History, Politics And Current Affairs

You have the factor that RN Captains and commanders often displayed 'Honey Badger' degrees of near-suicidal aggression. Yes, RN famously court-martialled then hung a senior commander who'd failed at an utterly impossible task, as the French guy wryly observed, 'To Encourage The Others', but knowing...

I have questions on the spread of sail power. VICTORY has more than twice SANTISSIMA TRINIDAD and four times that of BUCENTAURE. Something looks off. Try running some of the post 1815 USN or RN big two deckers, or the older three decker 80s or the notoriously crank 2nd rates and see how things pan o...

I’m currently in a bar watching people watch football, bitch about work, talk about planned vacations, drink, and live life like we did in the 90s - happy and absorbed in their own worries, not a dark clouded world. At enormous cost, the world the 9/11 pieces of shit tried to bring into being died s...

From the NYT: Breaking News: Anthropic said it halted potential plots by scientists who used its A.I. models to do research that could have helped develop biological weapons. Is that supposed to make us feel better? Better than not identifying it. Though a lot of these AI checks are a pain in the a...

I get it occasionally. Refresh until it goes away.

First, to you, as Craig would day “good drills that man!” Excellent scene management, keeping calm, and rapidly pivoting to multiple different courses of action as the situation demanded. If I had to be picky, at least here in the US, we’re trained to send someone to get the AED if CPR is needed, so...

Last month I had cloudflare challenges from many regularly visited websites, but for the last 2 weeks, not so much. Getting questions/cloudflare type stuff from Navweaps(but only on the iPad) and Quadrant on-line now. Jonathan It’s becoming really common for a lot of forums to use these before lett...

so the news goes that the US Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump, i alwlays hope that a Ford was named after a Legacy carrier, maybe Hornet, Saratoga, Yorktown ore Lexington. ...Kinda mixed feelings. Apparently, on the one hand this is a se...

Hell today in a tribunal suite I had to be moved room to the back of the building as the normal waiting room at the front with large windows was "like a sauna". So they put me in with the doctor and social worker... Buildings in the UK just aren't designed for these types of heats. You bu...

Doesn't the SNP periodically say that is what is happening.....the English are stealing our water....despite there being no actual links....unlike the links from Wales to England. You expect the SNP to have to be able to provide factual proof of their nonsensical claims?! That sir is heresy of the ...

Was SALEM pulled from her museum berth in this timeline, or did the distortion of the spacetime continuum mean that she was never donated? Did they ever look at other museum ships, or are even the most modern still too old to be worth reactivating? In TLWverse, Des Moines and Salem never left reser...

Matt Wiser wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2026 2:17 am Jaruzelski will be shot. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Neither the first nor last martyr for Polish independence. Mor are the Russians smart enough to comprehend that the situation is already beyond their control, especially when the Poles can shoot Russians and (East) Germans at the same time.

Was SALEM pulled from her museum berth in this timeline, or did the distortion of the spacetime continuum mean that she was never donated? Did they ever look at other museum ships, or are even the most modern still too old to be worth reactivating? Obviously the situation is not sufficiently despera...

No, just being prompted to sign back in every thirty seconds.

We haven’t been a day under 35c for weeks Which is normal here. Which is why we have A/C of course. Makes all the difference! Not just AC. Very different architecture. Ours is able to handle large temperature swings on a given day (here in my part of CA a 40 degree temperature swing is not unusual ...

I saw this earlier… https://youtu.be/FFjm6z2PouI?si=1AwbkpsXt432Ni0w And had to come and check. Still no TLS update… Craig, Point taken. ;) And an aside - Marvel's Star Trek went in a different direction than Paramount - Kirk gets away but runs into....Mirror Enterprise , here to do recon before a ...

kdahm wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2026 5:46 pm Oh Dear! AI models, created by stealing data, have targeted other AI models to take them over and steal their data.

Is this something we should condemn or encourage? I'm torn.

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How Sad! Never Mind!

AI Celebrity Deathmatch?

jemhouston wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2026 8:15 pm I'm slightly confused, if it wasn't suppose to have Internet access, why not remove it from the network fully. Physically remove the network cables.

They probably wanted to more easily toggle internet access - or it was able to access a wifi network.

YMMV, quite literally.

Cars are not one-size fits all. Different vehicles fit different people’s needs, wants and desires. As long as we have a large enough pool of economically viable vehicle types to meet most consumers needs, we should be ok.

It’s doubly interesting because of the essential nature of human rabbinical instruction to understand the Talmud. My understanding is that the Talmud cannot stand alone - all of the human context provided during studying the Talmud by your teachers is essential to grokking the written part. So it’s ...