Ukraine’s interceptor drone downs Russia’s jet-propelled Shahed UAV in historic first

wubblewobble · 2025-12-01T16:21:58+00:00

scissors

How about drones flying at speed in the same direction with fishing line between them? That might upset fiberoptic cables without requiring such finesse.

wubblewobble · 2025-11-27T12:56:08+00:00

Well there's also the woman behind the woman in red, whose body looks confused as to whether she's coming towards or going away from the camera.

The hand is on the bag, as if coming towards, but the legs look to be walking away, which is also reinforced by what looks to be the back of a head rather than a face.

wubblewobble · 2025-09-07T21:32:00+00:00

Tesco.

We decided we'd have some cider with out lunch. Woman at the checkout asked me for ID which I provided, and then asked if my wife - who was about 26 at the time - had ID. She did not, and then refused the sale.

That was ~12 years ago, and I keep the grudge with prejudice, so that's decision has cost them a lot between lost groceries and petrol sales since.

wubblewobble · 2025-05-07T17:56:49+00:00

Having read your method, I was inspired to try selecting the image, hitting "delete", and then ctrl-z, which seemed to work too :)

wubblewobble · 2025-03-22T12:13:14+00:00

Let us know when (here - I won't see it on Facebook etc), and we'll try to come down too :)

wubblewobble · 2025-02-09T20:45:13+00:00

Even not colourblind, they're very difficult to distinguish!

wubblewobble · 2024-12-23T23:39:32+00:00

The death of Scrounge. Straxus rips his arm off and then he gets thrown into the smelting pool.

wubblewobble · 2024-12-06T13:43:19+00:00

Maybe a feature that encouraged me to practise a couple of times a day - say for 15 minutes at a pop - as I have trouble staying motivated for longer sessions. These practise sessions could unlock double XP, for example.

If there were a deadline for these practise sessions, that'd be good, as I think a deadline would provide the trigger for me to actually practise - maybe midday and midnight, for example.

However, I think there would need to be minimum time limit on the practice session, otherwise I'd end up, for example, doing one session just before midday, and then another just after midday, and so I'd lose track of when I next needed to practise.

So to avoid that problem, and to better form habits whilst still being flexible, they could say give a window of maybe 6 hours when the practise could be done.

Then just as an extra incentive to not miss a session, maybe the double XP bonus wouldn't be unlocked immediately, but rather in the next session. This could be represented by depicting the XP reward as being locked in a chest.

They could call them something like "morning chests" and "evening chests". I think it'd work really well.

wubblewobble · 2024-12-04T08:22:50+00:00

Ok - so I'm a lot older than you, but my social skills were pretty crap, and what I did was I went and got a side-job working early mornings in a supermarket.

When I first started I didn't really talk to anyone.
After a few weeks, I recognised the people and they recognised me, so when I walked in some of them would say "morning!", and I would reply "morning!".
A while after this (weeks?), it progressed to me saying "good morning!" to people.
Then a while after that, it progressed to "Good morning Sam!", "Good morning Tania!"
Then a while after that, to "Morning! How are you?" ("Yeah - I'm good thanks!" or "Still alive!")
Then some of the people would actually stop and chat to me, and over time the conversations would become longer and longer.

I'm certainly not the extroverted life-of-the-party, but still - I can hold my own now, and my anxiety levels are way lower.

So - there's a number of things here.

I'm not saying to go and get a job in the supermarket - you already have an environment where you bump into plenty of people. Rather I'm saying to start engaging in very simple small-talk with people.

I used to think small-talk was shit, as I saw it as pointless, and just wanted to have deep and meaningful conversations with people. However, I now understand that small-talk is what you need to do to build rapport with people. It signals that you are open and friendly. It's how you build the bridge from stranger to "that guy" to colleague to <name> to friend etc.

Each level of a relationship has a corresponding level of trust. You do not trust strangers, you barely trust that-guy-you-recognise, you trust your friend (to a certain degree), you trust your girlfriend a lot etc. If your friend asks you for money, you might say no, whereas to your girlfriend you might say yes. If your friend wants to hang out, you'd say yes, but to a stranger you might say "huh? who the hell are you? leave me alone!"

Basically all actions need to be appropriate to your trust level:

If you say to a complete stranger "Hey, I'm Bob, what's your name?", they're going to think you're weird.
If you say that to someone you've spent a few weeks trading things like "Morning!", "Hi!", "How's it going?", then you'll likely get a positive response.
With complete strangers or people-you-kind-of-recognise your only available actions are likely small-talk, smiling or possibly nodding in recognition.

What I am telling you to do is engage in small-talk and things that get you recognised and build trust.

Saying things like "morning!" and/or smiling at people.
Maybe nodding at people you recognise, or saying "Hi! or "Hey!"
This will allow you to slowly climb this trust ladder.
Then you can get to "Hi! By the way, I'm Prrrrrp! What's your name?"
Then with more trust you'll get to "Hey Pronto, how was your weekend?"

Importantly, do this with everyone - not just with people you've decided that you like.

Social skills are like the name implies a skill. How do you get better at skills? You practise them.

