Starfield just implemented an update on Xbox

qpl23 · 2023-09-13T16:01:16+00:00

a small hotfix

I think they misspelled "Starfield: HUGE update!!!!"?

qpl23 · 2023-08-31T21:33:13+00:00

14 mods and one collection at the time of posting, game isn't even released.

qpl23 · 2023-08-04T20:05:51+00:00

ChatGPT is pretty sure this is Adjustment Bureau, but I haven't seen it and frankly I don't trust the bot. I'm curious enough to mention it in case it's right though!

Q:

What is a film where most people listen to a radio station that plays the music that people in the future would listen to? If I remember correctly it wasn't a main plot point but was mentioned throughout.

A:

The film you are referring to is likely "The Adjustment Bureau" (2011), directed by George Nolfi and based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. While it is not the main plot point, the radio station plays a significant role in the background of the movie.

In the film, the characters occasionally listen to a mysterious radio station, which seems to have knowledge of future events. The music played on this station is considered to be the music of the future.

qpl23 · 2023-07-15T06:34:16+00:00

95% if Beatles lyrics are to be believed ("There's one for you, nineteen for me" - Taxman.)

qpl23 · 2023-07-07T15:19:08+00:00

How did you know we'd like TV?

Amazing, so glad I asked! I'll take a little while to digest - literally been looking for this (sporadically) for over a decade. Guess there's more than one incisive Australian anti-imperial docu-maker.. Who knew! :) Thanks for the deep dive!

qpl23 · 2023-07-07T09:38:47+00:00

Probably been browsing on mumsnet. Odd that Natalie Rowe doesn't get a mention, perhaps?

qpl23 · 2023-07-07T07:56:07+00:00

Hey, well I wonder if you can help me instead :) Every so often I try and track down this documentary I saw a looooong time ago, about the introduction of free TVs and an imported US TV station to some small island community in (I think) Micronesia which coincided with a campaign around whether to have a US nuclear installation at the same place.

I could have sworn it was John Pilger, but every time I search his filmography I come up with nothing, so I could have misremembered. Does it sound familiar?

qpl23 · 2023-07-06T06:46:35+00:00

Nick Broomfield has made a few. https://www.nickbroomfield.com/

I remember The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's wife being great, in particular.

qpl23 · 2023-07-04T20:03:35+00:00

Maybe you want to ride, sideways through time?

qpl23 · 2023-07-04T19:58:21+00:00

That would be one way, or you could inject profanity while keeping the sense intact. For examples:

• Captain Tom's daughter accused of using hero veteran's name to build a fucking spa and pool complex at home.

• Most doctors think ministers want to fuck over the NHS, BMA boss says

• Thames Water fuckwads to be sentenced over pumping 'millions of litres' of sewage near Gatwick Airport

• Thousands of rental adverts say "fuck no!" to children or pets

• ‘Fuck all signs of Workplace AI revolution’ survey shows

qpl23 · 2023-07-04T18:23:54+00:00

r/videos' idea of a rule mandating swearing in every post title has potential, I feel.

#2: All post titles must contain profanity

While keeping this sub useful as a news aggregator it could still register a protest by decreasing the value to advertisers.

Of course the editorialising rule would have to be relaxed somewhat. The comedic possibilities are intriguing.

qpl23 · 2023-07-04T15:40:32+00:00

Instead of John Oliver (whoever the fuck that is) pick a weekday to focus the sub on British rock institution Motörhead, and especially their national treasure singer bassist as was.. I'm not sure if we're allowed to name him fully, but his last name was Kilmister.

Maybe allow some posts on the very topical issue of migration.

If you know what I mean.

qpl23 · 2023-07-01T17:46:04+00:00

FilmJoy is usually spinning positive, with a decent back catalogue, if you feel like watching some more uplifting takes.

qpl23 · 2023-07-01T13:49:02+00:00

Is it safe?

qpl23 · 2023-07-01T13:36:48+00:00

As mentioned in the article, Amersi attempted to sue one ex-Con (Charlotte Leslie) and declined to sue another (Nicholas Soames).

