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Stew Elliott
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British / Irish. Software engineer, amateur photographer, urbanism dilettante. 🔶 (he/him)
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"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.
Well you can't get much clearer than that. Restore are Putin stooges.
This thread could just as equally be about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
I 1/2 watched The Mandalorian movie a while back because I’d heard it was a Star Wars death rattle of sorts & that isn’t wrong. It was underwhelming in a way that seems almost intentional. It’s like they’re trying to break up with all of us (who once loved them) by blithely forgetting our birthday.
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The first Mass Effect has a really unique vibe in the series. Even aside from the cosmic horror of the plot, the bare bones and sterile open world evokes a haunting desolation. Most of that actually comes from the technical execution not quite living up to the ambition but it's still memorable.
When my bro received Mass Effect for Christmas, the game had completely flown under my radar. The prologue and the lore-filled codex motivated me to buy a 360. Mass Effect remains my personal favorite—flaws and all—for the sense of horror and impending apocalypse it evokes within a sci-fi mystery.
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It's definitely put in front of me because the algo knows my politics but the proliferation of Instagram accounts who's USP is giving tips on how to visit the Peaks, the Lake District etc without a car is quite cheering.
So much to unpack here, but at its core, it's the stubbornness of a Britain which cannot resolve the very clear conflict between (motor traffic) movement and place. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Just checked and of course, the last time there was a Commons vote on this back in 2018, Badenoch voted against the proposals to decant and get on with the restoration of the Palace of Westminster, as the cross-party joint commission had strongly recommended.
There's obviously a serious point here, but it's quite funny optics for the Conservative party to complain that it used to be so much quicker to build a stately home.
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Replacing every single Op-Ed writer in the United Kingdom with a one line ChatGPT prompt that asks for 600 words on why whatever just happened in the news means the government should immediately crack down on immigration, and possibly also trans people.
The riots are about education & the cost of living. Reducing immigration will not solve those embedded problems & restore “fraternity”. What is it with Phillips’ obsession about (implicitly Muslim) immigration? French riots show Andy Burnham his top priority www.thetimes.com/article/6610...
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i have said this before and its alluded to in the piece, but this is a tech issue, tech no one asked for. In my area many new cars now have stop locks in the steering wheels, and people are installing driveway posts the security is so vulnerable, It's ridiculous www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"Oh but I'm sure Google/Dropbox/OneDrive etc have many distributed backups" Actual disk loss is only one of 1000 ways cloud storage can fuck you up. This post is basically my data security holy text: medium.com/@jancurn/how...
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Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "A major cyberattack targeting commercial refrigeration systems across France ... Rather than shutting systems off, the attackers remotely reprogrammed cooling regulators to force a continuous defrost cycle, driving internal temperatures up to 50C (122F)."