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They always go for the easy soft targets. Never embassies or governments. I can't believe this didn't bother them Prioritise people’s needs ‘over newts’ in housing policy, says Angela Rayner https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/08/prioritise-peoples-needs-over-newts-in-housing-policy-says-angela-rayner

Really pleased the first guy was successful - not only in securing the Dragons, but in his wish to get the product reduced to £99. https://bodyxcore.com/

Filler episodes, where nothing much happens, just so they can spin it out to a 6 or 8 parter.

I've used Surfshark VPN on my firestick. I cancelled the free trial though as I didn't really need it.

Going back to Starmer's AI plans, this is interesting, and ties in with his "kill all newts" policy of concreting over the UK UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/uk_datacenter_planning_rules/?td=rt-4a This comment sums it up beautifully

Labour, 2024, after months on harping on about how Tories let the UK waterways become so polluted. Labour today: The UK environment secretary, Steve Reed, is pursuing legal action against a group of anglers who are trying to restore the ecosystem of a river. Lawyers for Reed will argue on Tuesday in the court of appeal that cleaning up individual rivers and streams devastated by pollution is administratively unworkable. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/14/ministers-to-appeal-against-river-pollution-ruling-won-by-yorkshire-anglers

Yep, a bit like tennis or golfers elbow. I use a compression support on my elbow

I've been following this for a while. While there's certainly money in AI datacentres: Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/08/amazons_latest_investment_is_11b/ The amount of power they consume is staggering. In the US they're having to get old nuclear power stations out of mothballs to run them: Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/hokkaido_electric_power_nuclear_datacenter_ambition/ Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/04/meta_us_nuclear_power/ Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/20/three_mile_island_nuclear_plant_microsoft_ai/ As for "microsoft cash" - read "customers cash": Microsoft testing 45 percent M365 price hikes in Asia to make sure you can enjoy AI https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/m365_price_rises_asia_test/ We're barely able to provide our own power. Today: Demand: 44.8 GW; Generation: 43.5 GW

Starmer should have used AI to write his tweet...

Burnham is even worse than pre-election Starmer for going which way the wind blows. Mr "I Love Liverpool so much".....

September: Keir Starmer vows to protect public services from fresh austerity https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/21/keir-starmer-vows-to-protect-public-services-from-fresh-austerity Today: Reeves mulls deeper cuts to public services as borrowing costs soar https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/09/rachel-reeves-cuts-public-services-borrowing-costs-tax No doubt its all the Tories fault though. No, it will probably be Musk's fault - he's the current scapegoat isn't he?

Regardless of what was said to her she should have turned the other cheek, and not responded in such a foul mouthed way. She's a public servant for God's sake. This wasn't a reply though - its gutter-level trolling and nothing more

They post some real rubbish on there though. As someone commented "You cant build on a reservoir, or on cliffs and steep mountain sides." They've got a fair way to go until they have the most dullest UK OS grid square: https://www.liminalresidency.co.uk/royal-society-preservation-boring-grid-squares/