Not as intense as traitors but another great british game show is “Would I lie to you” (you’re going to tell me now that you are british and that’s it silly to explain it like a foreign concept, lol). The only other thing i remember watching that’s competative in the same way as traitors is Race Across The World.

Some Anime shows I’ve loved: Romantic Killer (Netflix), The Disastrous Life of Saiki K* (was on netflix for a good while). Witch Watch is an okay anime i watched recently, sadly feels a bit unfinished but it’s just that new.

• Would definitely recommend SpyXFamily - it appeals to all age groups - but I’m guessing you will have watched that.

Random reccommendations just because they’re so good:

• Dropout TV, which is full of comedy and gameshows. (You can get a taste for it from their YouTube channel)
• Daredevil S1-3 (Disney+)
• Deutschland '83,'86,'89. (was on channel 4 iPlayer, don’t know where else) & Slow Horses (Apple TV)

Raw Carrots, absolutely an S+ tier healthy food

• Do oatmeal cookies count?

• grapes, raisins or nuts mixed with raisins

• golden sultanas are the best, but i like them best when mixed eith nuts or some other types of dried fruit.

• Bircher, AKA overnight oats made by soaking yoghurt, oats,p & fruit in apple juice and refrigerating over several days

Anything fermented or pickled is a delight to eat and you can make them at home very easily as long as you’re sanitising your jars in boiling water between each use. A youtuber/tiktoker(?) Called Kirsten Kaminski is how i learned about this stuff. She has a cookbook if you’re interested.

Would definitely recommend pickled onions, they’re absolutely stupendous.

Air dried cauliflower i wouldn’t go near but i would try it as a pickle or ferment food.

Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?

Some areas should just be nationalised, so if a water company, train line, airline, network provider, energy provider, car manufacturer becomes big enough then the government should aim to own their monopoly.

I like worker owned things as well, but there’s no use introducing it unless the situation demands it. If we take amazon as an example, i would have to see it reach that point only after failing to comply to demands like paying taxes and treating workers with respect. We should legislate these things into being better rather than taking over.

Because the economy should generally aim to be as simple and efficient in organisation as possible.

I’m not a reddit fan or hater, there’s just niche communities I like being apart of on reddit that I can’t communicate with anymore.

Same man, same…

Here are some more facts about reddit IP bans:

• They also take your device ID/“fingerprint” on the devices you log into banned account with
• This can be reset by factory resetting a device apparently, but:
• supposedly, because of data protection, they get rid of this ID anyway, as well as your saved IP address, after a fixed period. Maybe 30 days or 3 months? So if you didnt use reddit in all that time you’d be good to go with a new email address

You should also avoid quickly joining all your favourite subreddits, because it flags accounts for that. Basically move like a tortoise when you rejoin, and then after a while you can use reddit normally.

You can get banned from any community if the mods decide to - the good news is a communty called “ye power tripping bastards” which serves as the court to get an appeal, if that’s important to you

Although his thesis was on designing hardware to function under a different set of physical laws.

I can imagine them digging it out of storage in the future before we make a trip to another universe

Cigarettes - I’d probably go with cigars now, anyway. I’m evolving!

Also, industrial sabotage on behalf of an environmental cause. Okay that’s not because i’m scared i guess i’ve just been too lazy. Also no point making other workers’ lives harder, most of the time. Point me in the direction of a truly worthy cause and I’ll bring a sledgehammer

I can completely understand wanting to use reddit again (hope you stick with us too, if you do) but you should know it’s super hard to get past any kind of permanent ban.

Did you use multiple reddit accounts or just one? the problem for me is that i got IP banned because they detected me logging in to a banned one on the same browser. It is borderline impossible for me to use reddit for commenting & posting again.

most of the people on it seem to be crazy or racist

Yeah I would credit that to twitter, which is how it spreads.

I’m not deep into the world of online blog congregators but I think medium is the clean alternative to Substack.

It’s a place for twitter users to roleplay as intellectual essayists (okay some of them are totally worthwhile tbf) because twitter itself is designed for sharing brainfarts rather than cognizant thoughts

Don’t worry about it, just say what comes to mind

Yeah I don’t really like this one. I’ve liked it the last 2 or 3 times I tried it but I had one that went too overboard on herbs and it felt like how an actual toad would feel to eat

Most people honestly don’t use clear lines in their logic. Even for many laws and ethics, we don’t. I personally think this is okay because using the “drawing a line” thinking is restrictive, meaning it doesn’t allow you to grow so well, intellectually-speaking.

A common way people fail to keep to their lines in the sand is when they justify their side, politically speaking, to do something that they’ve demanded the enemy cannot do. This is bad and unfair. But then again, I’m sure a lot of you will be guilty of this way of thinking throughout your life - we’re only human.

because, unironically, they get kicked out of criminal club for not dressing the same way.

Have you ever seen those cop shows where someone has to go undercover in a drug trade or something and they get accused of being a cop instantly? It’s like that. The cops, having not spent a while acclimatising to criminal culture, are caught unaware by the rules at play.

So, ironically, even the people who like to believe they’re rebelling against society, are very adherent to strict societal rules like dress code.

Yeah. Although, every baby boomer who’s talked to me about catholic school seems really traumatised by it

I’ve taught him about “low quality” content and we’ve watched a couple so he could understand what I meant. Now, when he wants to watch something like that, I say “no, that’s going to be low quality,” he seems to understand and we move on to find something else.

Honestly never thought about how I would teach my (hypothetical, future) kid this stuff. I have the benefit of a decade of experience learning how youtube works and living through the clickbait endemic.
I guess that’s why it’s so important for parents to navigate YouTube together with them. My first experience of YT was also watching cool stuff like VSauce and Lego animations with my family.

That said, we were at a restaurant the other day and a woman was there with her baby and a friend. She set that infant in a high chair with AI slop on her phone right in its face. The kid definitely didn’t disturb her conversation, because it looked like a zombie. Godspeed, child

Sometimes you see toddlers who are just playing blaring loud noises from tablets at restaurants. You also see adults&teenagers doing that on trains… I guess I would point them out to my kid afterwards and say “that’s what happens when you watch too mcuh brainrot!”

For example, I once heard a story about how a guy about 17 years old was dating his teacher who had a twelve-year-old daughter, and I heard they got married and had another child.

Where was that? Cos I’m getting “Rural America”

TBH it would probably be fun unless your step-children are WAY older than you, I figure the guy in your example had it best. And I can’t help but think “lucky her” for the teacher mom.

There’s the argument that you’re sacrificing dating people you’re own age but some of us just vibe better with older ladies.

My English teacher at high school apparently married an ex-student about 1 year after he finished school. Nothing underhanded, they just met up again and struck it up. She was built nicely, like Sofia Vergara.

Pasta bowl using chopped tomatoes and onion.

Cries Britishly