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How do the evade accountability so often and so deeply? It's bizarre.

FWIW I do more than "hear" about these "stories". My figures weren't just made up. Personal experience but I'm not saying more than that

For every story about it being difficult to claim, there are plenty about people who haven't worked for 20 years who have received over £400,000 in welfare, who could have worked, because they learnt the game. The two sides have to move beyond these talking points if any useful discussion is to be had.

I seem to recall way more thunderstorms when I was younger. Turns out there was a peak during my childhood and we're now on the decline:

"Overall, there was a reduction in the number of days of thunder in the UK per year between 1989 and 2019, according to the study. Thunderstorms increased in the north of the UK and decreased in the south" [0]

Of course there's an element of being more scared of thunderstorms when you're young and noticing them more. I also wear earplugs at night now as the world seems noisier, but I digress.

Also:

"A 2014 study predicted the frequency of lightning strikes around the world would increase by about 12% for every 1C rise in global temperature." [1]

[0] https://www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/How+many+days...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/18/more-than-ha...

When not even 1.x?

lol and next year it'll be something else. Drizzle isn't even 1.x

Very lucky to not have encountered one of the 500 open and confirmed bugs!

I've definitely spammed some long AI responses to generic questions in DMs that can easily be googled or punched into the many AI tools we have!

My company would have spun that like

"We are excited to announce we are supporting our family in their health kick journey. To support them, we have taken the difficult decision to reduce the number of beverages available. We remain fully committed to unlimited delicious tap water, free of charge!"

There was no way I could convince her that it wasn't my fault. Perhaps there was a rigid process in place that disallowed her from helping, even though I'd make it to the second flight on time.

Yeah they generally have the capability to prevent that auto cancellation of your segments (within a certain time frame) but in this case unfortunately they were unwilling or it was too late to catch it.

It's generally to protect revenue because buying A-B-C instead of B-C can be cheaper, and hoards of people used to just segments to save money. So they just assume everyone is trying to cheat them.

Exactly. A lot of the EU is just performative blustering, making the populations think they're the lord their saviour. Incredible PR and marketing.

That fine got an incredible amount of media attention.

The lack of actually paying it, not so much...

Released a week ago? Aren't IMDB ratings high in the first few weeks/months too, because of screenings/film festivals/devout followers etc?

Talk about hyperbole

I've tried this recently and I found it very difficult. Cloudflare bot protection is everywhere, other anti-scrape protections, many 'document' sites using JS to render with no fallback, basic forms requiring JS, authentication requiring JS, payments requiring JS etc

Not intending to sound snarky but do you just not use the web much? Or if you're adding allows all the time, what's the net gain?

Does that confirm that a fine payment was made?

Not universally

Placement of the sign varies. Countries have generally continued the style used for their former currencies. In those countries where previous convention was to place the currency sign before the figure, the euro sign is placed in the same position (e.g., €3.50).[7] In those countries where the amount preceded the national currency sign, the euro sign is again placed in that relative position (e.g., 3,50 €).

In English, the euro sign – like the dollar sign ⟨$⟩ and the pound sign ⟨£⟩ – is usually placed before the figure, unspaced,[8] the reverse of usage in many other European languages

The European Union's Interinstitutional Style Guide (for EU staff) states that the euro sign should be placed in front of the amount without any space in English, but after the amount in most other languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign#Use

Indeed. Microservice zealot 'architects' love to ignore the work that has to into each microservice and the overhead of collaboration between services. They'll spend a couple of years pretending to work on that problem in any meaningful way, then move on to a different company to cause similar chaos

Don't get me started on eco! Now with heat pump dryers barely heating to 45c only your washing machine can do the job now. And you need a specific function to hold a higher temperature as back in the olden days.

The 90c cycle is the only one I fully trust to get proper hot but I can't wash everything at 90

It really has. I had to disable the GitHub plugin to get rid of a PR comment box that wouldn't disappear.

Junit test runs say No tests available about 50% of the time

It feels slower and slower

Today I started getting "unable to save settings" or something, no idea what that is about

It really shows that they're distracted from quality. My guess is with the breadth of features and quite amazing attention to detail, they needed 100% dedication to those efforts, and now a chunk of the company is doing something else, and now the product is falling apart

But hey we have a totally new console engine or something so that's really nice (I've personally never used the console ...)

Neither of you wish to link to what you're referencing?

No thanks. I'm not sending money and traffic to Yandex. I'm going to give Qwant a go (French company, headquartered in Paris)

And according to the link below, the Kagi founder/CEO claims Yandex is a private company headquartered in Kazakhstan, unrelated to the Russian government.

https://ioc.exchange/@troed/113311987220115248

Exactly. Duolingo is a dopamine-delivery, feel-good game app for people who want to waste time but not feel too guilty about it. It's not for learning a language.

Intermediate and advanced language learning requires interaction with humans.

It's great for those who don't want to interact with humans or feel awkward during a human exchange. It's a safe space

Hot weather? Huh? It's spring

Context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157259 / https://vercel.com/blog/update-on-spain-and-laliga-blocks-of...

OP I think is joking La Liga got the power turned off to protect their revenues.

Perhaps you had something constructive to add to the discussion?

Tipping has existed for decades, just not on the level as the US. It hasn't become a cancer.

That and disappearing with your card, swiping it with only some kind of implicit authorisation, doing some kind of pre-auth (?), which is then released/finalised once you add the tip and sign the receipt ? (If I understood it correctly)

De facto it's a web app, not a document, world. Have you tried browsing without JavaScript recently? It's even worse in this AI era when content sites want proof of work, only available via JavaScript.

The value of citizenship is being eroded each year, with governments increasingly keen to strip people of citizenship [0].

First they came for the terrorists, then they came for the dual citizenship lesser criminals.

We're getting a glimpse of who's next. The Dutch government wanted to strip citizenship from people convicted of a crime with an "antisemitic element"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/26/how-idea-of-st...

Too real for a Saturday morning. Sigh