BoxOfRain

I think there's a difference between an incel and someone who's simply lacking success in relationships. For a start thanks to coronavirus and lockdowns there's a lot of otherwise tot…

It’ll work for as long as there’s AM radio stations at least, they’re a bit of a dying breed in Europe although there’s still a few remaining networks of powerful national transmitters. The BBC just f…

I spent lockdown coming up with a music podcast with a friend, it's amazing how much even a little delay can throw you off. I have a hybrid digital/analogue setup where an analogue mixer is …

Sadly the Venn diagram of “people who understand AI” and “people involved in the lawmaking process” seems to be almost just two separate circles.

>Shouldn't the President of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, be instead concerned with issues like, say, nuclear destruction, defense of the realm, the economy, etc.? …

How come in your mind there's an onus on the employee to work as hard as they can but not on the company to pay that effort what it's actually worth? Unless there's a genuine emotional …

I think it's particularly vitriolic because it represents a deeper social issue, the bullying of underpaid customer service employees who lose their jobs if they defend themselves. The people who…

Oof, that last part sounds like a faff to deal with!

Yeah, I'm definitely aware it's a luxury to be able to turn down jobs and that this sector-specific good job market isn't going to last forever either. I really think we should ban drug…

I've somehow managed to not run into SOAP despite having done backend exclusively for a while. From the perspective of someone who's totally naïve to it, the technology sounds like it introd…

No worries! As far as I'm aware it's a fairly recent innovation in language, it'd be harsh to judge people for using the older terminology especially as top-down language changes like t…

I think suicide prevention should be a matter for healthcare professionals personally, what works for one person might be very dangerous for another.

I'd outright refuse to work at a place that imposed them on principle, body integrity is one of my strongest-held values. There's enough creepy corporate manipulation of our private lives as…

I think it's because the term "commit suicide" implies a moral judgement, in the past Western notions of suicide were actually pretty barbaric. To accuse someone of trying to commit sui…

Oh hardly, using a sterotypical name is a very common comedic device. Tarquin and Julian are out-of-touch upper class people who probably go on illegal fox hunts, Karen gets unreasonably angry over pe…

I think the difference between a Karen and someone who simply wants adequate customer service is that the Karen will tend to abuse people who a) lack the power to help as they're too far down the…

I wonder how much is post-Snowden distrust of government software and how much is simply not wanting to be pinged?

Recent years? Whataboutery has been around a very long time, it was particularly associated with the Soviet Union.

>Do you really think that the planners haven't thought of a hedge and discarded the idea? I know this is a bit trite but it wouldn't surprise me given the UK government's record in t…

Jira to me is a mostly a tool for managers to coerce developers into a more manager-friendly interpretation of “agile” than anything else rather than something developers would use out of choice. When…

The desire to get rid of masks is mostly iconoclastic in my opinion. People come up with all sorts of hand-wringing explanations for the anti-mask phenomenon but it's actually pretty simple in my…

I have no dog in this fight (I use both Linux and macOS as daily drivers) but it could be argued that macOS has more of a claim to be Unix than Linux since the foundation of macOS comes from NeXTSTE…

I'm fairly sure this was on CITV around 2001ish, or whatever predated CBeebies on analogue telly.