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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

if they don't have some already, 100% on the Brio train set - except not Brio. The generic wooden railway sets are just as good nowadays, and many many times cheaper.

You can buy a whole dinosaur themed wooden railway set on Amazon for £37. I'd want that, even as an adult!

FWIW, both of my kids played with their wooden railway for years - seriously good investment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I read that book about 30 years ago! I didn't remember the eye-scanning gargoyle, but for some reason I still remember the phrase "Ultima Ratio Regum" from the nuclear powered gun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The poor old White Scars were put out of reach for me by GWs old Tip-Ex-like white paint. Despite what the guides might have said, there is no way that the models were base-coated with the Skull White of the time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think the word needs to imply a creator necessarily.

"Clouds are created when water vapour in the air condenses".

"Black holes are created when giant stars collapse".

I'll concede that going on to question political motive implies a creator, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I assume you're talking about the Unifying feature.

I've got no direct experience, but there are a few people who say that despite Firefox not being listed as supported, it works fine.

https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14961275

As for the spying, I can see how that could be a concern, but I don't think it's too likely.

For convenience, I'm guessing they're using a web interface to the settings in the same way that your router does. They've made a Chrome plugin, so that's probably the route they want you to take because they know it works.

Logitech is a global brand, an they'd get into a lot of trouble in a lot of countries if they were gathering keypress data etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I love Edith Pritchett's stuff!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wish I had your confidence that capitalism can be tweaked into a fair system.

I honestly think the logical end point to capitalism is self-destructive extreme wealth disparity.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

"Oof. Right in the blocks"

"What a load of absolute blocks"

"It's the dog's blocks"

Camera zoom into extreme closeup. "oh... blocks".

Yep, that's the one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Where did you go?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Each time or cumulatively?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Even imagining this pronunciation hurts my ears.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you're a little off on the "we need to fix this world" guys.

Although zombie films / TV series lean heavily into the action side of things, that's just because it's more entertaining than watching people building things, developing tech, doing scientific research.

Remember with COVID 19? Huge numbers of people immediately set out to find a cure, inventing and deploying ways to prevent and monitor the spread, creating pop-in treatment centres, etc.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm seeing a lot of international messages getting this wrong, so this is how you refer to the Prime Minister of the UK.

First, we normally refer to the PM just by name, like anyone else. So, "Keir Starmer" or "Mr Starmer".

"Prime Minister" is not used as a title like "President" is. He's not "Prime Minister Starmer". He's just "the Prime Minister" or "the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer".

Unusually, this new PM is also a knight. Of course, this has its own rules.

If you want to use this title, it's not quite as simple as replacing "Mr" with "Sir'. The first name is more important than the surname here. He's not "Sir Starmer". He's "Sir Keir Starmer" or "Sir Keir".

Hope it helps!

 
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