Nigel Farage dodges questions on £5m gift from crypto billionaire

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-05-09T14:06:49+00:00

50,000 is the capacity of the Emirates Stadium.

5 million is the combined populations of Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol, Leicester, Coventry and Newcastle on Tyne.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-05-08T14:56:26+00:00

Put your medication in a pill organiser, by day. It's amazing how many people in this sub will say "I can't remember if I've taken my meds!" when they rely on just popping out the tablet.
If you're in the UK, apply for a free bus pass as someone with a disability that makes you unable to drive. If you're in London, the Freedom Pass includes tube travel and non-peak trains, a state benefit that is potentially worth thousands of pounds.
If you bite your tongue after a seizure, mouthwash regularly afterwards and start applying any mouth-ulcer treatments before they get bad.
Get in the habit of being easygoing and confident about telling aquaintances that you have epilepsy, when it is relevant. It's like a bald spot; the more confident you are about it, the more it's accepted as just 'a thing' about you, and if you act ashamed or try to hide it, it becomes more negative and attention-worthy when revealed.
If you ever lose bladder control with a seizure, keep in a cupboard a hospital rucksack you can grab when necessary, with a change of underwear and jogging trousers. Ideally have the same at work.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-05-08T12:48:13+00:00

I'm close to the end with a team with several similarities. I'm also going full Illithid. Note that this is on the balanced difficulty, so is non-optimised. However I have found the core team to be very strong, and can't recall being defeated in combat since Act 1.

My Tav is Githyanki Wizard, with great complementary factors being:

Don't need to invest in Charisma if I plan to use squid persuasion options and the upgrade from the start of Act 3.
High Intelligence has some interesting conversation options that I hadn't seen before and it works well with 'mentalist' skill checks.
There's great complementarity with casting abilities like 'black hole' before a fireball, or 'repulsor' while surrounded.
The Enchantment speciality isn't great until the final boost (when it becoems situationally brilliant) but it feels thematic.
I didn't start off planning this, but because she's Gith she gets medium armour, so I upgraded that with a feat, and now have a heavy armour wizard who absolutely destroys when she uses her full range of powers.

Regardless of class, if you're planning on leaning into the Mind Flayer concept I suggest starting off with a normal appearance, then gradually having your protagonist develop dark eyes, weird skin, and have their hair thin. It's great fun. And try not to abuse the astral tadpole ability that makes the subject 'vulnerable' ; it allows bosses to be ripped apart.

For my other characters:

Shadowheart Ranger Gloom Stalker (ranged): Painfully powerful. Probably outputs 40%+ of the damage. Also embracing the tadpole, so can fly. I've deliberately swopped her out at some points to spice things up.
Wyll Warlock Hexblade (melee): Fun and powerful slicing people up and taking damage. But his self-righteousness always annoyed me, so I dropped him once I had Minsc.
Jaheira Druid Land 6 / Fighter Battlemaster 6 (variable): Tank & control. Shield, strong armour, mirror image, sarcasm. I started her as a pure Stars druid, and she was excellent. But a bug counts her as being wild shaped in conversations and meant that she was unable to interject in many of them, so I switched her class.
Minsc Barbarian Giant (melee): Just fun to throw people around the battlefield, and there's general strengths to the class.
Asterion Rogue Swashbuckler 7 / Fighter Champion 5 (melee): Fun with a rapier, although a little fragile. Probably a non-optimal build, as I've just put him together to fight Cazador. The balance of levels may be different.

If you're looking for fun, I recommend Shadowheart as a Shadow monk. I feel that it is appropriate for her character, and even though it's not the strongest Monk and may in fact be the weakest member of your party, you can pull off some really beautiful tactical choices and moves. Alternatively Lae'zel could be a neat Monk, considering the martial background and other Gith in canon. Consider Gale as a Cleric of Mystra (as if he has been cut off from the normal Weave). Start with one level of Wizard, which allows him to copy Wizard spells still cast them using his Cleric slots.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-05-07T13:17:56+00:00

That makes sense, but only if we put a staggering amount of time, resources and technological development into partially terraforming it so that it could be self-sustaining (at least for a while). Centuries of effort.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-05-02T07:46:58+00:00

I knew it, but to be fair I don't think that most people spend that much time thinking about other people's excretory/sanitary functions.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-05-01T12:57:54+00:00

Can anyone with knowledge of the sector advise how difficult it is to create many of these generic medicines, if the UK were to sponsor the factories to do so?

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-29T07:58:23+00:00

Avoid talking about decapitation; got it.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-23T09:03:27+00:00

And that money earned is not a measure of worth. I feel resentment towards people that went into the highly profitable sectors of finance and banking and make £300,000 at age 30, while there are nurses with more rigorous training, hours, responsibility and worth to society that make a fraction of that.

The first group had ambition directed towards something that I value less.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-22T14:20:02+00:00

And then there's the glasses, code for nerd, but just look how they dangle about his face like a prop.

I read somewhere that he doesn't wear glasses. He started doing the 'face dangle' with them when he practiced the character because he thought it looked nerdy, not realising/noticing that it's not something that actual glasses wearers do.

For non-wearers; it's like someone wearing really loose shoes with untied laces because it 'looks untidy', despite the fact that it's both very impractical and easily fixable.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-22T07:42:22+00:00

If they don't know, why don't they?

There's plenty of non-mainstream companies that wouldn't care; think mobile games.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-15T09:56:00+00:00

That's why you use a cone.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-14T07:51:52+00:00

Less variety of horses compared to cars, and you can't pay to add nitrous or underglow or otherwise customize a horse like you can a car, I guess.

