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What are you talking about, "new narrative"? We're not all narrative-driven bots, you know. I've been reading about Elon Musk since before anyone else I knew had even heard of him …

This is fascinating and exciting to me, to be honest. Like a lot of people around here I'm sure, I've spent a lot of time thinking about Twitter's influence on our society and I ca…

Are you saying that because for the SaaS company, $100 in income can service $20,000 in debt?

I meant of the situation now. He's literally exiled in Russia when he could have been working to protect us against Russia.

What sort of response is that? I'm sorry but yes, it is. You can very quickly look this up. Small island nations and city states aside, there are only a handful of major countries …

They spent 100 billion pounds on lateral flow tests alone. I enjoyed the free test kits as much as everyone else, but think of the infrastructure that could have paid for.

The Ruble has devalued against the Euro by almost exactly the same amount. What am I missing?

It is, isn't it? https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p...

Call me old-fashioned but I could argue that "everyone" benefits from a world where we can still economically isolate genocidal regimes. We do away with this power at our peril.

To whom? Lawless despots?

That's a 50% currency devaluation in a fortnight while the country's main export is still barely in the crosshairs. Russia might really be done.

If you don't yet believe this is a thing - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ivan+kuliak&ia=web

Not that high compared to where? The whole of England itself is statistically one of the most densely populated countries on earth. Interesting that you mention Oxford - Oxfordshir…

Most people understand, if they're being honest, that we're not a xenophobic nation in the slightest. I think the UK's anti-immigration sentiment is basically driven by chronic ove…

Russia's word is worth less than nothing. It feels like they'll stop when we stop them, at this point.

Too right, they did. As a peak-oiler at the time I paid close attention to the run-up to $150 and the financial crisis that followed. And now fear we're in for a replay.

I still keep a pair of CRTs around for light gun games. Time Crisis 2 on system link (2 TVs, 2 PS2s) is particularly awesome.

And to think - he was perfectly placed to be on the right side of this thing, doing national cybersecurity. As an idealistic, naive teenager, I agreed with him and thought him a he…

Without looking up the World Service bands, I wonder why Shortwave and not Mediumwave, for better propagation?

Demonic possession?

Maybe it's my surname, but it just looks like a population map.

Back in the day, Rockbox was the way to play FLAC on your iPod. I never found it to be as responsive or stable, though. Would be tempted to update my old Classic to solid state but…

Wish we had this in UK towns and cities. So many people tolerate so much noise intrusion from a handful of imbeciles doing it deliberately.

Do you live in the UK? We had harsh, cruel, extended lockdowns. Like - no talking to friends on the street lockdowns. For like months at a time. Johnson, who subjected us to this, …