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Miserable moaning old people are not really miserable moaning old people. It's just in most cases, they've had 60 to 70 years of putting up with PITA morons. It drains you after a bit.


Should have been either @rickygervais or @0fficialtomhard
planetradio.co.uk/signal1/enteโ€ฆ


The problem with Docker is their man page is wank!

$ docker service
gives you a list of commands; "Ooh! yes, ps [list all services] is what I want."

$ docker service ps

Gives you this shit.

"docker service ps" requires at least 1 argument.

See 'docker service ps --help'.

Usage: docker service ps [OPTIONS] SERVICE [SERVICE...]

I just want to know WTF the busted swarm is doing FFS!



๐—–๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฃ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: Hang on to yourself ๐Ÿ”Š
David Bowie (Live) [2017 Remastered]



If only @currys did these, they'd be on my Your Plan quicker than you could blink.

๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐—•-๐—–๐Ÿฒ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€



๐—›๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—–๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฅ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฎ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜†๐—น๐˜‚๐—บ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜†.
news.sky.com/story/home-secretโ€ฆ
#Rwanda #irregularmigrants


I'm wondering if this opposition to the UK/Rwanda deal is a race thing because nobody seems to be up in arms about Italy's deal with Albania or the Turkey/Greece deal and all the other EU deals. Obviously, France believes the UK should take its migrants while paying for the pleasure. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67โ€ฆ

in reply to dick_turpin

Well the article says people are angry about Italy's plan. It's different to the UK one as they will still be processed by their immigration whilst ours could let people live in Rwanda. It's been found to be breaking various laws and may be expensive. It's a way to dodge the real issues driving immigration and we opted out of the right to return people to other 'safe' countries.
Like many things there are no simple solutions, but it helps to work with the neighbours rather
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LOL
And yet the news media is tearing its clothes and gnashing its teeth at how right-wing Europe is becoming, even wheeling out those knackered old accusations of "Facist" and "Nazi" labels in a desperate attempt to stop people talking about the subject or even trying to do something about it.

We will see flights very soon once we install some British lawyers out there. I'm not sure how that makes any difference but I suppose governments always seem to have to jump through hoops to get anything done these days.



I see X wants me to start arguing again? It pisses me off that I'm goaded, and people are shocked and offended when I respond.

My response to this would be:

"But EVERYONE is middle class; in fact, I would argue there's only a small proportion of so-called rich and a huge amount of working families, and if there is still a working class, then Labour has failed! One hundred years and Socialism still hasn't dragged its sorry arse out of the road to Wigan Pier."



I never congratulate people for work anniversaries on LinkedIN most of them are self-employed and couldn't get a proper job if they tried! ๐Ÿ˜›


Better vote Lib Dem if you want to rejoin the EU, although rejoining is a long way down the road, according to their manifesto. I enjoyed reading the section on Asylum & Immigration. I needed a good laugh.

libdems.org.uk/plan



Next time, someone says that the House of Lords should be abolished because it is filled with rich people with nothing better to do; tell them they're idiots and have no idea what they're talking about. They are a valuable safety net for the British people, successfully blocking the Government (Conservative) 496 times since 2010
parliament.uk/about/faqs/houseโ€ฆ

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-668โ€ฆ

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Keir Starmer realises that "Immigration" is going to be a key voting issue in the next General Election. Talk about jumping on the bandwagon.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/poliโ€ฆ


Glad to see not a lot has changed with #ArchLinux in terms of needing a certain level of ability. Spun up my VM this morning with 437 updates available but of course pacman refused because mutter43 and mutter are in conflict. The fix for me was:
sudo pacman --remove --nosave --cascade mutter
sudo pacman -Syyu

Oh, and I had to:
sudo mv /usr/bin/WebKitWebDriver beacuse pacman moaned about that too!



Prepare for a new influx of Twitter users and the return of those who left last time.
itv.com/news/2023-07-01/twitteโ€ฆ


Thought I'd better shake the dust off my own instance seeing as @Evan Prodromou kind of reminded me about #castlecannon


Feel a bit guilty for not having logged into my own instance for a while.


