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• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Britain in general has a problem with ferries - odd for an "island nation", but consistent with the modern habit of neglecting the existing infrastructure. All round the coast, where there is a ferry service there are problems (except to/from...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Re: better than oversimplify How about "infantalise" ?...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  You may want to add this to the mix... https://theconversation.com/meltwater-is-hydro-fracking-greenlands-ice-sheet-through-millions-of-hairline-cracks-destabilizing-its-internal-structure-207468...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  Clive James borrowed that for one of his song lyrics... "A straight-up scalp-collector I could understand All those lineaments of gratified desire But he's handing me that old refining fire This to me, the Shadow and the Widower"...
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  The outcome from this kerfuffle is that Prigozhin and an unknown number of Wagner troops are now in Belarus, where Putin recently sent some 'tactical' nuclear weaponry. Given that Prigozhin has long been an advocate for using such weapons this...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  On the subject of the voting system, I think the main reason both Tories and Labour are opposed to PR is their fear that it would lead to them splitting into two or more smaller parties, jeopardising the positions of...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  I think the answer to the demonic incursion issue is that "Hell is other demons". If a demon kills and take the place of a careless wizard then he is going work hard to stop other demons managing the same...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  In England the early rail routes often ran near or alongside the canals as the surveyors for the latter had already avoided steep inclines and minimised the lengths of tunnels through hills and aquaducts across valleys. Sometimes they even used...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  I've seen reports that the judge in the Trump assault case has advised the jurors to remain anonymous for a long time, and directed them not to name any of their fellow jurors. If this is the case then I'm...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Well it did inspire a new song for football supporters in Glasgow : "you can shove your coronation..." - you can probably approximate the remaining words....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Something like the binja fighters in "Un Lun Dun" ( a YA novel by China Mieville ) ?...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Surely Trump will just stall for time until the election, using this and any other charges to build his support. Unless he is actually imprisoned is there anything to stop him being elected president if its a state (rather than...
• Commented on Place your bets
  I thought Trump was encouraging a crowd of protestors to show up so he could claim it was unsafe for him to attend any formal proceedings (probably phrased as "innocent people could get hurt")....
• Commented on Place your bets
  The EBC web site covered the SVB story very soon after it broke, although the reports got moved to the Business section fairly quickly. They also mentioned the resulting hit to bank valuations worldwide. As I understand it, SVB had...
• Commented on Place your bets
  As most of the DLR stations are unstaffed the presence of the train 'guard' also provides some comfort to those worried about other passengers pratting about. Apparently there is a small console behind a locked panel which the guard can...
• Commented on Place your bets
  For (slight) interest - the first international cricket match was USA vs Canada, in 1844. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/canada-tour-of-united-states-of-america-1844-318993/united-states-of-america-vs-canada-318995/full-scorecard...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Well sort of; you walk out of Haymarket station onto a tram, which runs on rails......
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Round here we get a pair of RAF fighters practising their contour flying about once a month. They get to fly over sea, high ground, loch, BRIDGE, loch, high ground, low ground, high ground, all within a 30..35 mile stretch....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Is Prestwick still a "main" airport ? Its a lot less busy than top-10 airports Glasgow, Belfast, and Bristol ( none of which have a direct rail link )....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  760: I wouldn't claim our local takeaway is anywhere near the cheapest, not least because there isn't another one anywhere near...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  ONE hour's work - missed the crucial word, sigh...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  728: "in the UK there's no fish 'n chips to be had for less than the equivalent of three man-hours of salary" - we pay £10 for a decent portion of fish and chips, which is very close to hour's...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I sympathise. I was staying with family in Edinburgh over Christmas and fell victim to the pedestrian traps masquerading as cycle track barriers when crossing London Road at night (the things with a vertical pole in an extended concrete base...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Hmm, lights are on 7 hours per hour ?...
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  Oh, I remember using Forth for a Uni project in 1975/6 (s**t thats over 45 years ago...). Chuck Moore gave us a copy plus a half-day intro. I think the best term for it as it was then is "minimal"....
• Commented on WTF
  On the general subject of domestic heating, has anyone looked into using "radiating wallpaper" ? ( essentially passing an electric current through a thin graphite film ) - for example, https://nexgenheating.com (the first one I came across)...
• Commented on WTF
  A Scottish town arriving from 2237 might be able to advise on how to survive in a permafrost environment....
• Commented on WTF
  Ooh, I dare you to repeat that in a Glasgow (or Swansea) pub :) The French team beat the English team; Wales were eliminated in the group stage and neither Scotland nor Northern Ireland qualified for the finals. The 4...
• Commented on WTF
  gigolo ?...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  If you're old enough to run up large debts that then you're old enough to vote (modern equivalent of "if you're old enough to die for your country...")....