Who cares as long as they’re gone?

That was a fun watch, and far from being a negative, her not knowing the song means we get to experience her being one of today’s ten thousand

True, I was near Lands End, and seeing the shadow emerge over the horizon and rush towards us across the sea was pretty intense.

I’m also in the Midlands, so I won’t see it either.
I was in Cornwall for the '99 eclipse and I didn’t see that one as well so at least I’m keeping up with tradition.

Ukraine will be giving them to Russia for free. With express delivery too.

Necessary jobs are mostly farming, mining, manufacturing, and customer service.

And elder care, which is set to be a real growth industry

Reminds me of a joke told by an old Polish priest from his time in the Soviet Union.

A party official is sent to a village that hadn’t been meeting it’s quota.
He meets with the mayor and tells him "Trucks are coming tomorrow. The central committee has decreed you will fill them with your potato stockpile.
“As you say Comrade” says the mayor, “our potato stockpile is stacked high enough to reach God.”
“God?” Retorts the official incredulously “There is no god in the Soviet Union!”
The mayor shrugs “There are no potatoes either”

I’m not sure the corporate lockdown will allow that, but I’ll look into it thanks.

My desktop isn’t a problem, but the Dell laptop issued by my employer is a pain. It can take over an hour to load the models I work on, so I only shut down over the weekend and sleep it weeknights. Every time some BS, probably hidden behind admin credentials by IBM will wake it up within 20 minutes. Luckily I’ve discovered pulling the power and leaving it in battery keeps it asleep.

Would hate to be the member of the cabin crew who has to clamber down the gear to fit the chains during final.

When I had my house reinsulated last year I took the opportunity to run cables from every room to a small closet, and then a run from that closet to the router. Had some… experience, learning how to wire in the sockets, and right now only my office is connected with a bit of patch instead of the switch I’ll eventually need to get the other rooms live, but it’s so much more reliable than it was with WiFi or poweline. Not to mention that those technologies only just kept up with the 36Mb VDSL I’ve been stuck on for the last 10 years. Having ethernet means I’ll actually be able to get the most out of the 500Mb FttP I’m getting next month.

Unauthorized persons discover this one weird trick. Fat controllers hate them!

Andy Peters

Russia perhaps had no advantage wrecking Nordstream. Putin on the other hand, had the advantage that removing it as an option meant the oligarchy couldn’t just oust him, walk back his war, and then use turning the gas to Europe back on to get the money flowing back into their accounts.

Octopus tracker prices for gas are up, but still lower than the cap, and way below where they were last year.

Sounds like NATO needs their own monkey models

He can tell them where they can buy a Mustang at an outrageous interest rate