Padraig
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Hahahahah.
Amazing stuff. Nobody tell them about businesses and zscalar. Let them find out when it happens.
Amazing stuff. Nobody tell them about businesses and zscalar. Let them find out when it happens.
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Hahahahah.
Amazing stuff. Nobody tell them about businesses and zscalar. Let them find out when it happens.
Amazing stuff. Nobody tell them about businesses and zscalar. Let them find out when it happens.
I was extremely lucky thru good fortune to pay off a 20 year mortgage in 4 years. And even slicing that down I calculated like 30k in interest savings.
50 years is just utterly fucking nuts, the interest would be double the starting amount or some insane shit.
50 years is just utterly fucking nuts, the interest would be double the starting amount or some insane shit.
QUINTANILLA: What's more likely -- a $2,000 tariff rebate check or a 50 year mortgage?
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I was extremely lucky thru good fortune to pay off a 20 year mortgage in 4 years. And even slicing that down I calculated like 30k in interest savings.
50 years is just utterly fucking nuts, the interest would be double the starting amount or some insane shit.
50 years is just utterly fucking nuts, the interest would be double the starting amount or some insane shit.
I hate to say it, but from a logical nihilistic asshole perspective it makes perfect sense.
The left wing lads will never sue or threaten you if you lie and get shit wrong.
The other side will do anything they can to ruin you financially.
If you just lie about the left wing who cares!
The left wing lads will never sue or threaten you if you lie and get shit wrong.
The other side will do anything they can to ruin you financially.
If you just lie about the left wing who cares!
The point of having a standards editor is that you bring in a skilled, disinterested person to read or watch a story and point out possible bias, errors and lapses.
The actual story editors can miss those things because they're so closely tied to the production and reporting of the piece.
The actual story editors can miss those things because they're so closely tied to the production and reporting of the piece.
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I hate to say it, but from a logical nihilistic asshole perspective it makes perfect sense.
The left wing lads will never sue or threaten you if you lie and get shit wrong.
The other side will do anything they can to ruin you financially.
If you just lie about the left wing who cares!
The left wing lads will never sue or threaten you if you lie and get shit wrong.
The other side will do anything they can to ruin you financially.
If you just lie about the left wing who cares!
Dublin to Paris, and the lad decides to connect thru Heathrow.
I don't think I have ever seen a more amazing display of moron in my entire life.
I don't think I have ever seen a more amazing display of moron in my entire life.
Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
onemileatatime.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Dublin to Paris, and the lad decides to connect thru Heathrow.
I don't think I have ever seen a more amazing display of moron in my entire life.
I don't think I have ever seen a more amazing display of moron in my entire life.
I vote decant a new one from a cloning vat. Would also solve for him not aging!
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I vote decant a new one from a cloning vat. Would also solve for him not aging!
As Tuffy says.
A monkey paw plot point so severe, it would be considered too much for the plot of an outer limits episode.
A monkey paw plot point so severe, it would be considered too much for the plot of an outer limits episode.
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
As Tuffy says.
A monkey paw plot point so severe, it would be considered too much for the plot of an outer limits episode.
A monkey paw plot point so severe, it would be considered too much for the plot of an outer limits episode.
One thing I do find depressing as an outside observer, even the quoted lower subsidized price is nutty high.
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
One thing I do find depressing as an outside observer, even the quoted lower subsidized price is nutty high.
Absolving Russian society of any of this is indeed ridiculous.
The meme about America or the West and colonialist mindsets, the actual correct example of this is the entire Russian society mindset.
It's rotten down to the very base, never had a post WW2 reckoning, it's 19th century brain in amber
The meme about America or the West and colonialist mindsets, the actual correct example of this is the entire Russian society mindset.
It's rotten down to the very base, never had a post WW2 reckoning, it's 19th century brain in amber
"Putin attacked Ukraine, not Russians" fails to grapple with why millions of ordinary Russians were willing to follow orders in a devastating war against Ukraine.
This stuff open up questions over how far Russia as a society will come to terms with the past after Putin is gone.
This stuff open up questions over how far Russia as a society will come to terms with the past after Putin is gone.
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Absolving Russian society of any of this is indeed ridiculous.
The meme about America or the West and colonialist mindsets, the actual correct example of this is the entire Russian society mindset.
It's rotten down to the very base, never had a post WW2 reckoning, it's 19th century brain in amber
The meme about America or the West and colonialist mindsets, the actual correct example of this is the entire Russian society mindset.
It's rotten down to the very base, never had a post WW2 reckoning, it's 19th century brain in amber
It is pretty reasonable for Taylor not to use it.
It's one of those cases where it could actively inject weird things to your output.
Personally speaking if I was her I would use it for general web searches, because Google is really bad now. But otherwise a completely reasonable position.
