Musk challenging fellow techno- oligarch arsehole, Mark Zuckerberg, to a cage fight is mind boggling Dunning-Kruger, even by his standards.
Musk is basically a walking heart attack waiting to happen. Zuckerberg will absolutely beat the crap out of him in pretty short order.
I hate them both, but I think I hate Musk more, and it’s a shame this thing isn’t actually going to happen, because I would dearly love to see him meet the limits of his own hubris.
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Flight today had a lady who was clearly a nervous flyer. We hit some moderately serious clear air turbulence over Normandy and she screamed and had a panic attack, and then as we were descending over London, same again in the thermals making the big clouds that are currently blanketing SE England.
She was having a very very bad time, and everyone else being calm around her didn't seem to help. I felt pretty bad for her. She was clearly terrified.
The staff at Costa Coffee in Faro AirPort departure lounge now greet me as a regular. Wow!
(I would take the train if it existed. I buy a fuckton of carbon offsets)
@Buster As an effect it’s pretty obvious, but when trying to sound natural it is still possible to hear it, but the number of people who can are quite few (as in you have to learn, not as in you have to be a super human).
Also depends on how bad the original is, and how willing they are to do retakes.
Also the people who can sing will burst out in song randomly. Jack Black can sing for sure. 😀
So apparently Facebook are naming their activitypub compatible network, “Threads”.
Interesting choice.
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Apparently I have been “rubbing people up the wrong way”, but in a plot twist, the “people” in question are pretty much universally arseholes.
Good.
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A common complaint about “disruptor” types is that they are entirely cavalier about tossing aside established practice without establishing whether or not it’s established for a bloody good reason.
A phrase often used by critics of these people is that safety standards and engineering regulations are “written in blood”.
I understand one of the people currently trapped in the “Fred in a very expensive shed” submarine is the man responsible for building the thing with obvious disdain for safety and engineering regs.
Tl;dr: fuck around and find out.
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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
- Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
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@Hughster Yes. It’s like Facebook. A top level post on my wall, with people commenting on it.
Which is why the insufferable wanker thing is annoying me. It feels intrusive.
And so they get blocked with extreme prejudice.
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[mobile.twitter.com] Here it is summarized: ----------- so my eldest brother, who is a moron, has been playing soldier with his moron friends in the deserts of texas for the last year preparing for the collapse of civilization if biden won (lol).forums.macresource.com
My brain won’t let nightmare go. Just imagining the RNC “longtermist” approach to silos is terrifying. Like schools: how would they combine vouchers and book bans?
At least the anti-union, “just work harder to get advancement” sentiment would go over great.
But then again, every hard right post-apocalyptic fiction ends up with collective ownership by the “good guys”.
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The absolute best thing about running your own family Fedi server is that when you see wankers pop up on your posts, you can tell them that they’re wankers, tell them that they need to fuck off, and then server block and purge them.
It’s really therapeutic!
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@Richard Gadsden oh, that prick? I don’t think he does social media any more. He used to have a Facebook but blocking him on it starved him of the attention he apparently craves and he deleted his account.
If he’s stalking me now (and I have no reason to believe he is), he’s being very quiet about it.
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sell the Ferrari as a one off cost benefit. Buy the goat.
Profit.
(After letting me have a ride in the Ferrari at least)
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Reddit just asked if I was enjoying it. I clicked “not really”, so it offered me feedback. I thus provided some:
You asked if I’m enjoying Reddit. I used to. Now it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, with the rush to “enshittify”. I hate that the trend in the tech industry is to race to r the bottom in terms of user experience in order to suck up to the money men, and I hate that you have declared war on your user base.Well, you asked…
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Just seen the latest ep. It took a circuitous route, but it looks like it’s coming back to the same plot line as the book.
Anyone who’s read it can pretty much guess what the S1 cliffhanger is going to be …
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The problem I have going faster is it all has to be technique. My poor 49 year old heart won’t actually go any faster. Graph below shows the speedrun ringed where my heart went to 175bpm for 8 minutes and stayed there.