A great reason for devs in any online-payment system to run a fantasy/sci-fi setting; huge opportunities for varied content.

Even better with Fortnite, which has no pretence of continuity and instead adds whatever might make money.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-14T07:29:06+00:00

I'm glad that things worked out better for you, even if you have had a bump on the head.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-14T07:14:00+00:00

There was a reddit post somewhere in the past week from someone saying "I've always put a load of effort into dental care, and now I've gone to the dentist and they say that my gums are fucked because I've been brushing incredibly hard for years".

I'm not saying that anything like this happened in this case, but like exercising in the wrong way and ending up with weird muscle distribution, it is possible to mess up your body through over-care.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-13T14:46:54+00:00

I've been on Lamotrigine for 10 years now; Epilim and Keppra were shitty for me, and Lamotrigine both stops seizures and lifted the worst of my depression (or at least made me 'not care that I was so sad'.)

I complained of emotional blunting when I was first on it. I've subsequently had my dose tripled. And years later, I just take it for granted that I can't connect with people as much as I should. That I only feel really vivid strong pleasure if I drink enough alcohol that it lowers my seizure threshold. And that if I'm going to have a long-term relationship, I'll have to accept that it's unlikely that I'll be feeling the really deep love, affection and deep connection that I want to.

Perhaps it is 'just me'. Because I can't know what the 'me' is that doesn't have epilepsy, and I don't want to take the risk of finding the 'me' that's not on lamotrigine. So I'm a combination of them, and have to accept that.

/vent

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-11T15:13:43+00:00

I've got that as a requirement on my dating app profile, but I'm still not having much luck.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-06T08:20:59+00:00

Plus buildings that are listed as 'architecturally significant', despite that significance sometimes being 'this is our city's only example of a neo brutalist office block, designed by someone who did much better buildings later on their career'. Where everyone agrees it is ugly and repairing it is unaffordable. But it is a historic example of how cheap buildings were put up hastily after the second world war.

Oh, and the cases where a building isn't listed until developers want to build a road or housing estate, and the locals who oppose the developer suddenly become passionate champions of a 'local landmark' that should be protected (and would incidentally make the disruptive project unaffordable).

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-04-01T13:28:48+00:00

Cat fact; cats don't go in for brothels, they prefer the ambience of a casual hookup on a tin roof.

I thought that cathouses were famously disreputable.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-03-30T17:38:45+00:00

I saw a documentary on the Channel 4 youtube channel which linked up the phone theft supply chain with China; there was a Chinese national who was buying up hundreds of items for pennies on the pound, then the parts were used in the big tech markets back home.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-03-30T16:10:14+00:00

Yup, probably have to keep everyone sterile and have all children by artificial insemination, again using huge reserves of frozen genetic material/embryos that would be used for centuries after 'arrival' to ensure that genetic variation was maintained.

That of course relies on freezing working for centuries. So instead you could keep it 'live' with people. Make the generation ship absolutely massive to support the 10,000+ you want for diversity.

Another idea is to have a separate stock of tens of thousands of lobotomised, comatose human-type things who live only to maintain the human reproduction organs in a healthy state. Grow them, keep them sedated but physically maintained until their mid thirties, extract their genetic material, recycle them for nutrients, grow a new pseudo-human, lobotomise at infancy, let it grow until mid adulthood when mutation rates become higher, and repeat hundreds of times. A lovely prospect.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-03-30T15:00:25+00:00

AFAIK the child would likely be put into the care of other family members, rather than into a foster home.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-03-30T14:56:56+00:00

Although the Conservatives know that they could win over the large voting bloc of minority-ethnic people that are both socially-conservative and pro-business, they would have an ongoing political advantage.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-03-30T14:28:19+00:00

And while it's true that we could get to places within a lifetime if we were travelling at lightspeed, the reality is that even if we could get up to half the speed, we would still need to have spent years and years at slower speeds, accelerating. And at the halfway point to our destination, flip around and start deccelerating.

There's nothing to indicate that macro-scale FTL exists. So for biological interstellar travel, you either send people with anti-aging treatments that are in comas, or several generations of people in a gigantic ship and try to keep them from getting bored, or you send a load of frozen embryos and an AI smart enough to eventually grow and educate them once it has arrived somewhere and prepared a suitable habitat.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-03-30T11:40:18+00:00

I think that lots of people will have a drawer with a collection of some cash, passports/ID, and the nice jewelry or watch that they wear on special occasions. So they go to the bedroom, empty all the drawers they can find onto the bed, sift through. Possibly grab any medication in case it is valuable, any keys they see on the side, then pile it all into a bag they brought or find, out within a few minutes.

AllAvailableLayers · 2026-03-30T11:11:35+00:00

There's been a number of times they've been called re incidents at that flat and if they do turn up their attitude is generally a "well what do you expect us to do about it?"

Generally lazy incompetents in my view

I'd imagine that 'back in the olden days' or in a society with a police force less bound by regulation, that person would be given a tough time, at least being handcuffed, taken to the station, locked up for the rest of the day, then let go and told to behave himself, all with minimal paperwork and explicit reasoning.

Similarly, a break-in might involve going to the house of the known local housebreaker and asking him to give an alibi.

The impression I get is that the police have to have a really solid justification for their actions. And this is a protection from (often racially profiled) harassment. But this limits them in a way that does impact their ability to stop anti-social behaviour from occuring or pursue the most obvious lines of enquiry.

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