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Good call, I enjoyed their videos on the English Civil War.

I think being the only browser with a credible stance on ad blockers will help them in the long run.

True, but not at the same rate as American football.

I'm surprised the US never found a love for rugby, it's a brilliant sport to play and spectate but it tends to be a fair bit less dangerous to its players than American football. There's various reasons but the lack of protective gear is a factor people talk about a lot ironically.

Interestingly go far back enough in time and they evolved from a common ancestor, but nowadays there's little to unite them other than fact they're both full-contact ball sports.

God damn them all, I was told

We'd cruise the seas for crypto gold

Exploit no box, nor engineer

Now I'm an old black hat and in rent arrears

The last of Donald's privateers

hotter and more humid than Satan’s asshole

Genuinely the UK at the moment, which is not a sentence I thought I'd say but well into our fifth heatwave I'm praying for rain in Wales of all places.

Fuck climate change.

There's hating technology in general and then there's hating the US West Coast tech scene specifically in my opinion.

I have a neurological vision disorder which I suspect augmented reality glasses would help a lot, but sod letting Meta see my life from a first-person perspective 24/7, or the lives of anyone around me for that matter. Also I suspect a genuine medical device would have to be made very obvious, you don't want accessibility tech being mistaken for pervert tech. I wouldn't take the risk frankly! It's like if I'm talking to someone and they have a hearing aid in that's fine, but if they've got headphones in I'm going to feel a little cheesed off on the face of it.

Also not American but I work for a trans-Atlantic company, those things sound like a PHI nightmare in a medical setting given Meta's habit of indiscriminately hoovering up data like as many labradors in a pantry.

It certainly calls into question his judgement, what kind of person hires a skipper who apparently either does not keep the required watch on channel 16, or ignores calls for aid?

If that superyacht's radio doesn't have a dual watch function then I'm the king of the Britons.

Yeah it was literally drilled into me as a child that you aid a vessel in distress until the point you would be in distress yourself, provided you are in position to do so. It's the law certainly, but without highly extenuating circumstances there's also the matter of serious personal disgrace in my view.

My favourite claudism is when it deletes tens of gigabytes sized models as if redownloading them is trivial for me. It might be for the boys at Anthropic with their sewer pipe sized fibre optics, but for me where my last mile is copper bullshit Openreach probably hasn't maintained since the 2008 crash it's a massive pain in the arse.

To expand on this, things like reddit and discord are literally modern-day attempts to enclose the commons in my view. They took all the ground from open protocols that nobody in particular owned and replaced them with an aristocrat's private property.