danny.

5 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

Why do you two never come up with some arguments that are rationale and true? 

It's all laughing emojis, pick one thing then move to another or, as with Kenny here, be internally disingenuous.

You're describing many posters on here, not just Tommy and Kenny

1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said:

Unfortunately we have an electorate who are so stupid, they voted 10 years ago today to put economic sanctions on itself, caused uncontrolled mass immigration and created a small boats crisis; and when they finally have a Prime Minister who is provably solving those problems, they don't even ****ing want it. 

Do you genuinely believe this?

20 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

The bonus of an EV is advanced climate cooling conditions in this heat. 

Yea so nice. Just whack the climate control on 15 mins before you get back in, game changer. Same in the winter too. 

On 26/05/2026 at 13:19, Fox92 said:

Last two times I've been to McDonalds they had new bigger straws. Much better than the paper straws.

 

 

They're still paper, aren't they? But you can actually drink things through them now. The milkshakes were impossible to drink using the old straws! You got like 1-2 sucks (ooo err!) before it stopped working.

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Any idea when the ban ends @davieG

Bold of you to assume there is an end

1 hour ago, Samilktray said:

100% 

 

just don’t like cooking a tomato if truth be told 

This is quite shocking to read. A fried beef tomato half is amazing in a fry up. 

16 hours ago, Samilktray said:

Cooking a Tomato ruins the tomato experience. Much better fresh and uncooked imho. 

Are you including a fry up in this?

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

Got it. 

 

Well, you might be right there, but those left afterwards might see it differently, depending on how it all plays out. 

 

I know it isn't popular and people like to often stay boxed within their own space and time, and I hope that I'm wrong. I fear that I'm not, though. 

It doesn’t matter what people think, though, the average person has no power. They don’t get to choose the direction of global affairs. Those choices are made for us and we have, every now and then, the illusion of democracy. 

9 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

I'm sorry, do you mean that the choice won't happen or that most people's choice on it simply won't matter?

The latter 

2 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Back on topic, judging by the conversation above this is unpopular:

 

It's almost an inevitability that our species either goes one world or full tribal warfare followed by Mad Max dystopia inside the lifetime of most of the contributors here. 

 

Each and every person will have to choose which they prefer, or not and be remembered for that, too. 

Just to remind you again, we don’t actually get to choose which. 

3 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Only as a response in this case.

 

Is the assessment about AI being abused in a new kind of arms race between bad people inaccurate, then?

I don't understand what AI has to do with the "idea of supremacy". 

52 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Unfortunately there's still so many humans so caught up in the idea of supremacy that they don't know or don't care about how dangerous the methods are to get it. Particularly when they think the consequences are far enough away for it not to affect them. 

It's genuinely impressive how you make every topic about this.

1 minute ago, Chelmofox said:

I cant find any specs on V2 that make that claim. My comment was about data centers, thought made it clear that more goes on than just LLM calls.

Fair enough, we are talking about different things then. I agree a general purpose data centre isn't ideal in space. A self contained one that that mainly holds LLM models and doesn't need to talk to other centres loads wouldn't have an issue with latency though, obviously some parts would need syncing like billing/usage/limits etc but thats not as time critical as requests. The main issue is cooling, they would need an insane amount of radiator area to get rid of the heat via infrared.

And also, sorry, not V2 - I had mistakenly thought StarLink was on V1 now - it's already V2. The next gen (which I guess is V3) is going to be at a lower orbit and SpaceX have claimed < 5ms latency. You're right, current is closer to 25-50 most clients (which again would be fine for an LLM only data centre, and TBH probably a lot of general hosting, it wouldn't be perceivably slower for a lot of less urgent stuff like general website hosting, esp once you take browser and CDN caching into account)

I said V2. Not sure why you’ve pivoted from LLM API calls to real time bidding. 

17 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

Not my area of expertise, but i thought the heat dynamics dont really work in space. Sure its cold, but with no atmosphere you cant get the heat away from the hardware. I also image that real world latency would be a massive issue, as well general maintenence. 

Latency isn't an issue at all. APIs are nowhere near instant now, even the quickest models have perceivable delays of seconds not ms. Starlink V2 latency is < 5ms, assuming AI satellites are in that ballpark or even double that - it wouldn't be noticeable for gaming let along LLM API calls.

25 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

Fairly clear there needs to be some form of globally agreed structures/laws to govern ai. Also fairly clear there's no chance, particularly with trump in the white house. 

