Absolutely ludicrous that our air fleet has shrunk to so small a size.

It says an enormous amount about the Royal Navy in the late Victorian period that they could essentially build HMS "Fuck That One Ship In Particular" as and when required.

How though? They do appear to have got their hooks in multiple departments in a way that will be very difficult to unpick

Ah, so you’re just an antisemite. I see…

How exactly are Jews in London responsible for the actions of Netanyahu?

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

People been talking about Rejoin again and whether joining the euro would be a good thing or not, presuming that we might either have to, or a campaign would have to presume that we would, even if some kind of Swedish waiting room reality was possible, or even less likely, another opt out.

What is Primarchs Having Big Feelings And Big War Crimes

"Does code quality matter if LLMs can regenerate software from scratch"

LLMs can't regenerate software from scratch. That's not a thing, nor is it ever likely to be.

But thanks for letting us know you're getting your information about LLMs from LinkedIn posts.

No idea if they can - I don’t work for them! But the current approach is a “nicer” and quicker shopping experience. The amount of shoplifting might be changing the calculus though but it will require heavy redesign of the shops to fix and will make the shopping experience worse (and slower!)

Denying that and calling the Euro an absolute win will not help the rejoin cause

As noted by Roland we can set interest rates and print money if absolutely necessary which gives us more power than if we were locked into the ECB

Very much my position. I’d vote to join even with the Euro but, to me, the loss of control over our economy worries me intensely enough that I wouldn’t be voting to join particualrly positively. I view joining the EU as the best of a bunch of terrible options (which makes me a terrible rejoiner)

I do think the biggest difference is that no one was claiming that the internet was going to destroy all work and that everyone except the owners of the internet were going to be destitute tbqh

It’s because, previously, having the food out on display encourages people to buy it, speeds up transactions as the staff don’t need to collect what you’re asking for *and* reduces staffing requirements as you don’t need to have someone effectively acting as a “packer”. It *was* win-win all round

This is my Gregg’s! Lovely staff too, it must be so frustrating for them

(Back in the ‘80s you could be inspired by something from the ‘60s but it wasn’t something that someone else could just go listen to or view with great ease. Where someone from ‘26 could be inspired by something from ‘06 and it’s just *there* on YouTube or Spotify)

Slightly tangential to this (but connected!) is how weird it is to have *so much* stuff from 20 years ago so easily accessible still, I can just go to YouTube and watch an ad I remember from my youth for example! I wonder how much of that contributes to the *feeling* of cultural stagnation

*stares*

While Starmer is certainly a better PM than Boris/Truss etc. he's nowhere close to Brown.

Brown led the worlds response to the GFC + passed the Equality Act and Climate Change Act. A brilliant response to a global crisis.

Starmer has tied himself in knots because he wont raise tax.

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

All that nonsense about “warrior-culture” and “lethality” is worthless. Logistics is where it’s at.

The most terrifying thing about the US military was how they could put a McDonald’s anywhere in the world in 24 hours and somehow Hegseth has managed to screw that up in just over a year

“It won’t stop here” seems rather good actually

I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like

trying to post through it rn

You idiots. There are plenty of reasons that a website could break. For instance, someone might be eating the wires

How dare people expect to get paid for their work. Better replace them with inaccurate plagiarism machines and force the remaining staff to accept responsibility for inaccurate outputs that they don’t have time (or maybe even capability) to review

YouTube just served me up the Feist iPod ad from 20 years ago and that was a blast from the past (loved my iPod nano - absurdly good piece of tech)

Shop with a sign saying ‘sweet shop’, which is part of a little street in Barbra Streisand’s basement

Antique shop in Barbra Streisand’s basement

I’m once again thinking about how Barbra Streisand saw fit to install an entire DICKENSIAN STREET, including several fully-staffed ‘shops’, in the basement of her house, to show off her favourite antiques.

@totalplaytime.com is amazing and video games-adjacent

Altman and the AI industry are trying to blame AI doomers, bad "messaging" and "incendiary" rhetoric for the wave of violence—all of which papers over the root of rage against AI. People are angry at what *the industry itself* has promised to do; at the broader AI project as currently constituted.