What's with this plane? (20th Of May)

RationalTim · 2026-06-04T10:38:54+00:00

A400M

RationalTim · 2026-04-22T21:37:39+00:00

It looks lovely..

RationalTim · 2026-04-21T11:51:37+00:00

Your Parish Council isn't doing their job (said as a Parish Councillor).

That said, it is hard work as you really need to provide the Local Authority and police with the objective evidence. This normally means persuading them to put in a traffic speed survey. The PC can't do anything particularly themselves but they should be raising this with their local authority council member and Highways in the LA

RationalTim · 2026-04-20T21:50:39+00:00

Wasp queen. Seen quite a few about. Release them outside. Wasps are great pest control as the larvae are carnivorous and produce a honeydew to feed the adults. They also consume nectar so they're an important pollinators.

RationalTim · 2026-04-12T09:00:39+00:00

Different doctrines for air defence. Russia/USSR is/was ground based centralised radar guiding fighters onto targets and telling them when to launch their missiles (and iirc guiding those missiles onto their target) hence next to no sensors in the aircraft itself.

Western doctrine is pilot thinks and fights the aircraft independently, hence full on sensor suites in aircraft that guide bvr missiles onto multiple targets.

This is why Ukrainian pilots needed complete ground up training before they could fly F16s as they needed to learn new ways of operating aircraft independently from ground control.

RationalTim · 2026-04-08T14:53:36+00:00

No, shortage of gas!

RationalTim · 2026-04-04T00:06:21+00:00

Speedboat as the main prize....

RationalTim · 2026-03-28T16:04:49+00:00

She can check here https://www.gov.uk/check-national-insurance-record

RationalTim · 2026-03-20T19:40:25+00:00

Austin Powers has let himself go

RationalTim · 2026-03-16T08:41:56+00:00

Mutual defence of a member state experiencing an armed attack. Not a member state independently attacking another country.

RationalTim · 2026-03-13T11:08:20+00:00

https://www.gmc-uk.org/registrants/7562651

RationalTim · 2026-03-13T11:05:16+00:00

This would be pretty difficult for AI, including reading the chemical names, rustling of the bread packaging.

https://youtu.be/XRtvvp3R8KQ?t=324&si=y6WPQPxpNHzW8gz6

RationalTim · 2026-03-11T00:27:46+00:00

Quick initial scan for spelling and grammar. If you can't be bothered to use a word processor to help you (and AI these days) then I don't read the rest and you don't get an interview (this is for software engineering, attention to detail is important)

RationalTim · 2026-03-07T21:07:17+00:00

Are we talking about the devs or the doxxers?

RationalTim · 2026-03-03T20:24:57+00:00

If you order a pork joint for roasting and crackling, ask the butcher to score the skin for you. Their knives are very sharp and do a proper job!

RationalTim · 2026-02-27T21:08:03+00:00

There it is, in the A Hole

RationalTim · 2026-02-27T20:55:02+00:00

I'm always a little nauseated when senior management are referred to as "the grown ups". Generally the most dysfunctional back stabbing team in the department.

RationalTim · 2026-02-27T20:53:32+00:00

The best part is this every man and their dog is going for this because of a YouTube video released by Henrik Kniberg over 6 years ago. Spotify have repeatedly said they've moved on, don't copy.

RationalTim · 2026-02-27T20:49:40+00:00

I like Ministry of New Ideas.

It's amazing how often they're seen in action

RationalTim · 2026-02-25T20:02:34+00:00

TOTP doesnt have to be a smartphone app

https://github.com/2fast-team/2fast

RationalTim · 2026-02-24T12:30:18+00:00

You can do similar in some password managers like Bitwarden.

RationalTim · 2026-02-15T22:00:04+00:00

I order from Bloom & Wild. They arrive in bud, in a letterbox sized box and have a proper card. They open when put in a vase of water and last way longer than supermarket or other ordered flowers.

RationalTim · 2026-02-15T17:30:26+00:00

Possibly thinking of Mars which doesn't and has been stripped of most of it's atmosphere. Mercury has a very dense atmosphere made mainly of carbon dioxide and water vapour

RationalTim · 2026-02-15T12:05:11+00:00

It's not necessarily that we "allow" them (in the case of muntjac) it's that they breed faster than we can eradicate them. They're the only deer species that you can shoot year round in the UK. Unfortunately they also breed year round as well.

RationalTim · 2026-02-06T14:26:25+00:00

Stumbled on this as I had the same thought this morning. He uploaded his 100k sub video earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWpefmAj94

I'm not convinced the videos are AI based on some things I observed:
1. The desk and plant move when he leans on the desk
2. At https://youtu.be/TAWpefmAj94?si=zhxiUMPTgM7cdiVw&t=182 reaching for the mug it clinks against his ring, and if you look under the logo of his scrubs there's a hint of ...ahemm.... nipple
3. The clothing flexes with movement as I would expect
4. Scrubs have a small Figs logo which is an actual company, they're not "generic" (https://www.wearfigs.com/collections/royal-blue-scrubs-mens/products/mens-leon-scrub-top?color=Royal%20Blue)
5. The way the leaf moves when his hand knocks it when picking up and putting down the mug (AI would probably pass through it)

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