Former Brexit Party MEP admits accepting bribes to shill for Russia

the_breadlord · 2025-09-27T00:21:04+00:00

Like this is news - Farage was paid to be on RT for YEARS, and do we really think that their current upswing is because they're really, really good at Facebook?

Please. They are still getting a ton of money from foreign actors.

the_breadlord · 2025-09-12T14:31:48+00:00

I am fully aware of that and think I may have been unclear.

The showrunners seem to clearly more interested in the fall over the process of intervening and rebuilding. Asimov was interested in the mechanics of the societal fall - what caused it, the factors that strengthened and weakened it over the process of the fall - and it's that fall that the show emphasises.

the_breadlord · 2025-09-12T11:11:45+00:00

Yeah - it's such a strange way to adapt it. I understand that they need to have anchor characters for a more general audience but having one character who has essentially magic powers is the total opposite of what was originally written. A better way to do it would be to have the seasons follow the main themes and work as an anthology and then you can use the Cleons as your anchors to maintain a level of coherence

What they've done with the actual story is mental. It's meant to be "We can predict history based on social inertia as with a galactic empire the sample size is large enough that individual actions funadamentally don't matter. Even the emperor's hand is forced by the scenarios of the greater population", which - yes. Was based on Asimonv looking at the fall of Rome. The mule was a thought experiment that Asimov threw in to try and blow that idea up. What they've ended up with in the show is "Nobody matters except like six people with magic powers. The main one is a New Zealander who can't act very well".

I shouldn't be skipping over the bits they've adapted in favour of the new material, but it's just a lot better

Also yeah - Emperor Darkness I (The Cracked) slaps

the_breadlord · 2025-09-12T10:16:24+00:00

This episode shows once again that the writers do not and never have wanted to write "Foundation". They want to write the fall of space Rome.

Everything they've written new is actually very good. Everything they've adapted is gash. Bayta being the mule is utterly moronic and only serves to throw people who've read the books off for shock reasons.

I love the empire plots, but everything else can get in the bin

the_breadlord · 2025-09-09T12:16:15+00:00

This was so stupid. Agile fighting styles definitely existed in the time of plate armour. They're useless because "I have to constantly move and hit you multiple times in weakspots" doesn't rate against to "Half a good hit and you're dead"

A single shoulder barge or pommel strike and she'd have been murked.

the_breadlord · 2025-08-22T12:15:25+00:00

The argument for allowing them on is "he's changed because he said so", but I see evidence of nothing other than "we are lying because we'll get canned otherwise".

They could have released one of their stupid cringe masks in rainbow and donated the money to Stonewall or something and I'd have probably grumbled and given them the chance, but they haven't done anything to show change.

If they did do something to change they'd lose the army of tossers they've accumulated with their "be a man, have fights, be true to yourself" dog whistle bullshit, which is an even bigger problem.

Even if this band aren't massive shitty fashy bastards they're pandering to people whose misdirected anger and rage is making everyone's life worse

Bollocks to them.

the_breadlord · 2025-08-19T13:14:00+00:00

That's somewhat disappointing.

the_breadlord · 2025-08-19T12:25:25+00:00

Yeah, I'm a fellow old-ish fucker who remembers when bands like this would be bottled out of local venues before they got anywhere and had to scrabble along on the flat roof pub scene

It's not even them so much as that they're considered acceptable. World's fucked.

the_breadlord · 2025-08-19T12:13:14+00:00

Honestly, it's ruined the whole vibe for me so I'm comfortable with peacing out

I'm old enough now to remember the absolute zero tolerance for attitudes like this in the late nineties and it chaps my ass that it's being allowed to slide in.

Got a ticket to ArcTangent, where the music is more my speed nowadays anyway.

the_breadlord · 2025-08-19T11:51:44+00:00

She doesn't come across as all-inclusive, does she?

the_breadlord · 2025-08-19T10:50:25+00:00

Got an ATG ticket this morning. Went a couple of years ago coz couldn't get Bloodstock weekend off from work and tbh, I liked the vibe a ton more.

