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Are all phone calls voip (voice over Internet protocol) now? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

We’d have got rid of it in 1990 I think if it weren’t for Thatcher. The UK would have had high speed internet from day one, but that stupid bint went “nah…”.

https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784

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[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Fuck knows. I’m quite good at taking the piss though.

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[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I had five questions…in no order.

How did you vote on Brexit?
Do you eat meat?
do you think Jeremy Clarkson is God?
Do you love Oasis?
Do you think Trainspotting 2 is a worthy sequel?

A movie theater combining with an oxygen bar could probably make a powerful smell-o-vision experience in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Maybe we could hook people up so as they can feel pain to?

Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko dies in war with Russia in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

Surprise, Sue-fucking-prise.

The Palestinian activists fighting for LGBTQ+ rights against a neverending backdrop of war in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

Doesn’t mean to say that they deserve to die though, does it?

Cease-fire agreed by Hamas is 'far from Israel's requirements,' Netanyahu says. in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 38 points 4 months ago

Totally. It’s what a reasonable person would do. I’m sure they’re reasonable changes too.

Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko dies in war with Russia in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 44 points 4 months ago

Needless.

Doctor decides to dress up for halloween in an elaborate devil costume and then must give a terminal cancer diagnosis in c/whatcouldgowrong@lemm.ee

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Why would you?

How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

This makes me feel better. It’s just I seem to see it be said to men more. Apparently if she feels the need to call you out on how you are towards her, she does, and she didn’t, so…

How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, I wouldn’t say women don’t say it here, but I think it’s majority male, and this woman is blatantly MtF.

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U.K. banks raising mortgage interest rates…cause inflation hasn’t fallen as much as expected. Can anyone do an ELI5 as to why? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee to c/finance@beehaw.org

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As the title says, numerous banks in the U.K., maybe across the world, are raising interest rates on mortgages, and the given reason is cause inflation hasn’t fallen as much as expected. Can anyone give me a basic inflation, other than greed, as to why they’d do this?