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Retiring British who first was a heavy interweb user when Yahoo! was the way to go. Ex IT specialist with a focus on the 'nixes. As for the name, think Gulliver and his voyages.

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97% journeys without mechanical issues would be bad in cars and disastrous in air travel.

Just saying, it's not great.

22.02.2026 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He's an expert at looking after Charles Schumer's interests.

21.02.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Black boxes are only mostly indestructible... and they are only mostly indestructible if they don't have windows and doors cut into them cos the windows and doors let destruction get inside. The destroyed ones get destroyed 'cos destruction sneaks in through the tiny wire holes sometimes.

21.02.2026 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, she did live in the country for several years to learn about the cuisine so it could have been worse. She did put some effort in rather than just read cookbooks

21.02.2026 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

'movie days'?? I think the only movie ever shown at school when I was there was the coy cartoon sex education one.

21.02.2026 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The market makes no sense, you only have to look at Tesla to realise that.

21.02.2026 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Indexes versus indices When should we use <em>Indexes</em> and when <em>Indices</em> as the plural of <em>Index</em>?

Strangely according to www.worldwidewords.org/qa-ind2.html both indexes and indices are acceptable as a plural of index 🀣

21.02.2026 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Given US citizens and companies pay the tariff how does that make anyone outside the USA worse off?

Linked article may explain but it's BEHIND A PAYWALL. Why do people link paywalled articles? 🀬

21.02.2026 08:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why doesn't GRRM finish writing 'a song of ice and fire' instead of writing prequels and shorts around the world he created? He's going to leave it unfinished if he doesn't focus.

20.02.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought they were balanced ones... Ofc you can balance square ones, so square balanced meals would be uber-healthy

20.02.2026 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Traitor and think in the same sentence? Bwahahaha

20.02.2026 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only Filipino capable of teleoperating a Tesla got picked up by ICE.

20.02.2026 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More astonishing that the US military is going along with an even bigger illegal order without blinking an eye at the risk, illegality and constitutionality of it.

What compromat does Dump hold on the US military leadership? At this point a military coup would be less illegal than what Dump wants

20.02.2026 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Though half a pound of C-4 is faster and ensures there is bean-can shrapnel involved as well and starts the remodelling process as well. Timesaving!

20.02.2026 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why are GOP themselves not indicting the demented old malignant narcissist?

20.02.2026 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I understand he smells worse than the old family pet... And has more tendency to rape and murder children.

20.02.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, fastmail is US$168 up front for three years, $6 a month paying monthly. Prices have gone up since my last renewal

19.02.2026 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Proton mail has a free option, fastmail is a paid for service, costs iirc about $75 for 3 years. Proton runs out of Switzerland. Fastmail runs out of Australia

19.02.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They would not have risked his life by having a terrible marksman. They either had a good marksman and a deliberately off weapon, a good marksman with a bang-on sight and orders to miss, or they were risking Dump getting hit by accident.

The shooter either was paid off for dying or was lied to.

19.02.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He may have been arrested on charges of misconduct in a public office but it gives the police access to his computers and files. They might just find something in there that makes piggy squeal.

19.02.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And if you hang washing out to dry it comes in smelling of burned kerosene. Which you are also breathing.

Plus every damned parking space is full from people saving on airport parking.

It's not all roses.

19.02.2026 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

With a slice of lemon as a nod to vegetable?

18.02.2026 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Two ancient capitol cities and ... One of North America or South America (and we know they don't mean South because that is full of off-white people) or half of a continent because they really meant The Unites States. They can't even get their braggadocio correct. You are right, it should be DC.

18.02.2026 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The right way to deal with global criminal enterprises is to let James Bond and Derek Flint deal with Blowhard and Dr Killer and the rest of the criminal enterprise. Usually with fatal results to large numbers of the bad guys in cartoonist violence.

18.02.2026 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AMC Pacers are gorgeous compared to the wankpanzer. Pacers have the cachet of being old and rarer than skips on or off wheels.

18.02.2026 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Going national confessing that she is thick as 'taters and believes any old garbage she reads on the internet. Good look. People like that shouldn't be allowed to care for children.

18.02.2026 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can someone explain the modern meaning of Justice? Clearly the dictionary definition is out of date because that wouldn't allow for the DoJ hiding information about child rapists and child torturers and child killers.

18.02.2026 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think King Charles would have de-princed Andrew M Windsor over a hoax either.

18.02.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Says the man so bound up in his own self righteousness that he can do whatever he likes ...

17.02.2026 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Doh, I missed it then, my bad, sorry.

17.02.2026 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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