Uncle Stinky

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• Commented on Announcement time!
  Re the computer logout, I always think this cartoon is apposite...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Few will be surprised to discover that NEOM is going down the toilet....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Made me look. The Immortal Bard, 1954....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I'm fairly sure that Shakespeare failing on his own works is an old Asimov short story....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Given the likely scale of Labour's victory, I really hope someone runs against him on a purely pro NHS ticket. I'd vote for whomever it was and I doubt I'd be alone....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Don't forget that the odious Wes Streeting is also entirely too keen on privatising more and more bits of the NHS too.. Blue Labour all over again....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  FWIW Netflix just transplanted their adaptation of The Three Body Problem to England (mostly), so there's every reason to hope they would produce it in the UK....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I was just thinking that my internet was 4.5 million times too slow and, bam, 4.5 million times faster internet? Aston University makes it possible...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Given that they appropriated Blade Runner from William Burroughs, I'd be curious to see what kind of hold they actually have on the name....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Freehold ownership can also come with conditions. My granny's deeds expressly prohibited her from operating either a brothel or a tripe shop out of the property. (I don't think she actually had any designs in that area, so the disappointment...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  If anyone's interested, Kamil Galeev's Rhodus group has a fairly interesting report on how Russia is still able to produce missiles and which companies are aiding them....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  To continue the space theme - China plans to build a giant rail gun to launch hypersonic planes into space, making Nasa’s dream come true....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Canonically, poison gas does not reliably work. His shield is what saves the Baron from the Duke's tooth. A fully gas-saturated environment probably would do it, I suppose....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  The other thing modern audiences don't usually get that audiences of the time certainly would have, is that suicides go straight to Hell. Really adds a cheerful note to the ending, eh?...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Just need a warehouse filled with sand, an arc light for the sun and a large supply of DMT. People will see sandworms soon enough....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  You can use it to knock out your new LP, if you don't fancy all that business about bothering to learn how to play anything properly - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/02/will-ai-enable-new-musical-creativity-or-undermine-musicians. (Can't speak to the quality because my galloping adult onset hearing loss...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  It absolutely is, but as long as it's heating on demand from a mains feed there's not any real risk. Legionella proliferates in stored water and dead legs of pipework that should have been disconnected. (More of a problem in...
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  Machine gun-wielding robot dogs are better sharpshooters, claims study. I see no downsides to this at all....
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Please don't. Peter Turchin's cliodynamics is pattern matching nonsense that plays fast and loose with the data that don't fit what he wants to prove. Sounds superficially compelling, but is horseshit. Here's an actual historian - https://acoup.blog/2021/10/15/fireside-friday-october-15-2021/ There are links...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Unrelated to anything foregoing but wildly entertaining -Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  The fact that there's 4.5% or so of psychopaths in the population suggests they may actually have some uses. I do wonder if they can be restrained and harnessed in smaller groups, so it's only when populations balloon that their...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  You'll never be entirely rid of them because politics attracts psychopaths like CEO positions do. https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2024/02/psychopath-politicians.html...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Article in wired about a new and fairly low cost Parkinson's intervention device. https://www.wired.com/story/wearable-device-parkinsons-symptoms-charco-neurotech-startup/...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Nice article. I would add a minor corrective in that Strangelove is a composite, not just Von Braun. There's definitely a healthy dose of Herman Kahn in there....
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  The five pound claim is a good deal older than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  Edge of Tomorrow ended up with two names because it was abysmally marketed when released, which caused it to bomb when it should have busted blocks. (Arguably three names, since it occasionally gets called All You Need is Kill, which...
• Commented on The coming storm
  Rumblings around The Hugos The 2023 Hugo nomination statistics have finally been released – and we have questions...
• Commented on The coming storm
  This was too entertaining not to repost here - the real solution to the trolley problem...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  It's all got a bit smoky now. Definitely worth running the timer back to watch it start though....
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Livestream of the volcano in Iceland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvcP4kVVOnk...