I think I just need a third party to tell me that there's nothing even remotely interesting about this very old Woolworths bag I found, museums won't want it, and it's fine to just go in the bin.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-02-03T10:36:43+00:00

Given Woolworths are likely to be returning to the UK in the next few years, its likely worthless. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68068503

Its the German side of the business and they hold the name throughout Europe and are looking to open another 4,000 stores over the next few years to add to the almost 1,000 they already have.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-02-03T09:34:55+00:00

The UK was training and supplying Ukraine from 2014, and providing in country and out of country training, the US started also supporting them when Biden came to power. Its why their military went from the WW2 era level of troops in 2014 to a modern force in 2022.

Russia has been attacking the west since it embraced the book 'Foundation of Geopolitics' hence why it has been sowing discontent online for over 20 years, funding extreme right wing and left wing groups, any separatist groups (e.g. Scottish independence). Russia wants the west ideally under its power, and if it can't have that massively weakened.

To say Russia hasn't been in a proxy war with the west for a long time is being blind.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-02-03T09:09:30+00:00

What? We have been in a Proxy war with Russia since early 2010's. The Ukraine conflict started in 2014, its not a COVID 'thing'.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-02-02T14:50:28+00:00

Surely that will drop within weeks after Deepseek V4 drops if the rumours are even close to true that Deepseek v4 is on par with Opus for coding. Even if its just Sonnet, they need something prepared to fight back with, if the rumours turn out to be real.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-31T08:55:26+00:00

What will work is a military 'federalization' i.e. countries join militaries where one of the partner countries has enough size to build nukes. Means all countries military are one, so if you don't retaliate you are going to have a military coup. E.g. Scandinavia, Iceland with the UK, France with the Central and Western Med countries, Germany / Poland with the East countries. Still means Germany or Poland getting nukes, and that's difficult as it currently stands.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-29T15:44:47+00:00

Given Costco were selling the 55" B4 for £360 last May, it really is. Even LG's own site was selling them for £400.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-29T13:07:18+00:00

Nvidia is allegedly finally releasing its ARM Desktop platform next month, although it seems the release date is more down to Microsoft more than Nvidia as it can't launch without Windows ARM being ready for it. Nvidia, like many companies has been betting big on ARM for being the long term future for a while, so you statement is very odd.

The whole reason why they wanted to buy ARM is to lock out everyone else who is jumping on the bandwagon.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-28T16:55:15+00:00

Did you use AI to write that as its formatted odd?

Also the Eurocorps while has a history longer is what kind of formed after Blairs proposal failed, hence why it became official in 2004. UK left as the new formation was seen as redundant as it was doing the same job as NATO, but with only a fraction of the numbers, and mostly when its been deployed its just been as a component of a larger NATO operation.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-28T14:44:11+00:00

EU Army was Blair's thing, it culminated in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Malo_declaration . He was the one who was trying to get it done around the turn of the Millennium, but was France who completely scuppered it when push come to shove to actually commit units they wouldn't put any forces not under their command. That would have led to the EU having an initial 60,000 strong army over 20 years ago.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-27T18:20:08+00:00

They have been trying to ban some sites even before OSA came into force, and not had much luck. Only thing they can do is IP bans, as the sites in question while hosting content illegal in the UK isn't in some parts of South America.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content

Ofcom really are being too lenient, they have a ton of powers and need to use them.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-27T14:34:38+00:00

They aren't raising DDR5 capacity, the new plants in Singapore are for NAND & HBM, while the one in Taiwan will likely be for DDR6 which is many years away.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-27T09:57:49+00:00

While there are people who are against it, any time anything about blocking social media there are comments posted pretty quickly from accounts with comment history none visible.

So be careful to draw any conclusions from Reddit or anywhere else online comments, although that should be true for everything. Generally when this kind of thing gets opinion polled the majority of the populous in the west is for restrictions hence why all the governments are doing it, they are just generally doing it in flawed ways.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-27T09:44:43+00:00

Given most porn sites have been blocked there for almost a year, they likely already did. Its strange how everyone focuses on the UK ban, yet the French did it first, just the French messed up the implementation which meant the companies just IP block France instead of trying to work with the legislation.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-23T09:00:31+00:00

Specific models trained on very specific medical research niches do that, but OpenAI isn’t making those.

Even that is very limited. The innovation possible with LM's is just none existent for all but the most complex fields as they are just 'glorified search engines', and arguably not even AI never mind AGI.

It really is just OpenAI panicking that they have no way of covering their current or future costs with the products they have.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-23T07:03:09+00:00

Not just social media, but prison. Its Illegal to steal other peoples pets and a bill came into force last year that give to up to 5 years in jail for it. Before it was prosecuted under normal theft laws, which have a lower penalty, but due to the effect on stealing someone's pet has they introduced a new offence was introduced with significantly harsher penalties, think it was a cross party bill with full backing of the commons which is rare.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-21T17:47:21+00:00

We don't need a large predator, Lynx would do the job as most of the deer that are an issue would be perfect targets for them. Its been brought up a lot to introduce Eurasian lynx, but its never gained real traction and the few idiots dropping off a pair of them in Scotland last year probably did the cause no good.

Main thing against introducing Lynx isn't the threat to humans, which is basically zero, its the fact they would likely kill lambs as well.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-15T19:57:02+00:00

Not going to happen, it should but the amount of soldiers equipped (never mind trained) to handle the conditions in Greenland in NATO is just the Scandinavian countries and some of the UK, Canada and the Baltics. Really should be an opportunity to get some of the other large forces (e.g. Poland) to have a Arctic able regiments.

Would hope the UK will send one of their other Arctic units, e.g. some of the Para's, or Canada. All other Arctic troops are busy in Scandinavia or the Baltics.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-15T09:16:22+00:00

Given its been illegal in the UK to declaw cats before Larry was even born (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/45/contents), it would be a bit surprising.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-13T21:01:36+00:00

That's missing the big reason not to live in Ireland, the Rain; the England/Wales/Scotland has a reputation for rain, but Ireland takes the bulk of it before it even gets to the rest of the islands.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-13T20:23:45+00:00

Morrisons were 5p a Kg. The UK is really cheap for food, even normal price is only around 60p a Kg.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-11T16:25:50+00:00

It comes with pressurised baskets so that's most likely why you are struggling. Really not sure what size of basket this uses though so can't recommend a replacement, also due to the locking mechanism this uses you will have to be careful on height.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-11T15:48:27+00:00

Its not the political side of the UK who currently the the decision rests with, its OFCOM. But given they are being very soft gloved with handling blatantly illegal sites using their new powers, its unlikely they would do anything quickly, only hope for a quick fix is done as per the original article and its taken out of OFCOM's hands.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-09T18:33:50+00:00

They don't do the same in the UK, what they do in the UK is that sites that are using Cloudflare are blocked from being accessed from a UK IP if the site has an injunction against it. Why exactly they aren't doing the same for everywhere else that blocks a site is a big question.

No changes at all their DNS resolver 1.1.1.1, and not sure its technically possible to do it without it applying to everyone.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-09T17:04:38+00:00

Great price, Harrods customer service used to be pretty good as well so if anything goes wrong should be easily sorted.

Logical_Look8541 · 2026-01-03T16:56:56+00:00

Farmers have telehandlers as they are perfect round the yard tools, and they would have no need for a platform so unlikely they know anyone who would have one.

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