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That are doing this in the UK too

Am a Brit who lived in California 1991-2000. I love America and Americans, but like the UK today, the country has been broken for decades, with the loving family unit ruined by liberals, leading to youth who commit massacres. I was in the path of the Hungerford Tragedy gunman in the 1980s here in England. What he did to his victims (on par with a similar brutal massacred in Oz) was horrific. This, Columbine and others all had the same thing in common, loners, often without a father. All this breach of privacy through surveillance is just big money for the equipment makers and a huge waste. We have CCTV here in UK everywhere. It does NOTHING to stop a huge increase in shop lifting, knife crime, property theft and terrorism. Nothing! Why does someone who is about to kill or rob or other care about being videod? They either wear a face covering, or don't care if they get killed or caught by the authorities. End liberalism, re build the nuclear family, and the killing will stop. QUOTE ME ON IT!

This entity has been brilliant in the past at discovering and highlighting the unstable jet streams, that have made the weather, here in the UK anyway, very unpredictable on a day to day basis. 16 degrees one day in November, then down to 5. (Was never like this in my childhood.) HOWEVER... The rediculous woke aspects, highlighted in the UP are, like DEI and other nonsense, a waste of tax payer's money. I hope the Trump admin retains the NCAR after pruning it, or creates a new entity with more science based goals.

Why do we need brighter tellies? Watching in the day? Mine is ok. 3-4 year old Sony backlit 49" LCD. Looking to upgrade to an LG OLED 65" 2023 model that has great reviews, Means I save £1000 over latest. As long as it makes Playstation gaming great, with the odd streaming in betweenm we're good. We shut the blinds anyway to prevent reflections on the screen, so don't need increased brightness. Only high brightness displays needed are for digital signage / video menus, like HEYYU Sunshine. IE, >1500 nits. Ideal for viewing in restaurant windows facing the street.

Thank you! I was about to post the very same. This from X earlier today: https://x.com/SamaHoole/status... (Text below in case you're unable to access X.) Sama Hoole @SamaHoole 10h 1066, England. William the Conquering just taken the throne. Within months, he issues the Forest Laws. Hunting deer is now forbidden to anyone below noble rank. The punishment isn't a fine. It's death. Not execution by sword, which would be quick. Execution by hanging, slow strangulation, body displayed in the village square as a warning. Sometimes they'd blind you first and let you starve instead. The cruelty was the point. These weren't conservation laws. The deer population was massive. Herds roamed freely across thousands of acres of "royal forest" that just happened to include the land peasants had been hunting on for generations. The real reason becomes clear when you look at what replaced venison in the peasant diet. Bread. Lots of bread. Grain-based gruel. Pottage made from whatever vegetables they could grow. The lords continued eating venison. Multiple deer per week. Whole roasted boars. Fatty game birds. Their tables groaned with meat at every meal. The peasants ate grain and were told it was God's will that only nobility could hunt. The Church backed this up with sermons about knowing your place in the divine order. A peasant family could watch deer walk through their barley field, destroying their crop, and be executed for killing the deer to feed their starving children. The deer belonged to the king. The barley belonged to the king. The peasant belonged to the king. And the king ate venison while the peasant ate gruel. This wasn't about protecting animals. It was about controlling protein access. A population fed on grain is weaker, more compliant, easier to manage. A population eating meat is stronger, more energetic, more likely to cause problems for the ruling class. The Forest Laws stayed in effect for 800 years. Eight centuries of restricting meat to the elites while forcing the masses onto grain. And during those eight centuries, the peasant class got shorter, weaker, more disease-prone with each generation. The nobility, eating their venison and boar, stayed tall and strong. You can see it in the armor. Noble armor from the 1400s fits a 5'10" man. Peasant remains from the same period average 5'3". Same genetics. Different diets. The nobility ate what humans evolved eating. The peasants ate what they were allowed to eat. The elites have always known: Control the meat supply, control the population.

