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What an obnoxious old cunt.

A bit harsh, @spindrift isn't that bad.

HMP Wandsworth prison officer does the dirty with in mates https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/30/woman-charged-over-video-showing-prison-officer-having-sex-with-inmate-in-cell

Screws screwing? Pornhub has been exposing this disgraceful behaviour for years.

Ha!

Screwfux Checkout

“chaotic” prison wings and staff being unable to “accurately account for their prisoners during the working day”

Well one certainly knew where the were.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/02/port-infrastructure-delays-threaten-uks-transition-to-net-zero-industry-says

https://features.csis.org/hiddenreach/china-cuba-spy-sigint/

Cuba, which “leases” land to the US Army (Guantanamo), is also playing host to cutting edge Chinese spying facilities.

The FT realising that markets won't deliver climate mitigation or adaptation and externalities are a market failure that no one can afford to pay for

https://www.ft.com/content/b2b6fb7a-9477-4485-a9e3-435b5e9c987e?

A hundred years from now, people are likely to remember our era as the time when we knowingly bequeathed a destabilised climate. The market will not fix this global market failure. But today’s political fragmentation and domestic populism make it almost inconceivable that the needed courage will be forthcoming either. We talk a lot. But we find it effectively impossible to act on the needed scale. This is a tragic failure.

Zealots and apostles of capitalism. Market forces are the beginning and end of all things for them, they’re so unable to think outside that box, and since they’re in positions of power they’re dooming us all.

Oh the same populism part caused by checks notes unregulated markets?

USAF Rapid Dragon system getting closer

Market forces are a great way to explain markets. The FT has been doing some good coverage of how markets aren’t enough to solve these kinds of problems:
https://www.ft.com/content/bbe1bae2-3deb-11ea-a01a-bae547046735

And a lot of people working for financial publications aren’t zealots or acolytes of capitalism, they’re just good at understanding/explaining how it works (and often that translates into seeing how it doesn’t work too)

The Snu has fallen.

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Comment was partly tongue in cheek. Most of my team at some point worked at the FT, The Economist, or Bloomberg, I’m surrounded by the fnckers :).

Hah, okay! I’m in a similar kind of situation… :)

Welcome to our Robot overlords,
who come in peace,
wielding ... paint brushes?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/04/japan-train-robot-maintain-railway-lines

A Bavarian restaurant called the police on a Latvian who paid for every beer individually by card

(16 beers)

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/16-bier-einzeln-mit-karte-bezahlt-polizeieinsatz-in-mamming,UHM1r8m?

Actually the customer called the cops because he was annoyed the landlord kicked him out for being shitfaced

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/mamminger-bierstreit-wirt-stellt-sachverhalt-klar,UHT7t0l

All the media articles about the Wimnbledon killer driver have now been removed:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/1dqp4i2/how_did_the_newspapers_get_hold_of_the_drivers/

It seems to be on the back of a truck, so it needs a human to get it to where the work needs to be done.

It also needs an operator. It's more a tool extension with motors and whatnot than a robot. But Japanese, so it looks fun.

I'd like the German railway to have some of those. Oh there's a tree on the tracks is quite a frequent excuse for delays

https://road.cc/content/news/residents-oppose-schools-bmx-cycle-track-students-308769

You might as well build a motorway back there with all the noise it’ll create.

I kinda hope the council builds a motorway there instead.

Lives next to school complained of noise...