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What was even the point in that...? Anyway. On a slightly lighter note, TIL disabled bus passes take so long to show up in the mail that you get a two-week grace period to continue using an expired one. Saved me a non-trivial amount of money, that. I am currently wrestling with that right now. Sad ...

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The theorist who predicted the Higgs Boson back int he 60's and saw it proved in 2012, and won the Nobel prize for that, passed away yesterday (Monday). Too soon, but a damn good run.

Oh, it's worse than that - there was a rash of videos on the internet claiming that the properly protective glasses were actually harmful/part of the conspiracy to control people/etc. and encouraging people to look at the eclipse without protection. You can't fix stupid. I...what....but...oh for fu...

Today I learned... .... what a total eclipse of the sun looks like. I'm glad you managed to see it. Closest I've ever managed in the UK was the partial eclipse in 2015 and the total one in 1999 (though I was a long out of the path of totality for that). One day I'll see a full one. I have also lear...

I'm not even sure it's that nuanced, I get the impression it's more him thinking "oh fuck, consequences, I don't want those." He's talked/shouted his way out of everything so far, he just thinks he has to go harder.

I hate to sound deeply cynical, but isn't "invading another country to install a preferable government" exactly what the US tried in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what Britain did in, well, most of the world? It's worked out very well before. And if the justification is "it's for their ow...

Zaune wrote: ↑2024-03-13 10:48am The M113 is almost as versatile as Mike Sparks makes it out to be, isn't it?

I couldn't possibly comment

TIL...that NASA had it's own fleet of APC's for evacuating shuttle astronauts from the launch pad in emergencies, a process that also involved a 1200 foot zip line:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH8IKG9cjU8

Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2024-03-06 07:31pm

Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2024-03-06 04:35pm TIL that I was successful in my interview to be a Magistrate (Criminal bench) and will be recommended to the Senior Presiding Judge for appointment. Excellent.

Congratulations.

Do you get a wig?

Alas no.

TIL that I was successful in my interview to be a Magistrate (Criminal bench) and will be recommended to the Senior Presiding Judge for appointment. Excellent.

Or he may have been using the 160 km diameter that has been floating around in, among others, the old ICS books - this would give a circumference of 502 (and change) km.

I'm guessing it is mostly a diplomatic function, serving the function of waving the flag. It's why Picard, who in many respects seems more like a diplomat than a soldier, has the command. The traditional job of a flagship isn't needed given the level of communications they have, as well as the leve...

Or maybe they just don't trust that someone who stole classified documents will be loyal to their interests over his own. Honestly, I tihnk this might be the key part. How often did various GOP'ers have to go on CNN/Fox/whatever to "justify" and "clarify" whatever piece of insan...

Well shit. Having read that thread, I withdraw my comments about Republicans (even a few of them) having any sense of self-preservation and don't want to escalate things. Holy fucking shit, that just flops it all out on the table.

It's also possible that they don't want to escalate things too much. They know they're at a popular vote minority and have been for, what, 4 elections now? Removing Biden from a ballot for such blatantly political reasons could see a fairly massive backlash from Republican voters who actually are d...

Okay, let me rephrase that - Under what grounds, that would survive a Supreme Court challenge if the court wasn't stacked? For all their talk, they might not even do anything but threaten to boot Biden off a ballot. Or they might try to kick him off the ballot at the last minute, so there isn't any...

German army troops posted near the Russian border? I shudder to think what Putin's propaganda crew will make of this. No doubt lots of references to historical fighting fascism etc.

Yeah that jumped out at me in a WTF? moment. In other UK politics news, the national minimum wage is due to go up in April. Which is good. The bad news is that my government department are sufficiently stingy that my grade will be only 46p an hour about said minimum wage - and I'm not the lowest gra...

TIL that one of my colleagues, a Welshman living in Wales, is a full-on Fox-koolaid-drinking, "he did nothing wrong" Trumper. I...I have no idea how to process the sheer weirdness of this.

TIL (from a colleague who has recently returned from a holiday in Poland) that Auschwitz...has a gift shop.

On the plus side, this is a judicial ruling that says Trump incited the insurrection. Methinks that Jack Smith fellow will like that precedent.

TIL that Jupiter has gained/we discovered another moon, bringing it up to a total of 93 (Saturn still wins though with 140 or so). What did they name this one? Dunno yet. I was doing a talk on the solar system and mentioned that Jupiter and Saturn keep going back and forth on which has the most moo...

TIL that Jupiter has gained/we discovered another moon, bringing it up to a total of 93 (Saturn still wins though with 140 or so).

TIL that my house is the perfect size for me and all my associated stuff, everything fits!

....right up until I need to move everything out of the basement so the builders can do their stuff this week. Then it's a case of "oh shit where's this gonna go for a week?"

It might also explain why this dude decided to try crossing the border - he knows he's being investigated for other stuff, his pc (or whatever) he used for child porn is seized, and he thinks "fuck it" and legs it. Perhaps remembering so many old US tv shows/films where someone "runs ...