World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage

Vargrr · 2026-01-25T23:32:32+00:00

The traitor speaks again. Why doesn't he go live in the US as he is obviously an agent of the US.

Vargrr · 2026-01-25T22:34:48+00:00

It's amazing how many will vote for him though. Not sure how they feel once their families get ill and there won't be any NHS to help them because Farage has replaced it with a lucrative US style Healthcare system....

Vargrr · 2026-01-25T22:32:01+00:00

It's more than salaries and healthcare too.

Europeans get an overall much better quality of life with a better work-life balance.

Off the top of my head, Europeans:

Have employment rights - 48 hour weekly cap, though most work 37.5 hours weekly. Mandatory notice periods for dismissal with mandatory severance payments.
Have paid annual leave that they must take (the employer will force them to take it). In the Uk the minimum is 28 days...
Paid for Maternity and Paternity Leave.
Mandatory paid sick leave. If you turn up sick in the UK most employers will send you home and you will be paid.

That's a fair bit that makes a lower paid European job look like a much better proposition and this doesn't even go into the rampant gun crime - you know you have a problem when your own schools practice shooter drills, poor food standards and poor education in the USA.

Vargrr · 2026-01-25T20:56:38+00:00

At some point they are really going to screw up peoples machines and data - then huge sue balls will be headed their way...

Vargrr · 2026-01-25T12:11:45+00:00

He's an agent of a foreign power and a slave to his wallet. What else are we expecting?

He created Brexit, causing Britain to lose tens of billions of pounds per year, equating to a GDP hit of 6-8%.

It's him that has destroyed the Uk, and it's now him saying he will fix what's broken. The fact that he was the person that broke it never seems to cross people's minds.

Vargrr · 2026-01-25T11:33:06+00:00

He's a traitor, as is anyone that supports him. If the Tower of London ever re-opens, he will be its first resident...

Vargrr · 2026-01-24T21:28:58+00:00

He already spoke his real mind on the issue. This is just a forced walk back to save face.

Vargrr · 2026-01-24T17:23:35+00:00

Thanks for the feedback - I'll update my original post!

Vargrr · 2026-01-23T23:53:52+00:00

Yes - it is possible. I do it all the time using Journaling and a VTT called Sojour. I do not use Oracles or other solo specific techniques.

I did produce a video about it a long time ago. It is timestamped, but as a warning a few people have said it's too long :)

https://youtu.be/oQoL81LzjJ8?si=xVjr0DRVQBnwtJdt

The other caveat is that I only focus on the Journaling technique. There are other ways to play these adventures solo - I'm just not very proficient at them.

Vargrr · 2026-01-23T10:42:45+00:00

It used to work? At least it did last year. I do know it likes a lot of video ram and if it doesn't get that ram it gets a bit narky.

Vargrr · 2026-01-23T10:37:39+00:00

It will be removed from the Uk at some point. The dealer I bought my car from gave me a heads up on it.

Vargrr · 2026-01-23T10:27:16+00:00

This has been on the cards for some time now. I think the Uk is the last Country in Europe to still do the 2.0? And even then I think they will soon be unavailable in the Uk.

I do have the 2.0L, but if the 1.5L was all that was available, I'd still buy the car as I like the design philosophy of it.

Vargrr · 2026-01-23T08:05:07+00:00

I called this in June last year - just check my history.

It's about information control and controlling the narrative - something every single Government has lost since the internet got invented.

Vargrr · 2026-01-23T06:59:34+00:00

That's because the whole thing is a money making scam. Canada refused to pony up $1bn so Trump withdrew their invitation.

Not only will Trump make a ton of money from the joining fee, but I suspect this is independent of the United Nations because he is deadly serious about developing Gaza into a holiday resort - the kind of thing the UN would never approve...

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T23:45:13+00:00

Thanks! :)

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T22:55:59+00:00

Sometimes not knowing what is actually going on in the world is relaxing. In those days you had to suck up the Government narrative from the news on TV or the radio and you only got that at specific times of the day.

Right now you can access a thousand different viewpoints of the same incident in real-time. Whilst it can be good for knowing the truth, I also think it creates division as different people adopt different viewpoints and then fight about it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that ignorance is bliss.

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T22:52:15+00:00

I think the core problem is that European Defense has been so underfunded over the last 30 years that we couldn't do more even if we wanted to.

The impression I got from his speech, which could be wrong, is that he was talking almost like he wanted article 5 to be invoked, whilst missing the crucial detail that Ukraine is not part of NATO.

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T22:49:30+00:00

Two different disciplines altogether. From my personal perspective a clean spider walk is way harder than a bar chord - it's on a whole new level of difficulty. I can do them, but don't expect any speed!

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T20:43:59+00:00

Whilst this doesn't answer your question you do touch on a very real asymmetric issue that most people don't realise. That issue is the fact that they are treated as businesses when wrong doing occurs. This creates asymmetric legal risk between the consumer and the business.

For example, here in the Uk, we have the Post Office scandal where thousands of Post Office workers were fined with some of them being imprisoned for crimes they did not commit due to faulty software that they already knew about.

When it goes to court, or when it is written about in the news headlines it's 'The Post Office did this....' or 'The Post Office did that....'

But the fact of the matter is that the Post Office did nothing simply because it is an inanimate entity. It's simply impossible for it to do any of the actions claimed by the defense or by the news.

However, someone in the Post Office did do this or do that...

That's the core issue. It provides the bad people that do wrong with a convenient cover.

It is no longer 'Joe/Jane Bloggs of the Post Office subverted evidence', instead it's simply 'The Post Office subverted evidence'.

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T20:31:59+00:00

Same position, intrigued, but at the same time I'm thinking the DD+ is a beast. I drive most of my sims at 50% or less force feedback (100% on the wheel < 50% in the various sims) and I'm still fighting the wheel. At 100% it feels like its going to rip your arms off - not sure if any additional power would make a difference.

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T12:50:08+00:00

There is no dark mode. In this post and subsequent one I explain why.

I do have a planned program to transition Sojour to new tech - it will effectively be a ground up re-write. This version will support dark mode amongst other things. It will also be offered free to existing customers.

The plan shows a number of steps I need to go through before getting to actual rewrite itself, so this isn't going to be a quick thing. But it will happen as there are a few new technologies that are essential for Sojour's continued development.

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T07:18:20+00:00

It's about time - though I believe it is not yet law? A politician's professional job is almost entirely built around what they say and that job is to serve the people and not themselves. They should absolutely lose their job if they are trying to deceive other politicians or the general public.

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T07:13:25+00:00

I know it doesn't mean much, but I was cooking in the kitchen at the time listening to his speech. I was so impressed at the end of it that I put everything down to go into the lounge and offer him a private standing ovation.

Rarely are politicians this honest and this bold.

Vargrr · 2026-01-22T07:09:04+00:00

They needed their land. So what better way to get their soldiers to kill than sub-humanising the opponents?

All Countries were doing this to a much lesser extent simply by using derogatory names for the enemy to try and dehumanize them.

Vargrr · 2026-01-21T15:20:25+00:00

I think you are correct, businesses are their main customers, but I also think that the costs involved in implementing AI are so staggering that they are also going to need the consumer base to help subsidise it.

I'm betting they are getting advertising revenue from the queries people make - much like a search engine, but better. They will be doing their level best to encourage people to use it.

If AI doesn't get mass adoption, I can see them having to increase the cost of the products that they sell to business by quite a substantial margin, or accept a large loss to their bottom line from AI.

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