Daggers

Wife has managed to break my car so I'm about to go look at the stuff I got for my lad while I'm waiting for the AA. Fortunately for her she's on another 24hr shift today/tonight. Our marriage won't end today.

Today was smashing. The new Mac arrived at the same time as the new DSLR, so I've got hours of fun ahead reading, tweaking and playing. I'm staggered by the camera kit - all of it is secondhand, but aside from the boxes you wouldn't know it as it looks absolutely brand new. I can thoroughly recommend Wex if anyone is looking for used kit.

As someone who is frequently misunderstood when trying to say nice things that very, very infrequently and incredibly rarely come out a bit wrong, I completely empathise with poor Bob here. Some people are very quick to take offense over the tiniest word these days. We all need to show a bit more love and understanding to all the Bobs of this world. And by "all the Bobs", I mean me.

Is that better?

When you've mopped up those tears, I'll remind you that you said "children didn't pass it on easily". This is scientifically illiterate bollocks and deserves to be called out for that. It's the repetition of arguments used by Far Right loons, libertarian tossers, and conspiracy cranks. It doesn't propose a counter argument, it denies the existence of proven fact. But then what can anyone expect from someone who posts something as dumb as "COVID has now been downgraded to what I personally considered it in the first place - a bit of a sniffle and head cold"? It exemplifies your wholesale lack of understanding of viral transmission, risk, and resilience at population level changing over time.

This is the only tip that counts. I was made to do it twice. The wife hadn't learned hard enough from the first time - we ended up going home early after two nights.

One is a constant repeating of positions and ignoring opposing views, the other is almost 5yr old science and research denialism. Both are boring the tits off me. Anything possibly entertaining has been drowned out by hot takes no one needs.

I won't be sorry to see the News thread and the NHS thread deleted.

I used to cover at least one amazing battery breakthrough a month. After a number of years of none of them making it from a University press office into the real world I stopped bothering. To re-write that article's heading: "Cheap electric car batteries will not be made soon because the boffins haven't even got to the working prototype stage". ...But then that would be a lot less racey and attract far fewer readers.

I don't tend to go to Dorset, but when it's mentioned this always pops into my head for some reason

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/07/24/plugged-in-classroom/

Bloody influencers on the ticktocks have convinced idiots they can take amazing pictures by simply buying a camera...meaning my X100VI order won't get delivered for at least another three to four months. By the looks of things, a number of them are already finding out they need to know how to do photography, can't do photography, and are trying to shift their purchases for RRP+. Dumbarse millennials.

Impressive growth

The State of the UK Climate 2023 report provides the latest comprehensive review of the UK’s changing climate. It examines how the UK’s climate last year compares to previous years, including information on notable meteorological extremes through 2023, how the UK extremes are changing over time, sea level rise around the UK and nature’s response to the weather and climate. The paper was published in the Royal Meteorological Society’s International Journal of Climatology on Thursday 25 July. State of the UK Climate 2023 Mike Kendon, Amy Doherty, Dan Hollis, Emily Carlisle, Stephen Packman, Mark McCarthy, Svetlana Jevrejeva, Andrew Matthews, Joanne Williams, Judith Garforth, Tim Sparks https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8553

I knew there was something obvious I was missing

It's not even a joke, eh. If I were a gambling man I'd have him down as the first sacking of the season.

Dating sites? Isn't that a complicated and expensive way of having a wank? I'm genuinely confused.

Plan: 1. Go to London 2. Drink & do coke 3. Tek are cuntree bak 4. Get arrested by woke police under the direction of the WEF 5. Locked up in cell covered with 5Gs and chemtrails They are our best and brightest nationalists.

Absolute bollocks. I'd substantiate this with studies, but if you're thick enough to have made it to today still spouting this absolute shit I doubt you have the comprehension skills required to understand them.

Five years and you are still advertising your stupidity like it's a clever thing to do. Go away, shoooooo, go talk to someone who tolerates your ridiculousness. Idiot.

Got Maitlis' book to start. Needs the family to give me a bit of peace.

Emotional?

If only we lived in a country where children existed in isolation from the rest of society, eh? Instead, kids and staff share homes with relations who may have been at high risk. As much as it doesn't feature on his radar (because presumably he doesn't care), it had everything to do with being able to see a bigger picture and having a responsibility for the whole of society. One only has to look at how flu and viral gastroenteritis radiate through the population from class contamination - and had SFA to do with 'unions kicking off'. It staggers me that we're coming up to five years after the event and some of these people still don't grasp the basics.