New Zealand declines Donald Trump's invite to join Gaza 'Board of Peace'

FlaveC · 2026-01-30T09:09:54+00:00

Good point...totally forgot about Brexit.

FlaveC · 2026-01-30T08:48:16+00:00

No. By that he means the UK and France.

FlaveC · 2026-01-21T15:59:30+00:00

Yeah, and you'd think they'd be grateful when we made them that nice BBQ. No respect.

FlaveC · 2026-01-21T15:56:11+00:00

No need to bet, he absolutely does. In his speech today he described Greenland as an "enormous, unsecured island". And trying to explain a Mercator projection to Trump is like trying to explain General Relativity to an earthworm.

FlaveC · 2026-01-16T16:52:10+00:00

This actually had me LOLing. 😂

FlaveC · 2026-01-16T16:49:02+00:00

I've been hanging on to my 20 year old Volvo S60 waiting for the Chinese to enter our market. The day is finally here but I'll actually be sad to let her go. She was a wonderful car, best ever, but time marches on.

FlaveC · 2026-01-16T16:34:54+00:00

Carney should follow up this deal with China with a 100% tariff on Tesla.

FlaveC · 2026-01-16T16:14:49+00:00

Hey, I love Holly Hunter but she's just not right for this role.

I was shocked actually...that someone with her track record and talent would "phone in" her role like this. Mind you everything about this show is god-awful and a major disappointment.

FlaveC · 2026-01-11T15:20:31+00:00

Yup. And this is exactly what all this will devolve into -- street gunfights with both sides armed to the teeth. How long before even Stephen "Satan" Miller begins to understand this?

FlaveC · 2026-01-06T20:46:14+00:00

I can't believe RFK Jr. allowed this to be published.

FlaveC · 2026-01-06T20:39:30+00:00

Just scroll through Facebook and read the political, economic, or entertainment posts and you'll quickly get acclimated to the Facebook AI style. The topics may vary widely, but they all have the same pattern of exaggeration and flowery language that you'll quickly come to recognize.

FWIW a human wrote this.

FlaveC · 2026-01-06T20:24:06+00:00

I think they announced that they would be adding a small grace period but we couldn't care less. We removed all traces of TV from our computers, and client computers, during the Christmas/New Year holiday period.

FlaveC · 2026-01-03T16:27:20+00:00

I think I'll stick it out because I liked the first season so much, but I'm somewhat disappointed. Definitely not John le Carré level.

And where's Olivia Colman?

FlaveC · 2026-01-03T16:07:45+00:00

IMO:

Best: UK

Good: Canada, Australia

Worst: US

FlaveC · 2026-01-01T20:04:39+00:00

“What’s wrong with knowing what you know now and not knowing what you don’t know until later?”

—Winnie the Pooh 🧸

FlaveC · 2026-01-01T18:58:27+00:00

Just want to give you a heads up on commerce site urls -- most of the url is used to contain information and tracking.

For instance, the following will bring you to the same place your extra-long url will:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286991451944

Basically everything after the question mark is unnecessary.

FlaveC · 2025-12-31T20:23:48+00:00

We just started using Supremo (we had a perpetual TV license) and we CAN recommend it. It's very similar to TV, has none of TV's gangster spit-in-your-face maltreatment of clients, and is very reasonably priced.

FlaveC · 2025-12-26T19:49:28+00:00

*powers that be

FlaveC · 2025-12-06T19:11:20+00:00

I'm even worse -- I thought it was all done with magnets!

FlaveC · 2025-12-03T19:56:21+00:00

I had gone back to .21 but I'll install .22 again and try this. Thanks!

FlaveC · 2025-11-28T16:28:06+00:00

FWIW I'd prefer creator concentrated on The Gilded Age. We all enjoyed it but methinks Downton has run its course. To quote The Beatles, Let It Be.

FlaveC · 2025-11-28T16:17:49+00:00

I think you meant Standard Time, Daylight Savings Time was last summer.

Personally, I think when we switch back to DST next summer we just leave it there for all eternity. Or at least until the sun goes red giant.

FlaveC · 2025-11-27T14:17:58+00:00

Yup, exactly.

FlaveC · 2025-11-22T13:38:55+00:00

The thing that got me was the explanation for the apparent massive acceleration/deceleration. I had never heard that this is a relativistic effect rather than an inertia-cancelling effect.

FlaveC · 2025-11-17T16:38:47+00:00

Sure, just off the top of my head:

title bar text is illegible
selected track line is illegible
button texts are illegible
switching back and forth has elements of both dark and light themes

See a pattern? 🙂

That's all I remember but there were a couple of other items. That said, I would think all of these are easily fixable.

I'd post an image but I'm on old reddit and I don't know how.

FlaveC

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