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Same as the Brexit advocates (not in UK).

23.11.2025 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

* sister.

23.11.2025 08:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Subtractive notation only works for the previous decade - IV, IX, XL, XC, CD, CM, etc.

Roman numerals just transcribe the state of an abacus ๐Ÿงฎ, so IM and ID make no sense. "IM" would be CMXCIX, "ID" CDXCIX.

Mediaeval extensions just made sh!t up.

21.11.2025 07:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They can't release files attached to an active investigation. That's why they only became available recently - when DT demanded the case be closed.

He's already announced a new investigation into the same, except only against his political opps.

So expect a lot of material tied up again.

21.11.2025 06:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good view from down there.

20.11.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Who's going to play <REDACTED>?

20.11.2025 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Underrated

20.11.2025 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I watched it in the cinema, somebody in the back rows loudly screamed when Kirk died.

19.11.2025 09:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They experience swear words, so it affects them. They don't directly experience the othersยน, so they are not personally affected.

Seems like a form of sociopathic behaviour.

ยน until it's too late.

18.11.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stop after Jaka's Story.
Pretend the series finished there, and live a happy life.

18.11.2025 08:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excellent up to Jaka's Story; then the author goes off the rails, and any legacy this comic deserved up till then is lost in his controversy.

18.11.2025 08:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bananaman origin story right there.

18.11.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

On the flip side, at a former employer, it was only discovered during a major reorg that one guy on the payroll had been dead for several years.

Fortunately he wasn't at his desk - although that wouldn't have been inconceivable.

18.11.2025 08:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That is just an insult to the dumbed down remake business model, and no doubt will be made illegal by presidential decree outside of the free world.

18.11.2025 07:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We did play & run AD&D into the 90s. By that time, it was very much our own game. But this was also part of games clubs - not privately with friends.

We pretty much always played other #ttrpg there. In fact, my first ever game was Traveller in c.78.

18.11.2025 07:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But... if they don't encourage people to kick down, they'll start to kick up!

18.11.2025 07:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

After all the BBC has done for him?
Giving him essentially a permanent seat on any political panel for a decade? Eagerly following his every movement, ones _and_ twos?

17.11.2025 09:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can't they be made to keep their promises just this once?

16.11.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There is no intelligence in current AI. It doesn't add anything and only outputs something inferior to its input.

If that output is added to the input, you have a downwards spiral.

It can be useful in research; finding disparate correlations. But these need real intelligence to assess.

16.11.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Trump relies on his victims settling out of court, as none of his cases have legal merit. Instead, he uses his position as leverage to extort settlements.

16.11.2025 07:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wiz Wars!!!

Machiavelli

Republic of Rome

Munchkins

Railway Rivals

History of the World

Kingmaker

StarFire

Car Wars

The Lonely Mountain

15.11.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Somewhere between climate scientists sh!thing themselves, and an administration checking their revenue streams, an "n't" was inserted into this message.

15.11.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How it it a u-turn?
Did they ever say they were going to raise income tax?
Isn't this just the market speculating poorly, again?

14.11.2025 10:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wealthy don't do "income".

14.11.2025 09:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You mean Blue?

13.11.2025 20:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Caved and bought an earlier ticket.

13.11.2025 12:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a popular source - the original radio series, of course.

13.11.2025 12:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a reference point, Bob Cratchit's meagre wage, from Dicken's "A Christmas Carol" - a critique of Victorian wealth vs. poverty - would be equivalent to $43,000 pa today.

13.11.2025 12:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are we still not allowed to know anything about Boris Johnson's daughter being made the youngest life peer?

13.11.2025 11:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Currently have four hours to kill at Waterloo station

13.11.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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