PhobosAnomaly @ PhobosAnomaly @feddit.uk

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...your genitals, whuuuut

Absolutely. Chris Brown is a prime example. I quite like some of his collab tunes, but I absolutely refuse to give any money - a percentage or not - to that wifebeating spunktrumpet.

In fact, the fact that I'm actively screwing him out of money makes me enjoy the song more.

I've got a BSc from Cambridge.

Apparently the graduate still looking for it wheeeeyyyyy

Do you think there's a correlation between those who process further up the academia tree; and those who enjoy masochism?

How am I going to wreck the heels of my trainers or give my fingers ungodly numbness and pain then though?

Ridge Racer is all about mastering the handling model. Anything beyond that is mostly having an idea of the circuit.

I just to quite enjoy sticking a quid in the Ridge Racer cabinet in motorway service stations in the late 90's and early 2000's, hooning through to win regardless of whether it was a wheel or a stick, and walking away after crossing the line, not even bothering to stay for the name entry.

It was nice being that guy that I was wowed by as a kid in the arcades. Little victories.

Yeah man. For the most part, people are thrown together for an eight or ten or twelve hour stint in work, so I guess you might as well try and get on with the folk you're paired or teamed with, if only to make the time burn down that little quicker.

Sure, there's the extreme groups either side of the social spectrum that either want literally nothing to do with you outside what's mandated by the workplace - that's fine, that's their choice. There's folk who make being at work and entirely social affair - which is fine until their weight isn't being pulled.

I guess nobody really wants to work, so you might as well turn every possible element into an advantage to make it that bit more bearable - and every now and then you'll meet a really good spud that turns into a nice person both in work and out. It's rare, but it does happen.

Workplaces are just a different human setting: there's assholes, diamonds, liars and lifesavers in equal measure.

The US brought weight in technology and numbers that ended the war in a much faster fashion.

To use the term "brilliance" is a stretch though, the US wasted thousands (if not more) of soldiers doing the same shit that other allied nations tried and failed, all in the "we know best" mentality.

The US should rightly celebrate being a part of a wider successful military effort. To say they were better or integral though is... creative, to say the least.

Full disclosure: I only have a surface level understanding of both world wars, I know there's nuance and depth that will turn most historians a shade of angry purple and I apologise in advance 😊

Not to try and think in too much of an abstract sense, but I used to watch bus doors open in town (or even see glimpses of the world beyond the train station entrance) and wonder what was beyond those strange portals to different parts of the world with different surroundings and different ways of life and different priorities in the world.

Now I think I'm less wanderlust and more Dee Dee.

fuckin

I was going to say something similar. Step One sounds like a lot of effort if you're going to do Step Two anyway.

I'm not sure about elsewhere in the world, but daytime TV in the UK is full of programmes where people want to move house to somewhere a little nicer or chilled - whether it's to escape the rat race, bring up kids outside of a city, to retire, whatever. They have the strangest "contestants" though, like (and I'm pulling these from my arse but I doubt they're far from the truth) meeting Tarquin, 44, a part time artist; and Helena, 49, who volunteers at the local farmers market.

"Their budget is 1.2 million pounds"

what the actual fuck

I think it's just a three or four hour entertainment show with a bit of American football thrown in every now and then.

Great if you want to see a concert on a field in the middle of a sports game I suppose.

I struggle with cricket.

Great sport, cracking late drama, and I really enjoy an afternoon out fielding and seeing what the batsman comes up with next...

...but TV coverage is just mindbogglingly boring now, even with the integration of interpolated camera angles and live stats and all the bells and whistles that come with modern coverage. At least it is for the British game - I would suggest that if you look east to the IPL or even to the T20 game, there's a lot more fun and games at play.

Test cricket seems to be born for radio though, there's something quite relaxing about having a cricket game on Radio 5 in the garage or the workplace.

Or not, if you're going for those sweet sweet RTA timezzzz

pentagon

plane

oh no

e: well I expected this low-effort comment to get buried within seconds so just to be clear, it's purely a mathematical theory where if you had two pentagons and an extra vertex, then only 9/11 of the edges would tesselate correctly. I'm not sure what that is in Radians, but it's definitely an American 77 units for sure.

You're absolutely right. The NBC article is gash.

I'm not sure what your comment is trying to prove though?

If you were engaged enough to comment your theory on the article, then surely you were engaged enough to read the article; see in the first couple of paragraphs that the news was the result of a family statement; search for that statement; find a People article with further details on the death (which admittedly problematic as it's an exclusive article, meaning options for corroboration are few); but noting that the claim initially came from a family member along with a brother that was staying with her - two people who I'm making an assumption are the most likely to challenge any kind of coverup?

I just don't understand the logic of throwing a theory out there and proudly claiming that you haven't read the article? I do understand that I came across as a cunt in that initial reply and I apologise to you directly, but I'm interested in dissenting opinion as always.

To be clear, I'm not saying you're 100% wrong - I'm saying there's very little in the way of currently available facts to support your assertion.

I fucking love AI.

I'll qualify that with a small personal story on it: I have a colleague in a nearby office the other side of the city, who steps into supervise his team when the actual manager isn't there. Nice bloke, not much banter, but pleasant enough.

You can fucking guarantee though that when a division-wide email has gone out, or a change of plan comes in... he's right on the phone to me asking what to do.

The first few times it was cute. A guy must really love his job or hate himself to go into junior management, so walking him through routine tasks he may not have been exposed to may be beneficial to him in the long run.

The problem is, it's near constant. Every single time something changes, he calls - not for advice, not for opinion, but "can you do this for my team too?". What really pulls a hair out of my arse is that there's a 50/50 chance of it being something I've already showed him. I've spoken to his actual manager at exasperated length but it's just a can kicked down the road with a "well he's still learning, isn't he?"

I suppose he is, and I'm no teacher. When he phones now, I just tell him "mate our org has access to that fancy new Microsoft Copilot, it's fuckin' mint bro, solves all your problems", knowing fine well the disaster that's about to happen - partly to expose him to new technologies, but mainly to be a smug cunt.

Invariably, he gets solutions that don't quite work, or ideas that don't quite fit the brief... and it's satisfying as fuck getting the follow-up call and saying "sorry bruv, Copilot is smarter than me, which isn't hard" or "nah sorry dude, it gives you a personalised response so that'll be outside of my domain, making my suggestions worthless".

Fucking love it. It has reduced my workload immensely.

It's almost as if the details were right there a single finger tap or click away.

Or at least as a starting point for your own research.

Not nearly on the same scale, but one of my favourite photos of me in a proud moment is me kneeling beside a local beach holding an oversized PR cheque for two hundred quid (my back-of-a-fag-packet maths suggests that's around US$266) for a charity I ran for.

Now, two ton is next to fuck all in the grand scheme of things, and I was only expecting my colleagues and pals to empty their pockets of smash; euros; washers; and the odd Drachma into the tub - but for folk to think so highly of me and break my own target many times over in an era not too far after the credit crunch... well even now I look back and think "fuck yes past me, you did a bit of good there bro".

Granted, I've given more in monthly GAYE donations (lol) off my top line in UK taxation dodges than that figure, but I absolutely get how the opposite is true - a relative minnow getting a cash boost that guarantees their R&D (and livelihoods too) for another fixed period of time.

Fuck yes. (sorry for the anecdote.)

I suspect there may be additional vulnerabilities there that contributed to his distress.

In that instance though, as soon as a firearm gets whipped out, no police officer, mental health worker, or other support structure would change the outcome.

What a shame for everyone involved.