manicdave

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[–] manicdave 9 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I'm also sceptical of the ghost gun thing. AFAIK the only real ghost gun is an FGC9 which is about the size of a submachine gun and is definitely not what is seen in the video.

[–] manicdave 3 points 1 month ago

It's integrating as best it can. It has an embeddable player and LDAP logins. It's kind of a failure on the part of other platform Devs to use it.

[–] manicdave 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol.

Seven years ago I spent hours trying to explain to my MP that this would happen if they weakened encryption and put in back doors.

He seemingly couldn't get his head round the fact that you have to assume foreign adversaries have access to everything in transit and they're not going to be worried about longer prison sentences designed to make up for weaker security.

I should send him an email asking if he understands the argument now it's coming from an American in a suit and not just one of the plebs.

[–] manicdave 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fundamental problem with cryptocurrencies is that the people with the enthusiasm to make them (libertarians), are too stupid (libertarian) to understand why a deflationary asset cannot work as a currency.

It's inherently a speculative investment. Nobody is going to spend something that might be worth dramatically more tomorrow and nobody is going work for something that might be worth dramatically less tomorrow.

[–] manicdave 3 points 2 months ago

You need gravy thick enough to hold the fork up for proper bangers and mash

[–] manicdave 4 points 2 months ago

Americans have one Sunday roast a year and get so excited about it the rest of us have to hear you talk about it for a whole month.

[–] manicdave 10 points 2 months ago

It's funny that even the daily mail commenters are celebrating.

[–] manicdave 2 points 2 months ago

I don't know if it really matters. Earlier this year Palestine Action got released despite having no defence because the judge wouldn't allow them to argue they had to break the law to protect life and property.

[–] manicdave 2 points 2 months ago

Is there really a significant difference between steamOS and using big picture mode + proton? I've had hardly any issues using steam on Ubuntu to play windows only games. Even Microsoft flight sim works despite trying it's hardest to act like part of windows.

[–] manicdave 2 points 2 months ago

They're selling ~900g tins at the big Asda. Quality street are gram for gram even cheaper than the plastic ones.

[–] manicdave 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I actually support the farmers in this tbf. I just wanted to make a shit joke about them blocking green lanes and footpaths.

I try to avoid conspiracybrain but this policy seems so badly designed it seems as if the point is to force farmers into reverse mortgages.

If the real point is to make money for the treasury, discourage land banking and encourage more productive use of land, then a very modest land value tax would be more suitable and much fairer.

As it is, it's going to dispossess farmers of land and make a tiny amount of revenue from a tax that big business is immune from.

[–] manicdave 4 points 3 months ago

I've used TH72 a bit. I'd describe it more as shock proof than flexible. It'll certainly make your miniatures robust, but it's nowhere near as soft as something like TPU.

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