It's one of those cases where it could actively inject weird things to your output.
Personally speaking if I was her I would use it for general web searches, because Google is really bad now. But otherwise a completely reasonable position.
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It is pretty reasonable for Taylor not to use it.
It's one of those cases where it could actively inject weird things to your output.
Personally speaking if I was her I would use it for general web searches, because Google is really bad now. But otherwise a completely reasonable position.
It's one of those cases where it could actively inject weird things to your output.
Personally speaking if I was her I would use it for general web searches, because Google is really bad now. But otherwise a completely reasonable position.
One of my strongest beliefs is that we should pay politicians insanely well.
Ban stock trading, ban them doing other shit, then pay them a salary of a million euro/dollars a year!
It's such boring cynicism pretending to be wisdom, whining about somebody in politics daring being rewarded.
Ban stock trading, ban them doing other shit, then pay them a salary of a million euro/dollars a year!
It's such boring cynicism pretending to be wisdom, whining about somebody in politics daring being rewarded.
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
One of my strongest beliefs is that we should pay politicians insanely well.
Ban stock trading, ban them doing other shit, then pay them a salary of a million euro/dollars a year!
It's such boring cynicism pretending to be wisdom, whining about somebody in politics daring being rewarded.
Ban stock trading, ban them doing other shit, then pay them a salary of a million euro/dollars a year!
It's such boring cynicism pretending to be wisdom, whining about somebody in politics daring being rewarded.
Yes. Be plain spoken about it, be blunt.
The don't be prick graph, the stop being a gobshite meter, the my god this guy is a fucking asshole alarm.
The don't be prick graph, the stop being a gobshite meter, the my god this guy is a fucking asshole alarm.
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Yes. Be plain spoken about it, be blunt.
The don't be prick graph, the stop being a gobshite meter, the my god this guy is a fucking asshole alarm.
The don't be prick graph, the stop being a gobshite meter, the my god this guy is a fucking asshole alarm.
So much to love about this chart.
I know it's a little thing, but Its great how human extinction is not a straight line down for GDP, no lads will take a year or 2 to get to zero, don't ask why!
I know it's a little thing, but Its great how human extinction is not a straight line down for GDP, no lads will take a year or 2 to get to zero, don't ask why!
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
So much to love about this chart.
I know it's a little thing, but Its great how human extinction is not a straight line down for GDP, no lads will take a year or 2 to get to zero, don't ask why!
I know it's a little thing, but Its great how human extinction is not a straight line down for GDP, no lads will take a year or 2 to get to zero, don't ask why!
Why try and destroy the blob when you can seize the blobs means of production!
That this is populist guff shouldn't obscure the significance of Le Pen's RN shifting from total rejection of the EU and Euro to making policy demands within the EU system that accepts it is there to stay
Bardella wants the ECB (read: Banque de France and other Eurosystem banks) to buy an unlimited amount of French debt.
Other eurozone countries will be delighted at the opportunity to co-finance one of the most generous pension systems in Europe.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Other eurozone countries will be delighted at the opportunity to co-finance one of the most generous pension systems in Europe.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Why try and destroy the blob when you can seize the blobs means of production!
God this part is so true! The terminal insecurity. Cool dude your number is bigger on paper.
I'm happy though, but thanks for checking in, perhaps you should go relax or something.
I'm happy though, but thanks for checking in, perhaps you should go relax or something.
the latter part of your argument here also explains how agitated a lot of US commentators are about re-explaining to us in so many ways how big their GDP/capita is compared to everyone else. "so you won, but you don't seem very at peace with it, do you?" is what immediately comes to mind
November 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
God this part is so true! The terminal insecurity. Cool dude your number is bigger on paper.
I'm happy though, but thanks for checking in, perhaps you should go relax or something.
I'm happy though, but thanks for checking in, perhaps you should go relax or something.
So a typical type of bonus a mid level person at a tech or fintech company gets every year.
Jesus talk about pathetic attempts at ragebait.
Jesus talk about pathetic attempts at ragebait.
Uisce Éireann employee receives €32,500 performance-related award on top of salary
Uisce Éireann employee receives €32,500 performance-related award on top of salary
Water utility tells Dail Public Accounts Committee it would lose staff if current pay model not retained
www.irishtimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
So a typical type of bonus a mid level person at a tech or fintech company gets every year.
Jesus talk about pathetic attempts at ragebait.
Jesus talk about pathetic attempts at ragebait.
Excellent choice. Me I would go with business business business guy from that season 1 episode.
Was thinking what would be the most obscure character that I’d really love to have a Lego guy of and it’s this guy next to Wesley
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Excellent choice. Me I would go with business business business guy from that season 1 episode.
