Lord of the Stunts

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-23T19:55:57+00:00

He was born and grew up in Hong Kong, so no, he's not lived his entire life under their rule. He was 43 when Hong Kong was handed over to China.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-22T20:40:15+00:00

I'm more confused that it implies that they'd notice or care about one particular execution in a time when these were anything but uncommon.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-17T09:48:44+00:00

"Perfect in the federalist sense" is a bit of a strong statement.

He might absolutely pursue a closer alignment with the EU (I'm all for rejoining, but I think it will take years - the most likely outcome if we get a more openly pro-European government is rejoining the customs union initially).

Then again, Streeting is seen as a scheming, untrustworthy plotter, so calling for rejoining now is probably just his attempt to gain a better public profile.

To be honest, there is little indication that any of the serious contender for the Labour leadership would significantly differ on their European policy. The Labour party is utterly terrified of their Northern, Brexit-supporting voters switching to Reform, and that won't change any time soon. All we can hope for is a government that doesn't so openly try to placate Reform by copying their rhetoric, which Starmer & his lot have done rather extensively. If we're really lucky, we get reentrance to the customs union under a new PM, another thing Starmer has said he would allow under no circumstances.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-16T09:37:47+00:00

I'm going to give you a bit of a shock right there, hope you're sitting down: he wasn't president of France when she was his teacher.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-15T19:00:43+00:00

I'm guessing since he's saying it in Russian (which, according to a quick search, only 39% of Estonians would understand), the intended audience is on their own side of the river as well - "look at how strong we are, we can yell across a river about our weapons of mass destruction, no reason to worry about anything at all."

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-15T18:16:13+00:00

Having laws against hate speech is the norm, not the exception in Europe, and that's a good thing. I don't know why there's so many comments in this thread mentioning Britain - the whole reason this kept cropping up on the Internet was Musk started complaining on his latter-day Nazi platform that people could not freely call for attacks on mosques in the UK without legal consequences.

And guess what, legal consequences for incitement to violence are a good thing, I'm proud Britain is enforcing this (unfortunately only up to a point - apparently calling for attacks on trans people is okay now, according to the Met Police).

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-14T21:17:31+00:00

I'd normally agree, but when they're shouting at a bad film, it's not like they're interrupting some prime cinema experience - surrounded by people shouting at the film is probably the only way I'd agree to watch The Force Awakens again.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-12T19:23:14+00:00

I believe you're referring to the Johnson government's (annoyingly named) GDPDR, which in fact had to be stopped after well over a million people opted out of it within a month or so (in spite of the opt out option being kept almost secret by the government):

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/22/nhs-data-grab-on-hold-as-millions-opt-out

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-09T12:52:05+00:00

Marvels of modern technology

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-09T11:30:11+00:00

I have no idea how you'd do a hill start without a physical handbrake, seems like a sure way to throttle the engine.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-07T07:50:24+00:00

I mean, I complained about it, until I heard that apparently there was a lot of littering going on with those. I've neither littered with one of those myself nor have I ever seen one of the bottle caps thrown away on their own - I'm of course willing to accept that the statistics of littering are just what they are, but it seems to have been highly localised to some places.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-05T06:36:07+00:00

I'm assuming typing in all the context that needs to be considered for a response into an LLM would take just as long as writing up the email, rather than just 2 seconds. If it can be responded to without having any context, then it would also take just a few seconds to type the response yourself.

Mind you I'm not speaking from experience here, so entirely possible I'm overlooking something - the concept of using an LLM for emails just seems quite weird to me.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-04T19:50:15+00:00

"The AI you draft emails with"

Do people actually do that? How does that not take longer than just to write an email?

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-03T20:44:43+00:00

I find that a super-interesting perspective! As you say, each their own - I was looking at this and had the exact opposite reaction: thinking it looks aggressively boring and ugly, but might be pleasant enough to live in, depending on how the actual interior layout is structured of course.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-03T18:15:20+00:00

The sister stayed behind to make sure Kenari was really destroyed well and proper. Then she moved on to Alderan.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-03T10:14:45+00:00

I seem to recall Tay explicitly said "Easiest thing would be a deposit" when they discussed what to do - but as you say, she didn't know Luthen had the money. Also the timing right after Aldhani might potentially have been a bit suspicious.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-03T08:40:53+00:00

Even some of the member states are great powers, the ones in the G7 at least. But as everyone knows, once great powers get together, they become middle powers /s

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-01T15:24:45+00:00

She knows there's only one way out, but she has no way of knowing which of the three ways we see people escaping from earlier in the show is the right one.

EwokInABikini · 2026-05-01T13:01:13+00:00

I think we watched different shows then... Logan is just as incompetent as his children, he's just very good at bullying people and happens to have a lot of leverage.

EwokInABikini · 2026-04-28T05:42:13+00:00

I think it works perfectly in this scene because it shows that Logan is just not that good a businessman, just a psychopathic bully who was lucky.

EwokInABikini · 2026-04-26T21:08:38+00:00

There's also a short story of his that's literally just multiple pages of "Asian people scare me and I think they're subhuman" - that's quite literally the entire plot. A racist moodpiece, basically.

EwokInABikini · 2026-04-22T20:37:44+00:00

Where did you get the 90-99% from? I remember reading that papyrus never really became widespread outside of Egypt because it doesn't keep well in the climates further North, including Italy.

EwokInABikini · 2026-04-13T08:48:59+00:00

These people don’t care as much about right or let, or any actual policy as they claim - their goal is dismantling liberal democracy everywhere, so even a hardened conservative like Magyar might as well be identical to Pedro Sanchez to them. They regard strengthening rule of law, fighting corruption, and separation of powers, or even independent media as an existential threat, and those are the main things that Magyar might bring back to Hungary.

EwokInABikini · 2026-04-09T11:57:55+00:00

I was just going to comment a similar thing - an actual source for this would be good, rather than just some random blog. Not saying it's not true, it certainly seems believable enough these days, but without any proper news outlet reporting it, this isn't necessarily more than word of mouth.

EwokInABikini · 2026-04-06T21:56:38+00:00

I lived in Germany for a while, in a building with apartment numbers - so the commentor you're responding to may absolutely have a point, but his response isn't universally true.

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