In the past the military would’ve had to pay an actress to pretend to be a bridge bunny.

we have microplastics instead now.

Oddly the UK is somehow ahead here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-open-document-formats-odf-in-your-organisation

Being a decent human being makes You more qualified

I thought that was grounds for disqualification?

reprap goes brrrr

It’s possible he was assassinated.

People forget there was around a dozen actual documented assassination attempts, the first in 1931.

That’s always the problem with being in power, there’s almost certainly someone who wants to get rid of you, but the more paranoid you behave about it the number of people who want you gone increases.

Close, Rupert Murdoch

There’s some irony in that sponsor block has to block four segments of the video.

Reminds me of “‘How to murder your husband’ writer sentenced for murdering husband”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61786575

Knight Automated Roving Robot

When did military leaders become so spineless?

Wellesley must be spinning in his grave (he probably was already at the lack of hats in parliament, but that’s besides the point)

I only know about this because of zero escape lol.

One box, I’m not messing with anything powerful enough to predict the future.

Everyone lost their marbles

Their security was a bit wank.

“we can excuse mass surveillance, but we draw the line at racism” is what I get from that.

But still boring

I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.

They’re arguing it under section 20, probably this part

the making available to the public of the work by electronic transmission in such a way that members of the public may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.

It looks like they’re arguing that by hosting the games valve are acting as a pirate MP3 site.

I think they would have to prove that they did so knowingly, which can only really be done if they ignored takedown notices.

This was inevitable after valve caved to pressure from card processors. The sharks have smelt blood.

Juries are very unpredictable in such cases. And that’s what they are playing on.

This is in the UK, except in very rare exceptions, we don’t have juries for civil matters.