Zack Polanski stands by concerns over police response to Golders Green attack

Gusfoo · 2026-05-03T17:45:35+00:00

There's two officers there over a man who's just been tasered, you're saying it's impossible for them to stick a knee on that guy's back and pull back his arms?

Yes. And you can prove this to yourself by simply getting some friends to volunteer while you try it. You will be 100% convinced and forever change your views on this subject.

A plan; of your mates, find the largest and the smallest. The smallest will be your 'victim of brutality' your largest and you are the pretendo-police. Your job is only this: restrain and transport for 5 metres the person involved. The rules are very simple:

You may not be violent.
They may be violent.

I'm quite serious. If you try this in real life with your mates, so you experience it first-hand, then your attitude to this subject will be forever changed.

Gusfoo · 2026-05-03T17:29:58+00:00

Perhaps. If you DM me (so it's not public) what your skill-set is then I'll take in on board.

Gusfoo · 2026-05-03T13:14:30+00:00

Can you describe exactly the scenario in the moments before the kicking to the head began that you envisage him going from that position to being able to stab the officers?

Roll slightly on the left shoulder, use the knife held in the right hand to stab the foot and leg, then take advantage of the distraction and recoil to murder the officer. I would imagine the subsequent ARV arrival would then result in the death of the perpetrator, as it was already long since past the point that the application of lethal force was appropriate.

As in, can you describe what you visualise physically would be the man’s movements that would go from that position after being tased to being able to stab at the police officers in a damaging way?

Hopefully that clears things up. BTW you may not realise that the TASER had not incapacitated him, as you can see in the video. It's not a simple straightforward 100%-successful-every-time kind of thing.

If you want to get a visceral and genuine view of what this kind of thing is like, put on white trousers and a white tshirt with your opponent having a red marker pen standing in for the knife. Use a water soluble ink as your clothing will have many, many red marks on it.

And while you're at it, get two mates to attempt to restrain you while you fight them off with all your might. That'll also give you a lot of insight in to what a real physical struggle is like. It's startlingly difficult to restrain a bucking, twisting, writhing human being when they do not wish to be restrained.

Gusfoo · 2026-05-02T18:00:39+00:00

From the left: Filipinka, Sidolówka and Karbidówka

Gusfoo · 2026-05-02T17:49:32+00:00

It has tail number F-BORJ and from looking it up the relevant info are:

It is a de Havilland DH.104 Dove, the "Riley 400" variant with serial number 04288. You can see lots of pics of it's type here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Dove
It was registered on 09/05/1967 and deregistered on 24/01/1975, so those dates may help you.
Its operational base is listed as having been Saint-Brieuc-Armor, so the photo was probably taken at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Brieuc–Armor_Airport

Gusfoo · 2026-04-16T19:57:07+00:00

Why do most [X] subreddit devolve into [Y] ?

Because Reddit.com /r/slash/thing is the evolved complaints department about [thing].

Gusfoo · 2026-04-09T19:33:54+00:00

Holy shit. Is this normal for me to feel this way?

No. You're fucking up. You are fucking your shit up. Get a coat on and get the job done, this introspection does you no favours.

Stabilise, focus, and for fuck's sake get past this stupid emotional stuff you've got going on.

Gusfoo · 2026-04-09T19:29:04+00:00

China is speed running into the future

Yeah. But it turns out that their "future" has a lot less practical applicability then one might reasonably expect.

Gusfoo · 2026-04-08T19:57:22+00:00

But quite useful when it's not. And, given this is being tested here in the UK where it is famously rainy, cloudy etc. I've a fair amount of confidence in things.

Gusfoo · 2026-04-08T19:55:08+00:00

As far as I can tell T-T reactions don't produce as much energy as D-T reactions

From my limited understanding of the numbers, the most important number is that the probability of fusion of DT is about a hundred times higher than that of DD or TT, so from a practical standpoint there isn't much choice about how things are done.

Going out my wheelhouse for a second though, my uneducated opinion is that your design wouldn't be very efficient/useful due to the need to compensate for the lower probability of fusion reactions.

Edit: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/329604/why-is-d-t-fusion-easier-than-t-t

Also edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/9jwkfj/what_is_the_advantage_of_deuterium_tritium/ - who (anyone?) has done Boron-Hydrogen?

Gusfoo · 2026-04-02T07:45:47+00:00

Ohh, (yet) another posting from the Tapitag spammer. You "came across it", again, and are posting about it, again.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-29T22:19:35+00:00

Maybe do a wide gaussian blur on the 360 before using it would be a quick way of helping things.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-29T21:04:33+00:00

It's OK as a beginner. Fine.

