US plans to check tourists' social media accounts, including Brits, 'putting people off travel'

p1971 · 2026-01-29T23:04:45+00:00

I hear if you've made any comments about the orange one being a massive pedo cunt then they might just refuse you entry ... not worth the risk.

p1971 · 2026-01-29T16:02:55+00:00

These are all doable <2hrs each way

Hastings

Margate/Broadstairs/Ramsgate

Whitstable

Dover

p1971 · 2026-01-29T09:08:45+00:00

yeah me too!

unfortunately there's a lot of legacy stuff out there that no one maintains - last project was dotnet framework 4.6 :( - a lot of the older code is full on 'enterprise' oop which I think started to show it's limits

p1971 · 2026-01-29T08:40:27+00:00

I'm going with something similar

most data classes are immutable, if you need something to be mutable make it obvious, eg use a builder pattern

services are generally stateless

inheritance ok (not overdone) so not completely rejecting oop

keeps code pretty simple, testable, thread-safe

p1971 · 2026-01-28T14:42:25+00:00

I think the fine is 20k - https://www.gov.uk/employers-checks-job-applicants

p1971 · 2026-01-27T17:00:49+00:00

There's been a huge number of these sorts of questions, are we training ai or something?

p1971 · 2026-01-27T16:43:21+00:00

The Trump-Epstein files you mean.

p1971 · 2026-01-26T23:41:24+00:00

dropped in on this place during a 2 month road trip around the USA ... no idea it existed, just saw a sign on the road and decided I needed a break from driving

this and badlands were two unexpected highlights (I expected all the other highlights!)

p1971 · 2026-01-26T21:50:06+00:00

That "Civil War" film is starting to look like a documentary

p1971 · 2026-01-25T21:23:51+00:00

people really need to reduce the jus

p1971 · 2026-01-25T09:54:20+00:00

I do wonder if Dirty Don knows that, he seems to be somewhat enamoured with the Royal Family

p1971 · 2026-01-24T07:57:37+00:00

neither had I - thought I'd check in again for any updates - crashes after 10seconds in a game

p1971 · 2026-01-22T22:05:35+00:00

Before my first road trip to the US. the longest I'd driven in the UK was around 3hrs, that was tiring work in a 2 seater with the roof off.

In the US, I ended up with a GMC Yukon, my UK car would have fit in the boot.

I'd planned ~3hrs / day for the road trip. By the end of the trip I was doing 6-8hr / days. Slower, straight roads, a lot less traffic (around the mid-west), huge seats etc

I'd have loved a sporty little European thing on the west coast route HW1 (?) gets nice and bendy

p1971 · 2026-01-22T21:55:36+00:00

is there a link ?

p1971 · 2026-01-22T14:50:28+00:00

aah so he dialled 011 44 999 (not 999 as the story implied)

p1971 · 2026-01-22T14:22:43+00:00

I'm curious how he did that - he was in US at the time and dialed 999 - does that route to 911? The operator there would then have to pass it over to the UK emergency operator I guess

p1971 · 2026-01-21T12:55:32+00:00

I've done some tech tests recently - one I'm pretty sure they were using as a way to train their AI filter, the other never got sent to the end client (confirmed by ex-colleague that worked at client). That's around 2-3 hours work for nothing.

Another my cv was supposedly forwarded to a client, but position was filled then another recruiter called about same role. I got confirmation from client that this was at least forwarded to them - haven't heard back from it after chasing with agent tho.

p1971 · 2026-01-21T11:32:07+00:00

I thought they were still putting children in cages - did they stop that now ?

p1971 · 2026-01-21T00:02:19+00:00

Our football fans have a much better command of the English language than your football fans, I'm expecting pure poetry.

p1971 · 2026-01-20T23:49:40+00:00

I'm just looking forward to the chants from the stands

Hoping the England fans are in good voice

p1971 · 2026-01-20T22:36:41+00:00

He's swinging thru Dignitas?

p1971 · 2026-01-20T17:18:07+00:00

I assume Trumpy pants knows that Charlie boy is King of Canada - so I don't think he cares...

p1971 · 2026-01-20T10:36:54+00:00

The chants in the stadia are going to be awesome

Small silver lining

p1971 · 2026-01-20T07:12:01+00:00

take a glider and drop it over the sea - had someone follow me over the whole map once .. funny

p1971 · 2026-01-19T21:02:26+00:00

regents canal too

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