1/ King Charles III is leading the Western war against Russia, says warblogger Alexey Zhivov in a particularly unhinged rant. He portrays Charles as working for a shadowy conglomorate of business interests, pedophiles, and LGBT people which Russia is heroically resisting. ⬇️
Lookit. Deep down every Irish person wants to spin some yank a yarn that gets cited as fact in some factual text.
We told an Irish American girl that when the Muppets was released in Ireland, Kermit the Frog was called Dermot the Frog because Cromwell’s son was a Kermit.
this lady on threads posted this big huge thing about how artists are just jealous that everyday people can now use AI to create better art that gets more attention
so i click through to see her “art”…
i wish there was an unveil feature here:
As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore.
FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year
FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format
Where does it look like our advantage lies?
I’m beginning to suspect that wasting years dragging feet on military aid to Ukraine and playing escalation management games, giving an aggressive militaristic Russia the time and resources to ramp up its war machine to full power against the free world, might not have been the brightest idea.
Most British thing ever is for the day it becomes legal to fit solar extremely easily to your home is the day the sun finally disappears after three months.
It's plug-in solar day! You can now buy your own balcony/garden solar set-ups in GB (not NI) and install them without an electrician, provided the devices are 'compliant'. Let me know if anyone here is planning to do it and how you get on
"Picture Of A Foghorn.
A Sufferer's Conception Of The Submarine Monstrosity Believed To Lurk In The Vicinity Of The Royal Sovereign Lightship."
Bexhill Observer 12.5.1928. #WyrdWednesday#Bexhill#Sussex#Foghorn#SeaMonster#Art#History#1920s
French troops require wine or else they won't fight. The problem with wine is that glass bottles break and steel cans leak when hit by shrapnel and fouled the flavor.
So they invented Vinogel, a 3x solid wine concentrate made with pectin that could be reconstituted or eaten.
I think the thing about executive pay is that you do have to baseline it, so for context Thames Water's base pay for the CEO and CFO are about 25% higher than what Games Workshop pays in base pay to its executive team who have successfully tripled the revenue of the company and got it in the FTSE100