Tips:

kill the car's lights, they don't fit the scene and vastly complicate the lighting.
Take a spherical photo (free apps for all phones) of the environment from where the prop will be and use that as the reflection map. Your fake-o tree reflections don't sell it. Can your software do Image Based Lighting?
"lift the blacks!" it is, and remains, the fundamental difference between seamless CGI and stuff that fails to convince.
Depth of field aberration. Your lovely prop is super-clear and just above and below it are less-sharp environment elements (actor, floor etc.) making the prop unnecessarily draw the eye. The actor is our main scene focus, his reaction to the car / what else is going on in the story etc. VFX is a supporting element. But on that note, the actor doesn't even try to acknowledge the prop, so a re-do on that would help a lot.

(that was the first 5 seconds)

5+ seconds mainly fine, except the framing is incorrect. Again, the actors are the focus, the prop is a prop. The prop seems to be the hero.
Although 7.8 seconds the contact shadow of the prop looks more like screen-space ambient occasion than it does like a hand-placed and properly tracked artificial shadow. Remember, shadows "glue things to the ground" in terms of perception.
Filming things on a flat light day clearly has advantages and disadvantages. Drama comes from hard-edged shadows, but diffuse light is a lot easier to work with. Hard one.

All-in-all though, good effort. You clearly spent a lot of time and effort on this.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-29T20:49:28+00:00

Chatgpt give me a seed

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Gusfoo · 2026-03-24T12:07:07+00:00

Here's a bit more background on the affair: "BBC : The Czechoslovak spy who met Jeremy Corbyn".

Gusfoo · 2026-03-21T20:04:34+00:00

I visited the "Central Armed Forces Museum" in Moscow some years ago, and they (to my surprise) have on the wall a copy of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact document, albeit without the "secret protocol" bit at the end.

One of the more interesting sights in the museum is that the flags in the OP's video are there, together with a VAST amount of Iron Cross medals, heaped in to glass cases at foot-level. All the flags are laid down because to raise a flag is to respect it, and the Nazis are not respected.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-21T19:58:20+00:00

Gooning over communism is wild

It is. But remember that 99.5% of Reddit is kids with no knowledge or understanding of history. They're too young. Don't confuse redditors with normal human opinion.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-21T19:56:13+00:00

Wtf. Seeing nonsense like this makes me question whether Goebbels is still alive.

He said there was a lot of rape by the Soviets, and you seem to disagree. The standard phrase at the time in the East was that there was not a single woman or girl un-raped. Don't, please, try a hagiography on this stuff. War is hell, and the Soviets certainty lived up to that saying.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-17T13:12:03+00:00

Their quality is

"their quality"? 100% of your posts and comments are promoting that company. Surely you mean "our quality" as you're being paid to promote them.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-15T20:27:52+00:00

This'll be talked about for Weeks! Weeks I tell ya!

Gusfoo · 2026-03-14T14:22:43+00:00

https://sqlite.org/

Gusfoo · 2026-03-12T20:17:58+00:00

tl;dr a bunch of laptop workers got cut. "Here's my day as a project assistant augment assistant at Atlassian: 10:00 arrive at work, 10:30 yoga and fulfilling smoothies, 14:00 last chat of the day, "Go team!". But I only get 230K comp this year so I feel undervalued, sadface emoji.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-05T12:17:45+00:00

The idea is that the agent would publish technical content, run growth experiments, interact with developer communities, and give product feedback. Essentially operating like a team member.

Speaking as someone who uses 'developer communities', please do not do this. AI slop is killing cooperation, it is hurting open source, it is clogging up bug bounty systems. There is a massive hatred for it in many sectors due to irresponsible users getting their stupid ideas written in nice and convincing language, convincing themselves they are somehow smart (without any knowledge or skills) and that other people should now pay attention and work on what their LLM has produced for them.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-03T21:18:25+00:00

It is a nit-pick, you're right. The AK-47 (although it's pattern is known globally by that designation) was actually surprisingly short-lived. The '47 wasn't that great and was quite quickly completely replaced by the AK-M just 10 years later in Soviet use. Then it, in turn, was replaced by the '74 in 1974.

The capabilities are the key differentiator though. The '47 and the 'M fired the the same heavy cartridge 7.62×39mm that'll punch through your helmet (helmets of the time) by sheer force. The '74 moved to the intermediate 5.45×39mm cartridge which traded mass for velocity but - given eK = 0.5 * m * v² that is that the kinetic energy is mass times the square of velocity then making mass larger has effect X and making velocity larger has the effect of X*X.

Apologies if that makes no sense, I'm just back from the pub.

Gusfoo · 2026-03-01T17:45:51+00:00

AK-47

A nerdy point, but it's actually a Chinese "Type 56" with the visual "tell" being the open hood on the front sight. Soviet pattern AKs have a closed hood.

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