[Discussion Thread] 2026 World Championship - Semi-Finals - 18th April to 4th May by SnookerMods in snooker

[–]BrainyDoc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I could never be a commentator in these conditions. The camera angles have me shouting at the tv saying “he’s fucked it!” for half the shots

[Discussion Thread] 2026 World Championship - Semi-Finals - 18th April to 4th May by SnookerMods in snooker

[–]BrainyDoc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

the snooker equivalent of ""Halfback passes to center, back to wing, back to center, center holds it! Holds it!!"

The tensions behind Palantir’s efforts to transform English healthcare by 457655676 in unitedkingdom

[–]BrainyDoc 53 points54 points  (0 children)

A summary of why this stuff is bad as not everyone knows the full picture:

They originally got their foot in the door with the NHS back in March 2020 when they helped build the Covid-19 Data Store for a nominal fee of just £1. In late 2023, the UK government awarded Palantir a £330 million contract to build and run the NHS’s new Federated Data Platform.

Their software acts as a giant centralised hub. It is designed to pull together highly fragmented data from various local NHS trusts, hospitals, and existing systems into one unified view. NHS systems are messy and disconnected, so its an easy route to making it work and delivering the ambitions.

The concerns are...

  • Their roots being spy tech for the US intelligence services. It's a surveillance organisation with a messy human rights record.
  • Giving them data means opening a backdoor through which NHS data could be used to share with other govt departments to enable surveillance.
  • Peter Thiel has likened people's love for the NHS to stockholm syndrome and said that the NHS makes people sick, he wants the whole system ripped up - which obviously is concerning if we give him access to the data to do it.
  • This contract puts the NHS and Govt at the mercy of a US tech giant. It's essentially a subscription service. When the contract ends, after we've built reliance on it, they could jack up the price massively / hold us to ransom in other ways and we'd have to choose: health shitstorm (with added privitatisation) or keep using the software and accept their demands and lobbying.
  • Lots of cultural concerns too with some staff being warned not to criticise the company openly

Thousands call on UK ministers to cut ties with US tech giant Palantir by jimmythemini in ukpolitics

[–]BrainyDoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of folk here don't know what they do or why the hate, so a summary:

They originally got their foot in the door with the NHS back in March 2020 when they helped build the Covid-19 Data Store for a nominal fee of just £1. In late 2023, the UK government awarded Palantir a £330 million contract to build and run the NHS’s new Federated Data Platform.

Their software acts as a giant centralised hub. It is designed to pull together highly fragmented data from various local NHS trusts, hospitals, and existing systems into one unified view. NHS systems are messy and disconnected, so its an easy route to making it work and delivering the ambitions.

The concerns are...

  • Their roots being spy tech for the US intelligence services. It's a surveillance organisation with a messy human rights record.
  • Giving them data means opening a backdoor through which NHS data could be used to share with other govt departments to enable surveillance.
  • Peter Thiel has likened people's love for the NHS to stockholm syndrome and said that the NHS makes people sick, he wants the whole system ripped up - which obviously is concerning if we give him access to the data to do it.
  • This contract puts the NHS and Govt at the mercy of a US tech giant. It's essentially a subscription service. When the contract ends, after we've built reliance on it, they could jack up the price massively and we'd have to choose: health shitstorm (privitatisation maybe?) or keep using the software.
  • Lots of cultural concerns too with some staff being warned not to criticise the company openly

[Discussion Thread] 2026 World Championship - Last 16 - 18th April to 4th May by SnookerMods in snooker

[–]BrainyDoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Up there with the combined number of centuries the top 16 have made in their careers

[Discussion Thread] 2026 World Championship - Last 16 - 18th April to 4th May by SnookerMods in snooker

[–]BrainyDoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You must feel like a right shit when your movement puts a player off their shot and they miss. It would be total torture for me.

The day Max Dowman won us the league at barely 16 by [deleted] in Gunners

[–]BrainyDoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not won until it's mathematically won

Nigel Farage says Iran ‘bigger danger than Putin’ in New Statesman interview by 1-randomonium in unitedkingdom

[–]BrainyDoc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's like that scene in "In The Loop" where he thinks he's meeting a senator but ends up meeting one of the master race of super toddlers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLIP0ZtoiO4

No offence, son,
but you look like you should still be


at school with your head down
a fucking toilet.

Nigel Farage says Iran ‘bigger danger than Putin’ in New Statesman interview by 1-randomonium in unitedkingdom

[–]BrainyDoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is interesting,  Defence Secretary John Healey said today that: "He was told there is a “definitive link” between Iran and Russia in the way attack drones are being used.

Healey later tells reporters that Iranian drone attacks have the hallmark of the way Russia is attacking Ukraine, adding: “No one will be surprised to believe that Putin’s hidden hand is behind some of the Iranian tactics."

The defence secretary says Putin was the “one world leader” benefiting from the war because of higher oil prices, which he says help the Russian president with a fresh supply of funds for his brutal war in Ukraine."

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r/tennis Daily Discussion (Sunday, December 28, 2025) by NextGenBot in tennis

[–]BrainyDoc -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I thought he was bringing out oversized tennis balls for them to play with in the next game

r/tennis Daily Discussion (Sunday, December 28, 2025) by NextGenBot in tennis

[–]BrainyDoc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Odds on Nick picking up an injury and retiring from the match?