But can we just do it with the sticks and stones we were promised?

There you go, just send out a couple of corporals with a dog and a spanner, yank the sod out the ground.

Very interesting project, I’ve been looking for alternative QR code scanners and notes/Todo apps.

I can’t wait for the future 4 hour video deep dive into Nicole history and lore.

Let me guess: Palantir

As an engineer: 1000% agree.

Seriously, why do I have to pay a value somewhere close to £1000 for a set of FUCKING PDFs?!?

This is ridiculous. Make money from audits, certifications, training, and conferences. You can still make absolute stacks from those. Why the fuck do I or my company need to shell out thousands just so we know what to certify against to be able to sell stuff?!

It’s a fucking racquet and they know it. But it’s either one of 3 options:

• Find someone who’s willing to send you the PDF or log in credentials for a library service that has access to these standards.

• Take the risk downloading PDFs from dodgy sites you found on the 5th page of duckduckgo.

• Bend over and spread open your wallet. Because good luck getting anything delivered to a customer without it.

Nope they should have realised that even though they “own” this government, the president is communicating with a foreign server they don’t own.

Ok, but in general so can any organisation/institution become corrupted. So can your local authority or the upper management of where you work or the local school board or the organisers of your favourite activity club.

Your statement is tantamount to saying “corruption exists and is bad”. Well yeah, it has since people put a name to greed.

Its good to keep an eye out for it, but unless there’s growing evidence for the case that French courts have been corrupted, like how there’s now a mountain’s worth for the US supreme court, then it’s not being skeptical it’s being very cynical.

And your evidence for the bold claim that the French justice system has been corrupted enough to fabricate and enter false evidence and land a conviction?

What about evidence that french media freedoms have been suppressed so badly that every single news agency has been intimidated into not revealing leaked evidence of fabrication?

Send in the fucking Swedes.

Absolutely no shit taken by Swedish peacekeepers when either side of a conflict shoots at them.

It’d still be something. Bemoaning “oh there’s no point because it’s hopeless” gives these fuckers more fuel because the opposition is just etting it happen without any complaints.

It’d be like a cop kneeling on your neck and not bothering to scream “help I can’t breathe! they’re killing me!” because you’ve just accepted that they’re going to suffocate you to death.

(Deutschland by Rammstein Intensifies)

Some other German brand then? BMW? Mercedes?

Seize the German Tesla factory and hand it over to VW.

Show musk that the bite of his orange lapdog has consequences.

Sounds like a suit for the strong German unions.

Hey guys, please don’t pay any attention to the history of the modern Olympics (early 20th century) being started as sports day for the wealthiest of society because us toffs got scared about the formation of proper sports federation events allowing the peasants to compete in our leisure activities because they offered cash prizes making them a viable career so we made a set of games where the only prize is prestige hence why you get a lot of working-class background olympians selling their medals on eBay…

Don’t mind anything of that because for the first-time (and probably the last for about 20 years) we got a woman for the first time in charge! Woo! We’re so progressive! Please keep watching so we can rake in insane sponsorship money and bankrupt cities that host our overhyped egg-and-spoon races.

I thank you for the sentiment, but save your words and don’t spare the ammunition.

No it won’t. The FPTP will propel Reform into government if two things happen:

1. Badenoch (or whomever replaces her) fails to drum up support at the next election.

2. Reform manages to not implode into infighting and avoid a scandal that causes a collapse in support.

It’s not unheard of for one of the two major parties to cease to be a thing (See the Whigs, Radicals, and the Liberals).

Will Reform win a majority outright? I would say it’s unlikely. But I would bet they will receive stronger support at the next election as Labour fails to dramatically improve the wellbeing and wallets of the working class.

The same people who, after decades of collapse under Thatcherism, then neglect by Blairism, and finally being squeezed by Austerity, through their support behind Brexit and Brexitiers like Boris and Farage because they peddled xenophobic-flavoured Hopium.

They’ll do it again, because with the weight of the rightwing media serving up easy to understand slogans when these people barely have enough energy left for analysing political discourse and policies after worrying about the roof over their head and having enough food in their bellies.

For the Tories to cease to be a party they’d have to lose MPs and financial backers, that is unlikely to happen within a single election unless the Tories sustain huge losses.

What I bet will happen is that they get enough votes in this election to become the official opposition IF they form a coalition with the Conservative Party. Farage will use the opportunity to mold the Tory party in his image with a potential merger when they see their approval numbers increase under his guidance and then the next election will lead them to victory.

He’s betting that the conditions of the working class will continue to worsen due to growing inequality, that the refugee crisis will worsen due to climate change, and that his media friends will be able to manage the narrative long enough to get him into No. 10.

As much as I would kind of be glad that it’s all over and we can all go together… I don’t want to give the Catholic Church this win of “See! We told you so!”

Nope, it’s just a black box’s best guess as to what the reasoning should look like.

Sort of how in an exam you give your best guess for an answer then jotting down some “working out” that you think looks sort-of correct and scraping enough marks to pass.

Now imagine you’re not just trying to pass one question in one test in one subject but one question out of millions of possible questions in hundreds of thousands of possible subjects AND you experience time 5 million times slower than the examiner AND you had 3 years (in examiner time) to practice your guesswork.

That’s it. That’s all this AI bullshit is doing. And people are racing to achieve the best monkey typewriter that requires the fewest bananas to work.