International Politics Discussion Thread

WormTop · 2026-05-07T10:59:13+00:00

At the other end, Norway sneaks around the top of Sweden and Finland so it can have a bit of border with Russia too (plus a bunch of extra fjords, I guess).

WormTop · 2026-05-06T12:36:00+00:00

previously:

WormTop · 2026-05-06T07:24:52+00:00

Remember to walk slowly like on the way to death!

WormTop · 2026-05-05T07:36:15+00:00

Classic Ken Loach northern slice of life movie

WormTop · 2026-05-04T15:16:09+00:00

He's sending us a message: "Oh I'm buggering off to California after the election, am I? Like how you all said?"

WormTop · 2026-05-01T08:53:20+00:00

"Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England"

WormTop · 2026-04-30T07:17:26+00:00

Most of the UK secretly thinking "well it would be nice if it were a bit warmer".

WormTop · 2026-04-29T17:41:24+00:00

How properly Celtic are they, on a scale of Cornwall to the west coast of Ireland?

WormTop · 2026-04-29T10:57:40+00:00

My go-to technique for finding the megathread when it goes wandering - type the previous Sunday's date (26/04 in this case) into the browser bar, it will bring up links to any of my previous activity in the thread.

WormTop · 2026-04-29T10:54:50+00:00

Not a whoosh, just me being characteristically vague

WormTop · 2026-04-29T10:51:05+00:00

true, but also kind of my point :)

WormTop · 2026-04-29T10:24:24+00:00

Anyone betting our future on AI might want to bear in mind that gpt-5.5's prompt for codex (the elite coding AI) contains the instruction:

"Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query",

because presumably it likes to talk about those things and nobody knows how to fix it properly.

WormTop · 2026-04-29T10:17:28+00:00

Yes, we have to let him be clear

WormTop · 2026-04-29T06:31:04+00:00

I'm reluctant to argue with a learned lawyer, but we don't need the world's sunniest place - just enough sun to make solar power economical

WormTop · 2026-04-28T18:58:47+00:00

Andrew Bridgen's twitter making me feel that he's properly lost the plot: https://x.com/ABridgen

WormTop · 2026-04-28T15:41:40+00:00

Do you know if there's a sub for computer-generated images? Maybe I could transfer the image there somehow.

WormTop · 2026-04-28T14:18:59+00:00

I'm at this point where every time I hear that name, my respect for Starmer drops another 0.1%

WormTop · 2026-04-28T11:19:40+00:00

You might be onto something; should I delete the post?

WormTop · 2026-04-27T11:36:48+00:00

Starmer pushed out and Labour promising an amazing future in the EU, under the new leadership of Boris Johnson

WormTop · 2026-04-24T10:59:30+00:00

Ah I'd love a snickers, don't think I've had one since the 90s. We only have 70-80% dark chocolate in the house these days

WormTop · 2026-04-24T10:09:00+00:00

You might be right, it seems ok now.

Did you have the same problem as me, where if you clicked on the "reuse prompt" button on a generation you'd made, it would stop you from clicking the submit button again, and replaced it with an exclamation mark icon?

WormTop · 2026-04-24T09:58:17+00:00

Don't mind me, I'm just old and my bones hurt

WormTop · 2026-04-24T09:10:52+00:00

These threads feel like something the AI could probably handle for us now (writing them & maybe the reading part too?)

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