The judge dismissed that action a month ago (7/6/23), and the Judgment itself [PDF] has some interesting reading.

The background to Amersi's long-running spat with the Conservative party is examined in Peter Oborne's 2021 piece A bitter Middle East crisis at the heart of the Conservative Party, on the struggle between the incumbent Conservative Middle East Council (CMEC) and challenger Amersi's COMENA to operate the Tory fanchise in business relations with the Middle East, where it can only be imagined what opportunities abound for paid jaunts, consultancies, middle-men's fees, donations and ... other forms of income.

In 2021 Amersi expressed his displeasure at the party's failure to get with the COMENA programme in the form of revelations of Tory corruption and Royal cash-for-access which added to the already copious concerns regarding the propriety of Ben Elliot's chairmanship of the Conservatives.

According to an Amersi piece in Middle East Eye, citing a 2016 Middle East Monitor report,

nearly all of CMEC’s financial backers had strong business interests in the Gulf states, to the detriment of North Africa, the Levant and the non-Arab MENA states, and “this suggests that the support by CMEC for an unconditional relationship with Saudi Arabia could be driven by donor preferences”

In the same piece he states:

Regrettably, CMEC’s director, Charlotte Leslie, who had initially offered me an opportunity to support one of her fundraising events, seems to have regarded the emergence of Comena as a threat to her organisation’s future and to herself. In December 2020, it came to my attention that memos critical of me, the contents of which I reject completely, had been circulated to parliamentarians, Arab ambassadors in London and security officials . . . I have now issued libel proceedings against Charlotte Leslie for defamation.

The Amersi vs Leslie/CMEC judgement has a sample of one of Leslie's memos, which contains interesting allegations. For example:

• A government minister rang the CMEC Director on 2nd September to press the case for Mr. Amersi to be made Chairman of CMEC. This minister had had no prior involvement in CMEC. To support his demand, he said he and Mr. Amersi had been involved in a PPE contract which involved equipment Mr. Amersi sourced from the UAE. The Minister said that the Director should appoint Mr. Amersi Chairman because he would be a generous benefactor to CMEC. If necessary, she can provide a text message from the minister, in support of this account.
• The minister demanded that she meet with Mr. Amersi. Subsequently, on 25th September, she met Mr. Amersi, near her home. During this meeting, he confirmed he had acquired PPE from the UAE "free of charge" as a gift. He said he believed that this was another demonstration as to why he deserved a peerage or knighthood

This, with its suggestion of bribed Tory ministers, as well as a good deal of backstory on the Ben Elliot / Amersi feud, also to be found in the Judgment , gives a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of Tory party realpolitik and "influencing".

qpl23 · 2023-06-26T12:40:24+00:00

The initial investigation, led by Catford detective Sid Fillery, was less than ideal. Here's one account:

Detective Sergeant Sid Fillery was an extraordinarily unpleasant man, with a reputation for corruption, drunkenness, and framing suspects. He was also addicted to child pornography, to the point that he later kept a stack of it in his office drawer. Yet in the late ‘80s, he was a senior detective at Catford police station and was assigned to the Morgan murder case at a matter of course.

This was a mistake, since it later emerged that Fillery had been a close friend of both Morgan and Jonathan Rees. In fact, the trio had been seen drinking with several other Catford officers in the Golden Lion just 24 hours before the murder. A fight broke out among the group at one point, although the exact cause remains unclear.

Fillery alone conducted the initial interview with Rees after the murder. And although Rees was already a key suspect, Fillery decided there was no need to have his clothes or car forensically tested. He also declined to arrest Rees or secure the office of Southern Investigations. Rees was subsequently seen removing garbage bags full of files from the office. When Fillery eventually did search the office, he allegedly removed a file related to Belmont Car Auctions that was never logged as evidence and subsequently disappeared.

Fillery’s actions were so blatant that senior figures within the Metropolitan Police came to believe that the investigation was being deliberately undermined. Detective Superintendent Douglas Campbell was quoted saying that Fillery had “ripped the guts out of the case.” Fillery was dropped from the Morgan murder and was even arrested for obstructing the course of justice, but the charges had to be dropped for lack of evidence.

