BoxOfRain

Good Lord, that's genuinely dystopian. People often say the '70s was too biased in favour of unions, but I can't help but wonder if the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direct…

I really do hate those Perspex dividers, they’re the epitome of corporate “we have to look like we’re doing something even if it’s about as useful as a water pistol against a battleship”.

This is a classic example of punishing ordinary people for the actions of a few. The alternative decongestants are a placebo at best, they do absolutely sod all for me.

Exactly, at some point the cure will become worse than the disease. The fact this makes people uncomfortable is no reason to push it under the rug!

Brave New World doesn't really work well as a tool to criticise "woke", this is a bad angle. If we lived in Brave New World , people wouldn't fight for their ideas about social …

I came across Duff's Device as a student and to this day it's one of my favourite pieces of code. It's practically a piece of art!

Not really, the fox crap that smells awful to me smells wonderful to a golden retriever. The "badness" of the smell is entirely down to the nose that's smelling it, the subjective exper…

This sounds like it was written by GPT-3.

A lot of people (mostly older people in my experience) seem to think that people who work in the events industry should just curl up in an alleyway and die at this point. According to the more authori…

>unless you think things like "There's no bad music, only bad musicians" as well. I actually do though, and I say that as a musician myself. These things are inherently subjective, w…

That's still dumping a "bad" on the poor old algorithm though, which has done nothing wrong simply by existing and doing what it is programmed to do. Algorithms aren't bad, it'…

Fortunately in my case at least the unpleasantness was limited to the odd loony stalking me across the site to carry on arguments that were several days stale. I did get told to kill myself once, but …

They’re certainly not alone, I’m a huge fan of Computer Modern.

While I think it’s unlikely she’ll face the justice she deserves, at least her intelligence career is likely in ruins. It’s hard to be an effective spy when most of an entire country a) is at least pa…

I have a disorder that affects perception (fortunately nothing as serious!) and nicotine absolutely helps with sensory gating. I quit smoking last year and my focus has really suffered for it.

> "failed public services"? Are we talking about the systems that were all privatized to make them more "efficient"? Honestly, I think this failure runs deeper than something li…

Yeah, it's definitely the most sellable one I've seen. I don't like the implication that it's the algorithm that's malicious rather than the person who wrote the algorithm (no…

>/r/ukpolitics - Similar to above, slightly quicker on the banhammer. I'm really sad about what happened to /r/ukpolitics. Back when it had 20-30k subscribers it was genuin…

>For a good mental health is imperative to avoid reddit, or at least just take part in tech/thinvs you love, but even there the neagtive and frustrated people will bring their issue there. I g…

That reminds me of the story (possibly apocryphal) about the American tourists who went to Belfast of all places and asked for an "Irish car bomb" in a pub. I'm fairly sure the second…

I think a big problem that keeps cars king is just how crap public transport is. If I want to get the bus from where I live, it’s less frequent than once an hour, is usually 30-40 minutes late (if it …

I think the difference is between people who see science as a process and people who see science as a priesthood. A true pro-science position is to follow the conclusions from scientific observations …

The behaviour of the press really has concerned me during the pandemic, I know yellow/tabloid journalism is nothing new but that kind of sensationalism on top of highly targeted social media is. …

>Meditation has always been a deeply spiritual practice; Mindfulness attempts to turn it into a psychological, clinical one. Interestingly this is covered in the context of psychedelics too (which …

I'm a web developer with an incurable neuro-visual disorder, which I soon discovered prevented me from doing UI stuff competently so I got into backend early on. No need to leave web development …

This is actually a really interesting concept, I was channel-flipping once and saw a programme about recycling where people doing things like retail work were taken to a recycling centre to learn abou…