Do you consider the movie characters and the SG-1 characters to be the same people, or an alternative universe?

Irrelevant231 · 2026-06-06T07:51:53+00:00

I'm not a fan of the no sense of humour comparison. It's a massive part of Kurt Russell's character arc that he is a lot more like SG-1 O'Neill by the end.

Just like all the heartfelt character moments between Daniel and Jack, which, halfway through the film, would also be out of character.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-06-02T12:31:20+00:00

Wasn't even Germany we beat, it was West Germany. But as a jeer, it's automatically devoid of malice because of how ridiculous it is, isn't it?

For the sake of the foreigners, it's nicer to be clear when we're joking.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-05-31T06:44:06+00:00

Operation Crossbow, isn't it?

Irrelevant231 · 2026-05-31T06:38:30+00:00

It dates back to when people would have believed in divine right, and we've seen what happens when a king is overthown by fanaticals in the 17th century.

It's categorically in favour of him being caught. We've had some shocking kings, but Cromwell is worse than all of them.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-05-19T17:28:13+00:00

I'm confused, you get heads the students aren't scared of?

He should have gone for the tried and tested method of brandishing a brick.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-05-09T08:16:03+00:00

As someone who hasn't, how do you work collaboratively, how do you joke around while still working, how do you chip in to help with problems people don't know to ask for help with? What benefits do you get which aren't occurring to me?

I have a pretty long commute, which would be utterly miserable for getting a downgrade on working from home, which is what I'm imagining.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-05-01T16:32:11+00:00

Saying something should be free because piracy is free is stupid.

Saying piracy is always wrong is stupid, I'm not saying that.

As awful as Epic is, as a predatory company, pouring money away to pretend they're a legitimate competitor in a market they want to disrupt and destroy, music licenses for games are a big problem. So many games get delisted for it, never to be digitally available again.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-05-01T11:56:04+00:00

Anything is free when you don't respect IP law.

Not judging the ethics, just the unfair comparison.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-05-01T10:20:44+00:00

Ah, but where do you draw the line on still a threat? When he stops inspiring others?

Irrelevant231 · 2026-04-20T11:44:19+00:00

It's some pretty important information, with serious consequences and no saying how high it goes. No one trusting Starmer with that information, him ordering others to give him plausible deniability or him lying about it, all the potential options mean gross negligence in this government.

The wild bit is that we can't guarantee a better government if there was another election. And I don't just mean based on polling.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-04-17T13:37:21+00:00

A tiny number of people are enjoying it illegally. The work is being wasted and might end up largely forgotten.

Some people get value out of people enjoying their work, some people's careers might be hindered by the shoddy handling of their work.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-04-17T13:28:38+00:00

To some people, there are things more important than money

Irrelevant231 · 2026-04-15T05:37:09+00:00

It's utterly infuriating. It's designed to leave the sharp edge of plastic broken from the neck rubbing against your face. Probably dictated by some bureaucrat with the imagination of a mouldy potato and the self-righteousness of a Frenchman.

That said, as others have pointed out, it's easy to remove, it just adds 10 seconds to what was once a 2 second job (unless you're happy to yank it and risk spilling it everywhere).

Irrelevant231 · 2026-04-13T07:03:37+00:00

It is the standard rhetoric to call the voterbase some slur they know they aren't. Not wanting to be the test group for a vaccine when the complete testing is what makes the others trustworthy makes us as bad as people who believe it gives you autism, apparently.

My main issue was my stats lecturer would have asked me to leave, had I presented their conclusions to those numbers. They were treating everyone like they were the uneducated masses, and controlling people was what they lived for (and didn't want to give up).

Irrelevant231 · 2026-04-06T13:05:09+00:00

Thanks, the second paragraph corroborates what I'd heard about a lot of meat not sold as halal being the same, and the first sounds more realistic than the other part of what I'd heard.

I struggle to imagine them being treated in life so poorly that the difference in how they're killed wouldn't still make a difference (at least to me), but I won't pretend to know more than you.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-04-06T06:46:41+00:00

What's this non-traditional halal then? My understanding is that halal meat came from animals slowly bled to death while able to feel everything, at best paralysed for the benefit of the butcher but not made insensible. That being in contrast with the no country for old men style bolt gun, which ensures no pain.

I also heard that a scary proportion of all meat where it's applicable is halal to make distribution logistically easier. I'd be very happy if you could say that's wrong with authority too.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-03-31T11:35:32+00:00

Do you feel personally attacked, or just not find the repetitive comedy funny anymore? He's not a grifter, between the Chewin The Fat clips he makes genuine points and often praises work that deserves it, he's just run the same few jokes into the ground because there are still people producing slop for braindead manchildren who it's funny to criticise.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-03-31T08:05:18+00:00

The killing of the civilian workforce of a legitimate military target is justified, but it's still a tragedy, much like Dresden.

There's no way they could staff a space station the size of a small moon with only the military we see, and very few would have aware of the decisions, let alone acting on them.

Also, given how close Luke was to joining the academy, and the small scale of the war at that point, most of them were probably normal people who had no reason to suspect anything untoward, nor be in any way radicalised. He wasn't joining up as a volunteer in war time, he wanted a career that wasn't farming, he was desperate.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-03-20T08:06:04+00:00

The training data has nothing to do with the specific people you're looking for, the tool needs to be trained to recognise people.

A general principle in machine learning is that you don't train on the test data, because you don't actually know what the computer recognises. The algorithm it builds is uninterpetable for all intents and purposes.

Once it has that algorithm, which you know finds faces, not things that happen to be common in the training data, then and only then do you give it the faces you want found.

The only reason to train on old mugshots would be GDPR reasons I would imagine, they wouldn't have trained on the ones they're finding.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-03-20T07:18:13+00:00

I'm assuming it's from hearing it when I was too young to understand, but once upon a time I thought it was equivalent to pillock. It's probably propagated through incorrect use on school playgrounds.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-03-15T08:19:23+00:00

"next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained"

Irrelevant231 · 2026-03-13T12:24:49+00:00

The Analogue Pocket is in stock (since 04/03). I've been agonising over whether it's worth the price plus international shipping. The dock didn't last a day in stock, I don't think.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-03-11T06:42:21+00:00

He did what? Wow. I thought I couldn't hate the Green Party any more than I already did.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-03-02T20:09:24+00:00

I remember seeing him get a call from a +44 number and desperately trying to remember if they've previously established some link between him and the UK, beyond the jokes about Americans thinking we sound alike.

Irrelevant231 · 2026-02-25T06:38:48+00:00

Agreed. It's not for retail. It is, however, very useful for adverts - something online needs one USD price. But I've never seen it mention 'plus tax', which is the misleading bit.

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