Definitely Over Thirty
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I'm definitely older than thirty.
of the political woods call it "race treachery", right? Since you're not keen on any of that, being self-described as further right than Reform, you might be more comfortable with calling yourself English. Does it fit?
December 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
of the political woods call it "race treachery", right? Since you're not keen on any of that, being self-described as further right than Reform, you might be more comfortable with calling yourself English. Does it fit?
right propaganda gives the approved excuse for times being hard?
I really don't think that you're British. Britain has always been a hodgepodge of nations that hold together through shared ideals and, yes, cultural blending. Even - gasp! - intermarriage, although I imagine that people in your neck
I really don't think that you're British. Britain has always been a hodgepodge of nations that hold together through shared ideals and, yes, cultural blending. Even - gasp! - intermarriage, although I imagine that people in your neck
December 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
right propaganda gives the approved excuse for times being hard?
I really don't think that you're British. Britain has always been a hodgepodge of nations that hold together through shared ideals and, yes, cultural blending. Even - gasp! - intermarriage, although I imagine that people in your neck
I really don't think that you're British. Britain has always been a hodgepodge of nations that hold together through shared ideals and, yes, cultural blending. Even - gasp! - intermarriage, although I imagine that people in your neck
who wrote the philosophies that you follow had to tell lies about better thinkers' work to justify their own race hatred. I mean, how can you take that stuff seriously? Isn't accepting such second-hand lies like swallowing second-hand vomit, or do people just look away from the truth because far-
December 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
who wrote the philosophies that you follow had to tell lies about better thinkers' work to justify their own race hatred. I mean, how can you take that stuff seriously? Isn't accepting such second-hand lies like swallowing second-hand vomit, or do people just look away from the truth because far-
work - again, warped (that time by his sister Elizabeth) to dress up their infighting as an expression of the Will to Power. Johann Herder explicitly stated that cultural blending enriches humanity, saying that the whole of human history depends on mixture and mutual influence, and yet the people
December 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
work - again, warped (that time by his sister Elizabeth) to dress up their infighting as an expression of the Will to Power. Johann Herder explicitly stated that cultural blending enriches humanity, saying that the whole of human history depends on mixture and mutual influence, and yet the people
I rather guessed that when I saw you repeating that line about nations being based on ethnic groups, which - apart from being a call to inbreeding - is a warped version of the Herderian Volksgeist that the Nazis created to justify their racism, just like those naive sentimentalists used Neitzche's
December 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I rather guessed that when I saw you repeating that line about nations being based on ethnic groups, which - apart from being a call to inbreeding - is a warped version of the Herderian Volksgeist that the Nazis created to justify their racism, just like those naive sentimentalists used Neitzche's
Life is too short to put off enjoying a good book.
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Life is too short to put off enjoying a good book.
You want to be careful of listening to Nigel Farage and his pals, you know. Plenty of them take Russian money - and you might not be aware of it, but the Russians are threatening the UK with nuclear weapons. They want to soften Britain up from the inside.
December 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
You want to be careful of listening to Nigel Farage and his pals, you know. Plenty of them take Russian money - and you might not be aware of it, but the Russians are threatening the UK with nuclear weapons. They want to soften Britain up from the inside.
lived in the area for a few years and never had any bother from the locals. That's probably because I treated them as ordinary, decent people. Did you come up with this opinion by yourself, or are you just regurgitating whatever nonsense the likes of Reform PLC have fed you?
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
lived in the area for a few years and never had any bother from the locals. That's probably because I treated them as ordinary, decent people. Did you come up with this opinion by yourself, or are you just regurgitating whatever nonsense the likes of Reform PLC have fed you?
You've just proven that you know nothing about Kipling's history or Bradford. Kipling left India in 1889, when the Raj was at its height, because he wanted to write fiction instead of journalism. He died 11 years before Indian independence, so he wasn't kicked out of anywhere.
As for Bradford, I
As for Bradford, I
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
You've just proven that you know nothing about Kipling's history or Bradford. Kipling left India in 1889, when the Raj was at its height, because he wanted to write fiction instead of journalism. He died 11 years before Indian independence, so he wasn't kicked out of anywhere.
As for Bradford, I
As for Bradford, I
would soon have learned to accept the locals there and been treated civilly in return. Instead, you seem unreasonably hostile to them with no apparent cause.
Please do everyone a favour: Read some Kipling - maybe Stalky, or Kim, or Plain Tales From The Hills - and remember that he grew up in India.
Please do everyone a favour: Read some Kipling - maybe Stalky, or Kim, or Plain Tales From The Hills - and remember that he grew up in India.
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
would soon have learned to accept the locals there and been treated civilly in return. Instead, you seem unreasonably hostile to them with no apparent cause.
Please do everyone a favour: Read some Kipling - maybe Stalky, or Kim, or Plain Tales From The Hills - and remember that he grew up in India.
Please do everyone a favour: Read some Kipling - maybe Stalky, or Kim, or Plain Tales From The Hills - and remember that he grew up in India.
languages, or follow other faiths. That's especially true of the British who live among people who are different: They get along with their neighbours and they don't make a fuss.
