6·2 days agoThis guy keeps coming up, but this recontextualises the stuff he’s said before. Previously:
The housing secretary, who is also the deputy prime minister, said building more homes would stop prices from rising further and pricing new buyers out.
This would only really works if supply outstrips demand, but even if Labour delivers on the 1.5m pledge, it still falls far short of the current 4m+ deficit. The best this policy will do is stop prices rising as fast, but it won’t stop prices rising.
The cast size thing is definitely more of an early-RWBY issue, I think the Atlas arc overall did a decent job of managing all the characters.
I felt Ruby’s breakdown was a bit sudden. I don’t recall any foreshadowing of that in volume 8 but I might be misremembering. There’s definitely been points where she’s been stressed out before but I never felt she was the type to break down, but maybe it was just a matter of time.
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen V8, but I remember her being on the verge of a breakdown throughout it e.g. that scene where she bursts out the meeting. In universe, it was only about 4 days between Salem arriving in Atlas and the Paper Pleasers fight, so the breakdown felt very natural to me.
591·4 days agoContext for people who don’t keep up with Lemmy drama.
I really like V9, I think it’s one of the strongest volumes of the show.
I personally thought the smaller cast was to V9’s strength, a problem RWBY’s had is that it’s tried to have a shonen style large cast but has never had the run time to balance all the characters. This is also why I really like V4.
You’re right about the budget constraints, they preemptively cut this volume’s budget so V8 could be longer (V8 and V9 were greenlight together), which I think was the right move. This volume didn’t need all the fight scenes like V8 did, but the final episode of our main cast reuniting with everyone in Vacuo getting pushed to a potentially never-to-exist Volume 10 was a let down.
Ruby having the mental breakdown she’s been putting off since V3 was very satisfying (ok, that sounds bad but you know what I mean).
10·7 days agoI’d completely forgot about them tbh. You also see it a lot with cheese alternatives, even though they broadly fucking suck so I don’t know why the cheese industry even bothers.
In 2019, Oatly applied to trademark the phrase “Post Milk Generation” but this was rejected by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in January last year after ruling that its use of the term “milk” was “deceptive”.
But this trademark is clearly them establishing themselves as not-milk and plenty of vegan products term themselves like this (“No Steak Pie”) without issue, it’s only dairy products that this ridiculous standard applied to them. Guess I’ll just continue to enjoy the two bottles of oat ‘drink’ I have in my fridge.
To be honest I do think calling it “milk” lets them inflate the price when it is essentially porridge water.
Most good oat milks will have stabilisers and vitamins (B12 especially) added to them vs if you just made some at home.
Nah, I did it and that seems to have sent it through to everyone else. Just weird as I checked the logs and slrpnk seems to have not sent the pin activity to feddit.uk.
It absolutely does, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/skeet-bluesky-slang
Maybe after it arrives in merry old England.
Weird, it didn’t federate.
I concur, that’s all three of us (don’t worry about tom, they’re inactive).
Thankfully, I, a true Emacs user, use
C-x @ m xso I’m immune to this.
The UK also relaxed its recruitment rules in 2022, allowing citizens with foreign-born parents to join security agencies, to increase the labour pool.
You could have foreign-born parents before 2022, it just had to be from an ‘approved nation’ (no prizes for guessing which nations those were).
Most countries don’t, it’s important to remember that the country isn’t Taiwan but the Republic of China and it continues to lay claim to mainland China, so any recognition would sour relations with the PRC.
151·16 days agoThis must be what other countries feel when they see stuff like this:
What is this country coming to that you can pressure your adolescent son into doing cocaine and having sex with a prostitute and be called a bad farther? It’s not trauma, it’s character building!
Puberty blockers have been prescribed to transgender youth since the 90s, they’re use in combating gender dysphoria is just as much a part of the puberty blocker tradition as their use in combating early puberty.
This subtle notion that slips into this discourse that being trans is akin to a make-belief thing is deeply frustrating. No, children were not just being given puberty blockers because they suddenly declared that they weren’t their assigned gender. Getting puberty blockers required a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, something I can assure you is not an easy thing to get in this country, and even then still needed a specialist’s approval.
This is the worst part of this ‘debate’, people are led to believe that it’s the child deciding for themselves that they get puberty blockers despite the very stringent requirements on their use for trans youths. The point of this entire ordeal is not to protect kids (puberty blocker usage has a 4% regret rate), it’s to build up the idea that no amount of safeguards can make the prescribing of trans healthcare acceptable to people you don’t believe have full bodily autonomy. Where this goes from here is not looking for other areas in which our medical system is failing children, it’s expanding the list of trans people who don’t have full bodily autonomy. The Cass Review has already said that autistic people need special consideration.