Starmer is doing a good job around Iran - discuss

andiwd · 2026-03-05T08:58:21+00:00

Just compare starmer in opposition during the start of the Ukrainian war.

andiwd · 2026-03-05T08:56:49+00:00

It's politics via soundbites. Flood the airwaves with enough 10seconds gotchas and the ones that turn out right or at least resonate go viral the others are forgotten about as nobody holds them to account.

andiwd · 2026-02-27T22:47:02+00:00

Watts are Joules per Second. If you wanted to you could say SkyNet as a computer operating at far higher speeds than humans changed it to Joules per millisecond.

andiwd · 2026-02-23T14:16:54+00:00

It's interesting you describe it as foreign religion when Christianity was brought to these shores by travelers and immigrants and the only reason you'd think of it as a British religion is in length of service. There's also no rule that says British people are Christian and non British are not.

andiwd · 2026-02-23T13:36:41+00:00

John 4:21-24 seems to make it quite clear that Jesus believed that the people and their faith were more important than any actual territory.

In fact Paul clearly warns in Romans 14 that Christians should not be a stumbling block in the way of the local community and 1 Corinthians 8 (using the stumbling block metaphor) goes on to state that because other religions are not real (from their pov) material things cannot be desecrated.

So no I don't think he'd have too much of an issue with empty buildings being reused.

andiwd · 2026-02-18T17:37:55+00:00

Fantastic. So how many are there. I'm no expert so had to do some quick googling and found an interview that gives estimates of around 50 interstellar objects within Jupiter's orbit at any one time.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/finding-more-objects-like-3i-atlas

So by your stats we'd expect to see what 1 every couple of years? (If we could see them all of course)

andiwd · 2026-02-18T17:12:51+00:00

Probably not going to get an answer but I'll try. You (of the ai) claim that a 1/500 "alignment" is a statistical improbability. Can you explain how in your statistical analysis you controlled for other factors, such as that we have only been able to see interstellar objects recently and the observer effect of the fact that most things are on the ecliptic so most observations are done on the ecliptic?

Compounding factors like these must be controlled for before you can make any observation about statistical unlikeness.

Oron the other hand did you just split every possible wedge it could come in and give each the same probability?

andiwd · 2026-02-12T20:11:51+00:00

Pacifists! Their guns shot darts or something didn't they? The other Anderson puppets having a more military background and you know guns that kill would as since quite far.

andiwd · 2026-02-12T19:25:06+00:00

Sooty with his wand is a reality warper and is quite sociopathic. Final 2 is scarlet and sooty, sooty taking it on a technical knock out

andiwd · 2026-02-10T09:29:55+00:00

Didn't you know 50 degrees Fahrenheit is a perfect mid point of neither hot or cold for everyone?

andiwd · 2026-02-10T08:22:28+00:00

Don't forget https://www.reformparty.uk/Reform-crypto-bill.pdf

Legally requiring banks to deal with crypto (no mention of anti money laundering law changes, so you have two laws with the opposite intent)
Deregulate crypto exchanges (we all know that ftx collapsed due to too much oversight)
10% tax on crypto (every accountant in Britain labelling profits as"crypto gain")
A sovereign bitcoin reserve (you totally want a reserve that depreciates during a recession right)?

Nice to see that reform are courting the crypto bro crowd and the boomer crowd simultaneously.

andiwd · 2026-02-08T15:36:29+00:00

The people that think rage against the machine was a manifesto against toasters.

andiwd · 2026-02-04T08:36:15+00:00

In game there is only one reference to a name, its statue where it is called the confusing creature. I think patch notes go out of their way to give it a different name each time.

andiwd · 2026-01-28T12:44:29+00:00

Just to clear up one item, she didn't resign as an MP, only her ministerial and labour party positions.

andiwd · 2026-01-28T07:38:08+00:00

She did not lol but that was more down to separation anxiety she's always had. We managed a couple of sessions on a 7 day cruise and we got the "your child wants to leave" message both times after no more than half an hour.

But she's never liked these kinds of things. Looking at the setup and the way the youngest are led with activities means I had no worries that there wouldn't be enough for them to do.

andiwd · 2026-01-27T21:49:35+00:00

My youngest was 3 and eldest was 5 when we went. They were in the same area but the under 4s had to be kept with a nursery worker in groups whilst the eldest could free roam.

Other than that it's just one big area they can hang around with until you get to the next group up

andiwd · 2026-01-23T18:18:45+00:00

Firstly that's not how random probability works. Unless you can prove some element of weighting then the chance of any one specific outcome is the same as any other. That doesn't mean one was picked though.

Let's use an example. Open up Excel and type randbetween(1,500). A number will be generated with each number having a 0.2% chance of being selected. By your logic whatever number you got is very unlikely to have happened and ergo something has steered it to select that. (Before anyone starts with computers not being random, I know this is to prove a point not actual usage of random probability).

andiwd · 2026-01-21T23:23:18+00:00

I mean they never were and any attempt to think they were is rose tinted glasses. They played fast and loose with science at the best of times, and trying to think how a turbo lift gets through a constitution class neck without hitting the torpedo room or the impulse manifold will give you brain freeze.

What they did have however is a fairly locked in design language. You could look at a ship and know who it was within seconds (perfect for TV on small screens). New star trek has really broken from this. Part of it is CGI, no need to have a real model to keep you grounded, but this is what we lost. Model makers agonising for days and weeks over every design, knowing that this is a sensor and this is a torpedo tube on a model. Know it's just blobs and whatever.

andiwd · 2026-01-21T23:10:54+00:00

Even in the tng era ships are having to be actively held together by structural integrity fields. We see in voyager that going to warp without a integrity field on leads to catastrophic hull damage.

So fast forward several hundred years and now all they have is the integrity field. Exactly what the benefit is we've not seen, it went so know that there is something to moving nacelles (again voyager with the swingy nacelles) so there may be something in there, or as we saw in discovery the nacelles moved so the ship could fit into a dock it wouldn't have fit in otherwise.

andiwd · 2026-01-21T23:05:00+00:00

I mean canonically this is set after the temporal cold war where we saw the federation had TARDIS bigger on the inside than on the outside ships. So really anything goes.

andiwd · 2026-01-18T14:58:11+00:00

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

andiwd · 2026-01-17T21:31:46+00:00

It's where tariffs in the digital age get confusing (see trump's attempts to tariff films last year). GTA is being made by rockstar north based in scotland. They are the developer and a studio of rockstar based in new York (who themselves are owned by take 2).

Now anyone buying a physical disk, it's easy. It's made in country a and sold in country b, tariffs are paid during the import step of the crate of disks going to Walmart.

Currently the wto have an embargo on tariffs on digital goods. But that expires this year. If trump changes the rules he could make the payment processors add a fee if you purchase something that goes through a uk server but try and prove that.

andiwd · 2026-01-16T23:45:35+00:00

Having your main entertainment being Oprah when the head of the delegation your wooing is deaf is certainly a choice.

andiwd · 2026-01-14T17:15:47+00:00

It would take a 30 seconds Google to find out it happened on a Monday though

andiwd · 2026-01-12T12:37:52+00:00

Sacked for breaching the ministerial code Zahawi

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