palordrolap

@palordrolap@kbin.run

Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

palordrolap , to World News in Netanyahu says he won’t agree to a deal that ends the war in Gaza, testing the latest truce proposal

He won't stop until every last potential Hamas member (read "Palestinian") is dead or out of Palestine.

He's been pretty clear on this.

palordrolap , to World News in Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times

Maybe not in any legal sense, no. How people and even news media use it, there's plenty of wiggle room.

e.g. allowing the ambiguity of "British home owner" to go unclarified, that is as "home owner who is British" as opposed to "owner of a home in Britain", and any similarly loose interpretations that go along with or derive from that.

palordrolap , to World News in The Guardian Australia: Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could cost as much as $600bn and supply just 3.7% of Australia’s energy by 2050, experts say

Of all the comments to argue against the use of a mysterious "they", I think you've picked the wrong one.

It's pretty clear who the "they" is here: Conservative politicians in the pocket of corporations who would stand to lose from cheaper, cleaner energy sources.

I'd go one step further and erase "Conservative", because it doesn't matter your other politics if you're receiving bribes lobbying money from big business. It does at least seem to be skewed more towards politicians in Conservative parties though.

palordrolap , to World News in For Many Greeks, Six-Day 48-Hour Work Week Now Set to Begin July 1st

Headline in three months: "Less work getting done than in five-day week."

Government and management will blame lazy workers. Workers will blame government, management and burnout. Truth will be closer to the latter, but a few actually lazy employees and some innocent scapegoats will be fired to preserve the bottom line. Burnout will increase.

But at least the bosses got their bonus this month.

palordrolap , to World News in Palestinians reel from repeated strikes on 'humanitarian zones'

Better hope the IDF don't find out there's a humanitarian zone at Netanyahu's house.

palordrolap , to World News in Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times

Pity the person of Scottish (or Welsh) ancestry born in England who has to choose what they are on some forms, especially legal ones.

But then, there are worse problems to have.

palordrolap , to World News in Members of Britain’s richest family get jail terms for exploiting Indian staff at Swiss mansion | The Straits Times

"Briton" is generally used as the noun form of "British", so when "Brit" is used as a noun - which is most of the time - it's abbreviating "Briton".

As for who gets to be called "Briton": In the loosest sense, anyone with residence in Britain can be counted as British when they're here, whether or not they're considered ethnically British (by themselves or others).

Bear in mind that "Briton" originally mean "an inhabitant of the British Isles before any of the Romans, or various flavours of Germanics turned up". There's been quite a bit of admixture since then. It makes sense - to the chagrin of the Welsh, no doubt - that the term has mutated a bit over the centuries.

palordrolap , to World News in Comedian Michael Usi becomes Malawi's vice-president after Saulos Chilima's death

What sort of comedian is he? I feel like satirists and absurdists are good choices for political office.

Those who punch down, maybe not so much.

palordrolap , to News in Utah's bathroom snitch line hasn't found one legitimate complaint out of 12,000

Would some variant of "snauk(t)" or "snaught" work for you? Your brain might be expecting ablaut in the style of "teach" / "taught" or "catch" / "caught" rather than that of "sing" / "sung".

How do you feel about "(p)reached"? "Snaked"?

A fun fact about "caught" is that it's a relative neologism. It uh, caught on after people decided they didn't like "catched" for whatever reason. (I guess it has something to do with tangibility / concreteness. Most other -atch words are used for objects.)

palordrolap , to News in Coke—and Dozens of Others—Pledged to Quit Russia. They’re Still There.

That's not strictly true. If it doesn't cause a dip in profits, or even might increase them, they'll sing truth like the purest angel.

Unfortunately, pulling out of Russia would lose them money so they lie. And hey, maybe that lie will make money if people believe them. 10/10 would lie again.

Number must go up. Down is bad. Only up.

palordrolap , to World News in France’s far-right leader says he will not be PM without absolute majority

There's something troubling about his eyes. Every photo I see just screams "danger".

Yes, this is entirely subjective. I'm sure he's very nice to his pets, etc.

palordrolap , to Science Memes in Like a prion

"If you took all the DNA out of a person and laid it end to end, that person would die."

The distance to Jupiter from Earth is but a mere blip though. Even the galaxy is small compared to what's beyond.

Thanks to chaos theory, what we do here can have some effect on the far future of the Universe, at least, for those places within causal reach. How meaningful that effect can be remains to be seen.

But do bear in mind that even, say, a cow farting in a field in France last Tuesday might have as much effect as everything you ever do.

palordrolap , to United Kingdom in BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil

It's the same handful of obnoxious individuals over and over making it look like it's a majority.

That said, this thread started about Tories, and about half the population lean that way even if they don't vote for 'em...

palordrolap , to News in The world is running out of soldiers

Conscription? You'll need more than that. You'd have to press-gang those kids into service, and then hope they don't revolt.

Other alternatives: 1) Becoming the enemy - telling them their families' lives are forfeit if they don't pass muster. 2) Some really top-notch propaganda.

I can think of at least one country that would do both of these, but would deny the first one.

palordrolap , to News in Scientists enlist AI to interpret meaning of barks

Just gonna leave this here: https://imgur.com/C5nBQ9Q

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