Zombie

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
  1. I wouldn't recommend any I'm afraid but I would avoid Three. Their coverage is rubbish.

  2. They're all pretty similar. Aldi and Lidl are cheap and cheerful. Tesco and Asda (Walmart) are middle of the road. Sainsbury's and Mark's and Spencers are more upmarket. Waitrose is so posh there's none in my city or the next two nearest cities. Farmfoods and Iceland are almost entirely frozen food and Co-Op, Spar, Costcutter, and Premier are slightly more expensive but located in convenient easy to walk places. Try to buy as much as you can from the bigger supermarkets and then just top up things like bread or milk from your local Spar when necessary.

  3. Just register with your most local GP. You can easily change GP if you move. Welcome to the true land of the free! (Unless you move to England, but I believe their prescriptions are still capped)

  4. The local skatepark might have similar people. Some music venues have under 18 licences (with a guardian) so you could maybe catch some punk gigs together and let her socialise there while you enjoy a beer at the bar and keep half an eye on her to make sure she's alright.

  5. There's no mandatory ID. Unless you're buying booze or fags and look young enough you might get ID'd (the rule being if you look under 25 you're supposed to be ID'd for 18+ products) then I wouldn't bother carrying a passport. Too much risk of losing it for no gain.

  6. I can only speak for Scotland but it's normal to provide about 2 months rent as a deposit. This legally must be put into a third party deposit scheme so the landlord can't try and screw you when you leave. If you rent via a reputable agency they'll provide you with all the necessary info but I believe the Scottish government website has renters rights easily listed somewhere too

  7. Furniture all depends on taste and budget really. John Lewis are pricey but have really good quality stuff with long guarantees. They're kinda worker owned too. There's also always charity shops.

  8. Find the largest supermarket in your city. A Tesco Extra or a large ASDA. They'll have plenty of homeware to choose from. Nickel and Dime, B&M, Dunelm, or The Range will also work.

  9. Charity shops. Your local shopping mall will have a mix of the usual big name brands of course but if you want real bargains, charity shops are the way to go.

  10. I've never used them but Zen Internet are the nerds choice of ISP. ISP depends on who owns the copper/fibre around you and which ISPs they've made deals with. BT Opeanreach own most of the country meaning you can sign up to almost any ISP. Some areas are restricted to the likes of City Fibre but even they have plenty of ISP options.

  11. You will get incredibly threatening scary official letters in the post if you don't have a TV licence. They will threaten to imprison you or fine you thousands. Scary letters are about as far as their powers go though. Do with that information as you will.

  12. We've got Taco Bell now so if she likes diarrhoea then have at it!

  13. I think that would be very company dependent. I don't think you could go wrong with a plain t-shirt and dark jeans at first, and then you can see what others wear to determine how casual you can really go.

  14. It can be handy for toilets that require a 20p or 50p coin but generally you'll be fine cash free. Even beggers and buskers have card machines now! Supermarket trolleys are often locked and you have to put a £1 coin in to release it and get it back once you lock the trolley up again but you can also get fake £1 sized tokens for your keyring if you want.

  15. Try the Marmite crisps, they'll change your view and spare you the executioner's blade.

Edit: Lemmy is trying to be too clever and has messed up the numbering. It's correct when I edit but goes into a list when I post. I'm sure you can figure out which is which haha

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

Tha thu seo agad!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They're native to this environment though. Unless you mean the ecology of farms, farms, and more farms. Made and run for the purpose of profit and nothing else. Then yeah, fuck that ecology, release the lynx. Particularly given the genocidal history of the area and its owners.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Please stop bending over backwards for the corporations. The customer shouldn't have to control the taxi when they're calling for emergency support like this. Should he just crawl into the front seat and drive the thing for them as well?

He was on his way to a flight. Flights are expensive. Of course he wants reassurance that his costs will be covered if he misses it due to their failings. He has no idea for how long he's going to be continually going in circles and we don't know for how long he'd already been going in circles.

This is a customer in distress and you're shitting on them because they had a stressed tone towards the mega-corp representative? Shameful.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy on the TV? That's a thing? How? Why?

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 25 points 7 months ago

855 "legitimate interest" vendors with no easy reject all button? No thank you.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The solution is a varied diet.

