Three ships silouhetted against a choppy sea from left to right, the stubby little HMS Repulse, Titanic doing its thing a fair way back, and HMS Powerful to the left doing its damndest to look like what Brunel would've come up with if they'd have just let him do one more liner bro please bro last one I promise bro.
Incredible shot (from wikipedia) of Powerful with the Titanic in the background. Quite the long boi
can we get some sliders made? or at least a t-shirt?
"do you think we could do better than some cheap decking and a windswept field?" "No darling, for we have spent all our money on columns."
I find it bizarre how so often in these sorts of place the opulence of the interior is matched by a complete, thuggish disregard for the outdoor spaces.
I mean, the same is arguably true of AI, but I think the general vibe of "get online so that you can *gestures vaguely at the possibilities*" was not dissimliar to how AI is being rolled out in workplaces or every piece of software you currently use.
A google satellite map of the coast. A point of interest is labelled "Old Slains Castle (Not Dracula castle)." Sure. Absolutely. Completely believable and not in any way suspicious.
Lol yeah right that's just what Dracula *would* say
sort of surprised not to see "the internet" as a prominent part of this discussion. It was all a bit lest predatory and messianic but the late 90s were absolutely awash with calls to get on the information superhighway [lol], also not necessarily backed by a clear use case, or be left behind.
And finally, the people doing the dying weren't 'kulaks' or rural elites (though they died too), it was the poorest of the poor.
And in both cases these drives, coupled with a lack of any institutional brakes, resulted in millions of people dying of starvation. So, as actually practiced, pretty direct link between communism and famines.
Ok just taking this in good faith for a moment - communism in both Soviet Union and China sought to industrialise and proletarianise largely rural societies by centralising grain production, selling that grain for foreign exchange to buy industrial plant, and destroying the peasant class as obselete
and even if you did, it is *nobody's fucking business but your own* because that is not how the highway code works.
Honestly the gall of this. *Your* little bike ride is a selfish inconvenience, *my* drive to Brighton beach is an inalienable right.
Yes god forbid that my personal safety or right to use the road for whatever means I deem fit (because it's none of your fucking business) should compromise your ability to get to your destination 3 seconds quicker.
MSF won't even let you donate specifically to Gaza because there may, in fact, be circumstances in the world where aid is needed equally urgently and they feel they, as an organisation with more understanding of where the needs are, get to make that call, not individual donors.
This is why the humanitarian principle of impartiality - targeting the most acute needs among the most vulnerable - is so important. These orgs are for sure imperfect in how they do that, but it has to be better than the randomness of individual crowdsourcing (before we even get to the scams)
oh, oh, also "if I were them I'd stay and fight for my country." (cool, so would you prefer the fighting to be barrel-bombing civilians in urban areas, or massacring religious minorities? because those are your options.)
I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...
Erm @kagi.com how do I stop results from X topping my search in a little special box of their own? Sort of paying you specifically to avoid this sort of nonsense.
oh all the more so for being real-world artifacts with textures and price tags
The one of Tower Bridge running parallel to the river looks like it's based off a very early Midjourney-hallucinated image
It's the layers that do it for me. Random gothic carving poking out of whitewash, one (1) incredibly elaborate Jacobean tomb, records of a bunch of silverware donated in 1786, WWI regimental banners, 70s WI quilt, contactless donation machine. All jumbled together in a way that sort of makes sense.
Next best thing might be Of This Our Country, excellent collection of recent-ish essays on Nigeria by Nigerian authors (also the only bloody book in the Hatchards-Waterstones-Foyles triangle I could find on the place that wasn't about Boko bloody Haram) www.boroughpress.co.uk/products/of-...
Also seems to be labelled in English, like a plate in a c19 book? "Fig. 8e"
Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove, upon realising that General Ripper is a grade-A fucking lunatic who is going to get us all killed.
"...processed food, and a political environment hostile to masculine vitality"
Or something idk I'd just like them to stop bombing us
Isn't the logic basically a desperate longing to be part of Europe while knowing full well that Europe will never accept them, resulting in a nationalism built on self loathing and resentment, and a foreign policy that seeks to replicate the domestic abuse cycle of violence at a global level?
Was there (he says, hopefully) some sort of specific limitation to the site preventing the dome from being in a non-insane place like, er, on top of the crossing?
Look I know it's not an entirely accurate historical account but have none of these fucking people read Shah of Shahs?
Absolutely magical, potentially the best show I've ever seen anywhere. Something about the mirrors on the ceiling and the way it just created a permissive space to be whatever the sun made you want to be.
