chrisbtoo

joined 3 weeks ago
[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's almost like the entire thing is performative bullshit

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Is there a "go woke, go broke" but for nazis?

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Same thing with tinnitus ... your brain just filters it out

Can't relate.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I just wish there were a legal way to stream BBC content (i.e. iPlayer) outside the UK. I'd gladly pay the licence fee (as a non-resident) or more, to be able to watch all their content without having to grub around on a million different services.

Whether there'd be enough people in the same boat to be able to make up a $200M shortfall, I don't know, but it seems like it could be a pretty big untapped market.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Years ago — late 90s — I used to travel to Vermont from the UK on business. Because of the time difference I'd often wake up at ~3:30 in the morning and since there was very little to do in a hotel room in Burlington, I'd put The Weather Channel on.

Quite often they'd report on "snow coming down from Canada", or "frigid air coming down from Canada", and I always thought it was weird how they seemed to be subtly blaming another country for weather phenomena.

Dunno why I thought of that.

Anyway, electric vans. Cool.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I'm boycotting this round.

Good luck to all the teams, and I sincerely hope nobody is deported, imprisoned or shot for daring to have been born outside the USA.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (4 children)

First time I ever went there (1997) I landed at Boston Logan Airport, and a guy in plain clothes, but with a gun, stopped everyone who was departing the plane and repeatedly yelled out "American citizens this way, foreigners line up against the wall!".

I never once felt safe going there, and was always relieved when I got out alive. Decided a few years ago that I'll never set foot in the US again.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That seems like a good move.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

foreword FYI :)

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

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