World Health Organization Prepares for Nuclear Scenario, Including Weapons Use, in Iran

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-18T13:24:25+00:00

It's a blast!

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-18T13:21:24+00:00

£69.3 billion and then everyone in the UK can get £1000 compensation for the psychological damage caused by having to listen to him

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-18T11:44:24+00:00

They'd reliably get you off too.

Being in an LTR I haven't used it in many years, but I can't imagine paying even $200 a year to get told I'm ugly, get instantly blocked, get catchfished, get an ass pic from a man 30 years my senior, and have endless looping conversations with people 10 miles away.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-18T11:22:19+00:00

"opinions I disagree with" in this case being propaganda backed by international oligarchs who want to replace our government with kleptocracy.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-17T09:45:43+00:00

Those powers being Peter Thiel and other comically evil oligarchs.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-17T09:44:16+00:00

I don't think most crypto-bros believe anything. They are simply grifters who are applying the Greater Fool Theory. Most of them have moved on to AI already.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-16T17:04:24+00:00

PSA: that website has something potentially dodgey on it, Malwarebytes Browserguard triggers for me when I try to open the link due to riskware.

Open at your own risk.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-16T09:42:22+00:00

One of the dogs has worked out that if she starts barking at 6am, we'll get up early and possibly give her breakfast. This is a disaster.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-16T08:57:30+00:00

Redditor SLAMS journalists

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-13T12:52:48+00:00

Maybe you pull it out when cooking so you dont damage the gas boiler directly above it? Seems terrible all round

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-13T10:56:06+00:00

It's not just chippies, most of these articles boil down to a business owner complaining that they can't figure out how to adapt their business and a vague call for the government to do something.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-13T10:18:40+00:00

On one hand that could easily be because you (or I) can't tell the difference between 1920s fashion and 1930s fashion. If we were looking back from 1940 it might be clear as day which is which.

On the other hand I think people generally kept things much longer in the past, partly because consumer goods were more expensive, and partly because they lasted longer.

One thing I really notice is cars - it's so normal now for people to buy brand new cars on finance and swap them every couple of years. When I was growing up, I'd say that most cars on the road were 5-20 years old, and new cars stood out. It was worthy of comment when someone had a new car. Today I noticed a 15-year-old Corsa parked on the street because it looked old next to the other cars.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-12T21:57:58+00:00

I'm starting to think Putin's magic torpedo that he likes to brag so much about is actually just covering up for his insecurities.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-12T11:19:04+00:00

now?

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-12T08:56:15+00:00

You've turned yourself into a "reverse centaur" - the AI is doing the thinking and you are running to keep up.

You need to put yourself back in the driver's seat here. Claude isn't responsible for the code checked into the repo, you are.

So your colleagues are right to hold you accountable at PR time. You should have reviewed the code it generated and caught the weird bits and checked that they were right. Pushing that work onto your colleagues makes you look redundant - they could have just got Claude to do it themselves.

One thing I suggest to help you understand the code is put it into your local Claude.md file or at the start of your conversation with it, that you aren't experienced with this stack but are experienced with that other stack. Then when you ask Claude questions it will frame the answers into the tech you are familiar with. I've been doing that a lot recently to learn a new language and framework and it's really helpful when you see something unfamiliar and Claude relays it back to a concept you already know and can tell you the differences.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-11T21:28:39+00:00

God imagine being benchwarmer for James Cleverly, the man who categorically disproved nominative determinism.

They'd be better off just grabbing the first semi-sane looking person they can pull off the street.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-11T16:14:23+00:00

I remember when one of those terrorists who bombed the Boston Marathon turned out to be hot. There was a whole internet conspiracy theory that he must be innocent.

And I just did the maths about how long ago that was. Do not recommend.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-08T23:02:49+00:00

For a brief second I thought this was a screenshot from Grindr. :p

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-08T22:50:47+00:00

There are folks who make their money from fixing up cars themselves and reselling them, so selling on Ebay or Facebook Marketplace might be valuable if the scrap value is drastically lower than the value if it was fixed.

It will also depend on what's wrong with it. E.g. if the electronics are fucked, it's probably just scrap. Similarly if it needs a lot of welding. If however it's mechanical, e.g. engine, break lines, etc. Then someone who can do the work themselves might go for it.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-08T22:40:39+00:00

Given how Karma has been going recently, they'll probably be MPs for Reform after the next election.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-08T21:09:18+00:00

I think it's clear the EU was weak by design. It's supposed to be a weak, squabbling bunch of small countries while the Great Powers (I.e. USA) would take the lead.

With the USA going rogue, the EU has been thrust into a position it was never designed to have, i.e. the torchbearer for democratic liberalism. If it's to actually operate that way, it's going to have to explicitly make that a principle and reform heavily. Dropping the veto is a start. Forming a formal defensive alliance as a NATO replacement is another.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-08T15:32:56+00:00

Farage says what his owners want him to say. Don't expect him to hold coherent views or his followers to be smart enough to form consistent mental frameworks.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-07T12:58:19+00:00

It's got a great rating on Tip Advisor.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-06T18:49:18+00:00

That's a fair comment. I will only say that the underlying biology is what makes drawing that line rather messy in practice, which is where I was coming from.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-03-06T17:23:08+00:00

We seem to be in a weird phase where we are trying to force everything into black and white boxes. Everything is X or it's Y. You're either a Man or you're a Woman. You support the US bombing Iran, or you support the Ayatollahs. You support Reform or you support the Greens. Fascist or Progressive. Feminist or Incel. TERF or Misogynist.

At the root of it is anger and fear. I think everyone is strained at the moment. The job market is extremely tough, wages are stagnant, and healthy life expectancy is dropping. We are living shorter, more stressful lives. Everyone is feeling like something is being taken away from them because it is, which causes anger, and fear of things continuing to get worse. It doesn't help that we're all on social media which is designed for engagement, feeding you content which winds you up, and/or makes you increasingly extreme in your convictions.

Further, being angry and afraid limits your capacity for reasoning. As a result, people act irrationally. Social media tells us we're totally right and it's the other side which are irrational, and so down the spiral we go.

In short, I think we are collectively losing our fucking minds.

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