Egg_Egg

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[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

We do live in a world where simply mentioning the bad shit people do can get you in trouble.

Over on another forum site I mentioned that border security in Egypt made a British 15 year old girl strip in an airport and I received a 3 day ban off admins for "Inciting hatred based on identity or religion".

I never mentioned religion or any identity. I just said "Egypt made a 15 year old girl strip naked in an airport and that was a pretty shitty thing to do."

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To understand how seriously the British take the NHS we did a thing in Scouts where we went around the circle asking the children (aged 10-14) what the liked most and least about Britain. Out of around 20 of the kids, 5-6 said the NHS for what they liked most. The first child to mention the NHS was 11 years old.

The weather was by and far the least liked thing about Britain.

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I've seen someone collecting lionfish, basically using a litter picker and a bag.

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Aye, this is the problem with a lot of invasive edibles. Too few people are interested in foraging and usually you can only eat so much foraged stuff.

If everyone went out with tubs, bags and baskets on their days off and did a bit of foraging to make their diets a bit more varied and healthy then we might be able to make a dent in things like Himalayan Balsam and American Signal Crayfish. Realistically though we'd just have to limit foraging of easier to identify and prepare plants and fungi from easier to access areas.

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I worked for an ISP that uses Openreach's infrastructure in the UK. In order to make changes to customer installations or repairs we had to call an Openreach Contact Centre. These were basically big call centres in India. Many of my customers got contacted by scammers from India shortly after me contacting Openreach about their accounts using information like their address, contact details and information about the work they were receiving, and demanding things like card details to ensure the work went forward.

It was obvious Indian workers in those call centres were taking pictures of customer account details and using that info to scam those customers, but my company refused to do anything about it because we "lacked evidence" and just told us to let customers know any communication about their accounts would come directly from us and we'd never ask for any card details etc.

I'm certain any other companies, whether UK or US, that use centralised admin from India and similar places with poor security will be plagued with these exact same issues.

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They do destroy biodiversity but at least they are pretty and won't fuck you up like Giant Hogweed.

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's difficult to eat your way through an invasive species. Himalayan Balsam is also edible but it's thriving in the UK.

In fact edibility is often the reason these things are so invasive, it's why American Signal crayfish are over in the UK.

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Near rivers it has to contend with Himalayan Balsam, and the bees love that stuff too.

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

Yes but in D&D you only quote the rules that support whatever bullshit you're trying to pull.

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Ants evolved from stinging wasps, so if wasps are orcs, ants would be something that evolved from orcs. Uruk-Hai aren't really an evolution of orc, but they are an advanced breed, so maybe they can suffice?

[–] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Jesus is said to be God, therefore he should be omnipotent and capable of literally anything we could comprehend as humans, or even more than that even.

Obviously it's all bullshit but yeah.

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