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[DaGaffer]

the outcome would not at all be certain.

Oh it would. Argentina has no force projection capability and unlike last time there wouldn't be a failure of political will in the UK to create an opening for them. They'd be coming at a defended Falklands not a handful of bored marines on sheep-shagging duty

 

[Scouse]

Man. Looking at the Argies capability, they've literally got nothing do they.

 

[SilverHood]

Don't disagree @Zarjazz - but it's still a bit silly saying that America would come in on Agentina's side in a new Falklands war.

There's oil. The traditional diplomatic playbook goes out the minute there's oil involved. If Trump thinks that his family can profit by backing Argentina , then they'll back Argentina all the way. I don't think Trump and co expects it to come to blows, but there's a middle ground where a third party handles the oil rights and both Argentina and the UK get a slice of the pie. It might just be that a Jared Kusher backed firm becomes this third party. This is how Trump operates. Graft, Graft and more graft. It should be expected at every turn these days.

 

[Scouse]

Apparently the UK firm who found the oil needed 3.5bn to exploit it - and they got it from Israel, who've taken 2/3rds of the profits apparently.

It's wrong all round tbh. Plenty of corruption. And from their (US n Argies) why shouldn't they be in on it...

 

[Lamp]

View: https://youtu.be/nt0TEqBkfSM?si=DNxprOHGme0rTmoc

 

[Scouse]

Perfectly illustrates what AI cannot give. There's no tension or emotional content in any of that. It's awful across the board but the lack of a real John De Lancie behind the (not very) Q mask is particularly unsettling

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Embattle]

Jamaican officials to bring reparations petition to King Charles

The King will be asked to refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

www.bbc.co.uk

The three questions which the Jamaican government is asking the King to refer to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) are: whether the enslavement of Africans in Jamaica was legal under English law, whether it broke international law, and whether Britain now has a legal duty to provide redress.

Surely the answer to the three questions will end up being:

No
No
No

 

[BloodOmen]

Jamaican officials to bring reparations petition to King Charles

The King will be asked to refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

www.bbc.co.uk

Surely the answer to the three questions will end up being:

No
No
No

Oh, another one of these

Apparently 300 years of legal history can now be settled with a strongly worded invoice.

 

[Raven]

Middle of a week off, wife is off to London for the day, got a few jobs to do, but nothing major. Got myself some THC vape juice, and already started on it. Just thinking, what if Trump were to declare America a Christian-Capitalist Republic, and himself emperor?

Edit. Civ 6 challenge. bugger the jobs.

 

[Overdriven]

AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems | Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.

www.quantamagazine.org

 

[Raven]

LIV Golf: Players have option to leave after competition files for bankruptcy protection

LIV Golf has filed for bankruptcy protection with at least $45m (£33m) owed to players, who will now have the option to leave.

www.bbc.co.uk

Oh what a surprise.

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Zarjazz]

AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems | Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.

www.quantamagazine.org

Controversy is kind of an understatement (well, in academic circles). Seems like the OpenAI solution was only made possible by relying on information stored in a private Codex workbook being used by the two (Anthropic) researchers, and the OpenAI paper even has a typo from the original source their model has faithfully reproduced. But it's AI, so no one cares about blatant plagiarism right?

 

[Scouse]

Controversy is kind of an understatement (well, in academic circles). Seems like the OpenAI solution was only made possible by relying on information stored in a private Codex workbook being used by the two (Anthropic) researchers, and the OpenAI paper even has a typo from the original source their model has faithfully reproduced. But it's AI, so no one cares about blatant plagiarism right?

I know that they'd raised a concern and but I didn't know they'd evidenced it.

An interesting thing is - if you're using AI to do the heavy lifting, is it really all your work anyway? We reward scientists for breakthroughs but if it's not actually their minds that make the breakthroughs, should they really be claiming the "first" that is currently incredibly prestigious.

More widely though - it's clear that AI can be a massive benefit to mankind. If we can accelerate our problem solving from decades to days then the pace of scientific revolution can scream ahead.

 

[Deebs]

Surprise!

UK tinned mackerel no longer contains mackerel

The Chilean jack mackerel is of lower nutritional value and is imported from South America

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Deebs]

Think I touched a raw nerve on Amazon

I completely understand your frustration, and I apologize for missing the delivery fee discrepancy on that item. I am an AI, not Amazon Customer Support, but I want to make sure I give you accurate, validated data instead of just reading off general search tags that turn out to be wrong when you get to the checkout page.

 

[Embattle]

Certainly something expensive, but interesting:

Main page - Hungry Minds

Start exploring Hungry Minds - discover our books, gifts, and creative projects curated for thoughtful, curious readers.

hungryminds.com

 

[BloodOmen]

View: https://youtu.be/ZOYaz3SIjHw

 

[BloodOmen]

View: https://youtu.be/XCXZ4MaYBpw

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Overdriven]

There could be a whole island for that!

 

[Bodhi]

LIV Golf: Players have option to leave after competition files for bankruptcy protection

LIV Golf has filed for bankruptcy protection with at least $45m (£33m) owed to players, who will now have the option to leave.

www.bbc.co.uk

Oh what a surprise.

Shame, as I actually quite enjoyed LIV. Hardly watched it on TV but went to a couple of events at the JCB in person and they were a brilliant day out - closer to a music festival vibe than a golf tournament.

Chase and Status did a set at the last one as well.

