scrchngwsl

joined 2 years ago
[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 2 points 20 hours ago

I'll never understand drivers who do this. The psychologist they had talking about "rage and humiliation" in "mini power struggles" was interesting, would like to hear more about that.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I use card for most of my transactions, but in cornershops, independent shops or smaller businesses i usually ask what they prefer. It's not always cash! sometimes they prefer card as it's easier for them to handle.

Interesting what you say about people your age, I've noticed actually that children/teenagers tend to use cash because they don't have a bank account or any income to put in a bank account, but then when they get to 18+ they start using card more.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago

https://arseblog.news/2026/05/beth/

god dammit tim. this one's going to hurt.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

that's devastating. i'm gonna need tim stillman to tell me why i should be ok with this.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The main problem with Paperless is me. I just can't be arsed to scan stuff, even though it's almost entirely automated. The only thing that isn't automated is me putting the paper into the scanner. Why am i like this?

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Polanski didn't have much of an answer to it, even though it's not a difficult one to answer from a principled position. You can report hate crimes if you want, but the right to free speech of thousands of people should be balanced against the possibility of hate crimes being committed by a tiny minority on those marches.

I think this principle stands both ways, too, because it's clear that far right rallies are permitted, despite hate speech being kind of the point of those rallies. I'm not sure why Polanski couldn't have answered this better, especially when he is in the right.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

They were lucky to win that. Deserved a draw. I still think we'll win the league, I still think they'll drop points. The performance was orders of magnitude better than what we've seen for god knows how long, it gives me hope.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of handwaving going on here, and motivated reasoning too. I'm voting Green in May but that doesn't mean I have to believe they are perfect. They do and have done a lot of dumb things. I voted Labour in 2024 and I criticised them at the time and still do now. Not sure why people need to support parties like football teams.

One thing I have to give Labour credit for (Ed Milliband in particular) is their Net Zero policies. They really are doing the hard work of decarbonising our country.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

"within months"

how many months tho

(this is amazing and I can't wait)

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by that last bit? Was he wishy washy on Corbyn's anti-semitism? I saw that he was wishy washy on the "Zionism is racism" motion.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think it's clear that he did, in fact, believe that he could hypnotise women's breasts bigger. And then backtracked when he became a politician and realised this would look bad for him.

Right now I would still vote for the Greens but my god can't we have someone with good policies AND who has never tried to hypnotise women's breasts bigger??

PS. Here is what his website looked like a year after the Sun article was written: https://web.archive.org/web/20141025071852/http://www.zackpolanski.com/page/1/. The main page doesn't advertise breast enlargement, but the blog does mention positively the Sun article. He clearly wasn't ashamed of it, or trying to "defend" himself from misrepresentation. I think we can safely conclude that the guy genuinely believed in hypnotherapy -- him being a professional hynotherapist charging £200 a session and all -- and that this extended to breast enlargement. Whatever he currently believes, I don't like the left denying this apparently basic truth.

[–] scrchngwsl@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

I found cleverkeys to be terrible at swipe/gesture typing. It would fail at even simple, common, seemingly unambiguous words. Heliboard + gboard swipe lib was orders of magnitude better.

I still use cleverkeys for termux though as the key gestures are brilliant.

 

We're going to be flying to the US soon and it's the longest trip we've done with our child. It's an 8 hour flight entirely during daylight hours, and I am slightly (read: very) apprehensive about the chaos that could unfold. Any tips or experiences?

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