In fact, I'd be surprised if you have ever been in Bradford for any length of time, or at all. Because as a Briton, you
In fact, I'd be surprised if you have ever been in Bradford for any length of time, or at all. Because as a Briton, you
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
languages, or follow other faiths. That's especially true of the British who live among people who are different: They get along with their neighbours and they don't make a fuss.
In fact, I'd be surprised if you have ever been in Bradford for any length of time, or at all. Because as a Briton, you
In fact, I'd be surprised if you have ever been in Bradford for any length of time, or at all. Because as a Briton, you
That's a false dichotomy. A willingness to get along with one's neighbours is a core attribute of Britishness: It comes from the very fact that Britain is settled by a collective of ethnic identities. That has never excluded - among decent people - a dislike of those who look different, speak other
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
That's a false dichotomy. A willingness to get along with one's neighbours is a core attribute of Britishness: It comes from the very fact that Britain is settled by a collective of ethnic identities. That has never excluded - among decent people - a dislike of those who look different, speak other
Interesting, but what's your security like? Because I can just about guarantee that all manner of groups would love to get their hands on your users' organisational data.
December 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Interesting, but what's your security like? Because I can just about guarantee that all manner of groups would love to get their hands on your users' organisational data.
If you dislike your neighbours for the way they were born, then no you don't.
December 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
If you dislike your neighbours for the way they were born, then no you don't.
It's currently public information, but the USA has recently shown a marked tendency towards letting public data be controlled by private businesses for profit.
December 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It's currently public information, but the USA has recently shown a marked tendency towards letting public data be controlled by private businesses for profit.
It's not even that convenient (or quick, or cheap) to make use of an LLM for data that can be pre-rendered as XML or JSON and loaded at application boot.
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It's not even that convenient (or quick, or cheap) to make use of an LLM for data that can be pre-rendered as XML or JSON and loaded at application boot.
Your assumption that people who work in this field are not using their brains indicates that you've already turned off your own. I recommend an assessment of the cost and limitations of the new tools, and discussion with programmers about how they can usefully and economically be applied.
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Your assumption that people who work in this field are not using their brains indicates that you've already turned off your own. I recommend an assessment of the cost and limitations of the new tools, and discussion with programmers about how they can usefully and economically be applied.
Yes, and my brain points out that for a known dataset, even with internationalisation, pre-rendering those values into client-side data at build time is both faster and FAR more cost-effective than querying an LLM over REST.
DB queries are already expensive; LLMs are both pricier and hallucinatory.
DB queries are already expensive; LLMs are both pricier and hallucinatory.
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Yes, and my brain points out that for a known dataset, even with internationalisation, pre-rendering those values into client-side data at build time is both faster and FAR more cost-effective than querying an LLM over REST.
DB queries are already expensive; LLMs are both pricier and hallucinatory.
DB queries are already expensive; LLMs are both pricier and hallucinatory.
(As @boontonkat.bsky.social pointed out above, though, a roller is going to get you much quicker flat coverage. The point being that there are plenty of tools and lots of innovation out there.)
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
(As @boontonkat.bsky.social pointed out above, though, a roller is going to get you much quicker flat coverage. The point being that there are plenty of tools and lots of innovation out there.)
Actually, some do use cans - it's a much bigger canvas, and the principle is still using airflow to deliver paint. Airbrushes are built to allow far more finesse, although one can buy after-market caps for spraycans, e.g. web.archive.org/web/20241009...
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Actually, some do use cans - it's a much bigger canvas, and the principle is still using airflow to deliver paint. Airbrushes are built to allow far more finesse, although one can buy after-market caps for spraycans, e.g. web.archive.org/web/20241009...
That's not a threat, it's an estimation of the odds. No American soldier deserves to be refused mercy because someone else in a different branch of the US' military committed a war-crime.
"I was only following orders" didn't work for the Nazis at Nuremberg: It won't work now, or in front of God.
"I was only following orders" didn't work for the Nazis at Nuremberg: It won't work now, or in front of God.
December 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
That's not a threat, it's an estimation of the odds. No American soldier deserves to be refused mercy because someone else in a different branch of the US' military committed a war-crime.
"I was only following orders" didn't work for the Nazis at Nuremberg: It won't work now, or in front of God.
"I was only following orders" didn't work for the Nazis at Nuremberg: It won't work now, or in front of God.
Someone might want to look up the phrase "Magdeburg mercy" here. If American soldiers aren't seen as willing to obey the laws and conventions of war, then they might not receive their benefits - justifiably or not. And if there is proof of massacres, then there will be almost certainly be reprisals:
December 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Someone might want to look up the phrase "Magdeburg mercy" here. If American soldiers aren't seen as willing to obey the laws and conventions of war, then they might not receive their benefits - justifiably or not. And if there is proof of massacres, then there will be almost certainly be reprisals:
I believe that this makes you a rarity, I'm sad to say. But I'm glad that you do notice and care.
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I believe that this makes you a rarity, I'm sad to say. But I'm glad that you do notice and care.
"British" refers to the islands. The English only think that it refers to them alone because they don't notice anyone else. Or don't care to notice them, in the worst cases.
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"British" refers to the islands. The English only think that it refers to them alone because they don't notice anyone else. Or don't care to notice them, in the worst cases.
By bloodline, perhaps, but not by attitude: And the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
By bloodline, perhaps, but not by attitude: And the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.