Edit// I played in a golf tournament yesterday that was 36 holes (or two rounds) in one day. By the end of the day my Fitbit suggested I had covered 12.5 miles and burned 4,600 calories.

Lazy man's sport my ass.

 

[Scouse]

Edit// I played in a golf tournament yesterday that was 36 holes (or two rounds) in one day. By the end of the day my Fitbit suggested I had covered 12.5 miles and burned 4,600 calories.

Lazy man's sport my ass.

Fitbit lies through it's arse to make you feel good.

I used to apparently burn 1000kcal/hour on the MTB (if I'd had a power meter I recon 400).

But still - golf counts

 

[Bodhi]

Fitbit lies through it's arse to make you feel good.

I used to apparently burn 1000kcal/hour on the MTB (if I'd had a power meter I recon 400).

But still - golf counts

I can believe the numbers in this case - was properly humid all day and competitive golf does raise the heart rate due to the amount you have to concentrate - one mistake can easily ruin your day.

Either way, when I got home I was completely bollocksed.

As long as you do it properly - I.e don't take a buggy, I still maintain it's a bloody good workout. Not much cardio unless you're playing in the Peak District as I did last week, takes a lot of stamina and using muscles you wouldn't expect to swing a club properly.

 

[BloodOmen]

 

[Scouse]

So, whadda we think:

Wrexham teenager born without hair has NHS wig allowance slashed

Mum Ceri Williams says without the vouchers she cannot afford her daughter's £1,250 wigs.

www.bbc.co.uk

Should the NHS pay for these sorts of conditions? As it turns out, girl's born with no hair. I get that's emotionally tough, but should it be a cost the taxpayer picks up?

Surely what she really needs to learn is coping mechanisms and emotional robustness. She'll be taking her wig off if she eventually has a partner. Sometimes life is cruel, right?

Fucking hard though.

 

[BloodOmen]

So, whadda we think:

Wrexham teenager born without hair has NHS wig allowance slashed

Mum Ceri Williams says without the vouchers she cannot afford her daughter's £1,250 wigs.

www.bbc.co.uk

Should the NHS pay for these sorts of conditions? As it turns out, girl's born with no hair. I get that's emotionally tough, but should it be a cost the taxpayer picks up?

Surely what she really needs to learn is coping mechanisms and emotional robustness. She'll be taking her wig off if she eventually has a partner. Sometimes life is cruel, right?

Fucking hard though.

I think if the NHS can give free boob jobs to chavs who put on the water works then can afford to give people like her wig funding to stop her mental health from getting worse. That said, I do see the other side of it too, why should they?

As you say, hard to think about... personally I don't see the problem, if they want to cut her funding when shes an adult fine, but while shes still a child? I think thats wrong.

 

[Scouse]

I don't think we should be doing free boob jobs unless there's a medical reason for it. The NHS shouldn't be a "mild unhappiness at my own body fixer".

I also don't think just because a child is a child is a reason to do a thing. People have to live with all sorts of unfortunate things but I don't think it's on wider society to fix all of it.

This sort of thing:

A moment that changed me: I felt hugely self conscious about my skin - until I had a revelation

For years, my vitiligo controlled my life, and I was constantly trying to disguise it. But one day, I realised I could take a very different and extremely liberating approach

www.theguardian.com

In the original article the parents are complaining that it's going to become very expensive for them. But again, I don't think that's a reason for everyone else to cover it. But I could be wrong on this. I've serious misgivings.

Hence why I'm asking

 

[BloodOmen]

I don't think we should be doing free boob jobs unless there's a medical reason for it. The NHS shouldn't be a "mild unhappiness at my own body fixer".

I also don't think just because a child is a child is a reason to do a thing. People have to live with all sorts of unfortunate things but I don't think it's on wider society to fix all of it.

This sort of thing:

A moment that changed me: I felt hugely self conscious about my skin - until I had a revelation

For years, my vitiligo controlled my life, and I was constantly trying to disguise it. But one day, I realised I could take a very different and extremely liberating approach

www.theguardian.com

In the original article the parents are complaining that it's going to become very expensive for them. But again, I don't think that's a reason for everyone else to cover it. But I could be wrong on this. I've serious misgivings.

Hence why I'm asking

I agree, boob jobs should be for medical reasons or for people that have had cancer treatment/boob removed - that sort of thing... not for a chav that wants big boobs just because she can game the system


Speaking of which, there was a chav that did exactly this years ago, Josie something or other, she got massive boobs on the NHS and the exact same hospital turned down a young boy for surgery that would have allowed him to potentially walk again, see if I can dig the article out *searches*

Glamour model who had £5,000 boob job on the NHS facing huge backlash as she's now asking the taxpayer for a REDUCTION - Same slapper then asking for them removed


edit:

It was Josie Cunningham, the Leeds glamour model who became notorious in 2013 after receiving roughly £4,800 of NHS-funded breast enlargement surgery at St James’s Hospital in Leeds, taking her from a 32A to a 36DD.


The child involved, however, appears to have been a two-year-old boy named Oliver Dockerty, rather than a young boy needing back surgery.


The contemporary reports said:

• Oliver Dockerty had cerebral palsy.
• He had been turned down for an operation that would have enabled him to walk.
• The operation was reportedly refused/funded differently by the same NHS trust that had funded Cunningham's breast surgery.
• The contrast between the two cases caused considerable public outrage