I did feel while I was up there that my muscles simply couldn’t get the power they wanted. Maybe I can go faster in winter when heat dissipation is easier.
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The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-Law Information Note), the European Commission of H…hudoc.echr.coe.int
@PinkNews That's an ad.
We went to the V&A recently and saw their Korean Wave exhibit. One part spent time on the Korean beauty sector and the myth of the 10 step regime. They had a 3d printer for personalised face masks, which was interesting, but looked like a glorified plotter (either very limited or no Z axis).
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Since there's so much snake oil in this area, and your face is so visible, people are willing to latch on to whatever hope they can.
It's interesting talking to people about skincare. From purely medical (I've a few friends that suffer from Psoriasis), through to managing effects of hormones (it comes up a surprising amount teaching teenagers), through to purely cosmetic.
I latched on to some "advice" from a (I think) GQ article in 2003ish. George Clooney was interviewed about skincare and he said to keep it simple. Use a face cleaner, scrub a few times a week, and use a SPF moisturiser daily. I've been happy with that advice.
Here, we speak exclusively to Dr Jinah Yoo, a Korean UK-trained consultant dermatologist, and founder of Dr Jinah Yoo Dermatology....CarlFrascina (The Harley Street Journal)
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Operators of the Fukushima nuclear power plant are set to release treated wastewater into the ocean. But already Japanese authorities are facing a barrage of criticism from fishermen.James Oaten (ABC News)
Imagine being Jacob Rees-Mogg; he desperately wants to be Brideshead Revisted, but is actually an (albeit well read) idiot cousin of the Boswells in Bread, and all the upper class old money he sucks up knows it, and judges him for it.
He’s not like Nadine Dorries; going through life oblivious to her own stupidity. Jacob knows he’s both very very stupid and a transparent imposter who will never get what he wants: the acceptance of the inbred wazzocks he deifies, and it must utterly torment his every moment.
LOL
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Netflix, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HBO Max, and countless more: we have reached the stage of late stage capitalism, web edition, where the fashionable thing to do, having eradicated your competitors, is to deliberately make your product utterly fucking useless.
What a world!
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Mealybugs really are incredibly hard to eradicate. Upping my game to alternate between lambda cyhalothrin, diatomaceous Earth and isopropanol.
And still I keep finding them. They can’t survive this forever though, they just can’t.
Upside: zero aphids
Update: run out of lambda chyalorthrin. Have now switched to deltamethrin.
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Fuck around and find out, TERF edition
'Gender Critical' TERF Freaks Out After Her Bigoted Wish Comes True | The Mary Sue
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@Nikkileah Ooh! Me Miss! I know this one Miss! Miss! Miss!
It’s “absolutely fucking everyone with a brain cell not half eaten by TERF brain worms”, isn’t it?
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Oh, I'd love to see this happen Sarah.
Just so's we could lock the fricking cage and leave it locked for evermore
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Unknown parent • •@David I’m reminded of the time when I was a preteen. I was bullied a lot. My friend’s brother thought he could get in on the action. He positioned himself and a crowd of about 20-30 kids on a bit of green space on the route between our homes and challenged me to a fight, effectively blocking my way unless I agreed.
I didn’t want to, but he made it very clear that I wasn’t getting past without.
I was a year older. I was taller. I walked up to him, knocked him down, sat on him before he could get up, then put my arm across his neck until has face turned purple and he started crying.
Then I got up and walked away.
He went home and cried to his mum. She effectively game him the “fuck around and find out” lecture.
Don’t challenge bullied kids to fights. They have likely learned through experience. Zuckerberg looks like he was bullied a lot more than Musk was.
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Unknown parent • • •It would of course be poor ifnormation hygeine for you to tell us that catchphrase, though that won't stop any of us from wanting to know.
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