adam_y

adam_y, 19 days ago

Bucky has one purpose. It’s the thoroughbred of not-spirits.

Best served warm and straight from the bottle to the back of the throat.

adam_y, 20 days ago

I agree. I like the idea of the loch ness monster.

Problem is though, this stuff all seems to blob together and you start a conversation about the Baghdad battery and all of a sudden someone is making some pretty antisemitic theories about the world.

adam_y, 20 days ago

Massive spud of a human.

I mean, good luck trying to get this working in Northern Ireland too.

This is a classic Tory death rattle. Punish those lazy, entitled young people who, whilst not responsible for the 2008 crash (that was us and our banker mates) or the following years of austerity that ripped the heart out of public services whilst private services prospered (that was also us, but with our banker mates) or Brexit, an enterprise that spit the nation and has left us all worse off (again, us, but this time with our business and banker mates), it is those no good, molly-coddled young people with their funny hair colour and inability to buy houses, or food in some cases, that are the problem with the UK and we need to whip them into shape whilst we (who haven’t been whipped into any sort of shape at all) continue to be in charge.

adam_y, 20 days ago

My niece was stopped in the corridor at school by a teacher who shouted “are you deaf or something?”

My niece removed her hearing aids, slowly.

adam_y, 20 days ago

Can we swap out the word “hallucinations” for the word “bullshit”?

I think all AI/LLM stuf should be prefaced as “someone down the pub said…”

So, “someone down the pub said you can eat rocks” or, “someone down the pub said you should put glue on your pizza”.

Hallucinations are cool, shit like this is worthless.

adam_y, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

Absolutely. I wrote about this a while back in an essay:

Prime and Mash / Kuru

Basically likening it to a prion disease like Kuru, which humans get from eating the infected brains of other humans.

adam_y, 19 days ago

My experience with certain chemicals suggests this is true.

adam_y, 20 days ago

Just cant’t’t’t’t

adam_y, 22 days ago

Right?! When they could be playing Doom on it.

adam_y, 21 days ago

How you choose to fight hell spawn is OK with me.

adam_y, 23 days ago

Freega za.

adam_y, 24 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

Well, once again a tech company gives a service I don’t care for an overhaul I don’t want and tries to charge a fee I won’t pay.

I suspect when this doesn’t do the numbers they want they’ll try adding a user fee to oxygen as a retaliation.

adam_y, 24 days ago

Meanwhile in Britain in 1906…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdjt7nb

Admittedly the Tories tried damned hard to take them away again on several occasions.

adam_y, 25 days ago

Best gaming of my life was on a SNES coupled to a janky sanyo portable.

adam_y, 26 days ago

Would be great if they could make it so that people could, y’know, get actual appointments with GPs too.

adam_y, 25 days ago

That’s why I ended my statement with “too”. It implicitly means both.

adam_y, 26 days ago

Spent some time there this year. A lot of ant-renewable sentiment.

But then every kid gets access to a musical instrument and lessons.

adam_y, 26 days ago

Best Norway fact I have is that their wine (and spirits) is nationalised. Anything over 4.75%.

You can only buy it from the government in places called Vinmonopolet (English: The Wine Monopoly), and it is directly taxed.

adam_y, 29 days ago

This meme is a fine vintage, obviously shows some wear, but that’s to be expected.

I have to ask how you came across this meme? Has it been in your family long?

Now, I know you wouldn’t want to part with it but for the sake of insurance we’d value this at… 100 meme points.

adam_y, 28 days ago

Ah, it has sentimental value. Can’t put a meme point price on that.

adam_y, 29 days ago

Feels very Black Mirror to me. Not a bad thing at all.

adam_y, 29 days ago

Here’s a thing. Yes. What you say is true… But when you have legitimate paying jobs that demand recent experience in retail, then this sort of thing becomes attractive to people that just want a fucking job.

Don’t blame people for doing this, blame the system for making them feel like they have to.

adam_y, 29 days ago

Totally intentional.

adam_y, 30 days ago

Y’know, I think I read this same hyperbolic reporting in the 80s in a New Scientist, and again in the 90s. For some reason teleportation went quiet in the early 2000’s as far as popular reporting went, but it looks like it is back.

I have a suspicion that, alongside space travel, there is this fascination in getting out of this place because we’ve fucked it up.