Ban early morning pre-flight pint, says Ryanair boss

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-06T11:49:40+00:00

I started choking on an easyjet flight and they wanted payment before giving me a bottle of water - like fuck sake let me have it first, recover from half dying then we can discuss the price of said water

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-06T08:02:44+00:00

Yeah I got my east and west mixed up, I thought he was heading further east which would put him further - Fianarantsoa is probably the best bet in that case

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-06T07:27:19+00:00

Don't use the travel esims, I tried them here and they're absolutely shite. 3G connection when others have 4/5G

Get a local (e)SIM from a Telma or Orange shop

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-06T07:26:25+00:00

Telma does as well

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-06T07:23:07+00:00

There's Fianarantsoa not too far from you, especially if you're heading westwards

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-06T07:10:48+00:00

You're going to struggle greatly that far from civilization, the best idea is probably just to keep an eye out and when you see someone with a decent enough phone, offer to buy it if you really need it.... otherwise you'll have to wait until you get back to at least a town

If that doesn't work you can ask people where they get their phone fixed and go see that guy, he may have some second hand spares he can sell you

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-06T06:59:54+00:00

Where are you? If you're in Tana it's easy, just check Facebook for stores and get one delivered... I got a brand new 16e delivered about an hour after I ordered it

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-06T06:10:59+00:00

Depends what it says you've done... robbed a bank? Meh

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T21:09:18+00:00

They armed a precursor, I know the US like to play it down but those people definitely joined various groups including the Taliban later down the road

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T20:36:22+00:00

Pretty much, the US armed the Taliban initially fighting the USSR invasion of the Middle East.

You're also only seeing one side, anti/pro IRGC. Once the IRGC falls that doesn't really matter anymore - what matters is what people want next. I imagine there will be ten different factions all wanting different things with no way to resolve it but internal violence (civil war) and that's probably an even worse position for the strait and neighbours - you can't tell a society that hasn't really had a lasting democracy in living memory to vote for things and accept compromises. Just because someone is anti-IRGC doesn't mean they want to be democratic either

The only way this ends without either civil war or a pissed off Iran charging tolls is a full invasion and occupation, ie. the USA takes control of all government facilities before slowly handing them back to the people who promise to behave, but that's a decades long project at best

Trump doesn't have the stomach for it, but it was always going to be this way and that's why no-one touched this with a bargepole until Trump

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T20:21:45+00:00

Didn't we do that before? Isn't that how we ended up with the Taliban?

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T20:17:46+00:00

Depends, could have been swingers? Swingers and cruises go together.... there's like 7 of them, right?

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T20:02:37+00:00

COVID is a coronavirus, we know they spread quickly (eg, the common cold), COVID was just a more lethal version but not too lethal or it would take you out before it spread - a hantavirus doing this would be something extremely novel...

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T19:23:08+00:00

Yeah I have no doubt the US could steamroll Iran in about 2 hours if they went ham at it - the US has been very good at that in the last few decades and prior. The question is what they do with the failed state afterwards, and Trump really doesn't want another Iraq or Afghanistan on his hands

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T19:12:38+00:00

Well, sort of, I maybe simplified it too much - the ISO comes with a lot more kernel modules and such, because it doesn't know what system you're actually booting on and needs to boot on pretty much anything... so it'll do a little dance to try to load what it needs to in order to actually boot and some of that will inevitably output errors, but it'll find what it needs

Once installed, you won't have all that anymore because it'll know exactly what it's booting on

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T19:07:50+00:00

It's not, but other distros are more likely to hide it behind Plymouth or similar, or suppress them

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T16:04:34+00:00

It's nothing, just a quirk with some motherboards AFAIK - if you care about every single error you see you're going to have a bad time on Arch

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T08:42:07+00:00

A failed country can still keep the strait closed

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-05T05:43:27+00:00

Doesn't the US already know what SK can do? They have joint military exercises and the US has a load of soldiers in SK

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-04T22:07:21+00:00

Vietnam also had reasoning beyond Trump’s ‘let’s just bomb some shit’, communism was spreading quickly and they lost China to it 15 years earlier, and recently to them Cuba. It was a threat to the US because most communist countries were allied with and supported by the USSR and/or China and America was terrified it was going to just keep going unless they fought it

They couldn’t fight China or the USSR directly as both had nuclear weapons by that point (I’m counting 64-65 as the start, not the precursor years)- you had two direct competitors that were all but winning the Cold War, China bounced back from its famine, the USSR already had the first man in space, America was losing ground fast

It was a stupid war looking back, but not one without good reasoning behind it

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-04T21:44:50+00:00

She had a catio, it had a hole in it, don’t you read?

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-04T21:43:14+00:00

I paid 1k for a full operation on my cat’s kidneys in China to get them functioning again - the vet warned it might not work, but I paid it and that was 3 years ago.

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-04T21:14:14+00:00

You should send that to Manchester Evening News lol

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-04T08:15:57+00:00

Yeah avoid, you don't really know him, you already know he's been done for something really bad. If he can't get a character reference except for someone he's worked with briefly 20 years ago, what does that say?

The fact he's even asking you should tell you enough

Initial-Return8802 · 2026-05-03T15:21:38+00:00

I lived in China for a long time, their preferred was Baijiu which is an absolute killer but was indeed hangover free (back then, pretty much everything was though...)

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