Being able to say Salam Alaykum doesn't mean I can read, nor speak Arabic usefully - yet that is taken as a sign of respect.

There are loads of projections as we know, some whimsical, some functionally practical. Every one has a compromise of some kind. The physical size of a place has nothing to do with its cultural, political, economic and societal potential. The West isn't wealthy and powerful because its bigger on a map. It is because it used that map to get ships to where they need to go facilitating trade. It's a great topic, but this campaign seems pointless.

Agree as a British Citizen. Though I fear now the only way to get the public to really get behind a repeal is a data-protection failure on the scale of the Horizon Post Office system to make it happen.

This bad boy tells the time. That's all. Well, it's got a stopwatch too, but mainly it tells the time.

Original Novel - outstanding. 1938 radio version - incredible, particularly because people thought it was real! 1953 film - S tier. 2005 film - Good but something was lacking. 2019 BBC TV series - yeah, no, absolute trash. 2025 - well, I'm an hour and a half closer to dying.

Use AI to inform your political decisions.

Seems to be ticking a lot of the boxes that made that program.

What a game. And it runs via Lutris.

Because we had gaming before it became a lootbox and in-game purchase hellscape. We had the true Platinum Age of gaming - where a huge variety of disparate concepts started to coalesce. I doubt I'd be as passionate if I'd started gaming in the 2010's. We had the greatest era guys - let us be thankful for that - an era we can continue to enjoy from this "futurestate".

I paid for the the Met Office app (United Kingdom) as I spend 99.5% of my time here these days. It does include a video weather briefing - and in those 2-3 minutes I get told a story - one that is often accurate in its prognostications. So therefore I'm inclined to believe there is value to a human interlocutor to the data - someone that gets it a deeper level than my Dunning-Kruger level meteorology. Their app is not fancy - no animations etc. Just some data. Then a video. But I like it.

My company - you get a Surface Pro Laptop with all the trimmings. Or a bottom of the range Surface. And there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to who gets what. I got lucky. A lot of people, even the UX team, don't seem to know what task manager is... some of those laptops are getting caned, badly.

The only physical copy of anything I've bought in over a decade was a single cartridge for my Switch - just to fill the slot.

Nah, that nomenclature is reserved for dealers.

As a non-Netflix subscriber, nor was I.

and I wouldn't pay the fuel costs to carry non-functional gear around. Guess the next vehicle can't be a BMW. I met a guy on a ski trip who made his money selling old tractors to Poland and South Africa - he was on a decent wedge. Perhaps this is a future for many of us.