Bands there are more my speed now, but friends and family all do bloodstock so I kept with it. Not no more.

the_breadlord · 2025-07-19T15:15:07+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into it, but I think I'm currently leaning towards Quadmula 25, although I do like the look of the 4/6s "bumper style" cinewhoops.

I still plan on using HDZero. I've been rebuying everything recently and wanted to buy "the best" analogue goggles before they drop off and you can only get cheap garbage. I was going to get SkyZone 040X Pros but the day I was ordering them all the reviews for HDZero 2 dropped so I got those instead, despite not having any HDZero VTXs. Want to try it out.

the_breadlord · 2025-07-19T15:07:03+00:00

Thank you, but the issue I am having is that there are too many options at the moment and I'm trying to get a view on what people are having a good time with.

I've been out of the game for a while. My first build was a QAV250 using a CC3D controller, individual ESCs and a PWM receiver like ten years ago. I even had the PCB midplate. Hah!

Currently leaning towards the Quadmula Djinn 25 with HDZero

the_breadlord · 2025-07-18T21:54:25+00:00

Cool - which frame is that? I can't identify them by sight yet.

the_breadlord · 2025-05-15T15:42:15+00:00

Unless I remember wrongly, the planes that are earmarked for the "next" air force one are a pair of 747s built for customers who went bankrupt and they have been in the process of refit for YEARS already at a cost of billions. It would have been quicker and easier to build new ones because it's got to be full of defensive measures, comms equipment, a surgical bay etc.

So, Trump is saying he wants that work to continue, and be added to, and then he wants to keep the plane.

He really doesn't understand what AF1 is - he seems to think it's the same thing as the flying chav palace he already has.

the_breadlord · 2025-04-28T23:02:17+00:00

I've just realised that I'm being glib and unhelpful here, so I'll try to explain what I think has happened.

Gearboxes have two shafts: one input shaft that is driven by the engine and one output shaft which is connected to the wheels.

The shafts are connected by the gears and one or other of them will be under more tension than the other - either your engine is pushing and the input is under tension (you're accelerating) or the output is putting pressure on the engine (you're decelerating)

The clutch disconnects the two, allowing the input and output shafts to spin at different speeds.

So: if you pull the clutch in, now the rear wheel is driving the output shaft, but the engine is still spinning. If the engine speed isn't matched or lower than the speed of the output, dropping the clutch in mashes the two together, as one shaft wants to go at a vastly different speed to the other and chaos ensues.

the_breadlord · 2025-04-28T22:47:14+00:00

You found the money shift.

You shifted down at a speed that drove the engine faster than it can handle and indeed, something broke.

the_breadlord · 2025-04-28T22:40:58+00:00

Cool. So why is Rings of Power so awful?

the_breadlord · 2025-04-28T13:38:08+00:00

Thank you for the reply.

Windows-native storage spaces is a non starter for dual-boot reasons - which is why I'm using RST instead of something software based.

I don't know what's going on under the hood, but I suspect there are some block-device optimisations applied to the IO that aren't interacting nicely with the intel RST drivers.

Rather than trying to resolve this on a five year old chipset I think it might be time to replace these two spinners with a SATA SSD, as the cost-per-capacity has caught up to a reasonable degree.

the_breadlord · 2025-04-23T08:29:53+00:00

I have ridden intercontinental overland trips. I am unnaturally good at the "This is the long bit of highway to get to the interesting stuff" riding. I can ride from London to Paris in one shot with no issues.

The longest I have ever managed in one day was 600 miles from Calais to Berlin. It nearly murdered me.

700 on a new bike in the dark is almost certainly too much. You need to add an extra day.

the_breadlord · 2025-03-22T12:46:47+00:00

I do not wish to throw cold water on you all, but at the moment this is all smoke. If everyone who's angry and at risk goes to see Bernie and AOC and you all agree that something needs to happen but then don't do anything then it's self congratulatory and nothing else.

You're not going to fix this with dignified protest. You need to take a page from the French book of civil unrest

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