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@wongmjane BTW also listen to/read Daniel Suarez's prescient 2012 novel "Kill Decision"... short version is with AI controlled drones powerful people can easily kill anyone they want without having a whole bunch of people who might object involved...

AI replaces all white collar jobs Robotics replace all blue collar jobs Everyone gets laid off, uses up all their savings, and economy collapses Any bill for UBI gets blocked and lobbied by the rich and powerful. The permanent underclass left to starve and die off …?

@Number10cat Good point, I forgot about the upcoming season... Also entertainingly half the clocks in the House show different times to the other half (the ones that adjust themselves), and I just realised it isn't nearly midnight but coming up to 11pm... oh dear...

A reminder to all my friends across the UK that British Summer Time starts tonight at 1am so don’t forget to put your clocks forward an hour and get your snow shovels ready!

@afneil Remember that while it's bad it's not as bad as it seems. Generally with Warships you expect 1 in 3 to be operational at any time (possibly more in emergencies). The others are 1/3 being maintained/upgraded and 1/3 being prepared for operations. Ballistic Missile Subs are 1 in 4.

The current state of the Royal Navy: 2 aircraft carriers — neither operational. 6 Type 45 destroyers (our most powerful warships) — one operational (in Cyprus). 7 Type 23 frigates (less powerful, much older) — three operational 5 Astute class nuke-powered subs — one operational (in Arabian Sea?). Surely those responsible for this appalling state of unreadiness (a national embarrassment if ever there was one)— political, civilian and military — should be fired/charged. Their incompetence has effectively left us without a navy. Quite an achievement for an ancient island nation.

@Matt_Pinner Alias Smith and Jones (not "Alas...") The Avengers with Emma Peel. Heroes s1 Game of Thrones except s7 Dark Angel s1 24 s1 12 Monkeys Continuum Covert Affairs Dark Skies Deadly Class Gotham Married with Children Travellers Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister (still work well)

What is the best?

In the 1980s, a Glasgow cat named Smudge became the only feline member of the General, Municipal and Boilermakers Trade Union.

@romanhistory1 @mcgillmd921 I still think it's just a tool to size round items...

@mcgillmd921 Roman Dodecahedron - Read the article at romanancienthistory.blogspot.com/2024/05/roman-…

Quiz time. 1) Do you know what this is? 2) Do you know what its purpose was?

@Malwarebytes So the Internet suggests the reason my computer crashed with a farflt.sys error and won’t reboot is down to Malwarebytes. I run Pro on Win10 with the latest (Mar 26) patches. Any comments/help pls? I have no version, account or serial info as the computer won’t boot

The French satirist Francois Rabelais wrote a will that consisted of one line. It reportedly said: ‘I have no available property, I owe a great deal; the rest I give to the poor’.

@theclearthinke1 @amanpour @RNicholasBurns Starmer is okay, compared to Truss and Boris he seems great, but others have been better...

@amanpour @RNicholasBurns When did Britain last have such a reviled and pathetic PM?

"I've never seen an American president, not just in our lifetime, in the last two centuries of American history, be that critical of a British prime minister." @RNicholasBurns tells me "a fundamental mistake is: disparage your allies, make life difficult for them at home, you really can't expect them to be with you in a fight that they didn't start

@ChrisMedlandF1 I don't see why Audi might not view Mattia Binotto as an upgrade...???

BREAKING: Audi confirms Jonathan Wheatley will depart the team with immediate effect "due to personal reasons", with Mattia Binotto taking on team principal responsibilities. Wheatley has been heavily linked with the team principal role at Aston Martin #F1

Is it wrong I love the translator that outputs Linkedin posts from your input? (It's a real thing BTW.) Here's one I just did:

@ESET It is disappointing that if I do a computer scan you delete (not even quarantine) stuff everyone else (and me) thinks is okay...

Amazing who you can run across in London... today it was the new, and first-ever female, ArchBishop of Canterbury...

@JoeVille5 @JohnCleese @grok I'm confused about what you find insane? All the very racist/untrue comments in replies here are clearly a (very scary) candidate (1920s and 1930s all over again), or was it the woman getting arrested when she physically interfered with their stand? Not so Christian behaviour!

@JohnCleese @grok what are the charges this woman was arrested?

This is absolutely insane

@JoshuaDalzelle @Sonos All my Gen-1 stuff still works great, I bought a Roam-2 and set up a Gen-2 system but it can't stream Spotify without dropouts to save its life... Oh and the return instructions are contradictory (just use QR code or print customs form in triplicate from non-existent printer)?

So is @sonos a dead duck now? No real effort to return aesthetic or functionality. Still a lot of expensive gear that barely works. Is there an alternative 3rd party software that gets it back to what it was a decade ago?

@forallcurious Either they don't exist or they decided to stay away once they saw all the stone-age crap that still goes on... Wars everywhere... Worth a read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_par…

If aliens exist, why haven’t they visited Earth?

@McmeekinIan @afneil I think it's more 1 in 3 deployed, so we're still missing somewhat there, although it's 1 in 4 for Ballistic Missile Subs... or less and you just work the crews so hard they all quit...

@afneil I think it is important that people realise the basic rule of thirds! If you have a fleet of six ships, normally you would have 2 in maintenance, 2 readying for deployment and 2 on the way back from deployment. What is not usual is ship in dock for years. Type 45 PIP excepted

This is a remarkable table. It shows that to all intents and purposes the UK currently doesn’t have a navy it can deploy. It is a national scandal. But, of course, nobody — political or military — will be held accountable, much less sacked.

Kinda curious about just how adult the weather can get 🤔

@54JohnBull But we'll be winning multi-million £ lawsuits against websites in countries like U.S., Russia, China, Iran to finance all this, tho alas suffer from lawsuits from those countries against UK Govt., unless the World agrees the UK can sue other countries and they can't sue us...

From a comment that came up in my post of yesterday it turns out that Imgur, the biggest image sharing platform on the internet, is no longer available in the UK. The overreaching demands of Ofcom for ID verification will quickly turn the UK internet into a walled off area. It will soon not be just the likes of Pornhub that you won't be able to see in the UK. Get your VPN's operating 24/7.

@brycesbarrett @qikipedia @grok This is a little tricky as if you wash them too often they wear out sooner and too infrequently they can get manky. IMHO wash one a week, or there-abouts...

@qikipedia @grok how often should sheets be washed

Nearly half of single British men say they wash their bed sheets about once every four months.