Fucking hell. It'd be worth rejoining just for this alone.

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Software engineer here. It was pretty obvious the volume of spam calls was going to go through the roof with AI being ubiquitous. So I always try some prompt injection when they call me. Proudest achievement was a 3 minute recital of the digits of pi.

Dress socks being the thinnest type of men's socks makes no sense. They should be some of the thickest to account for the hard leather of formal shoes.

I love that this place exists in Ayrshire!

I used to think it was unrealistic in a zombie film when someone would get bit and would hide it from from the rest of the group. Then the fucking COVID pandemic happened.

Public libraries should grow in number and size in proportion to an area's population. New housing is great but only if there's also a public lending library with a good stock of books, journals, music, and tools. And librarians. It's not a library without librarians.

Public speaking is a specialised skill requiring practice and training, yet from childhood we are taught that not being automatically good at it makes us defective. We don't expect anyone to be able to (e.g.) play the piano or solve equations with no training.

The lovely thing about Boxing Day is that Christmas music pretty much ends for another 10 months. It's like breathing fresh air.

Dr. Shure said: “The results of our study were unsurprising. The worst way to engage with ‘smart casual’ is to point out to your hosts that that is not only oxymoronic, but also just plain moronic.

Star Trek Secret: The Mirror Universe was us all along.

Dexter Livingstone, 30, was in bed with girlfriend, Kelsey Dacey, 26, when she asked “what are you thinking?” Livingstone answered, honestly: “I was thinking about the United 173 aviation disaster”.

I have cultivated a strategy which guarantees I always win at Monopoly: I lose as quickly as possible. The remaining players think I've lost, but they're wrong. I escaped first, so I win.

The richest men in the world are all sociopaths who spent their formative years on computers not talking to anyone. Now they've got us all doing the same.

More websites should approach UI design like Wikipedia: find something that works and stick with it for a while. Much rather use a good design from a decade ago, than a UI that is chopping and changing to keep up with the latest trends.

Society lost something when carparks starting asking for your car registration. Yes it was technically fraud, but passing on your non expired ticket to a grateful stranger as you left the car park was one of life's simple joys.

President Jimmy Carter, who later won the Nobel Peace Prize, died at the age of 100 exactly 1 year ago today.

Classic TV at it's finest

i am old enough to remember when tech companies, even larger ones with unsavory business practices, had at least a few core values they seemed to stick to even when it wasn't about their profit motives ie opposing gov surveillance & defending net neutrality those days are gone. anything for a buck

Car manufacturers should be forced to publish the amount of time it would take an average untrained person to change both headlight bulbs. Easiest way to tell if a car is well designed.

As someone prohibited from driving by virtue of poor eyesight, I don’t like this argument. Your options are slightly restricted by not driving but you are not cut off from society. A quarter of the population manage it and most of those haven’t killed anyone!

the only solution is to pivot to the 2-em⸺you know it makes sense———or for the real connoisseurs, the 3-em

Thanks to AI, em dashes are now going to vanish from our language because people who genuinely use them will be too worried about others accusing them of using AI.

Copyright should be 50 years max. All works of art made before 1975 should be public domain.

I can't wait to see it. (I had no idea so many members of the Screen Actors' Guild were lizards.)

Social networks should have a public service obligation like broadcasters. Require 10% of "discover" feeds to be posts from government, political parties and registered charities.

Toilet brushes are disgusting, just sitting there in their little pool of manky water. Just grab some toilet paper, wipe anything you need to away and then wash your hands properly instead.

"He puts his trousers on one leg at a time, just like everyone else." The teacher who said that inspired me to put them both legs at once. I tried the next morning at the top of the stairs. I broke my left leg and wasted my dad's morning. Turns out, one leg at a time is fine.

Friday Motivation

So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.

Sort of how right wing governments work. Clog the toilet and take credit for fixing it.

Don't trust anyone with a bookcase full of books they've actually read. Any good book collection is at least 50% books you intend to read but never will, books you started but didn't finish and books you think just look cool/will impress people.

Artist impressions of new buildings shouldn't just be produced with sunny outlooks, they should also be forced to show what it'll look like when it's pissing down. Especially projects in Manchester.