Not sure if you’re being obstreperous or not…

First, these are suffixes not prefixes. Second, this isn’t unusual.

Xbox Series X was updated in 2024 with no update to show it was the second Xbox Series X.

MacBooks and iPads aren’t released with suffixes.

Amazon have released how many Echos by now?

This isn’t some weird conspiracy…

My joint account with my partner is with a local building society, but branches are shutting left and right in the UK…

Yep. Monzo implemented an emergency-use website about 5 years ago, Revolut shortly after (and I think they have a desktop app now). I’m with neither (though I can SEE my accounts online, I cannot DO anything with them).

Nope, it is FCA/Prudential registered bank. These fintech solutions are very common in the UK.

I’ve discovered I can access my account online, but cannot send money from there (Zopa).

Monzo and Revolut now have some barebones web implimentation (over a decade after launched).

Atom has no web access at all.

Chase UK doesn’t have web access as far as I can tell.

All of the above are registered banks.

It’s literally ONLY got an app. No web, no branches. They’ve become quite common and popular in the UK (like Revolut).

So true. I’m loathed to lose the interest rate, but needs must when the devil drives, and boy is he driving right now.

If 10 people are sitting at a table being civil to 1 Nazi, there are 11 Nazis at the table and all that.

This is what I’m struggling with. I use an app-only challenger bank, so I feel a bit stuck unless I change everything…

I don’t think that’s how it works. The Xbox One wasn’t the first Xbox, DOOM didn’t get a number for its reboot, etc etc.

But you are right that it’s the second one!

I can’t find a reference to first - where did you see it?

You’re right, of course. I still love my Steam Controller (and Steam Link) after all this time.

Nah, let’s not. Dicking on the unhoused is the very definition of punching down.

So…no retirement. Die at your desks, pleb! And this is why when I caught my company doing illegal shit, I took the money and used it to get a little garden to grow my own food…

I like to get some scratchies every now and then - it’s one of the major funding sources for museums and sports in the UK, so I see it as a little donation with a dopamine hit rather than an attempt at winning big!

There are LOADS of modern classics. If you’re into sci-fi, try the Ancillary Justice trilogy by Anne Lecke. If you’re into contemporary fiction, check out Against the Loveless World. If you like historical fiction, Bernard Cornwell has been going strong for a long time.

What genre do you enjoy? I always recommend checking out the relevant awards and go through the shortlist for the last few years. You are sure to find something spellbinding.

Booker - Contemporary literature

Assimov/Philip K. Dick/Hugo/Nebula - Speculative Fiction

Nobel Prize - Contemporary literature

Oo not heard of this one! Thanks for the rec.

I didn’t mind BNW, though Huxley didn’t appear to be particularly well versed in political theory. It felt very “everything is socialism (even Ford) and thus bad”. However, the actual story itself with the boy? Amazing. Plus, we totally ARE controlled by our vice and pleasure far more so than information restriction.

F451 I really, really enjoyed when I was younger…right up until the last scenes! Then it felt very…masturbatory.

Mine wasn’t mild, unfortunately. Fully pinhole. Luckily, I’m a “grower” so they didn’t have to take the whole foreskin and the very base of my glands are still protected (and get stimulated from skin during sex). Stretches were actually counter productive for me (found that out after the skin condition got diagnosed) and likely led to a speeding up of the pinhole nature

Ooo something for me!

I am FORMERLY uncircumcised. I have a skin condition which led to phymosis a few years back forcing me to have a medical circumcision this year.

Uncut is superior in every way. Sex is better, it’s more comfortable when exercising, it’s generally less of a nuisance. And in Europe, I never had an ick reaction.

If I didn’t medically need it I wouldn’t have done it. That said, it’s better than phymosis, I do last longer in bed, and my partner says it’s actually a really nice oral experience now.

Remember: most countries don’t have a preference for circumcision, and a lot of people outside of America that are circumcised have it done due to medical issues, not moral or religious reasons.

I think you really need to ask yourself why you’re willing to either lie or be so easily manipulated

Totally unnecessary. You’re comparing a publicly traded company running on memes and a strange cult of personality to private valuation.

Now that China and other domestic competitors have ramped up EV production Tesla’s dominance of the niche is going to fall, especially considering the flop that was the Cybertruck and the brand damage Elon has committed.

We are already seeing protectionist measures being enacted for the EV sector.

In short, SpaceX and Starlink have a market to dominate (whether we want it to or not, it seems) while Tesla, a grossly overvalued company, is only going to see more competition and deepened irrelevancy.

How true is this or are we doing the same thing “generation killed industry/way of doing things” that the boomer media is so fond of?