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@emarktaylor.bsky.social I think that's more to do with being a corporate tax haven than being in the EU

I tell you, one day we'll run out of #electrons just like the oil and gas, then where will we be? These ai data centers are using them all up too quickly.

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90% of #progress is just getting people to do their jobs properly.

Is #greenland going to be the price for #trump helping (or at least not hindering) in #ukraine?

@appassionato a) nato is on its last legs - this would be the same US that is currently threatening another nato member
b) nato obligations don't apply if the nation is an aggressor

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“I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.” www.reddit.com/r/confession...

I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.
I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore. I put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me. I’ve been sitting on this for about eight months, just watching the code getting pushed to production, and I can’t sleep at night knowing I helped build this machine.

You guys always suspect the algorithms are rigged against you, but the reality is actually so much more depressing than the conspiracy theories. I’m a backend engineer. I sit in the weekly sprint planning meetings where Product Managers (PMs) discuss how to squeeze another 0.4% margin out of "human assets" (that’s literally what they call drivers in the database schemas). They talk about these people like they are resource nodes in a video game, not fathers and mothers trying to pay rent.

First off, the "Priority Delivery" is a total scam. It was pitched to us as a "psychological value add." Like I said in the title, when you pay that extra $2.99, it changes a boolean flag in the order JSON, but the dispatch logic literally ignores it. It does nothing to speed you up.

We actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison. Management l

This is why we need better #cycling infrastructure.
beans.mp4
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-LVPjtLYia4&si=YLc5fvnw7FkxdDSU

The #environment agency has known about multiple illegal waste dumps for years and done nothing.

This is a national scandal and they are not fit for purpose.

https://youtu.be/xNh782589uw?si=wwTmvCDV3dVqwyt4

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Very shallow geophysics for farming: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program

Decided to download #beltmatic.

Get dividers, 5 divided by 0 is 0, apparently.

#Literallyunplayable

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lol honey bad news the website's down so the bed cooked the children

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/

Unpopular economic opinion on #housing:

Affordability of housing has little to do with supply and everything to do with the availability of credit.

You can choose to live in one of two worlds:
One with easy credit and loans with high earnings multipliers, where more people can afford houses but only at exorbitant prices.
Or one where you can't borrow as much, where houses are cheap but paradoxically only B2L landlords can afford to buy them.

https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/62404/html/

axiom 2: it is very difficult to make the world less complex

theorem: for democracy to succeed either the complexity of the world must be reduced or the capacity of the median voter to understand it must be increased.

axiom: #democracy inevitably fails as a system when the complexity of the world exceeds the capacity of the median #voter to understand it.

Today, in #5minutemeals I made, ... whatever this delicious atrocity is.

@30yrdscreamer some kind of bat, at a guess

@TCatInReality does PPE Medpro actually have £122m in assets though?

I need some cheap picture hooks because I can't find the ones I took off my living room wall before it was renovated, those brass ones that you nail in, of course pound shops only stock the shitty plastic stick on ones that fall off. Don't want to order online because postage is more than the value of the item.

#Screwfix? They think I'm the fucking Tate gallery! What am I going to do with 100 of them?

At least #toolstation are a bit more sensible

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