Which countries are pushing to govern this? 

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

 

I think there's only two ways things can really end up on this topic. 

 

Either someone somehow develops a system to detect AI digital output with accuracy as close to perfect as possible that can be applied in every necessary situation, or all such digital evidence will end up being seen as unusable or inadmissible as evidence for anything, with all the consequences that entails. 

 

Seems like the debate about "Correction" in The Capture is only the start of it. 

It would be pretty easy to train a model on that data to bypass it - then it's an arms race that eventually would be won by AI as it would merge into non-AI footage.

34 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Just watching a YouTube video with people in it. Checked the comments and googled and found it was AI. I wouldn't have guessed, honestly it's a bit chilling that the technology is too good to tell apart from real life now.

 

I just don't see how the legal system, administrstion/beaurocratic systems etc. will be able to cope with it really. What's stopping someone just manufacturing evidence to frame people or manufacturing alibis with this stuff, or politicians manufacturing reasons to discredit their opponents, push through legislation or reasons to go to war?

it's also going to make feasible denial for many crimes an absolute minefield.

1 hour ago, MaidstoneFox said:

Pretty much the same everywhere. Even somewhere like Oxford Street in London is finding it tough and has filled up units with American candy stores. One of the initial reservations around building the Highcross was that it would move footfall away from Gallowtree Gate and that's happened, even more so with the decline of high street shopping and the focal point now is very much High Street, Highcross and St Martin's. The reality is that with out-of-town and online shoppers there just aren't enough customers to sustain a shopping area from Belgrave Gate, Gallowtree Gate, up to Market Street and across to High Street and the Highcross. So the bigger question is what do you do with those areas that are declining, you don't want them to become no-go zones.

 

Would we have been better not building the Highcross in the first place? I think it was impossible to predict the rapid expansion of online trade and arguably the city needed the newer facilities of the Highcross to attract the marquee entertainment brands, stores and restaurants that would of gone elsewhere.  Similarly, there were quite a lot of arguments at the time, against locating The Curve and the Phoenix where they are now and creating the 'Cultural Quarter', as it was away from where most of the footfall was. Some figures in the council argued that the creation of that Cultural Quarter was better positioned close to the station to appeal to commuters and out-of-town visitors. However, what you now have is a very siloed city centre.

 

In my opinion, the one thing that might rescue the city is a tram system, linking all the key sites, such as hospitals, universities, stations, shopping areas and so on. But maybe it's too late for that, you are possibly looking at just how well you manage the decline of those shopping areas.

Imagine getting a train to Leicester to watch a play and your first experience is Granby Street

On 28/04/2026 at 11:31, CornwallFox said:

Absolutely this is the case. Danny as usual doesn't see anything that doesn't fit his motivation for posting. 

Oh sorry, I was too busy on my far right marches to respond to your post necromancy.

1 hour ago, CornwallFox said:

The point was simply that costs are already high with landlords. There's more landlords now and costs are exponentially higher. Partly because huge numbers of landlords buying properties at the bottom end of the market have caused massive demand and price inflation over the years. They are passing on high costs because they caused high costs.

And it's not difficult to stop corporate landlordism if we wanted to.

Huge numbers of more landlords buying more properties to rent has caused massive demand. OK...

1 hour ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Property investment has seen consistent yield and capital appreciation, outstripping wage growth, across prob all UK regions over the medium-long term. There's high demand and a limited supply, simple economics. If you've been vaguely organised/competent since 2011 you would have made very good gains.

If incompetent and anxiety-ridden happy clappers think the Greens and RRA will kill private letting, that's a very good thing, they will panic and sell at distressed prices and present good opportunity in the market. 

Good stuff, look forwards to everything being affordable again and there being plenty of rental properties available at cheaper prices for the people who need to/want to rent. No idea what happy clappers means, people are happy Zach has fixed everything and are clapping the move? Good to know it's all in hand. 

2 hours ago, CornwallFox said:

Landlords have flooded the market over the last 20 years and all rent has done is increase more and more and more. 

Yes, because costs have gone up, mortgage interest rates, far higher maintenance costs (esp. post-COVID), and higher taxes plus legislation that makes it more expensive to rent out. And of course supply/demand adds to it too.

I'm sure they will all come back down once Zach has put the private landlords in jail though. Just have to be patient. And Blackrock definitely won't want to make as much money as they possibly can.

1 hour ago, Tommy G said:

Who are the other two?

 

 

Good luck when people use Crypto to pay for this...