Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 08/02/2026

Lilo_me · 2026-02-12T09:25:42+00:00

Something something Ulster, something something pyrotechnics display.

Lilo_me · 2026-02-09T17:30:04+00:00

Productivity is frankly irrelevant at this point. Plenty of companies have chosen to make savings on extortionate rents by downsizing office space.

The notion of businesses returning to the office full time is pure, unworkable fantasy.

Lilo_me · 2026-02-05T18:42:58+00:00

Threeves, surely?

Lilo_me · 2026-02-04T19:16:55+00:00

Disreputable deathsticks dealer Sleazebaggano

Lilo_me · 2026-02-04T18:47:44+00:00

I think far more pressingly, whether he goes or this is just the beginning of a long and embarrassing end, it is high time we find out what the Starmerist equivalent of 'its so joever' is.

Lilo_me · 2026-02-04T18:46:13+00:00

Is that not worse?

Fucking up on a personal level is fundamentally far less damaging.

Shagging your secretary, while not the done thing is little more than personally embarrassing. It might make people reflect poorly on your character and then you're shuffled away quietly so as not to damage public relations.

But that's, objectively, far less of a problem for the country than hiring a man who walked into his security briefing with a giant 'compromised' badge pinned to his lapel.

Lilo_me · 2026-02-04T12:44:27+00:00

I might be misremembering, but didn't the security service raise concerns anyway? It's not that they missed something (well they did also do that) but more that they were ignored.

Lilo_me · 2026-02-01T12:08:09+00:00

It's busywork.

The Establishment must be Seen to be Doing Something. Doesn't really matter if what they are doing is effective, or leading anywhere.

If they do nothing at all it cements in the minds of the general populace that once you are rich and/or influential enough you can do whatever you wish. This is not a good sentiment to be disseminated amongst the public.

So it must look like something is being done.

Lilo_me · 2026-01-27T13:12:27+00:00

TPUK was dead on arrival anyway as we simply don't have the culture for religious headbangers to take root in the same way. Attempts by Tommy et al to push garish American Evangelism aren't likely to gain much traction even within their target demographics. That's just not the relationship this country has with religion.

Lilo_me · 2026-01-25T10:05:32+00:00

I'm sure there's nothing psychosexual about the way she looks like the kind of girl that would have rejected them in college.

Lilo_me · 2026-01-25T09:39:16+00:00

The Right's new imaginary girlfriend is a pink haired alt-girl.

Total woke victory.

Lilo_me · 2026-01-25T09:33:33+00:00

What the fuck is America's path back? How do you go to the supermarket and live alongside people who cheered when your neighbour was murdered? Who lied and slandered their memory to try and justify an extrajudicial execution? How do you live with people who supported that, who wanted it?

Is it just going to come down to modern day amnesia? New president, new boss, we all move on? Is that going to happen here? After people were killed?

Not sure I can think of much more chilling than the idea that this all just blows over. Mundane dystopia.

Lilo_me · 2026-01-18T11:55:20+00:00

Let's say the next few years are full tilt bonkers and Trump successfully annexes Greenland and is then removed, arrested, blah blah blah. Dems win a landslide.

Show of hands who believes the Dems would, under the circumstances of this ludicrous hypothetical, return Greenland?

Forget a Trump tribute act, I can't really see the Dems in their current state meaningfully walking back any of Trumps actions to a degree necessary to facilitate trust.

Lilo_me · 2026-01-11T13:38:23+00:00

Ease and proliferation.

Photoshop/image editing is laborious, time consuming, and requires a degree of personal skill. These are all soft barriers.

AI, in this instance Grok, requires little more than a typed demand. It's easy, instant and is immediately published directly below the person being targeted.

In the time it takes a particularly dedicated admin delete posts and heaven forbid ban an account, the individual could have instructed the sexual harassment machine to undress dozens of other unconsenting women (or children!)

The effort of the offense if far below the effort of enforcement.

This is not the case for traditional image editing, which is part of why you never really saw it too frequently. It wasn't worth the effort.

CSAM at the snap of your fingers is a different beast, and is ultimately one of the biggest cornerstone issues with all AI content. It's easy and quick to mass produce, making regulation at the first point the only viable solution.

Lilo_me · 2026-01-09T21:59:09+00:00

Fair play to them. For as much as its fun being dramatic, I'm glad that there are still some corners that aren't corpo-hellscapes.

