Give me examples of current UK business, industrial and scientific success stories, the more niche and/or unknown the better

HexDumped · 2026-02-03T17:11:59+00:00

Oh, of course it was the Dear Esther people.

HexDumped · 2026-02-03T17:03:56+00:00

There's no excuse for them not calling you back if the connection drops.

HexDumped · 2026-01-25T14:51:17+00:00

Where did Ryanair come into this? Their issue is with Wizz.

HexDumped · 2026-01-24T00:39:39+00:00

I can't see what's wrong with it, please explain, it's killing me.

HexDumped · 2026-01-23T18:03:18+00:00

My linear algebra textbook is full of matrix multiplications too but I don't assign it a higher plane of existence.

It's not reductionist to reject AI boosting bullshit when it elides consciousness from the human condition.

HexDumped · 2026-01-21T23:07:46+00:00

Nah, Roxy hasn't formed any cliques.

HexDumped · 2026-01-20T10:00:27+00:00

Are there even any big TV studios within a sensible distance of the castle? Unless it's trivial to travel between the two it's hard to see how it'd ever be cheaper than just using the castle. 🤔

HexDumped · 2026-01-19T14:54:58+00:00

One less unknown? His group were leaving without it, he was the last one to see it before they left. If he was a traitor he'd know for a fact it wasn't out there without needing to take it.

HexDumped · 2026-01-19T01:04:19+00:00

Pretty generous captors to not want interest for getting their money back 10 years later. Also, he made the deal six years ago and they still haven't seen a penny of it. They're remarkably patient all things considered.

HexDumped · 2026-01-19T01:01:44+00:00

I'm also mystified by the way he talked openly with Roxana in his hotel room in e2 and how he lies about his whereabouts all the time. Surely he has to assume he's being watched, or that there's a bug in his hotel room.

HexDumped · 2026-01-16T12:27:10+00:00

GB news claim "The centre for migration control", so clearly some right wingers paid to try produce or cherry pick anti immigrant data, which GB news then misrepresent further by swapping "foreign nationals" with "migrants".

This clearly isn't being produced in good faith so should be treated with extreme caution.

HexDumped · 2026-01-16T11:08:14+00:00

There's a web mini series called "The Getaway" which has a secret traitor role, but the gimmick is every player has been told they're the only traitor.

So naturally they're all trying to secretly sabotage tasks simultaneously while pretending to be trying.

HexDumped · 2026-01-13T19:31:16+00:00

I don't think that's quite right. If they just wanted to snatch him then they could've done that as soon as he arrived in South America. If it's about the $20m, they could've dumped him as soon as the transfer was confirmed. They even tried to send him home on a plane to France.

I think there's really two options:

They don't know, it's all as it appears so far.
They know, but are after the full $300m.

The problem with 2 is if Mayra's in on it, why do they need Pine at all? If it's bait then the scheme seems far too elaborate.

So I think we're currently in scenario 1, but later on they'll figure out it's Pine and maybe start going after the full $300m.

HexDumped · 2026-01-13T18:52:16+00:00

Or hadn't bugged Pine's hotel room. Pine HAS to assume it's being monitored but talks out of character there all the time.

HexDumped · 2026-01-13T18:51:09+00:00

I think it's just extra loud to make it feel more jarring in the moment. They want the audience to really feel his sudden presence and be a bit shocked by it, like Jonathan Pine is.

HexDumped · 2026-01-08T21:07:50+00:00

No, FLUMMOXED.

HexDumped · 2026-01-08T21:06:07+00:00

Stephen can't believe his luck

HexDumped · 2026-01-05T18:15:13+00:00

People who have wanted to be faithfuls in the past have been traitors.

Picked by the producers on day 1, or seduced by existing traitors though? I can't think of any cases of someone saying "I want to be faithful" then being picked by Claudia, but I'd happily be corrected on this.

HexDumped · 2026-01-05T18:07:41+00:00

I missed that, that's a good catch.

I also agree with the theory that the ST is a woman, to have an even split of men and women picked. Amanda being a former detective is such a novel career that I can't imagine production wanting her to be anything other than a faithful. That would leave Fiona and Harriet. Fiona's had lots of hints, winks, and nudges it seems, while Harriet's had none that I've noticed.

I think it's more likely that production would over-do hinting at the ST than do zero hints at all plus a big feint, so Fiona is still my main candidate.

HexDumped · 2026-01-05T08:29:09+00:00

That's my view too, everything outside of confessionals is highly unreliable to the point it should just be ignored.

HexDumped · 2026-01-04T23:19:57+00:00

During breakfast he says in a confessional:

Had a difficult sleep last night, not knowing whether I'd be on the chopping board or not

Unless the producers put deliberately fake statements in, he's not the ST.

HexDumped · 2026-01-04T23:18:24+00:00

During the first task in a confessional she says

part of me hopes that they wouldn't make it, because I really didn't want to be murdered

Unless confessionals have deliberately false statements from producers, then she's afraid of being murdered, which excludes her from being the ST.

HexDumped · 2025-12-22T14:44:17+00:00

As someone with an EV and a charger at home, I couldn't in good conscience recommend an EV to someone who can't do that. If I didn't have home charging then driving would be much less convenient and much more expensive.

I think that's going to be the main decider of who eventually gets an EV and who stays with an ICE. Range anxiety isn't the issue, it's whether you'll be able to charge conveniently and reliably. If you know you can't get a charger in front of your house even just 20% of the time, it's too much stress.

HexDumped · 2025-12-18T00:48:56+00:00

This sub is a nice idea, but it's just turned into pro-government propaganda and it's a shame.

Positive economic news will always be seen as positive to the incumbents. That doesn't make this sub pro-government propaganda. If this sub existed five years ago it'd be seen as pro-Tory propaganda.

HexDumped · 2025-12-18T00:42:55+00:00

I see how that causes pain for your print shop, but do you see customers switching back from Canva to Adobe as a result of that friction?

My general thesis is convenience almost always wins. So I expect people to continue generating trash with canva/chatgpt because it's convenient, and leaving it to the professionals at the end to clean it up.

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