We need to be eating random things, not the same protein, carbs, and veggies that we know we like and buy on routine.

How much of the fruit and vegetable aisle do you actually purchase from? I think many of us get in a routine of buying the same things over and over because we know what we like or we're on autopilot from work burnout. But, for example, if instead of buying apples each week, we buy a different random fruit. Or, if the budget can stretch it, buy apples and a random fruit. Then our nutritional variety has just increased.

I'm being a bit of a hypocrite here because I myself like to buy the same things over and over. I like chicken, I like apples, I like the same granola I always get. But during each shop, I try to add at least something random that I don't normally get. A vegetable I don't normally cook with or tofu instead of chicken, whatever. We need variety.

There's also the talk of nutritional content reducing in supermarket goods as they're produced for profit. So growth speed and shelf appearance are prioritised, a way to combat that is to start growing some of your own. Obviously, this is highly dependent upon living situations, but even some herbs in a windowsill will help. Personally, I think vegetable gardeners are some of the most punk people out there, sustaining themselves, entertaining themselves, and learning new skills all for the price of a bag of dirt and some seeds. Be punk!

https://youtube.com/@growveg

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 6 points 7 months ago
[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 142 points 7 months ago (7 children)

How, as a Russian, do you watch the blowing up of a fictional children's joy bringer as a good thing?

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

Any chance somebody knows how to find saved comments on the Boost android app?

I've saved this one to listen to that Manila Road cover later but can't find where they're stored so commenting here instead. Sorry!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

I use drills everyday for work and have one at home that doesn't get used much because if I want to get handy I don't want to drive to work to get one.

The average person has fuck-all experience with power tools, they don't use them every day. They can pull the trigger and it goes brrrrrrr but they don't know what the options on the rotation piece are, they don't know about different types of chuck, they don't know which gear setting to put their drill in. They use it for the absolute minimum amount of time possible and then put it away. You're clearly a professional if you're using them every day, most people are not.

I don't know whether the 7 minute claim is true or not, but the idea that most drills barely get used and spend most of their time sitting about is not very difficult to believe. I'm quite a handy person, and even my drill spends most of it's time doing nothing because I'm not drilling every single day, just as and when DIY jobs come up.

In a world drowning in ewaste, and lithium being a precious resource, why are we collectively wasting so much on individual drills when, as JubilantJaguar said, we could own these things communally and not create so much waste.

The idea of a communal toolshed for your street, block, tenement, whatever, isn't the same as having tools sitting at work. Work for most people is a commute away. Communal toolsheds would be local. They ideally shouldn't be any more than 10 mins walk away. Can you really begrudge a 10 minute walk for the sake of your wallet, environment, and community?

This also helps the young get into DIY easier. Most of my mates growing up barely did any DIY or tinkering, not because they weren't interested, but because the cost of getting the necessary tools was prohibitive as a teenager. It's taken me years to accumulate the toolbox I have now, and many of the items in there are hand-me-downs or second-hand. A communally owned toolshed gives everyone instant access to tools regardless of personal wealth or resources. If a power tool dies, £150 spread between multiple households is nothing compared to £150 for an individual household.

Managing it, caring for the tools, ensuring they're returned, and in a good state, are obviously hurdles to be addressed, but if communal toolsheds were the cultural norm then they could easily be overcome. We manage to do it with books easily enough, why not anything else?

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

In Scotland? I don't think so. In the world, ever? Certainly, there's examples from America, which means it's not impossible to become a thing here at some point.

My worry is more about the point of barring certain people from being able to hold office rather than the specifics of why they're being barred.

If somebody is on the sex offenders list, in a proportionally representative democracy, with a healthy fourth estate, I would hope that would be requirement enough to prevent them from becoming an MSP. If they still managed to get elected, I would hope it's because they managed to prove their reason for being on the list was spurious. It erodes trust in fair and free elections the bigger the list becomes of who can not set the rules.

I know it's a slippery slope argument, but after years of reading other countries' news, it feels a legitimate worry to have. Governments come and go, just because we have a good one now doesn't mean we will in the future. Laws like this could be abused to prevent "undesirables" from holding office.

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