I think the watermark bottom left says maybe “Penny Underbust”?

You are being very weird

Sadly, and happily, I’m currently sober. So, unfortunately, looks like a meager pension might be on the cards for me at the moment! ✌️

Fuck yeah, that’s what I like to hear. Where you getting £2 an ale???

I wasn’t counting the cigarettes! Or the charlie, or the speed, or the ket, or the weed 😂

I’m totally in favour of solving multiple problems at once.

Personally, I do not view this as a problem. My issue is with the EU Parliament wasting time with this in place of anything that I perceive as an actual problem.

If you think that calling veggie burgers “burgers” is a problem worth their time and effort, more power to you 👍

Ah okay, interesting! I have to hop VPNs, usually within Belgium (because it’s close enough to be fast for streaming) but the F1TV website kicks me out occasionally, probably once or twice every three races or so. Usually totally fine once I get connected and stay connected for ten mins or so but I need to stay behind the VPN at all times!

Haha yeah awesome real problems getting solved by serious politicians here, guys! If you can actually get your hands on any real meat without paying an arm and a leg for it what the actual fuck are we doing here lads what the fuck are these fucking politicians doing???

The world is on fire, the economy is in the shitter globally, there are multiple ongoing genocides, facism is on the rise again, and we’re wiggling our dicks around talking about whether you can call veggie burgers “burgers”? Are you serious? WHO CARES???

Is this bring your kid to work day and they let the kids do a vote for a change instead as a treat? Is this a joke?? What motherfucker is getting into politics to make sure “hey those damn vegans better not call anything a burger”.

These poncy little briefcase-botherers need a hobby or something because this is absolutely the biggest case of dicking around on the job I’ve ever heard of. Ridiculous. Stupid. A joke. Pathetic. Childish. Vapid. Can we get some adults in the EU Parliament please?

I know we hate Google here, but if you want to buy F1TV, you should be able to do so via Google Pay or Google Wallet or whatever. It obscures your country, so they won’t know where you’re buying from. Then, VPN to watch the races. I’ve done this since 2022 because F1TV isn’t allowed in the UK. Never missed a race since 👍

Do have to deal with the occasional buffering though which sends me into a frustrated meltdown for five seconds or so but it’s chill really. £6.99 a month isn’t bad either!

I definitely couldn’t. It was like £70 minimum to have a good night! And that’s only sticking to pints, and not counting cigs or the inevitable kebab or chicken for supper! That three or four times a week is basically a grand a month. Ridiculous money.

Who can afford to drink out these days?

Sure, the phrasing of “deserve” is pointed. I guess “you get what you get if you don’t research” is more neutral. My other account is .world for the exact same reasons you outlined!

Can I ask what’s gatekeeping about saying that if you don’t look into the community you create an account on, you deserve what you get?

I’m not sure that’s gatekeeping.

So lame.

My boss will regularly send random, unrelated, unrequested AI videos into the general slack channel, and literally everybody else in the room loves them. It’s fucking weird, it feels like being the only grown-up in a nursery sometimes 😂

What do you mean?

This isn’t harmless though, and I’d argue it’s still really harmful. Imagine becoming convinced a loved one is trapped inside ChatGPT. We’ve already got plenty of reports of chatbot induced psychosis, and a few suicides.

Honestly, may as well be. I wish there was some way to have an internet that wasn’t bots, or subject to advertising and marketing creeps, but that’s just not gonna happen outside of like… I don’t know. I don’t even know where the infrastructure would begin for humans to separate themselves online and build an actual community. It would be tough. It’s a shame, really. This could have been so good.

If it’s not supposed to be a replacement for a human being then what the actual fuck is it supposed to be?

My boss did this same exact shit. ‘oh, no no, we won’t be relying on AI to develop our websites! No no, not at all! You just have to use it to write the code for you! It’s not a replacement for a developer, it’s just a tool!’

AI freaks are some of the weirdest, dumbest, most maliciously anti-human people on Earth.

It’s ‘case in point’, by the way.