Notices by zip (zip@wandering.shop), page 3

for a country that is nominally not engaged in any wars I wonder how many people the US military kills every week

@marlies @goatsarah to a world of sufficient cynicism

@neil meanwhile teens will be sharing underground photorealistic face models and tutorials about how to load em up into vtubing software as a virtual webcam

I love living in the UK where I regularly find myself saying, without enthusiasm, “yay, the House of Lords has prevented the latest piece of unbridled fascism”

The HoL is the most structurally small-c-conservative part of the political process, filled with the grandees of previous administrations (plus Boris’s hairdresser), which already gives it a solidly Tory tilt before you consider the age and establishment careers of its membership.

And it keeps outflanking the government to the left.

It’s basically custom-built to prevent any Labour government from doing anything too socialist or that is detrimental to the interests of landlords but apparently there’s such tremendous inertia to being an old conservative fuck from the 1990s that they apparently play the role of telling the present lot that they are, even by Tory standards, being cunts.

this came from a conversation about why you'd vousvoyer someone in "voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir" and apparently you'd do that if it was 1974 and you're being very formal.

Apparently you wouldn't do this to proposition a group of people, though, even if it gramatically sounds like you might

my girlfriend informs me that while "ménage à trois" means "threesome" in english, it has something of a domestic undertone in french. The french for threesome is "un threesome"

we're told that the best focal length for portraits is 80mm or whatever, but also, perspective is based purely on where you're standing. so would it not make more sense to say "the best distance from a subject is..." instead?

gp: please collect your fit note from reception
me: i can't
gp: send a friend
me: I want a Reasonable Accommodation
gp: suddenly this is e-mailable
fit note: zoe can't work this week
me: i can't work until mid-march at best, i can't even walk over to my home office consistently yet
gp: please collect your fit note from reception
me: I CAN'T

half of what's fucking infuriating is they have literally just written down on a piece of paper that I am too ill to even walk and then they're like "well you'll just have to pop down to fetch it, come on, it's only 5 minutes away!"

quite aside from the horror of sticking asylum seekers on a fucking barge away from town and giving them £5 a day to live on, I'm just floored that they don't even give these poor people their own fucking rooms

i get it taking hours to build the linux kernel on a pentium in 2002 but why is building boost something a modern PC still can't do without taking an era? it's genuinely weird. surely building packages from scratch should be comically fast nowadays

the year is 2024. A bunch of music has fallen out of copyright, but you can’t actually use it because none of the automated enforcement systems know that

A small delight of the modern era is that the full might of the massive commercial surveillence and marketing infrastructure has put some of their average $600-or-so-per-car spend towards trying to entice me because I spend time on urbanist channels and subreddits, which counts as an interest in cars.

Seriously they think I'm gonna buy myself a high-end Mercedes any day now

@tommorris I imagine plenty can't touch type and hunting and pecking with autocomplete is probably actually faster for them

@pigworker @goatsarah honestly I'm not too familiar with popeye beyond having seen the cartoons as children but I'm getting all the puns explained as we go through the movie.

@BestGirlGrace me going to America and realising that the fact I used a fountain pen at school seemed old-timey to everyone

accelerationists are such optimists, they think there's a bottom to bounce off of. fact is people adjust to arbitrary amounts of things being worse if they feel powerless to stop it, the next generation will think it's normal and we can absolutely get all the way back to feudalism and 90% of the population wiped out well before people see the light and stop voting Tory

My job is having redundancies and I expect I'll be one of them. I've been told to call myself a staff engineer due to my experience and I'm a full stack, will learn your language and framework kind of a girl. All the usual bells and whistles, kubernetes and networking and The Cloud all the way to CSS.

I'm looking for UK remote, ideally at a fully or mostly remote company. A four day week would be a major plus.