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The Human Adventure is Just Beginning. Celebrating Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which premiered in theatres on Dec 7, 1979. The film had flaws, but was a major triumph, for Gene Roddenberry, for the production team, and most of all for the fans, whose determination & persistence made it possible.

What about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is offically described as "a trilogy in five parts"?

Yeah, I was naively thinking of personal spending.

Though you could argue that buying the government is personal spending of a sort...

"Hey look, we've invented The Torment Nexus..."

Sigh - it's truly depressing.

a man wearing a blue robe and a black shirt is making a face ALT: a man wearing a blue robe and a black shirt is making a face

There have been 12 or 13 Star Trek shows over the course of, what?... almost 60 years?... and the fact that one or two of them have tried to target a slightly different audience than the first few of them did is WHY YOU HAVE A FRANCHISE THAT HAS LASTED ALMOST 60 YEARS, PEOPLE!!!

You can't spend that sort of money.

I'd put the limit a lot lower than that.

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A quick google suggests this is happening everywhere. Wonder how many Government idiots have done it with sensitive and confidential data, or everyday folk for that matter.
www.reddit.com/r/cybersecur...

The racism allegations should be what wrecks Farage's political career. But I also think his absolute inability to cope with being questioned, his thin-skinned nastiness when challenged in any press conference, is also going to hurt his popularity, esp among those who have not seen that before.

Who gave the billionaires like Musk and Bezos the right to cut the Earth off from the Universe?

I was thinking that if they were that comfortable you'd wear them quite often, but if you only wear them occasionally then, sure, they'd last (a lot) longer.

Who has a pair of really comfortable shoes that have lasted 18 years?

Or is it just me that goes through shoes in a couple of years?

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

Nah!

Don't think I'll ever be sympathetic towards Trump.

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’

The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

So chosen because of the way it will prompt those online to say "actually, that is two words".

qed.

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive? Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.

'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.

'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

I've come to believe that if your business model requires that you pay your employees minimum wage then you don't deserve to be in business.

There is also an argument for universal basic income around here somewhere.

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.

You’re in organized crime.

I've still got all my FASA manuals somewhere. They're definitely in a box somewhere in the house because I found them when we moved 4 years ago...

Turn these words into a well known phrase or saying

Brewery
Organise
Piss up
Couldn't

That "apology" is also total bullshit. It doesn't remember anything from session to session let alone a promise to "do better"

Want to go and listen to this now.

Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.

I’m not offering Black Friday discounts this year because I’m a tiny one woman business and I can’t compete with the likes of Amazon.

What I can offer - unique designs, high quality UK made products, customer service from a real person, a warm and fuzzy feeling because you are buying from a tiny independent business.

I’m not doing Black Friday this year.
I’d rather be honest with you than try to compete with big brands.
Every purchase genuinely makes a difference to my tiny business.
Shop independent this Christmas.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Farage really on the ropes there.

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

They should be banned, full stop.

You cannot have full control over the dog when it's on a lead that offers it no resistance to going where ever the hell it wants.

If you want your dog to be able to roam, then make sure you have good recall and socialise your dog properly.