BoxOfRain

It's not meant in a 'they're a lesser human being' way, it just means they're further down the line of succession. You're making a bit of a storm in a teacup I think.

I'm a medical cannabis patient in the UK (medical cannabis was quietly legalised in 2018, there's only 10-20k private patients and virtually none on the NHS so even a fair few police officer…

I'm planning on moving onto a liveaboard boat next year and was really excited about Starlink until the price was revealed to be way out of reach for yachtsmen who aren't in the super-rich…

Apparently water divining rods are still used by British water companies. Can't say I'm particularly impressed given the amount of leaky pipes and raw sewage in the rivers at the moment! ht…

>- We seem to be past peak crazyness in major national leaders. Donald Trump is out. Boris Johnson is out. Benjamin Netanyahu is out. Putin remains a problem. Not to throw cold water over this too …

>the UK still has astronomical alcohol consumption, but they don’t get labelled the same way as the Irish To be fair we certainly do have a reputation for drunkenness and general loutishness in par…

I love the look of italic handwriting from the examples I've just looked at! I'll definitely look into it.

I tried to improve my handwriting some years ago but didn't really commit to it, the upshot of that is that my handwriting kind of looks like a Victorian child's. It's 'loopy'…

'People think about you enormously less than you think they think about you' was a really important realisation for my mental wellbeing! It's quite easy to demonstrate too, pick a rando…

I'm not claiming that my life choices would scale to be a viable option for the majority of the population but it doesn't have to scale to be an option for some people who are already inte…

The House of Lords appointment process has been notorious for cronyism since at least the days of Tony Blair and continuing to the present. In 2020 Boris Johnson even made a Russian newspaper owner an…

>We still do not have the '30s dream of flying homes or semi-autonomous starships that can be moved easily everywhere... So far we do not even have flying cars (while they might be there techn…

I know this feeling, noticed it since at least the aluminium PowerBook G4 I had once.

I wonder if we got sent back to early modern period technology how much computing would be possible that didn't depend on access to semiconductors. Would glass-blowing and metallurgy be good enou…

This is pretty much the only way you can book a driving test in the UK at the moment unless you want to take your test in a random place in the Highlands.

>A similar phenomenon also happens if you open up HN before the east coast of north america wakes up on a weekday. The topics tend to be more varied. I live in the UK and I definitely find HN more …

Anecdotally I was still smoking when they brought in mandated gore on British tobacco pouches, very quickly people were joking like 'I got the bloke with a hole in his side, just need the curious…

For what it's worth, I think yellow is the definitive colour for a 1970s British sports car: https://uploads.carandclassic.co.uk/uploads/cars/triumph/118... …

I think a lot of people look down on Meta in the same way they look down on Big Tobacco and (increasingly in the face of climate change) fossil fuel manufacturers. It's not that the individuals a…

It can go the other way too, introspection can make you realise you're nowhere near as bad as you think you are. This is particularly true if you've grown up in one of those worldviews that …

Of course the true FAANG solution would be to include a 3.5mm jack but disable it in software, requiring £4.99 per month to enable it with a rent-seeking subscription service.

Cheers for this, looks interesting!

It would be interesting to see if there's a way this dependency graph could be captured and saved for future generations in the event of civilisation collapsing. I suspect something like that wou…

I'm planning on moving onto a sailing boat this year, I'd be very interested if it was something an mere mortal could afford but at that price I'm sticking to 5G mobile broadband. Marin…

Yeah, I was unlikely to act unless doing so would obviously save life in a way that I think a jury of my peers would agree with.

To be fair there's probably a lot of bland inoffensive crap that's been demolished without tears shed over the years. Having said that, I've lived in Victorian houses in parts of the co…

The Elan Valley in Wales is quite something too, there's dams with real thought into their aesthetics whereas now we'd get a horrible functional concrete monolith with literally zero thought…

>Dr Who is a good example. I'm actually a bit sad about Doctor Who, I've not watched it since the Capaldi era which really wound me up because he's a fantastic actor who was dealt a …