Our hospitals are full of younger than how it used to be people with UPF caused diseases, diabetes being top. Hospitals are for accident victims and having babies, not self or industry induced behaviour.

Two examples: 1. A decade or so ago, in my capacity as a tech entrepreneur, I was in chats with some engineers at a certain well known UK University. I went to visit the Uni's core technology lab re a joint venture. It was staffed mainly by young Chinese, who were very odd in their behaviour, but at the time, I did not know anything about the Chinese efforts to infiltrate our institutions. A wealthy Chinese woman who was involved tried to lure me (and other British business people) to her home somewhere else. I declined. 2. Later I want to a mixer in London held by our patent attorneys at the time. All the company partners were there along with clients. Much alcohol being consumed. I got to talking to a Chinese lady who had bene working for the firm but told me she was looking for a new job, and asked me for a role. She said she had previously been working for the UK government. She was very inquisitive and I did find it all very concerning. I did not take things further. Fast forward to today, with Chinese part ownership of some of our critical infrastructure utilities including a water company, and I can see the big picture now. China has inserted or been trying to insert it's tentacles everywhere. This is immensely serious. I am glad I did not release any of my companies IP, even under NDA. Ironically, I do buy solar panels from Longi via UK's City Plumbing, but they are good, and there is no risk to national security in doing so. Our solar electronics are from Victron, a Dutch company, so China cannot disable our energy generation! It was obvious China used Covid to make a killing, mainly via al the PPE tat. UK government were fooled hook line and sinker. Trump has always known China is a threat, he's a superb judge of character and saw through their smiles and BS.

...cupboard, each grouped in types, IE, USB-C to USB-C, USB-A to USB-C, HDMI, mini HDMI, 3.5mm to 3.5mm, Lightning to USB-C and so on. Damned useful! The most of a type I have is USB-A to USB-C then microUSB that is pretty much dead.

Finally, the MSM is beginning to crumble, so we get a more raw honest analysis of what is going on, everywhere. The MSM is the middleman, the car salesman who blacks the tires, vacuums the carpet & puts additive in the engine to hide the cracked head.

..buy an Apple TV latest gen. My otherwise great Sony TV begin to slow down being based on Android. I bought used AppleTV 4K Gen 3 and could not believe how fast, slick and easy to use it is. It's turned by TV into something way way better and up to date. And no pop ups or sluggish UX. Re fridges, don't buy one, and if they insert the ads AFTER you bought one, demand a refund! They will learn. If it's Opt In, then fair enough.

Not mentioned in the Slashdot text is the way the movie The Day After Tomorrow envisioned this, albeit in an exaggerated form. However, the science, explained by the English scientist in the movie, was pretty accurate. The movie was produced by FOX, and they are right wing. I read somewhere the movie was made to exaggerate the effects of climate change such that when the reality struck, it would not seem so bad. And therefore, we would not go after big oil! Crazy or what? This reply powered by my 1000 watt solar panels. Doing my bit.

Thank you for that perfect and accurate analysis. You are spot on. Not mentioned in the Slashdot text is the way the movie The Day After Tomorrow envisioned this, albeit in an exaggerated form. However, the science, explained by the English scientist in the movie, was pretty accurate. The movie was produced by FOX, and they are right wing. I read somewhere the movie was made to exaggerate the effects of climate change such that when the reality struck, it would not seem so bad. And therefore, we would not go after big oil! Crazy or what? This reply powered by my 1000 watt solar panels. Doing my bit.

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You are spot on. Greetings from England, where the collapse of empathic intelligence by our leaders, and even some of the jobsworth public, is worrying. Same in Canada too, where they have banned hiking in the interests of making people get fat so big diabetes can profit. I mean, due to fire risk. The West has collectively lost the plot. No wonder Trump is working with Putin. For all the flaws of Russia, the people, like Asians, are not so woke and stupid.