI?

letsgo ,

I'm British, not American, so I use 7/22.

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letsgo ,

Nice misquote. It's not the tree of knowledge, it's the tree of knowledge of good and evil. There is a difference.

Biblically there's nothing wrong with knowledge, as long as it's appropriately balanced with faith.

letsgo ,

Your argument appeared to be predicated upon "knowledge", not "knowledge of good and evil", hence the need for clarification. There is of course more to knowledge than good and evil.

letsgo ,

Maybe, but I think it'll take a bit longer. Reddit'll be given some artificial value, then the initial stock will be flogged at 80% of that to make people think they're getting a good deal, so loads of people will buy it, then the price'll shoot up, so loads more people will buy that; meanwhile Spez'll cash out his billions then when the true value of Reddit is realised there'll be a "correction" - i.e. a crash, and the last bunch of suckers to buy will be sitting on a huge loss that'll take years to recover from as it slowly inches back up by a couple of percent a year.

letsgo ,

What do you mean, they're right.... ohhhh. Thanks uBlock Origin!

letsgo ,

There's more to the story than the headline. Separation costs from his wife (a lawyer), plus child maintenance, plus burnout from lots of different roles. It's not just the mortgage payments.

If I understand high salary taxation correctly, there are no tax bands above £100K and you just pay 40% on the lot, which makes his take-home net £6K/month, of which a £2K mortgage is one third. I'm managing OK with my mortgage being one third of my net takehome. But I don't have an angry lawyer ex-wife and child maintenance to pay, or a stressful job.

Maybe mortgage increases were the last straw for him. But they are not the only reason for him quitting.

letsgo ,

Adding a bunch of quarters together gets a third.

Admittedly a bit of an oversimplification. It's from a YT video: a chocolate bar costs £1 but four wrappers gets you a free bar. How many bars can you get for £1000?

So you buy 1000 bars which gets you 1000 wrappers. Turn those in for 250 bars. With those (actually 248) you get 62 bars. Add the 2 from before and turn in 64 wrappers for 16 bars. And again for 4, then 1. It's a sequence of quarters and the solution is 1,333.

letsgo ,

"First, focus on maximizing the benefits..."

No. First, get your CV up to date and start jobhunting for a guaranteed fully remote position. That's what the smarter employers are offering. You don't want to be stuck working for those stone-age dinosaurs who insist on in-office work.

letsgo ,

Brief summary: according to Americans, everyone else is doomed if Americans walk away.

Er, no. If America walks away, that's when America discovers everyone can manage perfectly well without them, just like we did the last time y'all had that orange muppet in the Shite House.

letsgo ,

Plan the things you want to do into your life. Drop the notion "when I retire I will..." If you can fit the stuff you want to do into your Annual Leave then that's a big win. If not then you'll need unpaid leave. One good time is between jobs.

letsgo ,

That's easy to answer. Justice is not perfect, and sooner or later you will execute an innocent person. We know this has happened in the UK, because DNA evidence proved that the person couldn't have been there, and they would have been released had they not been executed.

Death is final and you don't just respawn at your bed, so this is the worst possible outcome. Abolishing the death penalty avoids this terrible situation, and yes it means you keep people like this alive until their natural death, but it also maximises the chance that new evidence can be found that proves that person didn't in fact commit the crime.

letsgo ,

That's the dilemma. The thing is, when we last executed an innocent, we believed we had absolute incontrovertible proof. We have always known a death sentence to be final.

Maybe this argument will win the day: The value of human life is so high, and the execution of an innocent is so terrible, that we convert the death sentence to life imprisonment for the benefit of all those that will later be proven innocent. And yes this means some genuine criminals will live, but that is a better price to pay than executing even one innocent. The death penalty will ALWAYS have some collateral damage, and the only way to avoid that is to abolish it.

In Cruz's case of course another significant aspect is the lack of sensible gun control. But you Americans value guns more than you value kids, and until that changes you'll be stuck with your Cruzes. Killing Cruz for a systemic failure is no solution.

letsgo ,

People think the speed of light is fast, but darkness is faster. Wherever light goes, it finds darkness got there first.

-source not sure, Pratchett probably? If not him then Adams.

letsgo ,

One lion? I longed for the days when there was only one lion.

letsgo ,

Oops I thought you were going to be ragging on an early jazz genre.

letsgo ,

I'm old enough to remember a time before CDs existed.

letsgo ,

Don't know. I haven't found them yet.

letsgo ,

GenX here, sounds like me a few decades ago, counting the pennies and balancing everything, and not completely succeeding.

letsgo ,

For me the biggest problem with the Greens is that they don't talk about a realistic lifestyle that achieves their climate aims. As far as I can tell they just want us to sit around in forests banging rocks together and going "ug". It's all no to this, no to that, and no positive suggestions about anything.

Edit: oh and another thing it's because of those wankers that fuel taxes and taxes on taxes are so fucking high.

letsgo ,

Sure, but it's not five minutes is it. It's fucking HOURS because (a) you've glued yourselves to the roads and (b) congestion.

I would completely support a five minute road blockage.

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