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Krampus
  • If you are going to make me put a coin into a cart because you don't trust me to be an adult and tidy up after myself without being nannied, then I am going to do my damndest to bypass your lock and leave a mess out of spite.

    In the shops where I am trusted and not required to pay a coin (I never even carry cash these days) I tidy up because that is the decent thing to do.

  • Some people just defend the status quo.
  • To all the people saying they should release server source code: You don't even need to do that (as nice as it would be). At the very basic level all that is needed is:

    • remove DRM (which probably cost more effort to add in the first place)
    • a description of the API for any online components (which any decent dev team will already have internally documented)
  • The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma
  • looking at the junction points on that diagram only one side of the axle would change track if the switch was pulled resulting in a derailment so you could ignore the possibility of hitting the people in the middle thereby reducing this example to two parallel but unconnected trolley problems

    i choose to kill whoever calls them trolleys and not trams

  • Baby red panda dies due to 'stress caused by fireworks,' renewing calls to ban their public sale
  • I find it immensely infuriating that the article's byline shows they are reporting from 'London' when in fact this happened not just in a different city, Edinburgh, but in a completely different country, Scotland.

    Sad about the pandas, there are far too many people that simply can't be trusted with fireworks. Limiting it to a single night in dedicated display venues run by licensed organisations wouldn't remove the noise entirely, but it would reduce the frequency and would probably help all animals.

  • Online Gaming Platforms And YouTube Will Also Seemingly Be Banned For Aussies Under 16
  • According to the 3 criteria mentioned in the article, YouTube wouldn't need to be banned, logging in to YouTube would be banned. YouTube is still functional (mostly) when logged out, and wouldn't violate those 3 criteria. The other services mentioned, like gaming, would be banned.

  • Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x08 "Empire of Death"
  • That was an OK finale.

    I'm of two minds about the resolution with Ruby's mum. On one hand, there being no significance at all is a bit of a let down, but on the other hand when dealing with gods, the whole point of the power is the belief, and that explanation does tie everything up fairly neatly. (not sure why ruby kept snowing though). Seeing her get back together with her mum was a nice send off.

    Getting rid of sutek by throwing him off into the vortex, and having that undo everything was a bit iffy for me. There's not been an established precedent that throwing someone into the time vortex undoes every action they ever did, and surely if that were the case that leads to a paradox?

    Lots of call backs to past DW. Including the trend that at the end of the season every single person in the universe dies. But I guess that is the risk when you have a show that's gone on for so long, once you've pushed the limits of danger to the max, there's not really any way to escalate the tension further.