It’s fine to hate popular things, but don’t ruin other people’s fun.

If anyone hasn’t seen Femcel spaces, you could always go and browse reddit.com/r/femaledatingstrategy

This article from Toms Hardware covers the best NVME drives for laptops.

Mostly manual controls of the settings of the picture (exposure, etc) and might have options to change how a picture is taken like burst picture (repeated pictures in quick succession). Some apps have picture overlays (like putting a frame around the picture or something). There can be all sorts of features that are either focused on photography experts, or very casual fun (filters and goofy fun objects in the pictures).

So, yesterday and today, but not tomorrow.

Recently commented in a similar post, so I’ll paste that comment:

Podcasts are my thing. I’ve got you covered.

Depends on what you’re into:

More or Less: Behind the Stats - analysis of some statistic from the news

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - what science says about how to be happy

The Audio Long Read - long form articles from the Guardian newspaper

You Are Not So Smart - cognitive science related. How we know things, our biases, how our thinking is flawed, etc.

Dan Snow’s History Hit - One of the few history podcasts I really like

Short History Of… - a short history of some specific thing

The Forum - expert panel discussion about some topic

Behind the Bastards - Very well known podcast focusing on some bastard personality

CrowdScience - in depth investigation of a listener science question

Radiolab - in depth investigation of a topic of their interest. Quite broad scope.

Unexpected Elements - a very varied mix of discussions around a science topic from the news

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - Tim Harford is the podcast king for me. This show is a deep dive into something that went wrong in news or history, and an investigation of all the systemic failures around it. It tries to show how blame is hardly ever warranted on a single person and the systems are at fault.

The Martin Lewis Podcast - UK consumer advocate and saving guru

The Inquiry - a deep dive into a news story

Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about a range of different things

The Law Show - UK legal system issues

The Infinite Monkey Cage - comedy science panel show

The Supermassive Podcast - space related podcast

File on 4 investigates - detailed story from deep investigative journalism

Thinking Allowed - light philosophical ramblings

When It Hits the Fan - two public relations experts talk about PR issues from current events

Discovery - science related. Currently mostly doing shows about “a life scientific” I.e. talking to a scientist about their life

Overthink - philosophy made accessible

What It’s Like To Be… - a person from a particular occupation talks about their job

People Fixing the World - people from different parts of the world fixing some local problem in their community in a creative way

Hidden Brain - my absolute favourite. Cognitive science related. Explains how the brain works and how to use the understanding to male your own love better.

Within Reason

Your Parenting Mojo - evidence based parenting. Can be a very dry long-winded research presentation, but this has improved my parenting (and life) immensely

Sideways - different ideas and how to look at things differently

Darknet Diaries - stories from the dark underbelly of the internet

The Reith Lectures - once a year short lecture series, but well worth listening to the backlog

Evil Genius with Russell Kane - comedians discuss how some villains from history weren’t so bad and how some heroes from history were terrible people

Owls at Dawn - ramblings of a couple of philosophers

Sound of Gaming - excellent music show about music soundtracks from videogames

Playing god? - medical ethics discussion

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

A History of the World in 100 Objects - this series has ended but it is worth listening to the backlog

I would also recommend the podcast series made to accompany the Chernobyl and Last of Us TV series.

S Town - a nice fiction mini series drama story.

England is very strongly positioned on the right of the political spectrum. This still seems to surprise people. Brexit, Farage, Reform and Boris Johnson have/had majority support. England is very deeply conservative to the point that the Conservative party isn’t even enough for them. Anyone who is surprised by this is basically willfully ignoring news.

Click on the map in that petition. England (outside London) and Wales are deeply red. London, Scotland and Ireland are quite light.

Asylum seekers are a subset of all migrants, but they’re all considered “bloody foreigners”.

Welcome to the International Dick Measuring Contest Championships!

Whoa…and in a twist that no one expected, Brazil comes out of left field to take up the mantle of “Stop Killing Games”!

full compatibility details will be revealed soon

This is what I’m interested in finding out. Because Steam can pick up any generic-shit-for-brains controller and use it normally. What does “Steam compatibility” give us?

I identify as electrical (pronouns: zip/zap).

He’s still congratulating himself to this day.

Are Nintendo’s shit practice’s going to make any difference to people falling over themselves to buy their stuff?

Best selling console of all time, you say?

Always online model of laundry DRM. When the servers shut down then the washing machine stops working.

Also, washing machines tend to eat up one sock. Now there’s going to be a micro transaction to get the sock back.

UK here. This is all “free” (i.e. paid for by a significant portion of every paycheck I ever earn via tax).

I phone my GP. They say you have I call at 0830 to get an appointment. Call back tomorrow. I ask for an advance appointment and they say they have nothing for 6+ weeks. So I call back the next day and the line is constantly busy. I get through at 0837 after mashing redial constantly. I’m told the appointments are all gone and I should call back tomorrow again. They suggest “if it’s urgent then go to the A&E department”…which is clearly inappropriate for my problem. So I call back the next day. The next day I happen to get through at 0833 and they take my details. I’m told the doctor will call me back at some point later that day. Spend the day watching the phone, but can’t answer it because I’m work. Duck out of something really important at work to take the call, I’m told to come to the GP later in the day. Later in the day I have work stuff I can’t just leave immediately, so I ask for an appointment the next day. Get told to phone back at 0830 the next day to make an appointment.

I’ve figured out a way to short circuit the system. There’s a national urgent medical line (111) and I have to answer the operator’s questions for 20 min (am I bleeding profusely? Am I unable to breathe? Am I going to die imminently?). Finally, they’re able to allocate an appointment for my own GP at a sensible time the next day…apparently thesr guys have access to appointments with my GP which the fucking GP won’t give me. Great! I go to the GP to be seen by a FY2 doctor (i.e. 15 months posts undergraduate qualification), this guy admits that he doesn’t know what he’s doing, that he’ll speak to the GP later and phone me back with the outcome later that day. He phones me back later that day saying they don’t know what to do so they’re going to refer me to a hospital specialist, the hospital appointment should be sent to me in 10 months or so.

The few times I have had to go to the A&E department with my kid, I’ve taken chargers, entertainment devices, extra coat for my kid to use as a blanket, food (2 full packed meals), water, video game console…I’m expecting to be there for about 6 hours if things move really quickly.

The state of national healthcare in this country. Thank you Conservatives, for 13 years of record low investment.

Imagine farting in your sleep and being ripped apart because of this.

The most important office skill was taught by George Costanza: look angry and people will think you’re busy working hard.

I’m talking about sailing the high seas. I guess that didn’t come across.

Everyone with an internet connection can “afford to see a movie”. Or are you asking to be able to afford to pay for a movie ticket at an overpriced cinema?

I’m commenting because a single upvote doesnt adequately convey how much I agree with this comment.