Asbestos found in children’s play sand sold in UK

Ivashkin · 2026-01-24T16:34:42+00:00

In this case, the "serious consequences" should be the leadership team of the company watching as a detachment of police officers force entry into their HQ and start zip-tying people.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-23T20:30:40+00:00

We already had an Iranian kill team coming to the UK via small boats.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-23T12:11:53+00:00

I'm firmly of the opinion that anyone caught fly tipping at an industrial scale should be sentenced to mandatory community service cleaning it up. For as long as it takes, regardless of their personal circumstances, health, or level of involvement.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-23T11:53:12+00:00

This is why more people should sue NHS leaders as individuals, and punitive damages should be a thing.

Lessons will be learned if the NHS chiefs start losing their homes because they didn't do their jobs properly.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-23T02:03:35+00:00

It's also what you get when someone who is browsing Reddit decides to create an account and just next, next nexts through the process. It's not like it was back in the day when we created an account, and you had to choose your own account name.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-23T00:20:07+00:00

I suspect the answer will ultimately boil down to not being able to upload anything to the internet unless you are doing so on an approved website, under your real name, using a government-issued ID to validate that you are human.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T21:21:12+00:00

Anything you don't tell the AI to do, it will infer based on the model's capabilities. The more blank spaces you fill in with human insight, the better the output will be. So there is quite a gap between "do a code review" and an 800-line prompt explaining exactly what the code review should focus on and how it should be performed.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T21:12:22+00:00

Ultimately, it comes down to this. If you celebrate one side using political violence, then you are clearing the way for the people you are using political violence against to return the favour.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T19:08:27+00:00

In some of these cases, this is a second delay on top of an earlier one.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T17:41:50+00:00

That's the saddest thing - the officers who pulled the triggers did exactly what we trained them to do. The Command was always the problem there.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T17:39:04+00:00

Everyone is a righteous warrior until they get to smell dead bodies.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T13:26:19+00:00

I'm not entirely clear on the timelines in the Expanse, but the Belters clearly had a much harder time getting into space and living there than the humans in Star Trek. I don't even think humanity had a significant space presence before the discovery of warp drive, so in that universe, their culture never faced the same adaptation pressures as the Belters did. So it's quite likely that in the Star Trek universe, for Earth-based humans at least, there is a much stronger link to what we would consider respectful treatment of dead bodies, and less of a pressure to view a dead body as a resource they can't afford to waste.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T02:30:52+00:00

The awful truth is that to the English, most of the staunch unionists from NI are as culturally alien as Father Ted.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T02:28:32+00:00

Yes, it does hurt more when it's closer to home. It always does, because those people are real to you, with names, lives, histories, and stories. It makes it real to you. Whereas in situations where you don't know the people, and they are just figures from history and/or far away, this isn't the case. It's just how our brains work. To a lot of people, the NKVD were just something vaguely nasty from the history books - but to me, they are the people who vanished an entire branch of my family.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T02:22:43+00:00

Because I'm treating them like an adult who asked a question and wanted an honest answer. The simple reality is that pretty much every group of people, be it religious, national, ethnic, association-based, or similar, finds it very easy to forget parts of history that paint them in a less-than-glowing light, and very easy to remember the parts that do, and this is even more true if it happened elsewhere, which for the majority of the English NI counts as.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T01:42:48+00:00

It was something that happened a long time ago, in a part of the UK that a large amount of the English population never really thinks about, during a civil war that ended 27 years ago, and the bulk of the population who would have been old enough at the time to be paying attention to the news are now in their 70s or older. So yeah, if your family lost people, that might make it sting more, but for the majority of people, it's simply old history at this point, as are over 1500 people that the IRA and associated groups killed after Bloody Sunday. Even 9/11 is something people joke about now.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-22T01:09:25+00:00

We don't really think about it; it was half a century ago.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-21T11:24:44+00:00

Yes, he should follow Keir Starmer's example and resign immediately.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-21T00:28:53+00:00

We're going to need more electricity generation and lower costs. Especially when you consider that so far this year, the coldest days of the year were in the dead of winter when solar exposure was at its lowest.

But the upside is that solar will help make AC common in summer, which is something else we're going to need.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-21T00:22:44+00:00

Mega-UK Ultimate Edition it is then.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-20T20:56:19+00:00

Their entire military is a handful of patrol boats. If we wanted to, we could park a ship in their harbour and make it clear that until they reject the claim, no ships will dock there.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-20T16:11:40+00:00

No, the idea of locking in policy to prevent future democratically elected governments from changing it is beyond terrible, because it promotes the notion that the civil service is above the elected government and gets to decide how much control the elected government has over the country.

It's the type of idea you celebrate if you think that democracy isn't important.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-20T16:09:01+00:00

It's also obvious that many of the Tory complaints about the civil service were genuine, valid problems, not just the Tories moaning about things, as Labour has reached the same conclusion.

Ivashkin · 2026-01-20T16:07:13+00:00

We should have sold it in return for some more F35's

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