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If you think GPT has taken us meaningfully closure to AGI then I, er, have a drawing of an ape to sell you.

Well when you put it like that 😂

How the fuck has this become a left/right culture war issue?

Well fuck me, we finally agree on something 😁

Everything in the UK since about May 2015.

Broadly good news, well, unless your trans.

I can't work out if I'm surprised or not that men's attitudes towards transpeople have deteriorated faster than women's. My bubble is so overwhelmingly focused on TERFs being the only people who hate transpeople that I've missed a lot of the phobia in toxic masc spaces.

Absolutely - or as I generally phrase it, to relax and think about things more thoroughly.

I get that, and I don't want to use cars as a good example because they aren't, but even car manufacturers have less restrictive policies than Apple is pushing here.

It would still be wrong to invalidate the warranty for the reasons you give, but it's still better than this.

Completely understandable.

The way I often describe it is if I was wanting to buy a mid-range phone with the technical specs of a fairphone, I'd buy something cheaper with the same specs.

But if I'm happy to spend over £600 on a phone - which imo is absolutely at the luxury end of pricing - then I'm looking more at overal quality, and the combination of repairability, fair(er) sourced materials, etc, makes it better.

However why anyone would spend a grand plus on a phone is absolutely beyond me.

I can understand Apple refusing to do repairs under warranty, or even invalidating a warranty, if someone has broken their phone after digging around inside without knowing what they are doing, but bricking a phone the person owns through a software lock is absolutely insane and stinks of attempts at service capture and fighting right to repair laws.

Yet another reason I'll never give them a penny.

Fairphone gang rise up!

I'm guessing they don't feel the time to do a fair re-review is worth it on older devices with less, but higher than 0, new users.

Most people who are interested in those devices already have them, so a change in score doesn't really make a difference.

I agree with most of this, but this bit

If your employees are serving customers, let them take frequent 10 minute breaks to use their phone or be away from humans.

Is comically absurd.

GenZ are not the first people to have things they'd rather be doing than work, or to be tired due to human interaction. The latter is called emotional labour and has been a thing across all service industries for literally a hundred plus years.

I'm not saying that people don't need breaks, everyone does, especially in jobs which are physically/mentally tiring, but to say people need frequent breaks solely to check their phone is derisible.

Keep in mind that every tonne of carbon not emitted is better than one emitted, and even Labour's less than desirable policies are better than the Tories. While right now it will still be too much to stay under 1.5, we will emit less with a Labour government. That is why priority 1 has to be to get the Tories out.

If you can vote green and the tory won't win the seat, absolutely go for it, the stronger the message that is sent the better. But if you can't, vote for whoever is best placed to get/keep the tory out.

They always had the choice of not doing it.

Clegg, some years afterwards, said that they had prioritised stability of government over things like student loans. Their subsequent wipe out showed that their voters disagreed.

The AV referendum was foolish (because it wasn't needed, they could have demanded the change itself) and while I don't expect people to have a crystal ball, the confidence the Tories gained from that decisive result, and then the Scottish IndyRef, laid the groundwork for Cameron to be overly confident towards Brexit.

The worst bit is that they actually got quite a lot of their manifesto enacted. That ended up making the Tories not seem quite so bad, even with austerity turbo-fucking the economy, as the Lib Dem's provided a sort of calming influence on the Tories more batshit insane policies like having a Common's vote on bringing back fox hunting.

The thing people forget is that the 2010 election was more a rejection of Labour - after 13 years of government, a global financial crisis, and the continued legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan - than an embrace of the Conservatives. A hung parliament had not occurred for quite some time, and a sizable amount of the Lib Dem vote - especially among millenials - was as a third option being neither labour or the tories.

Unfortunately, what we got was still the Tories.

But as they showed in 2010, if they become king makers they'll side with the Tories.

As someone who was foolish enough to agree with Nick, I'm still bitter about just how much stuff they enabled the Tories to do in that first term.

Muh-muh-muh myyyyy payola!

Vote yellow get blue, a tale as old as, er, 2010 or so.

I'm a bit vague on the specifics, but a social worker friend of mine, who was involved in a particularly nasty case where both parents regularly beat their child: slaps, punches, belts, wooden spoons, whatever was near to hand. The story went that during the trial they would both repeatedly state they had done nothing wrong, that their parents had hit them and "it didn't harm me" and showed no remorse or guilt in having repeatedly assaulted their kids. In the judge's closing remarks addressing them both for sentencing (jail time, kids taken away in to care) the judge said something along the lines of

"You have both said multiple times that the abuse you suffered by your parents did you no damage. It did, it did so much damage that it has made you believe that it is OK to beat your own children."

Good.

The vast majority of gas boilers use electronics to function. In a powercut they are also dead.

Now if you're talking diesel generator back ups, then far enough.