"Swap to stop" You've gotta love slogans!
news.sky.com/story/one-millionโ€ฆ


๐—ก๐—ผ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ
I do a weekly Newsletter for a customer who seems to be obsessed with "Centre-aligned"
The email has a main offer that, IMO always looks a mess and four smaller offers that look fine. Today she sent the brief over with the main offer, as usual, centre-aligned with a section containing bullet points. ๐Ÿคข
I tidied it up and put the bullet points in a single cell, left-aligned and sent the now tidy results off for approval.
"๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ-๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฉ๐˜ด"
๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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I'm going to ask Nicola Sturgeon to do my Lotto numbers for me because fook is that woman lucky!
Total shock! Resigns as the leader of her country on 15 February 2023
Forty-nine days later, the rozzers come to arrest her old man.
Ten minutes before Constable Cameron turns up at the former First Ministers' home, Nikki manages to leave the house with a couple of bags.
#snp
#snp

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Aha! Is this why Nicola Sturgeon stood down, I wonder?
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-651โ€ฆ
Looks like her old man might have fooked her career?
#snp
#snp

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I did wonder how the poison dwarf paid for all her pastel coloured outfits.
in reply to dick_turpin

I was never a fan of the woman. While I agree perhaps Scotland should be given even more independence, I'm not in favour of them leaving the union, so for me, her going was a blessing, but I was shocked and mystified when she announced her resignation.

If I'm right and this is why she resigned, then it's definitely fishy because she's had about four or five weeks to clean up any loose ends before his arrest today.



At least once a week, I buy a poached egg on toast sandwich from the local cafe come sandwich bar. It's convenient as I phone halfway to work and place my order. The sandwich cost ยฃ2.30; however, this morning, there's a price increase: ยฃ2.70!
Looks like they'll be losing a customer. ๐Ÿ˜ž
in reply to dick_turpin

Apparently, the price of eggs is on the increase. I await Twitter to be filled with stories of Hen-napping and black-market powdered egg.
in reply to dick_turpin

In related news chicken feed does not cost chicken feed.



I saw a Nun today with one of those electric car tyre pumps putting air into her car's flat tyre. Clearly, God does not look after his own.

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Seriously? The cat is out of the bag now. There's no way you're going to put it back, no matter how many petitions you raise.
slashdot.org/story/23/03/29/23โ€ฆ
#GPT4 #AI
#ai #GPT4
in reply to dick_turpin

I've heard several people say they wrote the petition to convince smaller developers to stop working on AI, while they still work on it in secret.

Sounds about right.

in reply to dick_turpin

Corporations won't want bedroom coders working on it; this is too powerful an asset. ๐Ÿ•ถ๏ธ


I take it that it's just me that finds it hysterical that folk are venting their spleen on Twitter about @elonmusk's latest announcement regarding verified accounts and eligibility, and yet rather than leave and find another platform they can be happy on, they just want to stay to bitch and moan. Humans are such weirdos.



Don't tell me, this is the Tory's fault too? ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
theguardian.com/world/2023/marโ€ฆ
in reply to Steve

Realist, you mean.

Biden is a complete joke, even though it doesn't affect them. Americans don't like the fact Putin is doing whatever the hell he likes, and their current president appears to be doing nothing, and so they will want someone willing to do something, even if it is insane, like starting a war but let's not forget. Putin and trump are supposed to be mates.

If Labour wants to win the next GE, they need to start getting in front of the cameras more I mean, we haven't seen anything of Angela Rayner for months. Has she been sacked? Keir Starmer only appears now and again too.

in reply to dick_turpin

And Trump isn't a (bad) joke? Politics is fucked up.
The Tories have fucked themselves up. Labour just have to let them get on with it.



It never ceases to amaze me how much help people for when they are cancelling a service with you. They don't even have the common decency to offer you a small fee for your assistance either; they just expect you to help them leave with no impact on them and have no regard to what you are losing.



๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ'๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ผ.
Donald Trump wins a second term, gets Putin to agree to a peace deal and becomes the darling of the free world. ๐Ÿคฃ
youtube.com/watch?v=1j1MxIHSPyโ€ฆ

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in reply to dick_turpin

Not bloody likely. With all the apocalypse talk tumbling out his mouth yesterday heโ€™s not aiming for peace.
in reply to Stephen Michael Kellat

Ah, but you have to show you're a strong leader. I can't see Biden pushing Putin around and, in the current game of chess, putting tactical nukes in Belarus doesn't look good for Europe. I suspect Putin is waiting to see if Biden remembers he's running a country. ๐Ÿคฃ

in reply to dick_turpin

You know you're going to pay for that, don't you? She will have her revenge one way or another.
in reply to ghostdancer

LOL
Every day mate. I often wonder how we've managed to clock up 33 years.