Reposted by Padraig
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
I'm certain the lad that built that app, when the time comes and Saint Peter sees his name, he will need to call in a sick day to God on account of brain trauma.
You know I’ve always tried to live my life so that I die with a clean conscience. I haven’t always been successful at that, I’ll admit.
But at least I’m not gonna get up to Saint Peter and be like “oh yeah I built an app to allow you to gamble on your massive child support bill”
But at least I’m not gonna get up to Saint Peter and be like “oh yeah I built an app to allow you to gamble on your massive child support bill”
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I'm certain the lad that built that app, when the time comes and Saint Peter sees his name, he will need to call in a sick day to God on account of brain trauma.
What an amazing goat.
Takes no shit!
Takes no shit!
November 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
What an amazing goat.
Takes no shit!
Takes no shit!
Amazing stuff.
I can picture the lad writing it dying of a massive brain hemorrhage just as he finishes, the level of bile causing all his forehead blood vessels to explode.
I can picture the lad writing it dying of a massive brain hemorrhage just as he finishes, the level of bile causing all his forehead blood vessels to explode.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Amazing stuff.
I can picture the lad writing it dying of a massive brain hemorrhage just as he finishes, the level of bile causing all his forehead blood vessels to explode.
I can picture the lad writing it dying of a massive brain hemorrhage just as he finishes, the level of bile causing all his forehead blood vessels to explode.
Ok so the UK green Party position here is actually fine. Huzzah! (back i go to rooting for them to do well)
The thing is, you can critique Green party policy on NATO, but this is explicitly not what the Green policy on NATO is. This is just a form of wishcasting.
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Ok so the UK green Party position here is actually fine. Huzzah! (back i go to rooting for them to do well)
My god, I'm begging, begging! For lefty parties that don't do this.
All the other party positions from green parties are pretty solid, modern, parse the benefits/trade offs.
But the moment you mention the word NATO, the ghost of Michael Foot slams thru the wall like the Kool aid man.
All the other party positions from green parties are pretty solid, modern, parse the benefits/trade offs.
But the moment you mention the word NATO, the ghost of Michael Foot slams thru the wall like the Kool aid man.
Opposing NATO expansion is a nonsensical policy. If countries want to join it, they can. Nobody's twisting their arms. Not sure what "non-militarised" security involves
The Green Party condemns Russia’s invasion, backs Ukraine’s sovereignty, and urges peace talks. It opposes NATO expansion and supports replacing NATO with a cooperative, non-militarised European security framework 💚
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
My god, I'm begging, begging! For lefty parties that don't do this.
All the other party positions from green parties are pretty solid, modern, parse the benefits/trade offs.
But the moment you mention the word NATO, the ghost of Michael Foot slams thru the wall like the Kool aid man.
All the other party positions from green parties are pretty solid, modern, parse the benefits/trade offs.
But the moment you mention the word NATO, the ghost of Michael Foot slams thru the wall like the Kool aid man.
Not pepper spray, but it's kinda crazy how Michael schumacher made his F1 debut, because the lad he replaced was jailed for using CS gas to defend himself in an altercation in London.
So heed Alex advice, otherwise you may endanger your F1 career!
So heed Alex advice, otherwise you may endanger your F1 career!
Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Not pepper spray, but it's kinda crazy how Michael schumacher made his F1 debut, because the lad he replaced was jailed for using CS gas to defend himself in an altercation in London.
So heed Alex advice, otherwise you may endanger your F1 career!
So heed Alex advice, otherwise you may endanger your F1 career!
I would actually disagree with hannan not being always extreme.
Pure raw colonialist mindset was always his game, I would actually consider him the most rancid of the brexit figures the last 10 years.
The brazen lying somehow went down easier for awhile because he did it with a posh accent.
Pure raw colonialist mindset was always his game, I would actually consider him the most rancid of the brexit figures the last 10 years.
The brazen lying somehow went down easier for awhile because he did it with a posh accent.
Hannan becoming more extreme, probably egged on by his old friend, Douglas Carswell.
I don't think they used to be this extreme but they entered into a Faustian bargain years ago: they, 'the clever chaps', could ride/steer the less desirable part of the Right. Now they are steered by it.
I don't think they used to be this extreme but they entered into a Faustian bargain years ago: they, 'the clever chaps', could ride/steer the less desirable part of the Right. Now they are steered by it.
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I would actually disagree with hannan not being always extreme.
Pure raw colonialist mindset was always his game, I would actually consider him the most rancid of the brexit figures the last 10 years.
The brazen lying somehow went down easier for awhile because he did it with a posh accent.
Pure raw colonialist mindset was always his game, I would actually consider him the most rancid of the brexit figures the last 10 years.
The brazen lying somehow went down easier for awhile because he did it with a posh accent.
Some seriously grim shit.
For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
November 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Some seriously grim shit.