[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 82 points 2 months ago

I just want a headset that doesn’t descend into hissing at me in mono over a crackly 1940s phoneline whenever I dare to use the microphone.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 18 points 3 months ago

That guy was running his own study. “How many times can I shock myself before I breach the ethical limits of the study and they cut the session short”.

He underestimated their resolve though, clearly.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 158 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I always liked the extended version:

extended version with distant future where we see it again

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 20 points 5 months ago

Yeah! What have the romans ever done for us?!

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 48 points 7 months ago

Well that sucks. My favourite moment in a hidden role game was when a player won by misreading their card and convincing both of us that we were allies at the start. They ended up the only evil player for most of the game and then in the last round after we’d worked together to systematically kill everyone else (all weirdly innocents, we were both feeling guilty by this point), when they finally realised they knew there was no evil player they checked and… killed me. Total madness and a glorious victory for them. How can you be mad at that?!

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 20 points 7 months ago

I’m curious how you’d phrase it, there is a law in Ukraine and it is widely reported to apply to “men aged 18 to 60”. What phrasing would more accurately depict the current situation without having the problems you list? If you meant instead that the law itself is problematic, then I can understand that, it’s received some criticism for that side of things.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 21 points 9 months ago

That priest just might. CoE has always had a fun mix of voices, they’re not good at following a party line (which imo is the best thing about them).

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ok, apart from human rights, workers rights, rebalancing funds to poorer regions, free trade, free movement, a voice at the table, straight bananas, peace in Europe, and endless examples of consumer rights, what has the EU done for us?!

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 40 points 1 year ago

Try doing that in Iceland. They’re both very aware and conflicted about invasive species up there. Lupin is invasive and covering the country and also building soil from nothing, Pine trees are invasive and the quickest way to get treecover that is desperately needed.

Makes for weird discussions, I guess Iceland is such and extreme case that nobody really knows if they should be saving the ecosystem it had managed to scratch together before we turned up or if they should be trying to rush a healthier ecosystem with imports (Iceland was pretty thin and fragile even before humans and we wrecked what little there was)

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 49 points 1 year ago

If it was a matter of half the price then nuclear would be the clear winner. Paying double to get stable power rather than variable power is currently a clear win.

Nuclear has a lot of baggage on top of being more costly (eg public fears, taking a lot longer to get running, building up big debts before producing anything, and having a higher cost risk due to such limited recent production), if it was just a simple “pay twice the price and you never need to worry about the grid scale storage” then nuclear would be everywhere.

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[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

Actual actual answer: WFH

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 30 points 1 year ago

The EFF is probably competitive there. But clearly they’re both on the same side of most issues, so not really a competition.

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