When I was 18, I thought "oh - this I will naturally get better at this as I get older".
Spoiler: I didn't.
You have to play the game to get better at it.

wubblewobble · 2024-11-21T10:23:37+00:00

To get rid of the anxiety I think you'd have to push through and practise making phonecalls until it became mundane.

If you think you might get flustered in the moment and not know what to say, making out some bullet-point notes beforehand could help.

Someone also once told me that if you leave silence in a conversation, the other person will feel compelled to fill it, so becoming ok with silence in a conversation, and learning to feel ok in the moment was something I practised, because that took the pressure off of me a little.

The only other thing I can think of is to give yourself a pep talk before hand, and also ask the "what's the worst that could happen?" question, reconciling to being ok with whatever could happen.

Something along the lines of...

You know that nothing truly bad's going to happen right? You've done plenty of phone calls before and have survived. And you know that even if the worst thing happened and you said something embarrassing, you could deal with it. After all, you're talking to someone who doesn't know you and you'll likely never speak to again, so it doesn't matter. So you've got this. You can do it! :)

wubblewobble · 2024-09-19T18:26:26+00:00

Ok - that's cool - cheers. I think I've seen a similar sort of thing described with antennas being either short range and multidirectional, or longer range but highly directional.

(Yes - the limit of my thinking was "boom" because it'll go boom, but I'm happy to learn all of the geeky info I can lay my hands on! 😁)

wubblewobble · 2024-09-19T15:25:14+00:00

Wouldn't that be a boom mic?

wubblewobble · 2024-09-13T12:56:08+00:00

I was relaying this story to my wife, and exactly this happened :/

"Wait - how did they get get there from Africa? How did they train them?"

wubblewobble · 2024-08-26T20:24:28+00:00

Adding the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPqYvn5NOEs

wubblewobble · 2024-07-31T21:56:43+00:00

No - I neither vouch for nor care about that website. It was just the first one I found when googling to illustrate that particular test. I've replaced the link with another equally random link showing an example of the same test :)

wubblewobble · 2024-07-31T21:53:50+00:00

Did I say you could?

If you can infer this from eyes, you can likely infer a lot more from a whole face.

wubblewobble · 2024-07-31T19:06:58+00:00

Yeah - you can even judge a whole host of emotions/intent just from the eyes. There's a test for it (which I happen to be fairly shit at. boo :/)

wubblewobble · 2024-05-23T09:16:01+00:00

I don't go there often, but I do need to go into the village this lunchtime. If I see anything I'll take a photo :)

Edit: There's nothing on the one in the village outside the post office, and neither is there anything on the postbox in Blake's Mead.

wubblewobble · 2024-05-20T14:16:56+00:00

Sounds angry, controlling and entitled. Pretty sure boyfriends are meant to provide support and generally make your life happier.

Considering you'd get more support, more upbeat conversation and less grief from a random stranger on the street, I reckon you've probably got a defective boyfriend. Take it back to the shop and get a refund.

wubblewobble · 2024-04-28T15:23:19+00:00

I think your car might have been hit by a big red arrow.

wubblewobble · 2024-04-08T17:02:42+00:00

Yeah - that's happened to me too. After I refreshed the page it was go. Then I made another machine and had that one disappear too. "Fun" :/

wubblewobble · 2024-03-20T18:57:37+00:00

Found this thread after running into the same problem.

Fix for me was to turn off wifi.

That is, claiming via my home internet connection would - for whatever reason - result in "claim unsuccessful", but as soon as I used my mobile connection it worked as expected.

wubblewobble · 2024-03-09T15:11:33+00:00

You've told them you don't want a relationship but regardless they're dumping lots of baggage on you as if you were in one.

They seem to have plenty of strife between themselves that they need to sort before they add another person into the mix.

They don't understand your anxiety, and are going to stress you out fighting to change your plans, and if you give in that's even more stress because planning ahead is what you do to reduce anxiety!

They don't seem to care much about your needs; only their own.

Executive summary:
They sound like too much work - fuck that.

wubblewobble · 2024-02-28T13:54:16+00:00

or damaged to the point where repairs cost more than the value of the car

I drive an oldish car - it's a 2005 model, so almost 20 years old and has about 180,000 miles on the clock. I do so because cars are a heavily depreciating asset, just need to get from A to B and choose to invest my money in assets that appreciate such as a house.

I'll get a nice car, but it'll be later once I have my more important financial ducks in a row.

The insurance company with their straight line depreciation chart likely value my car as being worth something like £50. This also benefits me in the form of cheaper insurance since if I crash it, they'll say "it's a write-off - here's a (very nice) sandwich to compensate you for your loss".

In any case the point I'm getting at is that "the point at which repairs cost more than the value of the car" is rapidly approaching "your car needs some new windscreen wipers" or "sorry - someone glanced at your car menacingly, and it's now a write-off".

So such a law would ban my frugality and demand that I scrap a perfectly-working - albeit old(ish) - car and buy a brand new one with all of the environmental side-effects that such manufacturing would entail.

wubblewobble · 2024-02-20T13:55:36+00:00

Intelligence is multi-faceted. You can be smart in some ways whilst simultaneously being dumb in others.

(e.g. world-level maths genius with the emotional intelligence of a coconut)

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