Well, I have no idea what they were watching, but I watched pretty much all of it on Parliament TV, and I thought Boris gave a strong performance to an overly polite and shamelessly amicable panel.
#PartyGate #Boris
in reply to dick_turpin

What's bad about being polite and amicable? Are those not Tory values? I didn't watch it as I don't need to hear that gobshite.
in reply to Steve

Nobody "Grilled" him as such, from what I saw. There were two or three questions which got him flustered but sticking to the "This is what I was advised" defence seemed to let him slip through the cracks.

For all those Lineaker fans
โ€œIf you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
-- Joseph Goebbels

in reply to dick_turpin

You do love a quote, but they are not always true. Everyone knows Johnson is a liar. Opinions on whether he makes a good leader are divided. Up to the Tories to choose their path.
I'm no particular fan of Lineker, but we may agree on a few things, like treating people decently.
in reply to Steve

You know, Richard Nixon was a liar and a crook, and yet he was still one of America's best presidents. Tony Bair lied to Parliament and the country about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, thus causing the deaths of British soldiers and countless innocent civilians.

While I understand the pain of people not being able to attend loved ones' funerals and then finding out Boris and his gang had a few sherberts for me, we have far more important stuff to worry about than whether people in the lobby of number 10 stood 2M or 1M apart and what distance rules were in effect at that time or whether a woman who lives there, namely Boris's wife, should have been at a gathering. Fooking pathetic if you ask me.

in reply to dick_turpin

I thought you wanted politics to be entertaining?

Do we really want liars and crooks running things just because they can do some things well? What useful things has Johnson done?

I wish politics was more boring.

in reply to dick_turpin

@steevc But Boris is really awful at being able to answer the questions; he can't give a straight answer even when it's obviously in his best interest. For example in one of them he was asked about a meeting with ~17 people and the questioner said 'well we know that at least 2 of them shouldn't have been there' - I'd have come back and said with 'so almost eveyrone had a reason to be there'.
in reply to penguin42

I believe he has been told to use a similar defence to:

WASHINGTON -- President Reagan 'absolutely' has no recollection of being told by Lt. Col. Oliver North of a proposed large private donation to the Contras by an Iranian posing as a Saudi prince, a spokesman said Friday.

Iran/Contra scandal 1987

in reply to dick_turpin

WHAT! He got us out of the EU, didn't he?

I bet you can find that every PM throughout history has told a lie to The House and the British public. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the requirements on the job application, so you could argue where Boris went wrong was being found out. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ



Wondering if Zelenskyy is going to return the favour and visit Boris now that he's in trouble?

in reply to dick_turpin

So I'm watching his evidence at the moment, and based on his performance, I think my prediction is right. He's gonna get a clean bill of health.


I can't see Boris being found guilty, even though he's clearly guilty of the party's scandal. No UK prime minister has even been remanded in custody or had a custodial sentence, and the fines he received are not recorded as a criminal record.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/โ€ฆ
in reply to dick_turpin

What were you saying about people getting away with being anti-social and not thinking rules apply to them?
in reply to dick_turpin

Yep. 100% still doesn't change the fact. I think he'll get away with it.


Given that nobody is willing to put troops into Ukraine, I wonder who will arrest Putin?
Maybe they'll wait until he pays a visit somewhere a snatch squad can get him? #LeSigh
theguardian.com/world/2023/marโ€ฆ
in reply to dick_turpin

I thought it was telling he made an impromptu visit to Mariupol in the dead of night. Just to make a point to the West.

I suspect there are local Ukrainian activists who would have willingly sacrificed their lives in an assassination attempt.

in reply to andyc

TBH, I suspect he's done it more for home consumption than the West.
"See! This is what I have recaptured for mother Russia."


OMG! Just been down to the shop without a coat on! #uksun ๐ŸŒž


Asked OpenAI's GPT-4 to write me a blog post. I checked the output against Grammarly's plagiarism checker, and it found one similar usage of six words in a sentence from a totally unrelated (Subject matter) Website, so I reckon it would be possible to auto-generate blog posts for, say, #hive and nobody would be any the wiser. ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿ˜ˆ ๐Ÿ‘น
#Hive

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Yeah right. For that, read, "Money is running out in the pension pot!
ft.com/content/248b0df9-a594-4โ€ฆ
in reply to dick_turpin

No it's the opposite problem; people who have filled their pension allowance and can no longer dodge higher rate tax so just retire.
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