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@jbert weird, I've 'd it to use your screenshot, for the purpose of preserving the lols.
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Your cellphone will kill you
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Your cellphone will kill you
is with that mobile site formatting. Why does the text have fixed/max width instead of actually sane CSS?
Assuming CSS can ever be considered sane...
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Tesla and SpaceX have vanished from Facebook
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
(Context for left-pondians: Nationwide is a building society in the UK.)
Thanks. That clears everything up.
*nudges neighbor* Psst, hey. What's a "building society"? . . . Yeah, in the UK. Does it mean different things in different places?How do I get youtube to autoplay on here again?
You don't. (And we're all very glad for it.) :P
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Facebook is bum cancer. It isn't cool if you mum is using it.
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A building society is a bank that is run like a cooperative business i.e. it gives customers a chance to vote on how the business is run.
I use Nationwide and I can vote on how the business works. I get a vote every so often through the post, tbh like most voting I ignore it,
It is kinda a compromised between Capitalism and Socialism. The customers have a say in how the business is run, and they actively promote it e.g. through letters and emails.
The benefits for me are e.g. Loans APR rates are much better than most other banks, and if I hit over my overdraft limit ... I get charged a few pence. Not 20 quid and then another £20 for them to send me the letter.
I am normally super capitalist. But being a customer of Nationwide is pretty decent i.e. they want to make money but not super greedy about it.
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@djls45 I forgot to mention. Some coops are run as in the customers get benefits back.
I like coops because the business model is about caring for the customer. It works well is some industries and not in others.
One of the things I don't like about the whole Ancap vs Socialist camp is that everything has to be a either or. I am sure I can give examples where state owned would be better, where coop would be better and where pure capitalism would be better ... depending on the market, country , geopolitics etc.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
A building society is a bank that is run like a cooperative business i.e. it gives customers a chance to vote on how the business is run.
I use Nationwide and I can vote on how the business works. I get a vote every so often through the post, tbh like most voting I ignore it,
It is kinda a compromised between Capitalism and Socialism. The customers have a say in how the business is run, and they actively promote it e.g. through letters and emails.
The benefits for me are e.g. Loans APR rates are much better than most other banks, and if I hit over my overdraft limit ... I get charged a few pence. Not 20 quid and then another £20 for them to send me the letter.
I am normally super capitalist. But being a customer of Nationwide is pretty decent i.e. they want to make money but not super greedy about it.
@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@djls45 I forgot to mention. Some coops are run as in the customers get benefits back.
I like coops because the business model is about caring for the customer. It works well is some industries and not in others.
One of the things I don't like about the whole Ancap vs Socialist camp is that everything has to be a either or. I am sure I can give examples where state owned would be better, where coop would be better and where pure capitalism would be better ... depending on the market, country , geopolitics etc.
That sounds like a credit union ('d upthread).
But I would probably describe one as "democratic capitalism" instead of a mix between socialism and capitalism and as opposed to the "autocratic capitalism" of the big banks.
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@djls45 I would agree. I suspect Credit Unions and Building Societies are similar from what I've heard at least.
I am seriously thinking of buying property instead of a flash car. The building society are willing to give me a loan that will cover some of the expenses.
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@timebandit No Flash Gordon is alive
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@coderpatsy said in In other news today...:
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Your cellphone will kill you
is with that mobile site formatting.
It's cancerous.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Um, let's just say that behavior like this does not improve my opinion of veganism nor the people who practice it.
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@bb36e Surveys like this never seem to consider that probably 8-10% of respondents just write what-fucking-ever either to mess with them or to skip to the end and get the Red Lobster gift card.
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@pjh I watched all 45 seconds of that waiting for pug-faced Nazi salute man and saw nothing.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
I get charged a few pence. Not 20 quid and then another £20 for them to send me the letter.
This sentence suggests that a "quid" is the same thing as a pound, but then why would you use two different words?
This is why we saved your ass in both world wars.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
This sentence suggests that a "quid" is the same thing as a pound, but then why would you use two different words?
Give us a bob and we'll explain it to you.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
This sentence suggests that a "quid" is the same thing as a pound, but then why would you use two different words?
Give us a bob and we'll explain it to you.
He's all yours; please don't give him back!
