Gives me the ick.

That’s your ick, not theirs.

At some point you need to acknowledge that every detail of their relationship you’re imagining, you’ve invented from zero other information in order to gross yourself out.

I know nobody ever reads the article but it still makes me despair every time.

For that transgression, the environmental regulator sent Powlesland a notice informing him that he’s been placed under investigation for “permitting and waste offences.”

He was given a notice. Not only has he NOT been sentenced to 2 years, he hasn't even been charged. He's been told he broke a law, for which the maximum penalty that a judge is permitted to give is listed as 2 years.

I bought a 16Gb laptop in 2012, which is out of the noughties, but still 14 fucking years ago.

14 years before that I had 32Mb; a 500* multiplier.

Require an AI SLOP disclosure.

No advertising bot is going to admit to it. The only people for whom failure to jump this hoop will be a blocker, are legit posters.

I've been interviewing software engineers for many years, and this was the first year the "AI natives" started graduating and applying for jobs.

Never had such a high rate of people completely unable to write one line of code in a language that appears on their CV, it's been about 50% in the last few months where I had to end the interview during the warmup question.

I don't run ad block because they're showing me ads, I run it because creepy fuckers are trying to collect everything I've ever done online and store it forever.

Not any more. I had a student not that long ago ask about the metaphor, ended up having to explain to the whole class what physical files and folders were.

many 45s

All 45s. You punched the hole out yourself if you wanted to use it in a jukebox.

I was always given to understand that the straw thing was because plastic straws get out and fuck up wildlife, but that message seems to get buried in handwringing over climate change so often that I suspect bad actors are at play spreading all these memes.

Most suspicious front since the Holiday Homes For Pets Pie Company

There is almost no way it represents any practical differences to wildlife.

Source: your ass?

Eighty of 135 (59%) species with studies reported in the literature between 1962 and 2012 had ingested plastic, and, within those studies, on average 29% of individuals had plastic in their gut.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1502108112

It is obviously left wing to oppose monopolies

Eh, it’s also pretty centrist as well. I think you’re participating in a little bit of category sleight-of-hand there.

Most users outside of Lemmy dgaf about corpos if it saves them having to type in an email address on their phone and get it right and then go to their email and then hit refresh a few times before going back and hitting send again and then checking their spam folder

Something like 100% of humans have plastic in their blood

It blows my mind how you’re saying that like it makes it ok

IANAL but it does have a bunch of exceptions allowing governments to do whatever they want.

This is the second time in my life that Labour have gained power after a long Conservative tenure, only to dive straight into enacting policies that were more right-wing than their predecessors.

Oh cool, that looks easy enough. Let me try:

At the risk of getting banned, when I only saw one country in red and “2” in the summary l knew exactly where on the map I needed to zoom to find the second

Normally I wouldn't make fun, but he even typed the word Celsius in his reply. It's almost like some small part of his brain was trying to throw him a clue.