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- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 2 days ago:
I haven’t cited any laws or said what they did was wrong, just that the government doesn’t like having its toys broken. Absolutely setting fire to a nazi train may be the morally correct thing to do, but you can still understand the nazis not being happy about it: these aren’t mutually exclusive propositions.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 days ago:
I think the better question is ‘Does what they did justify them being classed as terrorists’ rather than ‘Were they entrapped by government agents’.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 days ago:
Jet engines may react poorly with paint in the intakes. Those aircraft will need to be inspected and possibly repaired/maintained before they are allowed in the air again. That is sabotage.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 days ago:
It’s not even really a Labour issue, support for Israel has been a long standing policy (partly because the UK was largely responsible for the creation of Israel back in the 1920s) and the motion to proscribe Palestine Action was broadly supported by every party. Regardless of the morality it was completely obvious and expected that breaking into a military base and damaging expensive aircraft was going to have consequences.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 days ago:
‘Palestine Action’ definitely refers to the group, otherwise you’d just put ‘Palestine’. I don’t think they did this to protest ant-terrorism laws, they’ve been very focused on targeting the genocide in Palestine so starting a new off-topic fight wouldn’t make sense for them.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 days ago:
I don’t think there’s any need for false flag conspiracy theories. Palestine Action took credit for breaking into Brize Norton. I can only assume they thought it would generate enough attention to be worth the risk.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 days ago:
It certainly made proscribing them an easy sell; you won’t find many people who think it’s unreasonable of the government to take a dim view of sabotage.
Hopefully it won’t distract too much from the bigger story of almost everyone apart from the government taking a dim view of genocide.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 days ago:
It’s a specific group that recently broke into an RAF base and started mucking about with the aircraft, hence why the government aren’t their biggest fans.
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 6 days ago:
If it helps, etymonline has them the other way around with ‘golly’ being a mild oath for god and ‘gollywog’ not having a definitive link.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 2 weeks ago:
AMD also has hardware support for raytracing and both are using the same API for raytracing. Nvidia just has a head start and deeper pockets.
This isn’t Cuda or Gameworks where the features depend on Nvidia hardware, it’s more like Tessellation where they can both do it but Nvidia cards did it better so they pushed developers into adding it into games.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 3 weeks ago:
Yes this is a small(ish) offline deepseek model
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What a mess 5 weeks ago:
But they’re propping up the mattress!
- Comment on Definitions 5 weeks ago:
Circumnavigated
- Comment on No we can talk here 1 month ago:
Carpe Jugulum has vampires who ‘reform’ and integrate into society (but I won’t spoil anything else)
- Comment on Did you know? 1 month ago:
Napoleon the emperor who tried to conquer Europe and nearly succeeded is more famous than the fictional character so that makes sense
- Comment on Eric Barone, the guy who can't stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2" 1 month ago:
You’re technically right: it means ‘everything up to’, so not a full guarantee but the next best thing. In usage it means ‘a guarantee in all but name’.
- Comment on Eric Barone, the guy who can't stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2" 1 month ago:
No, it’s saying if he cared about money he would be more likely to make a sequel. Him caring about money would all but guarantee a sequel.
- Comment on AMERICAN POPE LETS GO 1 month ago:
I beg you to reconsider
- Comment on Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans 2 months ago:
We have OxfordPV, though I believe they manufacture the panels in Germany. I’m sure there are reasons for this but cheap manpower won’t be one.
- Comment on Full Circle 2 months ago:
The problem we’re addressing is that the prefixes are made redundant by the syntax of to and from. ‘immigrating to europe’ ‘emmigrating from europe’. Dropping the prefix in this context doesn’t change the meaning: ‘migrating to europe’ ‘migrating from europe’.
- Comment on Full Circle 2 months ago:
From wiktionary: Verb migrate (third-person singular simple present migrates, present participle migrating, simple past and past participle migrated)
(intransitive) To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another. To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.
This is already common usage and I don’t see the need for any prefixes to the word. The Etymonline definition is giving the definition of the root, not the current english word.
- Comment on Full Circle 2 months ago:
How about just ‘migrate’ and ‘migrating’?
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 months ago:
Among a subset of gamers who care about owning the things that they buy, yes
- Comment on peak fitness 3 months ago:
They weren’t around yet during the first one
- Comment on What someone's doing to X right now 3 months ago:
This is my goto: m.youtube.com/watch?v=KNVo3VqjL0Q&pp=ygUNZGV1cyBl…
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 4 months ago:
It has a close competitor named Qwerty
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 4 months ago:
It’s a cheap supermarket in the UK
- Comment on Anon picks up some food for his family 5 months ago:
Large companies often register common misspellings of their domain, www being a subdomain makes it even easier
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 5 months ago:
And likely never will be because of its unsafe design
