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@jopper35 You mean felon 47, Trump the rapist, fraudster, thief and conman? The same Trump that stole from a fucking kids cancer charity, raped (in the common parlance) a woman, and was found guilty of fraud by a jury. I remember a time when republicans would have spat on his ilk

@ChrisMurphyCT Hey Dumbo what's outrageous is what fools like you and the Biden Administration did by targeting political opponents in unprecedented ways and even attempting to jail President Trump. The country showed you fools that they didn't condone such behavior

This is outright theft. Trump is stealing $1.7 BILLION of your money to set up a totally unprecedented, first-in-American-history political slush fund that he can use to dole out cash to win loyalty and favors for him and his family.

@Mike_Batt @SophieP25397 Yup And that's with Bupa etc not having to cover chronic conditions, or anything relating to emergency care (IIRC they don't even have full emergency coverage for most of their private ops in house).

@SophieP25397 Maybe Farage could declare how much his own health insurance costs him. BUPA and other health insurance costs a hell of a lot more than Netflix!

What if you can't afford Netflix?

@SophieP25397 Farage talks balls. Health insurance is a lot more than £18 a month, especially if you're older, disabled, or have any pre-existing health conditions no matter how minor.

@sainimatic $159 buys a ton of post it notes and pencils. I think it says a lot about the "AI" nonsense that this thing got funded.

I find this hilarious because it forces you to go back to paper books on which, did you know, YOU CAN WRITE NOTES DIRECTLY nothing more beautiful than an old heavily annotated book

@TwinBradDare On the flip side some of the props definitely looked much better at a distance on screen :) It's a testament to the skills of the model makers that they knew what would look good on screen, and what could be hinted at to save time/money.

@TwinBradDare Aye, they did some great work for tiny budgets and under incredible time pressure, and it's nice seeing how well some stands up today , but a great shame so much of it was lost/destroyed in terms of props and how poorly some of it appeared on screen due to the cameras etc...

THE TRIPODS (1984): BBC adaptation of John Christopher's YA novels about a future England under alien occupation. The population is 'capped' at 16, becoming thralls to the tripods, but one group of plucky teens decides to join the French resistance... Where's series 3, lads?

@Tezkiya A friend is a scientist/researcher would be horrified at the idea of not reading the papers cited in a paper he was putting his name to. But then he's not a tech bro, he's an actual scientist who will spend years researching & weeks writing, not minutes & a prompt in the idiot AI

@DellAnnaLuca Am I understanding right? Are these peopel that submit research papers saying "it is impossible" to rad all the citations that you put on a paper (that are obviously AI allucionations)? Tech bros are not beating the stereotypes. Holy shit, providing citations is the 101 of papers

The reactions of many researchers on finally being held responsible for having read the very paper they submitted are... something.

@1970BillyC In the UK the series has been released on DVD (about a tenner gets you both seasons), but they're PAL/region 2 (possibly 4 as well), which is workable is you have a multi region player You might find them in the US on disc, or streaming via BBC America/Select

@ScarredForLife2 Our local PBS channel showed this in the 80’s. I would love to see it again. Is there any way to watch it? I live in the U.S.

@TwinBradDare The Tripods section (IIRC about 4-6 pages) was quite interesting, including the fact they made IIRC 2 legs for them in full size with different features. The book is BBC VFX: The Story of the BBC Visual Effects Department, 1954-2003 Book by Mat Irvine and Mike Tucker

@TwinBradDare Some of the guys who made the original props run/appear at a local model show near me. They wrote a book about their time at the BBC including a small section on the Tripods (and pretty much every major BBC sci-fi show etc).

@quiensabeband To Sign...not give.

@SciFiArchives What a strange world we live in, where giving rich people gifts is acceptable.

Henry Cavill is currently filming Highlander in Poland. Someone visited him on set and brought him a box set of Custodes from Warhammer 40K to sign.

@AmerPhilo2025 Oddly enough wind power often works at night, and really strangely a large amount of the energy demand tends to drop off at night as people do things like stop working, go home and go to bed.

The number of batteries it would take to store grid scale solar energy would make it so expensive it’d be no longer affordable. Also, the same people advocating for solar are the same ones banning mines that could make that solar and its batteries. Would also remind people that a solar panel can either produce grid scale energy or it can fill a battery, but it can’t do both unless you build twice as much as you need, which again, is unaffordable.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

@ScanComputers Wifi? plug in the network cable. Otherwise probably watch some of my DVD's, read, or tidy up:p

If your Wi-Fi went down for 24 hours, what’s the first thing you’d do? 🌐

@RueKat123 In the UK they basically just provide slightly faster pathways to non urgent care and a nice bed to recover in after an operation. but if your op goes wrong, you'll be in an ambulance to an NHS facility ASAP as the private companies don't touch that.

@JamesTate121 Insurance companies don’t really exist in universal healthcare except in situations where someone wants enhanced services. Instead of paying an insurance company, you pay less to the government and everyone has access, no one goes bankrupt and it doesn’t wreck credit.

That is how.

@FreyjaVT I swear some people have no clue what an actual woman looks like.

To the people calling me fat in the comments: I’m sorry my tits are so big and distracting that it overshadows everything else 🤷‍♀️

@joelcadieu One of the funniest arguments I saw was that 35mm couldn't be full HD as the technology wasn't invented at the time.

@tvaziri Tell that to the ignorant on how films look. If it’s not 35mm they think everything else looks wrong.

Posting an image of a 35mm print from a film as “ground truth” for color and tone is almost always useless. Even brand new release prints can vary wildly, and prints deteriorate over time in different ways for various reasons. Plus the variables that exist when scanning a print.

@Stretchedwiener Or the Blue you saw 25 years ago. There was a famous painter who was praised for getting more expressive with bolder colours as he got older. Some art historians who had medical knowledge studied his work and went "yup classic case of X" (a specific eye disease).

@tvaziri Also, is the blue I see really the same as the blue you see?

@ambearleevtuber Atari 2600, then Gameboy, then SNES. I still have a bunch of SNES games in the loft and I think a console somewhere.

The first gaming system I ever owned was a Super Nintendo! 🐻 🕹️ What about you? ❤️🎮

@RitaJoMalone2 It now looks like the lido my gran used to live next to. And in a year or two that paint will peel and the water will turn nasty again because none of the actual problems were fixed. I suppose we should be grateful that the orange oaf didn't paint it gold.

@BBCWorld Great Update BEAUTIFUL 😍

Workers paint Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue bbc.in/4u464JO

@ATRightMovies Fast Times at Ridgemont High.