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submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

“Oh William, you are so funny!” “Darling, do have another piece of cheese.” “Don’t lick the fucking camera lens.”

How can anybody be so far up their arse to think it’s a good idea to push this nonsense out.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

They put a wrong kind of mushroom in charge. Surely it should have been a magic one, and they’d had a proper party.

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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I understand the need to investigate this thoroughly. I also appreciate that there are a lot of cheats and liars to shift through in this particular cluster fuck. Still, ten years to investigate is a lot of time.

The Government must ensure that this process is followed to the rightful conclusion. We need to see a bunch of people behind bars for their contribution to the 72 deaths.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The BBC has been on the case yesterday and today, and at least I’m somewhat interested and perhaps even tempted to go see them. But do people care?

What other band, if they got back together, would tempt you?

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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Looks like PE requirements have gone up a bit, seeming that being an olympian is not sufficient.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Most definitely! But maybe not in the way people would want.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

This happens easily for big successful organisations. Over decades a strong culture aligned with how they succeed forms. Once the market changes requiring a culture change, a seemingly invincible company suddenly stumbles. They simply can’t respond even if they what they should change.

Ex. Rolls Royce CEO stated this phenomenon well: culture eats strategy for breakfast.

[-] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago

Remember when email was useful? I remember when it was magical!

Time for a story from the ancient times. I had this idea and asked my professor for advice. He said he knew a person on the other side of the world who would know all about it. “This is his ‘email’ address.”

I had never heard about ‘email’ so I needed to learn what it was and how to send one. I wrote my message and off it went. The very next morning I had a reply. One of the best experts on a topic I was keen about had shared their thoughts from the other side of the world, just like that.

In that time, a long time ago as you’ll appreciate, that interaction was magical.

In an instant I understood the power of the Usenet. A while later and with a couple of additional protocols they started calling that the Internet.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Daily Fail, consistent as always, so far up Tory arse one wouldn’t believe possible.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I root for the moog to get the boot.

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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Let me describe an idea I heard from a very innovative person, which I think would be really useful right now in midst of the general election campaign.

The basic idea is to interpret politician’s or basically any talking head’s speech realtime and check the semantics against the Internet. Imagine a banner at the bottom of a TV screen with a line being drawn as the person talks.

If what the person says correlates positively with what can be found in reputable Internet sources, the line goes up and is green. There is evidence they are speaking the truth.

If what the person says correlates negatively with the sources, the line goes down and is red. There is evidence they are lying.

If what the person says does not correlate with the sources, the line is flat and brown, because they are spewing unadulterated bullshit.

I’d pay for this service.

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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Sunak comes across like the prat he is. “Labor will raise taxes by £2,000 for everybody” regardless of the question. Talking over all the time, not listening to the moderator. Appalling creature. Starmer sympathises a lot with people asking questions without answering them. Skating around or just plainly ignoring questions all the time. I can’t watch this shit a minute longer.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

I switched to Tidal a few weeks ago, primarily because of lossless streaming, but also fuck Spotify for your price hikes. Not going back.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The weather has been kind this weekend, so I cleaned the BBQ and made ribs & wings.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

I give the Tories this: they leave nobody under false impressions about what they stand for. Keep the ground rent racket going, homelessness must be a crime, being sick is no reason to skip work, mental health issues are just life’s normal ups and downs, ad infinitum. Quite charming, aren’t they.

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I’ve been watching the Rugby Cup Final this evening and fuming. They have this fancy new traveling side camera and they can’t help but use it. STOP IT!!! You are making everybody seasick. Which made me think, might you good people have examples of when somebody badly overplayed their new toy? On a completely unrelated note, do we already have a community for rants?

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

…how bloody old are you?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

The story of Nokia the company is long and meandering. Its roots go back to late 1860’s in the town of Nokia in Southern Finland, near the city of Tampere, from where they’ve gone through all sorts of businesses, including rubber boots and industrial capacitors to name just two. You might even find an old Nokia TV knocking about. The mobile handsets phase was in some sense but a blip in the story, although a spectacular one. I’m sure they’ll keep going in one way or another for a fair while still.

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Lamb, rosemary and garlic is a match made in heaven. The only thing to do now is wait for several hours, and perhaps down a glass or three of red.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

I have seen that pose before!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Here are Myles and Ronnie.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

On Friday we got our annual treat: half a lamb from a farm near us. We made rosemary, chilli and garlic butter, roast potatoes, cavolo nero, cauliflower and carrots with lamb chops. The chops are as fresh and tasty as can be, simply great!

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

A magical moment that is! We had a rescue cat that took over two years before she came to my lap.

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