Schroedingers_Cat

Druidic neo-pagan (maybe), Christian, Quaker, software developer, anarchist, Green, and many other things I am not very good at.

He/Him. Also respond to it/Oi/Shut up you idiot.

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2026-05-16 11:37:14 CEST

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It just strikes me that if the White House manipulates the stock market, the market will lose any respect. Companies will stop investing, if the value is not just based on how well the market or the specific company does, but on the whims on the President, they cannot have any way of financial planning.
I mean, I suspect this is already happening, but the more they scam the markets, the more investors will withdraw.
And probably invest in China instead.

2025-11-23 19:58:46 CET

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I mean, I know there are many other claimants. These were the ones I know, as someone who really doesn't know classical music. I will look into this too.

2025-11-12 13:49:18 CET

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Personally, I don't worry about this, but I get your point. I don't mind "Made in China" things. I do mind "Made very cheaply in China" things.
The fact that I may be paying well over the odds is beside the point for me. I don't want crap.

2025-10-05 18:43:55 CEST

To all exiles from #BlueSky - welcome. This is a place of oddity, peculiarity, and lovely people.
It can take a little longer to find your place here, but you will, if you try. So welcome, and say hello.

2025-09-21 13:01:54 CEST

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Wymondham? There are two places with this name. And they are both pronounced differently.

2025-09-11 10:02:30 CEST

So I have just finished reading this : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listen-Land-Speak-Journey-beneath/dp/0717192598
At the end he talks about the Potato Famine - from an Irish perspective. As someone who has survivors guilt because his family survived it.
But it wasn't famine. It was genoslaughter (as he terms it). The ENGLISH land owners sold the food because they could make more money than by feeding people.
1000s died. Whole families, communities were destroyed. Bodied were in mass graves. Because of English greed.
An entire nation traumatised. And this was less than 200 years ago - still within the cultural memory.
No wonder we want to pretend it was the potatoes fault.
1/2

2025-08-20 22:41:21 CEST

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I think the idea of helping people who have been in social housing for a long time to buy a property is good - and the properly often has to be the one the person has lived in.
But - and I think this is important - the way it was implemented was utterly wrong. It should have been done so the government pays the whole property price to the council, which should have been required to be spent on new social housing.
It was actually done deliberately to destroy the social housing provision.

2025-08-07 13:06:31 CEST

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I really don't know on this. I hated wearing uniform at school - but we all had to, so it sort of leveled people. But the cost was quite significant (we were not wealthy, but also, not poor. So we managed it for all 3 of us).
But OTOH, I didn't have much to wear other than uniform. I was a very introvert kid (you would never believe it now, would you). And I never really had a social life outside school. So I have clothes to wear, but I did actually - secretly - like not having to make decisions about what to wear.
I think my parents would have appreciated it if I could have worn jeans, as they might last longer than the uniform trousers.

2025-07-25 22:48:15 CEST

Watching Unforgivable - a BBC drama from this week.
It is incredibly hard-hitting, dark, and honest about child sexual abuse.
With a stellar cast, which doesn't always make a difference. But this is a brilliant drama. I mean, not easy. Not even a little bit.
But wow. Superbly done. Do not even consider it if you might be triggered, because it really doesn't pull any punches.

2025-06-18 11:58:56 CEST

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But, of course, they totally believe in the importance of family?
There is a level of hatred in some people (not all the home office, not all the people) that should be classified as unsuitable to work in any people-centred role.
They need treatment, not promotion.

2025-04-21 12:45:20 CEST

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You clearly need my books (see my pinned toot). Real world magic. Ordinary people. lots of cynicism and humour.

2025-01-29 15:58:19 CET

Aparently, on an android phone, if you tell Gemini to "Fuck right off and take any other fucking AI off my fucking phone you pointelss piece of shit" it doesn't work.
And some of you have now tried it just to see, haven't you?

2025-01-14 15:50:27 CET

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In the UK at least - where this discussion started - there is quite enough pressure on the NHS.
All I am saying is that LLMs will not help the actual real problems that are currently being faced. the money that is being spent on these should go to front line services instead, and THAT would improve outcomes.

2024-11-06 21:13:20 CET

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Oh, well, I had better die with my asbestos clothing then.

2024-11-06 20:12:08 CET

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We can always hope the next season has to be cut short.
Like Good Omens.

2024-10-14 22:22:28 CEST

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Hancock was a little before my time. And he was always - sad. Given what happened, I think that was showing in his work.
The Goodies were always my favourite from those years.

2024-10-09 20:24:06 CEST

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I took one many years ago and it showed I was (and still am) a genius. As I knew.
Yes I am a Mensan.
BUT also, they are a specific type of test that gives you a score compared to others similar to yourself. They are about how you process information and how you solve problems. So they can be useful.
But they are not an indication of how clever you are. Also, you are not an idiot. I know that from your postings.
I strongly suspect that most people I interact with will come up with a figure that is in the 90-120 range - i.e. most of you are broadly normal intelligence.

2024-09-24 09:55:46 CEST

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The film (IIRC - it was a long time ago) was the same humour style as the series, but darker, as befitted a film that was never expected to be on TV.
I don't think I liked the film. The theme music was brilliant though. It got to #1. Despite the incredibly dark lyrics.

2024-09-23 16:13:35 CEST

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I think the rest of the troop showed how to deal with him. Just accept him as he is.
And they loved him partly beause he irritated the senior officers.
I am not sure I ever really saw him as a cross dresser. He was just someone who was rebelling. So many of them rebelled in their own ways. And that was important.

2024-09-23 12:39:57 CEST

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Thing is, from what I recall, Klinger was neither mentally ill or a transvestite from the start. He came to enjoy the dressing up, the whole thing, and so probably was converted to it.
But he was never mentally ill. He was the sanest of them all. He did something that he thought would get him sent home. If it wasn't for Colonel Potter refusing to send him home because it was obviously a ploy (i.e. Klinger was never mentally ill), it would have worked.
ETA: I can't spell. Sorry.

2024-09-17 09:47:15 CEST

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Agree of course. And yet the political classes are still refusing to accept this. And so cannot fix some of this countries woes because they refuse to see the root problem.
It is like an A&E doctor ignore a pulsating wound and wondering why the patients blood pressure is decreasing.

2024-08-11 18:34:13 CEST

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The West have decided that genocide is the better option.
QUite some turn around.

2024-08-09 16:43:14 CEST

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And so it should (not meant in criticism of you). It is a book about authoritarian government, and it is intended to represent actual government, and is based on Orwells own observations and experience.
It is supposed to scare people into not voting for the fascists. Sadly, those who do haven't read it. Or understood it.