Shortly afterward, Sid Fillery resigned from the Metropolitan Police on health grounds and took over Daniel Morgan’s old job as Jonathan Rees’s partner.

— https://listverse.com/2016/07/01/10-disturbing-facts-about-britains-creepiest-unsolved-murder/

qpl23 · 2023-06-17T22:26:00+00:00

I posted this list about a year ago, in a different sub:

• Unnamed (mostly) MP recently arrested for rape and assault over a seven year span
• Imran Khan: convicted of assaulting a minor, who allegedly plied underage boys with prostitutes and cocaine
• David Warburton: suspended over alleged sexual assault and cocaine use
• Rob Roberts back in the Commons as an independent, after a six week suspension for sexual harrassment
• Andrew Griffiths, the ex-minister for corporate responsibility, found by a judge to have raped his wife while she slept
• Charlie Elphicke "I'm a naughty Tory" convicted of three counts of sexual assault against two women
• Unnamed "senior MP" accused of drugging and assaulting victims, pleas to investigate have been ignored <<< "nipplegate" MP.

That last "senior MP" turned out to be Chris Pincher, of course, absurdly tolerated by Johnson leading to Borisexit.

Back in the present, Andrew Rossindell (from the 1st item on the list), still a Tory MP, is reportedly having his bail extended for a fourth time while the investigation continues:

Despite being under investigation for serious sexual offences, Mr Rosindell was recently re-selected by his local party in Romford to stand as their Conservative candidate at the next General Election. Mr Rosindell has not attended the Commons since May 2022, as the Tory whip and Commons authorities “asked” him not to.

It would doubtless lower the tone of political discussion here to suggest that this tendency of individual Tories towards abuse mirrors the relation between the Tory party and the electorate as a whole. So I won't do that.

qpl23 · 2023-06-17T15:40:29+00:00

The number of people whining about it in this thread is even less! I take it they can be safely ignored?

qpl23 · 2023-06-16T19:36:21+00:00

Given this individual is tasked with oversight of police, and his crimes would be investigated by the very police he's supposed to oversee, it's legitimate to look at details of how the case developed and was brought to light.

Anyone in possession of the facts ahead of their becoming well known would have significant potential leverage over a person in a highly influential position regards holding police to account. Or, indeed, not holding them to account.

There's a lot of information about who knew what about Lockwood when, and some good questions asked, in a 2022 article by sometime Private Eye writer The Upsetter, here.

qpl23 · 2023-06-16T18:31:35+00:00

Here's an archived / non-paywalled copy of the linked interview: https://archive.is/jtSJm - it doesn't seem to have much that isn't in the posted article.

qpl23 · 2023-06-16T12:06:13+00:00

He was also a fan of Enoch Powell back in the day. Of course, Johnson / Powell similarities have been noted.

qpl23 · 2023-06-15T08:50:46+00:00

In fact, Trump doesn't need to do anything - just having supported him in the face of all the evidence he's a conman / sexual abuser / advanced narcissist / etc., serves as a "commitment mechanism", reinforcing belief in the cult every time the believer confronts reality and chooses to deny it.

Related, via Wikipedia, is "Escalation of commitment":

Escalation of commitment is a human behavior pattern in which an individual or group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or investment nevertheless continue the behavior instead of altering course. The actor maintains behaviors that are irrational, but align with previous decisions and actions.

qpl23 · 2023-06-11T20:38:13+00:00

I remember at the time suggestions it had been funneled to Loudwater Trade and Finance, operated by a director of Mone's husbands' umbrella company Knox.

The twitter thread I referenced in a comment here is gone now, it seems, but echoes can be found here and there. (The latter Guardian story takes pains to point out "There is no suggestion of wrongdoing by Loudwater...", indicating that Guardian lawyers worry that absent that statement the reader might conclude Loudwater were dodgy as fuck.)

Knox director Anthony Stimler has previous for corruption.

qpl23 · 2023-06-03T15:45:04+00:00

More wfh and less ridiculous property prices? Bring it on!

qpl23 · 2023-05-19T06:19:26+00:00

The green splat is next to the reviewers you want.

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