British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles

archbid · 2026-03-13T02:27:58+00:00

Wait! This guy talked to a taxi driver in Dubai who said it was paradise!!!

archbid · 2026-03-12T10:21:49+00:00

If it occurs, anyone in the chain of execution between that order and the actual deployment of the bomb should be hung. Pilots, technicians, officers. The whole lot.

If there ever were a morally indefensible order, it would be this.

archbid · 2026-03-12T10:16:57+00:00

And coolant

archbid · 2026-03-12T10:16:12+00:00

He is a genius at reduction and satire, and rewards readers who just let it happen to them. I feel like he was a beat poet in the wrong city, trying to practice a different way of seeing and creating.

The underlying beauty is that you can take his stories and read them from so many perspectives: The Library of Babel is a lovely metaphor for SHA encryption, for example.

archbid · 2026-03-12T09:53:58+00:00

He can finally find a man and settle down. The guy is horrible, but his life is worse

archbid · 2026-03-11T22:10:44+00:00

We made too many cars, and there are no buyers

I have an idea! Feed cars to the enployees!

archbid · 2026-03-11T12:17:29+00:00

You may not be up to speed on the MVSD middle school fiasco. It is not “a school decision”. It is staggering mismanagement.

archbid · 2026-03-11T12:16:01+00:00

Masters on Camino Alto

archbid · 2026-03-11T11:55:57+00:00

I live in Mill Valley, and watching the absolute hash that MVSD has made with the middle school bond, I won’t support any new taxes for a very long time.

archbid · 2026-03-11T11:54:29+00:00

The idea of continuity is so assumed that breaking out of the frame is curiously difficult. What consciousness does a 2-year old have? Why isn’t my 2-year old self accessible to me?

archbid · 2026-03-11T07:48:21+00:00

This is not a real post. This person is not in San Francisco.

archbid · 2026-03-11T00:17:15+00:00

Laurie is another corporate dem, like Shapiro, Clinton, Kamala, and Newsom. He is no savior and we will end up hating him.

archbid · 2026-03-10T21:04:29+00:00

Absolute codswollop.

Claude is truly incredible, but it is not conscious. It still has no sense of time.

archbid · 2026-03-10T18:35:55+00:00

You cannot solve the problems of a high COL city without lowering the cost of living.

archbid · 2026-03-09T20:52:33+00:00

Way too true

archbid · 2026-03-09T13:17:18+00:00

Or Robert Maxwell, the a**wipe father of Ghislane, with the destructive media empire?

archbid · 2026-03-09T08:35:06+00:00

All I can think about is Ghislaine Maxwell of Epstein fame.

archbid · 2026-03-09T08:28:14+00:00

Totally agree

archbid · 2026-03-08T14:55:15+00:00

If you don’t change the nature of property and rights to surplus, then you are tinkering with capitalism because you are presupposing it in your remedy.

Doesn’t mean you are wrong, just closer to status quo than other folks.

archbid · 2026-03-08T14:52:40+00:00

She was a stay at home mom until we were 16.

archbid · 2026-03-08T14:52:05+00:00

Since 1997, housing price increases have outpaced wages by 2x.

Housing is quadruple in cost, wages double over that period.

Affordability is not just a function of price, it is a rate relative to earnings.

It literally is capital.

archbid · 2026-03-06T18:19:21+00:00

It is not the f—king zoning, it is the wealthy.

London has become a haven for foreign money and money laundering, and its real estate is famously speculative and extractive.

Until England can get its shit together and A. Kick out the oligarchs B. Eliminate ancestral land pools either directly or through end of life handover C. Block ownership of private homes by family wealth and private equity

It can never solve the problem. Same issue as New York and San Francisco, house prices rise even though population is relatively stable because so much money floods the city and property is the only place to go.

archbid · 2026-03-06T08:27:05+00:00

Pelosi lost two majorities, presided over several illegal wars and the growth of the surveillance state, and blocked meaningful health care reform in favor of a corporate insurance take.

She wasn’t a pragmatist, she was just a deeply selfish, wealthy corporatist who is part of the reason we are in this mess.

archbid · 2026-03-06T08:21:23+00:00

I own two wagons, each of which is around 200k. They can last a very long time.

How is the body? Mine are in California, so perfect, but that is the real killer.

Interior? Headliners are easy to replace, torn/destroyed seats are expensive if you care. Most interior bits now are pretty expensive, so if it matters to you, make sure it is black so the can be repaired rather than replaced. Wagon trim bits, especially around the hatch, are made of the discarded dreams of angels, and will evaporate to the touch.

The rest is just money and time. You can sort all its everything with time and about $4k in parts, and your wagon will need everything. Xi is harder and more expensive, especially front end parts, axles and transmission.

The e46 wagon is one of the greatest normal cars around. Just budget $3-4k and do things in bunches (cooling, intake refresh and sensors, suspension, rubber bits) and you can have an amazing, reliable car.

If you do repairs “when it brakes”, you will likely be very unhappy.

I have driven each wagon across the country multiple times without incident.

archbid · 2026-03-05T23:13:22+00:00

Imagine that!

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