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
I am seriously thinking of buying property instead of a flash car. The building society are willing to give me a loan that will cover some of the expenses.
Seems like a good plan. Property regularly appreciates in value whereas, AFAIK, cars can only depreciate in value unless you guess exactly right and wait 50-60 years for it to become a classic.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
This sentence suggests that a "quid" is the same thing as a pound, but then why would you use two different words?
Don't buck those greenbacks...
Oh - wait, that's three different words.
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The time really depends on the car, some appreciate far quicker than that.
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Seventeen hours inside an airplane sounds fun.
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@boner Well, he's going for another attempt. The final sentence echoes my thoughts on the matter.
Of course, the rocket is just the first milestone. He plans on launching another one from a gas-filled balloon that would take him up a total of 68 miles up. Again, what could possibly go wrong.
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two-thousand feet into the atmosphere
How is that remarkable beyond the guy being crazy? Every sane light sport plane pilot cruises higher than that.
And you don't really see the curvature of Earth from an airliner at 36,000 ft. You'd need to go to at least something like 80,000 and you'd have to hire the Dragon Lady for that (or SpaceShipTwo when she finally flies with passengers).
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@atazhaia said in In other news today...:
He plans on launching another one from a gas-filled balloon that would take him up a total of 68 miles up. Again, what could possibly go wrong.
The balloon would actually be sufficient to see the Earth is round. A balloon designed for it can go above 100,000 ft and that should be enough.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
@atazhaia said in In other news today...:
He plans on launching another one from a gas-filled balloon that would take him up a total of 68 miles up. Again, what could possibly go wrong.
The balloon would actually be sufficient to see the Earth is round. A balloon designed for it can go above 100,000 ft and that should be enough.
That's what I'm thinking too. Why not just a balloon? But nope, the rocket is mandatory, so launching the rocket from the balloon it is!
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@atazhaia said in In other news today...:
@bulb said in In other news today...:
@atazhaia said in In other news today...:
He plans on launching another one from a gas-filled balloon that would take him up a total of 68 miles up. Again, what could possibly go wrong.
The balloon would actually be sufficient to see the Earth is round. A balloon designed for it can go above 100,000 ft and that should be enough.
That's what I'm thinking too. Why not just a balloon? But nope, the rocket is mandatory, so launching the rocket from the balloon it is!
I thought he was doing the rocket thing before the flat Earth thing and the flat Earth stuff was a way for him to get publicity and raise some funds to support his rocketry.
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@boomzilla Oh, right. I had forgot about that. It was about having gullible idiots financing expensive hobby, not actually finding out if the earth is flat or not.
Hmm... Are there any gullible idiots out there that I could get to finance expensive technology for
my own amusementscience...
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@atazhaia
I hear there're lots of people that will help you finance GPU farms these days
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@izzion Yeah, I'm gonna build a GPU farm here. I was thinking, um, four Radeon Vega 64 perhaps... And I'll use them for mining, sure...
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Cannes film festival accelerates its own irrelevance
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In late-breaking furry-related news....
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
Seventeen hours inside an airplane sounds fun.
It beats three 8 hour flights… just about…
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
I get charged a few pence. Not 20 quid and then another £20 for them to send me the letter.
This sentence suggests that a "quid" is the same thing as a pound, but then why would you use two different words?
This is why we saved your ass in both world wars.
Five bucks says you didn't think this through much before posting...
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
This sentence suggests that a "quid" is the same thing as a pound, but then why would you use two different words?
Don't buck those greenbacks...
Oh - wait, that's three different words.
TBF, "greenback" doesn't carry with it a sense of quantity like the rest do. It is a US paper currency note of any denomination.
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Still no word on touching feelings though.
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About an hour into their demonstration, protesters say that the restaurant's co-owner and chef, Michael Hunter, "brought out an entire animal leg and started cutting it up right in the window on a table reserved for diners."
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@boner
saidquoted in In other news today...:Toronto restaurant shocks vegans protesting meat
Aw, I though they shocked them with a cattle-prod.
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@dragoon Sounds neat but I wish they had some better footage.
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@doctorjones Why he stuck a mole up his arse is anyone's guess.
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I like that the telescope used to discover this consisted of 48 telephoto camera lenses bolted together.