Don't forget the Tory press getting their knickers in a twist about Just Stop Oil inconvencing a few people!
My uncle is a huge Monty Python fan so when I was setting up the mobile phone we'd bought him I added this as his notification sound. It was still pinging away the other week. I did realise that, as he's deaf as a post, he might not even know about it. Still a great notification sound.
I used to think nurses
Were women,
I used to think police
Were men,
I used to think poets
Were boring,
Until I became one of them.
Red squirrels are big down my way (I thought I saw one on my fence the other day but it was a grey) and I suspect any agency that caused the death of a few dozen might get lynched. 2,000 is pretty outrageous.
Eight-eyed cave creature
So a spider in a hole.
He's a character. Literally.
Is the floor at an angle too in that first photo?
It builds clanking replicators and punts them out into the galaxy which start mining resources to make other clanking replicators, so it spreads exponentially.
Until...
A) It meets a more advanced species of clanking replicators that start converting it into themselves or: B) some distant version develops a change that makes it superior then sweeps back converting the older generations into itself, which goes on and on evolving until the heat death of the universe by which point it has evolved into a god like state and sublimed or figured out how to make a portal to the next universe or jump sideways into a younger parallel universe, where it does the same.
This is.not much of a surprise given all the nonsense with new oil and gas contracts as well as the constant chipping away at green policies.
What I don't get is the lack of sense of urgency amongst the 0.1% - we all live in the same planet and their mountains of cash will only get them so far (this side of jumping on a rocket ship to somewhere an order of magnitude or two more hostile to life).
That's how they get you - the French are too busy making le sweet sweet amour to watch porn. Probably. Better to pretend to be Dutch or German.
Digital identity wallets and, our favorite, facial age estimation, where the features of a user's face are analyzed to estimate the user's age.
Well that could be "fun". Poor George Dawes - he's just a big baby.
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This was pretty inevitable. If people were burning down 5G masts because it gave them spaces AIDS or was part of Bill Gates' efforts to hack their children to become surly and uncooperative then something nominally based in reality was always going to get out of hand. I say nominally because you don't do this because you object to paying a few quid, you do it because you've drunk the 15-minute-city Kool-Aid (and I'd bet they believe an awful lot of other conspiracy theories too).