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TheHalc TheHalc @sopuli.xyz

A Brit in Helsinki who likes games, tech and burgers.

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You can change the spelling of one word in the English language to match how they are pronounced. What word do you pick?
  • I'll accept that, only as long as Americans learn that route is pronounced "root", not "rout".

  • You can change the spelling of one word in the English language to match how they are pronounced. What word do you pick?
  • But I would suggest that any band names that use umlauts/foreign letters should be pronounced accordingly.

    Motörhead still kind of works.

  • Why has the world started to mine coal again?
  • It's been long established that coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear power, and largely dumps it straight into the environment.

    Somehow people think it's worse if you keep it contained rather than massively diluted. If we thought of it like we do radiation in coal waste, we'd be happy to just dump it in the ocean.

    Living in Finland, I'm proud of the fact that we've got one of the first long-term/final storage sites for nuclear waste in the world. YIMBY.

  • Why has the world started to mine coal again?
  • Oddly enough, it's safer than wind.

    Solar's a little better in that regard, but all three are so much safer than any high-carbon sources of energy that any of them are great options.

  • Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers? Answer: It raises a different point
  • I understand where you're coming from, but some of the strongest communities are in rural places where public transport is unfortunately not a sustainable option.

  • Tory MPs submitting letters of no confidence in Sunak
  • We desperately need electoral reform.

    In a more diverse political landscape like the ones enabled by proportional representation, it's very hard for a single party to be able to reach a majority without coalition partners.

    If the Tories had to rely on coalition partners, there's no way they'd have been able to hold a coalition together this long - they can hardly hold their own party together at this point.

  • Tory MPs submitting letters of no confidence in Sunak
  • Nuclear submeringue. The new season of Bake Off is getting spicy.

  • What do you do with all the free time you got once you stopped using reddit?
  • I'm sorry to hear about your loss. Losing a close friend is awful, especially when it's stacked on top of other things.

  • What is the worst scenes in all of star trek?
  • In a galaxy with replicators, who would actually still know how to cook eggs (other than Sisko's dad)?

  • Looking for painting: picture of a man painting a woman with a twist
  • Hopefully you're in a better situation now, I'm sorry to hear you've had to go through that.

    I guess I'm fortunate that I tend to associate it with some of the worst conversations I've had with people on Reddit rather than anything more personal.

  • Looking for painting: picture of a man painting a woman with a twist
  • "We trained it on social media."

    "Why does it keep making stuff up and then getting argumentative if called out?!"

  • Gamers. What was the game that got you into the hobby?
  • Combat! I loved that, especially with bouncy bullets.

  • What's got you happy this week?
  • Tell me more about Hazel's bush...

  • India demands more visas for nurses and care workers as price for free trade deal
  • Because it's toxic for the type of brexiteers who objected to the EU because it meant there were more foreigners in the country. Even "worse", these people will mostly be visible minorities.

    This is a crucial constituency for the Conservative party.

  • Anti-Piracy Lessons Enter the School Curriculum: Are You a Thief?
  • Perhaps there's a danger that, by normalising self-identification as a thief, campaigns like this might have unanticipated societal results.

    I'd hate to see shoplifting/burglary/mugging stats climbing in a few years time.

  • "Copyright fuels creativity [...] promotes free speech", heh
  • Ah yes, a statement on copyright thanking someone for buying an authorised edition of Great Expectations, a book whose copyright expired in 1940 at the latest...

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  • Nieces, nephews & godchildren.

  • RDR1 - Where to play best? Switch, PS4...or Steam Deck?
  • The development cost for building it out in the new engine would probably be an order of magnitude higher than the simple upscale.

    If they thought they'd get an order of magnitude more sales from doing things that way, they'd have done it that way.

    I'm with you, though. I'd love a proper remaster that also came as a native PC edition.