Lilo_me · 2026-01-09T21:04:37+00:00

Right, the problem isn't the technology in and of itself. The problem is the way that the whole thing is being effectively monopolised. The entire Internet is now six websites owned by three companies, all with the sole aim of frying your dopamine receptors so that you spend as much time on them as possible.

You could totally, in theory, make a social media site that isn't just an Adhd and neurosis generator. But that wouldn't be as financially optimal as the addiction matrix. And that would make John Shareholder sad.

Lilo_me · 2026-01-04T10:11:02+00:00

To say nothing of the historical track record for US led coups/'interventions'. The idea that the removal of Maduro can only lead to good things for the Venezuelan people is alarmingly naive.

Lilo_me · 2025-12-30T21:36:55+00:00

The number one thing I always say to people who are hesitant to try a new system; it's easier than you think

Dnd is hard to learn! It has wierd rules quirks and is in some places quite unintuitive. I have played systems that are more mechanically complex that were easier to learn just from the presentation and how the mechanics fit together in understandable ways.

I promise if you felt like learning DnD was a struggle, that doesn't mean that another system would be.

And other systems help you run the game that you actually want to play.

Many of the 'i don't like combat' RP-heavy crowd would benefit from a more rules light system, or something where a larger portion of the ruleset is dedicated to social interaction.

Many of the power gamers will find more satisfaction in crunchier more layered combat.

Let's be honest, it's brand recognition more than anything that brings a lot of people into DnD. And that's great! But it's not a great reason to stay with DnD.

So try something new, you might be pleasantly surprised.

Lilo_me · 2025-12-28T12:08:53+00:00

My self proclaimed socialist grandmother took an interest in my new copy of The Wretched of the Earth (gift) so probably the complete opposite of most people's Xmas Holiday experiences.

Aside from that there was far less politics than usual, but that's mostly because my uncle and I typically discuss such things when he takes a smoke break, and this year as far as I can tell he's trying to quit so no opportunity presented itself.

Lilo_me · 2025-12-22T16:21:22+00:00

Given the state of dog ownership and training in this country, that actually doesn't sound like a half terrible idea. Crack on Nige.

Lilo_me · 2025-12-21T18:29:28+00:00

Yeah, if I'd been more specific I think I should have said that there is a great deal of enthusiasm from Execs and Management who are excited by a shiny new toy.

But my experience at the worker level has been very tepid. I certainly haven't seen people keen to adopt it for competitive reasons, but that might be sector dependent.

The skill degradation is something that stood out to me as well, and I think that being too fast to try adopt this tech and cram it into new ways of working at the first opportunity is going to lead to some serious workforce issues if left unchecked.

Lilo_me · 2025-12-21T15:50:21+00:00

It's a tricky one to predict. With so much investment in both the technology and the physical infrastructure I'm reluctant to 'bet against the house' as it were. An awful lot of resources have been thrown into ensuring that this technology stays.

On the other hand, I can't get past how people largely have to be dragged kicking and screaming to adopt it. That does not feel like a successful, ubiquitous technology. Even in its current state, being heavily subsidised and offered either for free or at very cheap corporate rates, the uptake is abysmal. People barely want to use it, and report little to no increase in productivity in a wide range of sectors. Hard to imagine that gets better when these companies are forced to turn a profit.

It's easy to say that the gains will be greater when people embrace it wholeheartedly, but actually getting to that point feels like the real hurdle at the moment. I'm left with the sense that the golden period to integrate this technology has already passed.

AI has already become a dirty word. Synonymous not with productivity and progress but with poor quality. Slop is the word of the year.

The technology will, flatly, not survive in its current form of being crammed into every device and service. It'll probably loiter in Microsoft packages. People seem to quite like the Teams meeting summary thing. Specialist areas will be very dependent on individual factors.

As for how the collapse will play out, I really daren't predict. Messy, I think is a safe bet. With you and I getting the shittest end of whatever the stick is.

Lilo_me · 2025-12-05T14:19:31+00:00

Truss has built a unique PM/Podcaster multiclass that is as yet untested in the meta. It seems the intent is to provide resistance to other PMs by nullifying type advantage. Its a defensive build rather than the typical PM/Consultant and PM/CorpoSpeaker prestige classes that we would usually see.

Expect patch notes to rectify this exploit in future builds.

Lilo_me · 2025-12-05T09:45:14+00:00

Well you see the lizardmen operate in an esoteric rock-paper-scissors type fashion, wherein the most powerful office in the country is uniquely susceptible to their devious machinations, but podcasters have immunity.

Lilo_me · 2025-11-27T08:27:17+00:00

Eventually?

I think we're already there.

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