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It’s a metaphor I keep coming back to; a nation can have a decisive lead and then simply throw it away for bad, short-term reasons.
And the damning thing is, you’ll probably not realise how bad a decision it was in your own lifetime. You’ll think you won.
I'm getting stick in WoW Forever for rolling need on obvious feral druid gear, because the rogue thought it was "his". Yeah, I'm healing this dungeon because thats what you need, doesn't make me resto...
These people just hate boys and want to break their spirits.
I am having Claude set up sign up page for a service I’m building in the lab, and told it to only accept Cambridge email addresses. To test the change it, unprompted, confirmed than an Oxford email address would be rejected 😂
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Honestly this is what should power the next generation of Tesla. Bonus for a bit of dry ice smoke involved
The Future Is Finally Here: Elon Announces He Has Invented Those Glowy Power Cylinders With Handles At The Top That You Push Into A Slot And Then Turn The Handle To Lock Into Place buff.ly/v4oUjw7
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Unfortunately he won’t be able to trade his rage bait cash for the gold he needs to buy an epic mount
The amount of grown adults having absolute MELTDOWNS over my BoE loot take is hilarious.
I’m sorry, but your level 25 dungeon upgrade is NOT more important than my gold.
You know what actually matters in WoW Forever? Mounts. Dual specialization. Professions. Being able to afford things at level 40.
That BoE blue selling for 15 gold on the Auction House is worth 15 gold to EVERYONE in the group. Why should YOU automatically get priority just because you can equip it?
Nobody cares that it’s a +3 Strength upgrade for your Warrior. You’ll replace it in six levels anyway.
And to the 1,000 people crying in my replies, you’re exactly why I’m doubling down.
If everyone contributed to killing the boss, everyone deserves a shot at the gold.
Stop acting like someone stole your retirement savings because you lost a roll on a blue item in a video game.
NEED ON EVERY BOE. SELL IT ON THE AH. BUY YOUR MOUNT.
Your temporary upgrade isn’t more important than everyone else’s gold.
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Putting aside the absolute technological illiteracy that believing his conspiracy theory requires, wasn’t there a lot of hand wringing on Gibneys team a while back about respecting election outcomes? Or does that only apply when they win?
“Musk” director Alex Gibney says he doesn’t believe Elon Musk “switched votes” in the 2024 presidential election, but suggests Musk used Starlink to intercept election reporting signals “to intercept signals of reporting from ballot places” to learn the results early:
“It puts in your mind this idea that Starlink is not just a means of communication; it’s a means of surveillance and control.”
In the doc, Gibney highlights a text chain between Musk and Ashley St. Clair where Musk appeared confident about Trump’s victory before the results were known: “I found an anomaly in the matrix, and I have 10,000 space lasers that help me understand this.”
variety.com/2026/film/news/a…
Why haven’t you deported him @ShabanaMahmood - in fact, why did you let him in to begin with?
A Palestinian asylum seeker who arrived in Britain illegally by small boat has been jailed for six years after breaking into a family home and masturbating in front of terrified young girls. The judge concluded that he intended to rape at least one of them.
Mohammed Abbas, 29, who claims to be Palestinian, arrived from France in March. By July, he had already been convicted of assaulting a police officer, whom he spat at, and battery.
Rather than being deported, he was given a taxpayer-funded, £250,000 two-bedroom house in Cardiff, where he lived alone.
Just two days after moving in, Abbas broke into a nearby family home at 2am, entering a bedroom shared by three sisters, including two children under 16.
He exposed himself, repeatedly demanded sex and masturbated as the girls screamed in terror. He even attempted to climb towards one of them on a bunk bed. She desperately fought him off with a pillow.
Their screams eventually alerted their family, and Abbas fled.
Police subsequently discovered stolen belongings at his accommodation and DNA evidence linking him to the bedroom.
The court heard that Abbas received £30 weekly from the Home Office, which he spent on food, alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. His asylum application remained undecided.
Judge Lucy Crowther described the danger he posed to women and girls as “real and imminent”. He received six years’ imprisonment and three years’ extended licence.
Meanwhile, the British Government has reopened its refugee resettlement scheme, with approximately a quarter of referrals earmarked collectively for Palestinians and Afghan women and girls.
Ministers expect initially hundreds of arrivals across the new resettlement routes, potentially rising into the low thousands.
Abbas cannot be considered for deportation until he has served his custodial sentence.
You’ve got to be nice and tolerant and give people a hundred and seventy third chance. He might reform this time.
This happened in January this year when burglar john coker access a old man home by pretending to be fire alarm engineer.
John coker who had 172 previous offences including 80 offencs against vulnerable people.
He was jailed for 4 years 8 months but at a court of appeal his sentence was rise to 9 years 8 months.
Cctv released by the family..
Now remember, fellow Brits, there was an injunction.
We all have to pretend to be surprised, like a kid who snook a look at the presents before Christmas…
These exist because cyclists believe that having to apply the brakes if a bus is stopping there is a violation of their human rights.
Went with @newdawn75 earlier in the year to review the floating bus stop on Harleyford Road in Vauxhall London. The design is an accessibility nightmare & it is dangerous. No real kerbs, very narrow pavement on the building line & red tactile blisters with no controlled crossing.
My favourite part is him saying to the driver of the stopping bus “I don’t know why you would think you could do that!” At the very moment he rides over giant letters reading “Bus Stop”
There is a subtle clue there.
Not only have we delayed our first nuclear power plant in 30 years to build a fish disco, our fish disco isn't even as cool as the ones the Norwegians have.
It's truly over for the UK.
Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
Spare a thought for the couple of million people living in that motorway desert beyond Cambridge
