Corvos
2hr ago
"Are you planning to help me?"
"YES."
"When, exactly?"
"ER. WHEN THE PAIN IS TOO GREAT TO BEAR."
"..."
"I REALISE THIS IS NOT THE ANSWER YOU WERE HOPING FOR."
RIP Terry Pratchett.
Corvos
9hr ago
They gated ‘queue next video’ and ‘play in window’ as premium features too. Netflix gates the latter even if you are a paying customer on the lower tier.
explicitly nice to the help (lesser gentry)
Yeah, that about sums me up… What an awful thought.
Corvos
17hr ago
Yes, I see. Poor man. I thought he just had a sudden eruption of despair, I didn’t realise he’d lost hope to such an extent.
I’m going through the business of getting Confirmed at the moment and indeed the church is startlingly silly on many occasions but that doesn’t mean it’s worthless.
Corvos
18hr ago
What’s up with the sequel? In general terms please, and spoilers so as not to ruin it for FtttG.
Corvos
18hr ago
I don’t know how you describe profound but Yokohama Shopping Trip has beautiful pen and ink. Since it’s essentially about the beauty of the world, it’s important to convey it.
Atelier of Witch Hat follows in that tradition.
Corvos
2d ago
the UK before 2002 (fulfils these four criteria)
I’m sorry, the fuck?
If this is some gag about the Commonwealth, or about not immediately giving every non-citizen a passport and a vote the moment they roll up on the shore but require a process and some show of commitment first, then
a) it is almost certainly wrong b) to the extent it is true it is massively tendentious and you know it b) it does not correspond to the situation between Israel and Gaza, which again you know perfectly well
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I would like to see some proof, please.
Corvos
2d ago
The Brits leaving Palestine was like the Americans leaving Afghanistan. We’d been through two gruelling wars, we under constant lethal attack from both Jewish (the Stern Gang) and (I think) Arabic terrorists who made it extremely clear they wanted us to get the hell out of there, and we did. The fact that the area is full of bloodthirsty maniacs isn’t our fault - it’s been like that since the Old Testament days and all we’d ever been able to do was keep a lid on it.
Corvos
2d ago
Yeah, reference points are hard. I once lost a general knowledge quiz for my team by getting us to the tiebreak and then being asked, “What is the distance between London and the closest point in Canada?”
I thought for a bit, tried to imagine them on a map relative to a journey in the UK I knew and thought, hmm, easily ten times that.
Said, “1200 miles”.
Teammates not best pleased.
Corvos
2d ago
Sorry, now I see what you mean.
That would make it more complex, certainly, though personally I doubt they did this. It seems a weird way of doing things in general and you’d expect them to demand this proof at buying time to prevent exactly this scenario.
The government is also aware that people don’t read disclaimers, and as a non-lawyer I would say that buying plane and hotel tickets signalled fairly clearly that Bartender expected to be able to get in. So I think even in that scenario he’d still have a decent chance.
Doesn’t matter. If it’s not very clearly flagged in advance, such that he couldn’t have bought it without reasonably expecting this turn of events, then it’s not appropriate under UK law.
In general if a consumer would reasonably expect X, and not-X isn’t both clearly flagged and legally appropriate, and he has accumulated financial damage as a result, then the seller is up shit creek without a paddle. Doesn’t matter what the terms and conditions say. You can’t sign away your rights as a consumer in the UK, especially not three paragraphs into the small text.
@MadMonzer, do you have any thoughts? The above is true as far as I’m aware, and AI agrees.
Corvos
2d ago
Alternatively, or simultaneously, this sounds like something you could (threaten to) take up under the consumer rights act and equivalent protections.
They are incurring real losses for you by effectively changing the standards of the contract post buy. That is a very very shaky place to stand, it doesn’t matter what weasel words they put in the terms and conditions.
Corvos
2d ago
Thank you! Much appreciated.
I think this was the category with different names for weed, different brands of cosmetics, etc. so that’s how I’m preserving my dignity.
Corvos
2d ago
75th percentile in US, 79th in Anglo, 50th percentile among test takers on that site (?).
Greater than 70th percentile in everything except cultural info where I'm 8th percentile. I'm not sure what kind of upbringing I had but I think the test is saying 'sheltered'.
Corvos
2d ago
About 1% if even that, I believe.
1 billion Jews is ridiculous, though, it'd be one in eight humans on earth. Perhaps in certain parts of America it feels that way - Rogan likely has disproportional contact with intelligent, unusual people and maybe that skews his estimates. But Israel would have to be the size of China.
Glad to meet a like-minded (lesser) gentleman, haha.
FWIW I think 'lesser' is doing a lot of work here, the only people I've come into contact with who seemed to have the 'furniture' attitude in modern times were on the order of a Duke. Most people below that take some interest in the help, although perhaps with varying levels of performativity and enthusiasm.
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