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 Reddit in Google and Apple are hosting an app dedicated to TheDonald and other far-right forums that were banned from Reddit.

I thought they already had Truth Social and considerable chunks of Xitter and Faceberk. What's new or different about this, specifically?

palordrolap , to Linux in Any recommended calendar/app for Linux?

Thunderbird? It's pretty mid as a calendar app, but it works. That said, for an i3wm user the bloat would likely be a turn-off even if was amazing...

palordrolap , to World News in British TV presenter Mosley found dead on Greek island of Symi

Reading about his going missing in the first place, I got the distinct impression he had underestimated the size of the island he was on and decided to plough on regardless, thinking that he'd reach his intended destination "any minute now".

And if it wasn't the distance, the extreme conditions were almost certainly not taken into account.

Literal misadventure.

palordrolap , to Comic Strips in So...

No. The driver is still into women, but is realising that they prefer to present as mostly male, despite whatever their biology might be.

In oversimplified terms, you could say they're a straight man in a biologically female body.

The implication is that when they were dating and married, driver was presenting as more female or androgynous, and non-driver, presumably, has a preference for that.

However, it's not really that preference that's causing the real rift - if you love someone, you love someone - it's the desire for kids. Driver doesn't want them. Non-driver does.

They're both able to deal with this like adults. Win-win-win. (Third win is the eventual kid(s) who might get to have a cool uncle rather than a grumpy, distant dad. Assuming "uncle" and "dad" are terms driver would use anyway.)

palordrolap , to World News in Bug meat and other fake news inundate EU voters

"Bugs are disgusting." said the person tucking into crab pâté and lobster at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

"Too right." agreed the person chowing down on a well-boiled haggis.

palordrolap , to News in Execution date set for Missouri inmate, even as he awaits hearing on claim of actual innocence

[a cellmate] told prosecutors Williams confessed to the killing and offered details about it.

This is something I found out about recently. They plant an informant as a new cellmate of the person they want a confession from, and give that informant information that only the accused (and law enforcement, of course) would know about the crime, supposedly so that it can be used to wheedle more information. But, when it comes time to tell all, they somehow have all this corroborating information that makes the target look more guilty. How did that happen? /s

Why does the informant do this? Well, they're in prison too. Any deal they can get is a good deal. And it should make us wonder about the veracity of anything a prison snitch says.

Note that this says nothing about the target's actual guilt. They might have done it. This is just a technique used by law enforcement to bolster an otherwise shaky case.

And I'm not even saying a plant is what's happened here. We should still be wary of things said by the prison snitch.

palordrolap , to World News in Russia's biggest energy company says it'll take it at least 10 years to recover gas sales lost because of the Ukraine war

My mistake. They weren't supposed to be estimates, they were supposed to be actual figures, and rather than say "we haven't collected enough data" or "we don't want to give out the actual data" the decision was made to use an outdated extrapolation measure and which was then reported as fact, or if you prefer, allowed to be interpreted as fact.

That's why I was sceptical.

But another comment suggests that China might actually be struggling, and it's that which is the cause of the downturn in usage.

I'd rather it wasn't that. Recessions suck and it's the wrong people (regular citizens) who suffer.

palordrolap , to World News in Russia's biggest energy company says it'll take it at least 10 years to recover gas sales lost because of the Ukraine war

China is hitting their fossil fuels consumption and emissions targets years in advance

Really? Is the source the same people whose Coronavirus estimates increased suspiciously geometrical rather than exponential?

palordrolap , to Fediverse in Federated Blogging Platforms

There's also a Fediverse plugin for WordPress if you already have a host. Caveat: I have only seen it on Fediverse directories. No idea whether it's any good.

palordrolap , to Fediverse in Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

Yep. When I was migrating, I saw some advice to avoid Lemmy on account of its provenance, which is how I ended up on Kbin instead.

Unfortunately, it's not going well on the original instance (getting in before "how's that working out for you"), but for reasons very different to lemmy.ml.

Still don't have a lemmy account, but I am, for my sins, subscribed to communities there. Like this one.

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