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Suggest a whole new subforum area is needed for various threads about the current situation: possible places for people to migrate to, the rescue plan you just mentioned, final party/ride plans if that doesn't come off and so on.

Very much not pier reviewed

Quite variable in quality but they all have the advantage of not taking long. I used to work at a charity with a dozen regional offices, each of which I had to visit at least once a year for tech support, and I would often take the latest (or an old one) on the train with me, knowing I had a decent chance - at the more remote offices - of reading half of it on the way out and the other half on the way back.

What else could he do…

For God's sake, don't ask him that. "Challenge accepted" would only be the start.

a grudgeful person could still weaponise it

It's not as if we have a whole thread listing that kind of person and their repeated attempts to get back in.

Surely it's time for somebody in the Royal household to get Andrew really pissed, take him out into the back yard and put him out of his misery. Before he turns out to have flown Assad to Moscow along with a copy of Zelensky's diary.

Discord can be the glue

I was terrible at Airfix. I didn't have the patience to do the small fiddly bits before the big bits, so I'd end up with Frankenstein's mutated fighter plane and transfers all over my hands. Discord is that kind of glue.

Web forums suck but Discord, Slack and Teams are worse. Unless you like the idea that most of the long-running conversations on here don't work on those platforms, in which case they're great.

Can anyone explain the drinking shitloads of water thing?

It's bullshit, but bullshitters always want to go one better than the last bullshitter. I used to see this on strength training forums, where somebody would be talking about the importance of hydration and the gym bros would out-boast each other about how much you were supposed to drink till somebody said "You have to keep drinking water till your piss is as clear as the water you were drinking".

It's stupid and unhealthy. Making yourself have to piss that much drains your body of salt and other minerals.

Any domain that's loaded that's not explicitly needed for the function of the site is an opportunity for harvesting user data.

Surveillance capitalism doing its thing. Whatever capitalism does the "whatever" relentlessly and without restraint until there's no more profit to be squeezed. Doesn't need a conspiracy - shared common interest works doubly for greedy bastards. But the Toober is adding made up things he thinks might happen, some of which are just technically wrong.

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That dude is rightly called out in the comments for the sponsorship conflict of interest - something he makes worse with the blatant and hamfisted placement of of the sponsor in his video - but it's also quite dishonest. He's slapped together a bunch of semi-related and long-known things (like the unpaid training of AI systems) and used them to argue for something larger that he doesn't even try to prove, while selectively quoting from documents and inserting carefully snipped videos to try and make it look as if other people are agreeing with him when they were actually having a different conversation. Find more honest sources. I mean, Google are evil but how about offering some actual technical information and not just "Wooooah, spooky, watch this graph measring something go up!".

The original Battlestar Galactica was the cowboys in space one; spaceships full of fleeing settlers for a wagon train, cylons for "injuns". Even had Lorne Greene from Bonanza.

Somebody uploaded all 5 episodes of "Howard Goodall's Big Bangs". There's some folk myths mixed in with the history, but it's still a good series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8PpGukzCE

Well, the caveats of the above are "usually" and "unless they have some particular graphical flaw that triggers you". The Q2 and Q3 are quite different in technical terms, so you could also just borrow a Q3 and see how things go; I wouldn't get my hopes up, though.

The only game I can think of with more options than the Red Matter games is Assassin's Creed: Nexux. But then they had to cope with not only the usual problems but ways for people not to throw up while running along rooftops and diving head first from a church steeple into a haystack.

Personally I'm just looking forward to a vr headset that doesn't make me sick

Probably isn't one. It's not usually a property of specific headsets (unless they have some particular graphical flaw that triggers you) but of the VR experience itself, forcing people to look for games that have snap turning vs smooth turning, teleportation vs smooth movement and so on. I forget which headset you have (Quest?) but you might try Red Matter or its sequel; that game has more VR-specific accessibility options than any other game I've seen. You might find a combination of settings that fixes or mitigates it for you, at which point you'd at least have learned something even if most games aren't so flexible.

Policing by consent:

gggg

Love Actually (many times of course)

How long did the CIA detain you?

And? The Germans called it the Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister, and the Brits called it a Jerrycan because it was designed by Germans.

It seems to be pot luck.

The bad luck is very widely shared, sadly.

A bit too soon?

Leaving it till it's no longer topical would be too late.

Culturally I kind of straddle the divide

So does my family, and not just because my wee brother flew helicopters in N.I. and then married an Irish Catholic. He's a small minded bigot who managed to find an Irish Catholic woman who (for complicated family reasons) hates Ireland and the church. He'd say it was too soon, so it isn't.

hearing an actor read Gerry Adams’s statements.

Denying him "the oxygen of publicity". Oh yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOUeauLWEaE

Rewatched Four Lions at the weekend. Still great. I'd forgotten all the Malcolm-Tucker-level swearing: "useless, fuck-my-auntie-from-a-standing-position, pajama-wearing cockerel dicks".