Obinice

Does your capacitive phone screen wear smooth over time?

(The point being hopefully they’ll be made of something that doesn’t wear down from human fingies)

Do what you enjoy and do it for yourself. If someone else likes it great, but you’re doing it primarily for YOU, nobody else.

Kid Starver, you say?

Yes, but the thing is, people just don’t fly it here for no reason.

Unlike the USA, where it was so ridiculous that I played a game with myself called “Turn around and there’ll always be a flag somewhere in front of me” (it really is that insane, their level of nationalism/exceptionalism disguised as patriotism is wild),

…here the flag may be flown for patriotic events (e.g. World Cup), or flown by official institutions, but 99.99% of regular people would never consider flying it for any other reason, and it’s very rarely seen overall. This is normal.

National flags are generally meant to indicate nationality outside of one’s own borders to others around you (e.g. an embassy in a foreign land, or ships at sea). They’re not at all useful on home soil, so why bother flying one?

So, yes, it’s our flag (though not the version people fly that says ENGLAND in big letters in the middle - that’s just stupid). But the people that fly it are almost always bigots and weirdos that you want to stay away from, especially these days.

If they “can’t do anything” on their own service then how can they be trusted at all?

They’re either lying outright, or are so deeply incompetent that they don’t know how their own software works and can’t touch it to try to resolve a problem for fear of breaking something.

Okay, so long as a passkey is something I can memorise. Otherwise, it’s significantly worse than a regular password (assuming you use good passwords and don’t reuse passwords etc).

It seems like they want to tie it to a physical computer (like the one in your pocket), which sucks big time. What happens if I don’t have access to that computer at all times, or it breaks, or is lost?

I’m planning on getting rid of my smartphone for something that just does calls and texts for example, because I’m sick of how unhealthily reliant I, and everyone, have become on this thing, and I want to be more connected to the real world. What then?

My brain is the best place to store passkeys, it can’t be hacked, stolen, lost, etc, unlike every other option. It’s easily capable of storing lots of randomised unique passwords for each service (surely I’m not the only one that can do this?). It’s the clear winner.

Woah now, let’s not pretend religions aren’t a man made system to control and pacify people in their own way.

Religion isn’t trying to reign in particularly actively evil people out of the goodness of their creator’s hearts, it merely seeks to make them and the other masses meek and kept in line so they themselves can make the rules.

Washed?

Don’t worry, it’s not the Conservatives, it’s the Labour Government implementing this!

Good thing Labour will never be anything like the Tories amirite fellow chokers?

Losing the game was a clear concept with the joke of losing the moment you were reminded you were playing. It didn’t have huge depth but it was clever.

If this thing is truly just a phrase that means absolutely nothing and has no meaning or message or purpose, sure that’s cool, but it’s no the game.

I would sell so many organs

If the fascists do attack Europe, it will be with overwhelming force across the ocean to destroy us, rather than invasion. I don’t really see a way we win that.

Sure, we could fight back with our own nukes, but they number in the hundreds, and the USA is too large for that few to truly end the threat of renewed attacks :-(

If anything, it’s gotten worse since this place gentrified.

Used to be, kids weren’t allowed out after dark, this was a proper dangerous estate, we had murderers and even one or two people with actual guns!

These days it’s all weirdly big cars trying to copy the huge American ones, custom reg plates and live laugh love signs. They can even afford a second car this lot, AND fancy security cameras!

Gone are the days we used to get our cameras smashed so people could nick our motor.

What’s the world coming to?

She’s a keeper 😍♥️

Kid Starver you say?! Gone Tory-Lite??!!?!!

extremely fake shocked gasp

(Sadly you’re very correct)

Kids round my end learned to kill ON the streets xD

I mean, no, seriously though, when we were 15 there was a lot of youth violence, gang violence on neighborhood streets, heck one of my classmates went to prison for murdering an old woman while he was burglarising her house.

Ahhh … Manchester. Such youthful memories :-/

People didn’t vote to get Labour in, they voted to get the Tories out.

There’s more to why they’re especially disliked now that they’ve been in government for a while but that more or less sums up how they won the election. Or rather, how the Tories handed it to them on a silver platter.

Gaius Baltar needs WHAT?!

That’s depressing, but at least there were people like yourself who understood the backwards injustice of it all.

Some people and places have to be kicked and dragged into the modern day, alas.

In a perfect world where nobody doing the hiring was ever even a little subconsciously racist, that would be perfectly reasonable, yeah.

Though that said we end up with a lot of nuance in the real world. Let’s say there’s a traditionally marginalised, opposed racial group. Let’s say times have changed somewhat and people suddenly accept them.

Well, the generational and cultural weight is still going to have a lasting effect even if times have changed, and it may be more difficult for people from that group to afford a good education, good job, good home, etc.

The point being that even if we all stopped being racist today and hired purely based on how good an employee someone will be, we’re likely still unknowingly skewing our decisions based on past social racial issues.

I’m probably not putting it very well but hopefully you get the idea! It’s probably pretty common knowledge anyway I guess haha, seems pretty obvious to me and I don’t even think about this stuff much :-)

Anyway, point is, we do still need to work as a society on ensuring diversity and fairness even when we’re not racist at all - I think the saying might be “Equity over Equality”, or such?

Obviously the USA Government are fascists, so they’re more interested in wiping out groups they don’t like, but they’re just another in a long line of evil governments that will eventually fall, no point thinking too deeply about why they’re being evil. They’ll eventually die off as all fascist regimes do. Hopefully we won’t have to fight a World War against them this time.