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“Homelessness is a direct political choice.”

Talk about a quote that can be read both ways.

Ah, an excuse to attack an organisation that worships something other than Mighty Xi and the CCP.

Using children as the pawns too. Masterful.

He won’t stop until every last potential Hamas member (read “Palestinian”) is dead or out of Palestine.

He’s been pretty clear on this.

Maybe not in any legal sense, no. How people and even news media use it, there’s plenty of wiggle room.

e.g. allowing the ambiguity of “British home owner” to go unclarified, that is as “home owner who is British” as opposed to “owner of a home in Britain”, and any similarly loose interpretations that go along with or derive from that.

Of all the comments to argue against the use of a mysterious “they”, I think you’ve picked the wrong one.

It’s pretty clear who the “they” is here: Conservative politicians in the pocket of corporations who would stand to lose from cheaper, cleaner energy sources.

I’d go one step further and erase “Conservative”, because it doesn’t matter your other politics if you’re receiving bribes lobbying money from big business. It does at least seem to be skewed more towards politicians in Conservative parties though.

Headline in three months: “Less work getting done than in five-day week.”

Government and management will blame lazy workers. Workers will blame government, management and burnout. Truth will be closer to the latter, but a few actually lazy employees and some innocent scapegoats will be fired to preserve the bottom line. Burnout will increase.

But at least the bosses got their bonus this month.

Better hope the IDF don’t find out there’s a humanitarian zone at Netanyahu’s house.

Pity the person of Scottish (or Welsh) ancestry born in England who has to choose what they are on some forms, especially legal ones.

But then, there are worse problems to have.

“Briton” is generally used as the noun form of “British”, so when “Brit” is used as a noun - which is most of the time - it’s abbreviating “Briton”.

As for who gets to be called “Briton”: In the loosest sense, anyone with residence in Britain can be counted as British when they’re here, whether or not they’re considered ethnically British (by themselves or others).

Bear in mind that “Briton” originally mean “an inhabitant of the British Isles before any of the Romans, or various flavours of Germanics turned up”. There’s been quite a bit of admixture since then. It makes sense - to the chagrin of the Welsh, no doubt - that the term has mutated a bit over the centuries.

What sort of comedian is he? I feel like satirists and absurdists are good choices for political office.

Those who punch down, maybe not so much.

There’s something troubling about his eyes. Every photo I see just screams “danger”.

Yes, this is entirely subjective. I’m sure he’s very nice to his pets, etc.

NK’s narrative is that SK is separate from the one true Korea because it’s occupied by, or at least heavily influenced by, the US. That means that if Russia were to, say, declare war on the US - however unlikely that might be - NK would theoretically be in favour.

Kim would almost certainly be interested in finally getting to lob a couple of bombs at an actual target.

Less seriously(?), you could also argue that Putin’s pining for the glory days of the USSR with its empty stores and downtrodden, starving citizens fits right in with what’s going on in NK, so perhaps Kim had better watch his back lest he become the former dictator of a new SSR.

They used a current world event as an excuse for an atrocity that they might well have found a different excuse for otherwise.

They could have chosen any Jewish person and any “punishment” but they chose her, and that “punishment”. That’s because they wanted to mete out that “punishment” in particular. They’re disgusting.

And yes, that’s true of neo-Nazi violence too. The violent ones are usually nutters spoiling for a fight, or worse. The prejudices they hold are merely their excuse for it.

There are plenty of stupid and/or devious people who will see what’s going on in some part of the world and believe a narrative or use that narrative as an excuse for their own ends.

If it wasn’t her, it would have been someone else. The whole human race has a problem with human garbage who can’t control their actions. Some of them end up running countries and turning a blind eye to war atrocities, if not asking for them outright.

This doesn’t lessen what happened to this 12-year-old victim, and it doesn’t lessen what’s happening elsewhere in the world, nor the ramifications. My point is that the link, while there, is tenuous.

The perpetrators are human garbage who found a reason to stop pretending not to be, and now should be treated as such.

Kim inherited his mess. Putin made his own.

That’s not to say that Kim isn’t allowing things to continue mostly as they were, but it could be beyond his ability to change things even if he wanted to.

Putin, on the other hand, only needs to call off the “special military exercise” and most of his immediate problems will go away.

My gut says there’s grudging admiration between the two blue-suited balding megalomaniacs, but of the two, only Putin talks to Xi often, and even then, only because he has to.

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/voyager-mission-anniversary-computers-command-data-attitude-control/

According to the above, the software was written in FORTRAN.

There’s probably at least one warehouse somewhere full of green bar sprocketed teletype / dot matrix paper with the source code on it, if not also magnetic tapes. And that assumes they haven’t archived it in other places and formats in the last ~50 years.

70kB though. That’s a huge amount of memory for 1977. Low-end personal computers were still selling with less than that 10 years later.

That said, the article doesn’t distinguish ROM and RAM, so I wonder how much of that is ROM. ROM is and was far cheaper.

Also, that 70 might be a rounding up of 65536 bytes, which is 64k, so you might be spot on with your guess there.

Somewhat relevant: I recently stopped using a plastic-bodied electric kettle to boil water for drinks because it was often making drinks taste “of plastic”. I have to imagine that some of that would have been redistributed, well, in places implied by this article.

This makes me wonder what regular, close-to-source plastics the tested men were using around the time.

Of course, there’s also that a lot of the water supply goes through plastic pipes these days. It would be interesting to know how much of that, specifically, ends up coming out in people’s homes.

I thought they already had Truth Social and considerable chunks of Xitter and Faceberk. What’s new or different about this, specifically?

Reading about his going missing in the first place, I got the distinct impression he had underestimated the size of the island he was on and decided to plough on regardless, thinking that he’d reach his intended destination “any minute now”.

And if it wasn’t the distance, the extreme conditions were almost certainly not taken into account.

Literal misadventure.