She wants to invade for them, but the Joint Chiefs told her it would be… Kalamata-ous

No, we don’t. We have a trickle of illegal immigrants and until this month a batshit plan to fly the ones that got caught to Rwanda if they tried to claim asylum.

Polly Neate makes £122,500 as the CEO of Shelter. That’s good money but much less than her skills could demand on the open market, and a damn far ways off yacht money. Please don’t spout this ardent nonsense.

“I’m a Conservative,” he says. “The Tories are the people who can bring the money from London.”

Said by a man handing out food from a shopping trolley to his impoverished neighbours, 14 years into Tory rule…

Pressumably the money is sitting waiting to go on the first HS2 train to Manchester…

I wouldn’t read into it; Deadline end most articles that mention a production with a small synopsis.

Not a great look Sir Kier. I still vote for you, because I’m not an absolute fucking moron, but stuff like this makes me feel a lot less happy about doing so.

It’s worth noting that the advertising industry never has had a concept of an untargetted advert. They have always had some marker to target their distribution; be that geographical placement of a billboard, the typical social status of a newspaper’s readership, or the target audience for a tv programme they run ads in. Truly untargetted ads would be effectively useless to an advertiser; nobody in Kolkatta is buying the new American Swiss Cheese from Danone; and nobody in Middle England is buying Japanese tentacle sex toys.

Distribution channel (i.e. a site’s core purpose) is the last untargetted target option; sell sex stuff on porn sites, games stuff on games sites etc. However, when your platform is for everyone, does everything, hosts any kind of content, you have nothing to use.

It is my opinion that the best solution for the average user is to ban cross-site tracking and scraping, but allow content and interaction based advertising within the site. If someone posts on a bunch of maternity groups, advertise them pumps etc. but someone searching that on Google should have the reasonable expectation that clicking on maternitytips.co.nz won’t mean their Facebook feed is full of pumps. I think for most people, that level of profiling is acceptable and, crucially, understandable. They can understand how the data footprint they create impacts what they see. Which is far less intrusive.

That said, Facebook can burn, I left it nearly ten years ago and wouldn’t dream of returning.

Well it depends. There may be a small number of industries doing really quite well in light of Brexit, but there are thousands of businesses that have had to skew or close due to loss of access to the single market, and 2023 is the worst year on record for company liquidations since the collapse in 2009. So clearly not going swimmingly everywhere.

Honestly, I get your point, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a property of the scale, rather your increased familiarity with it. When someone says 68F I don’t have a mechanism to understand that, it’s not part of my experience. Saying 68% of too hot doesn’t help much at all. Whereas I can tell you exactly what I 40C feels like; and how that compares to anything from -15C to 45C, because of my familiarity with the scale.

Neelix in a skant… do not want.

Two months is more wrong than saying three months. Don’t minimise the woman’s wage theft; it was almost three months (which is what? £20k at an MPs salary?).

The First Person Stealth Sim genre (Thief, Dishonored, etc) has been getting very little love in the last few years. Sadly the Arkane games don’t embrace it anymore; while great Prey was borderline as you really couldn’t control the stealth in many sections, and Deathloop and Red Rain are primarily short action games.