BoxOfRain

This reminds me of the time I had to go to A&E (ER on the other side of the Atlantic) for an allergic reaction to a horsefly bite and they had adverts for funeral directors mixed into the slidesho…

I do think Youtube Music especially in the context of forced bundling with ad-free YouTube is a bit of a throwback to the bad old days of 'you WILL use Google+ and you WILL like it no matter how …

This is what puts me off paying the Danegeld for YouTube more than anything else, I already pay a fair amount of money for Tidal which I'm perfectly happy with. It's bad enough Apple insist …

I think you're assuming that popular culture is a lot more directed than it is in reality. The Grateful Dead (the archetypal band for countercultural LSD use) for example weren't making the …

I think a lot of the problem with the UK is that the housing market eats the wind out of everything else's sails too. This has both the economic effect of reducing the amount people have to spend…

I definitely think authenticity or at least perceived authenticity will become more important in the future. There's a reason vacuum tubes are still produced industrially for guitarists and HiFi …

I've been playing around with LLaMA models a little bit recently, in my limited experience using a NSFW model for SFW purposes seems to not only work pretty well but also gives the output a more …

> Why would you use tubes if you're not making guitar distortion? I'm planning on building a stereo Mullard 5-10 next year, I know it will be objectively worse than a modern HiFi amp or e…

I do wish it was common to have more colours at least, everything on the road being black, white, or silver is really bland and soulless in my opinion.

>without needing to be privileged enough to get violin or guitar lessons. I'm not being funny but this is a poor take when the excellent guitarist Mdou Moctar learned on a guitar he built hims…

I went to Aberystwyth and often went out into Snowdonia, particularly Bala. It's definitely one of the prettiest parts of the UK! I really regret not learning Welsh while I lived in such a Welsh-…

I think the tendency of the Protestant work ethic to find value digging holes only to fill them in again over simply doing nothing at all in the first place is quite a negative thing; that's not …

This brings to mind that infamous part of the early Top Gear America special where Clarkson, Hammond, and May are chased out of a rural Alabamian town by some of its inhabitants for decorating some …

I've never seen a prius in the UK that wasn't a taxi, it's interesting how some car stereotypes (like BMW owners failing to indicate) seem pretty universal but others don't cross b…

Rugby football, which went metric some decades ago.

I think there's a good reason that trying to cheat death and meeting a grim end as a result is such a common trope in mythology. Even in ancient times I think people generally recognised the prof…

On the other side of the Irish Sea there's a seaweed dish in Wales called laverbread, I guess there's something about that sea that makes particularly edible seaweed.

I believe income tax in the UK was a wartime measure during the Napoleonic Wars that never got removed, and the national speed limit of 70 mph was another 'limited' measure after someone hit…

Presumably 'by-election' comes from the same place too.

The now relatively uncommon UK gallon is the volume occupied by ten lbs of water in the same way a litre of water weighs a kilogram. Not only are the pints bigger there’s also twenty ounces (also rare…

I love willow trees, they have such an impressive will to live even if their lifespans are fairly short as trees go.

If this is a language thing it's a neutral idiom, compare it with 'kill two birds with one stone' for something that deals with multiple issues at once or 'kill some time' to …

Yeah I'd rather not have my British English dialect seen as second-class in a world of American English ideally which is what having a red document full of 'errors' implies in those sor…

Project Binky from Bad Obsession Motorsport is like this, for years they've been fitting a Toyota Celica engine into a classic Mini to create a four wheel drive beast of a car and they show all t…

The idea of giving the adtech industry direct access to my brain is genuinely horrifying, not to mention Aldous Huxley would have some reasonable objections to everything being this easy all of a sudd…

>I joked when I moved to Seattle that the main problem is since there is no salt, there are still Citations on the road and that is unnatural. Their place in the natural order is the junk yard. Thi…

I'm not overly familiar with it but isn't this already a genre of gaming YouTuber?