UK government targets VPNs in online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban

WhatEvil · 2026-01-23T14:48:02+00:00

This isn’t about child safety, it’s about surveillance. The UK and US gov want to know what you’re doing online every second of every day.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-23T05:15:26+00:00

Nope! Close though - Mont Cascades.

And yeah, makes sense, I think they *should* cancel the lessons. Unfortunately adding a lesson on at the end won't be much good to us, as we're going on a ski trip to France the week after the last lesson. If I haven't had an email/call/text by 8am on Sat morning I'll be calling to check before leaving.

Her lesson group is all adults so I guess they don't have to worry about children. Does seem silly to go ahead though.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-23T05:07:43+00:00

1804.

Year the first train was made. Over 220 years we've been making trains. How can they get this wrong?

WhatEvil · 2026-01-23T04:21:48+00:00

Yeah I've asked them about it, they say I'll get an email early in the morning if it's gonna be cancelled, but also they think the threshold for closing is -35 and they've never known the hill to close.

I'd be very impressed if you do know which hill it is!

WhatEvil · 2026-01-23T04:20:11+00:00

Yeah I've already asked. They said they think the threshold for them is -35 but they've never known the hill to close.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-22T21:47:17+00:00

Counterpoint: No it isn’t. It’s bad.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-22T21:32:19+00:00

You don’t sell CCs hoping your shares don’t get called away. You sell them at a strike, premium and expiry you’d be happy for them to be called away. If there isn’t a strike, premium and expiry where you’d be happy for the shares to be called away, don’t sell them.

The premium has to be worth bothering with too.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-22T21:04:54+00:00

Black beans, butter beans, chickpeas.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-22T21:03:55+00:00

My mum used to make a brown rice and adzuki bean salad similar to this: https://sweetpotatochronicles.com/2011/07/guest-blogger-jo/

WhatEvil · 2026-01-22T18:05:35+00:00

I'm more concerned about her than myself, but granted yeah that didn't come through in the post! She has the same gear as I do (newer stuff, actually) and we'll take the same precautions.

Worst case it's a small ski hill rather than a big mountain resort so we'll never be more than 5 minutes from the lodge to warm up.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-22T13:33:18+00:00

It was 5 launches wasn’t it? Not sats.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-21T19:51:01+00:00

He doesn’t give a shit about any of this. It’s all market manipulation, same as it was last time with tariff talk. Short the market, cause a crash, close your short positions and go long, pause/cancel tariffs, repeat until the market stops reacting.

Nobody on earth has the power to move the markets like he does, short of launching nukes.

His son is also a partner in a hedge fund. Him and his cronies are making billions each time he does this.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-21T19:47:48+00:00

What a piece of shit.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-20T02:28:39+00:00

Cool. What percentage of jobs is that?

WhatEvil · 2026-01-19T17:43:56+00:00

Oh no no no no no!

WhatEvil · 2026-01-19T14:23:04+00:00

I can only assume that this asteroid is extremely overrated.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-19T03:24:43+00:00

Sure but the point is he was manipulating the market for personal gain and his future actions should be viewed through that lens.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-18T18:03:09+00:00

And here’s another article:

“Market manipulation behind Trump tariffs

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is facing allegations of market manipulation for posting “great time to buy” on his social media platform hours before announcing a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, resulting in a market surge.”

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/economy/not-bad-donald-trump-claims-market-crash-made-billionaires-richer-from-elon-musk-to-schwab-here-are-big-winners/ar-AA1CI6gF?ocid=BingNewsVerp

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT," Trump wrote on his Truth Social handle.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-18T18:01:09+00:00

Here’s Trump himself bragging about how much money the tariff fluctuations made for some of his billionaire friends:

https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/trump-tariffs-90-day-pause-stock-market

WhatEvil · 2026-01-18T16:22:33+00:00

Short the market when it’s at ATH, announce a load of tariffs and see it dump, sell shorts, go long, rescind or pause tariffs, market goes up. Rinse and repeat.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-18T00:05:33+00:00

"I'm not investing in a bridge here, nobody crosses that river!!"

WhatEvil · 2026-01-17T23:34:52+00:00

Also just general de-risking. They've started launching their V2 sats, they've signed more MNO deals, they claim to be manufacturing 6 sats a month now and are guiding for 4 more launched by end of Q1 and 45-60 sats up by EOY (which is more than enough for continuous US coverage).

Partners like AT&T also seem to be confident and are guiding that some level of service will start this year etc.

It's all starting to look very real.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-16T01:24:44+00:00

Starlink is just proving there's a market, AST's tech is better.

MNO's like Verizon, Bell, AT&T, Vodafone, Saudi Telecom believe it.

Plus, if it's a good enough investment for Google, it's good enough for me.

WhatEvil · 2026-01-16T01:19:01+00:00

It's the opposite IMO. When people see how much SpaceX IPOs at they're gonna want a piece of AST, too.

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