BoxOfRain

Fortunately this was in the UK, while I am privately covered because the poor old NHS is too under-resourced at the moment to be much good for treating chronic diseases that won't kill you they&#…

I went into surgery a couple of months ago and it was such a hurry my Timberlands disappeared into the hospital along with my appendix. It'd be pretty churlish to hold a grudge over this given th…

I just wish our water companies weren't cheerfully dumping raw sewage into the Thames like it's a serious commitment to the Victorian steampunk aesthetic.

>Do you life with something chronic? Something were not a lot of people are doing research and we're there was no real discovery in the last 20 years? I do, but I can think of no more obvious …

Interestingly this is exactly the line of reasoning arch-privatiser Margaret Thatcher gave in her speeches on the subject, she claimed privatisation put nationalised industries in the hands of the pub…

I can't recommend Obsidian enough. My only complaint is that for a fairly straightforward tool its UI performance wasn't amazing on my previous machine (an early 2015 MacBook Pro so pretty o…

The margins on vape liquid must be insane. I quit smoking using a vape and made my own liquid for it, it's only four ingredients which are all really cheap if you buy in bulk and you can can tape…

Drinking and smoking is actually what I miss most about smoking, it's a truly wonderful combination.

It's just occurred to me that Apple's move away from the x86 platform has pretty much signed the death warrant of the Hackintosh.

Yeah that's what I'm on about. I don't like how it sets up gendered sentencing guidelines at all let alone doing so in a way that doesn't create any practical benefit by being gend…

I'm aware of this, but egalitarianism is a core value of mine that I won't compromise on even if it's in an unusual direction.

If the Greens in England and Wales dropped their opposition to nuclear and also binned off a few of their more anti-egalitarian positions (I cannot in good faith support criminal sentencing where a ma…

I have uBlock filters to bin off these cookie popups, I'm amazed those irritating things ever became law without someone pointing out how completely futile alarm fatigue makes them. Now if the GD…

This happened to my Facebook page, Meta is just completely oblivious to the notion of malicious reporting.

I'm well aware, their long history of shabby treatment towards our page actually meant our own app has been in development for a while (on and off around our proper jobs and the aftermath of a he…

If anyone who works for Meta is in this thread, can you tell me why my Facebook page got unpublished for content rule violations, the strike got reversed after we challenged the blatently incorrect vi…

I quit Reddit during the pandemic because all the covid discussion was driving me round the bend a bit, but I came back when things got back to normal. I'm pretty much in the same boat, if Reddit…

Frankly to me no reddit at all is a better option than the hellscape that is the new site.

I didn't mind mandatory fun that's just stuff you might do anyway like going down the pub with your colleagues and maybe your boss to get some pints it, but I'm really not a fan of stru…

It didn't seem to make a difference at all when Scotland and Wales had mask mandates but England didn't, although I've not seen a rigorous analysis of why this was.

What advice would you give to people who've not been in the tech industry during a recession yet?

If there's ever a need to change the British flag I hope the government takes the opportunity to incorporate the Welsh flag. It's easily the best flag in the UK if not Europe as a whole!

My school made foreign languages completely unappealing to me by teaching them in the most dull, tick-box way possible in a school where even the top set contained pupils who massively cut into teachi…

I wonder how much Cunningham's Law contributes to flakey search results? I can totally see people using it to game places like Stack Overflow which are far too trigger happy about removing duplic…

I think I might have been using that term wrong my entire life!

That would stress me out! I'm a completely legitimate medical cannabis patient in the UK and I still get nervous about reading emails from the clinic when I'm at work.

I was using the royal we, as in 'we the software industry'. I'm quite picky personally.