That moment when you look around for the most competent person, and come the sad conclusion that it's you

while it still has the Elon bad bias

So does reality, I wonder what causes it.

Moscow simply paid him more than Kyiv. Probably accompanied by the phrase "Would be a shame if these pictures got out".

worker: Gets new job

Employer: Shockedpikachu.jpg

Error-correction for dropped packets is also pretty shit.

Is that known rapist and sex trafficker Andy Tate?

This is really only a raid, Ukraine has no ability to supply troops by sea, nor the ability to even land enough troops to hold territory.

But the fact that they did this means that Russian "rear" area security is absolute shit, and they have the option to improve that (taking forces from reserves or the fromt) or suffer more rear area raids.

Dont underestimate the role straight up racism played in the brexit vote. It wasn't just foreign propaganda, and much of the propaganda was enabled by racism.

Poorer?

That's weird because in terms of Median Wealth (you know, the thing that decides rich/poor) the US is 21st in the world, the UK is 11th. (Pdf link: https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2022.pdf)

GDP doesn't mean shit by itself.

Well Turkey, if you're wondering why you're not being let into the EU...

Yeah, ethnic nationalism is pretty fucking far from centre. This party was (eventually) banned for being a criminal organisation.

The library I worked for as a teen used to process off-site reservations by writing them to a text file, which was automatically e-faxed to all locations every odd day.

If you worked at not-the-main-location, you couldn't do an off-site reservation, so on even days, you would print your list and fax it to the main site, who would re-enter it into the system.

This was 2005. And yes, it broke every month with an odd number of days.