Chaotic Entropy

The notifications in one of our systems is aligned with UTC because it needs to be for a whole bunch of background services to function. Periodically (every couple of years) someone raises a ticket to complain that the time of their notifications is an hour out, and the 2nd line support worker will think “well that’s easy, I’ll just change the server time to BST”. This then brings this whole suite of applications to a crashing halt as everything fails.

A British mob in my eyes would be the sort that forms after a football game and smashes shit up. There would be an alternative name for the fancier kind.

Politicians can legally be bribed after the fact now. Phew, what a relief.

I guess step two is to decide exactly how many hours a bribe needs to be given, before doing someone a favour, for it to just be considered a gift.

Every so often a federal politician doesn’t get what they really really want, and never fully recover. RIP Hillary.

He’d prefer to just form an orderly mob, I guess? Much cheaper and so traditional.

Fucking hell. That woman needs to be sectioned.

Errr… okay?

I could very well be wrong, but in my eyes the war in Ukraine has shown that having a big standing army to swing around isn’t the magic win button it used to be. Ukraine has been resisting far beyond anyone’s realistic expectation despite being massively outnumbered, doing huge amounts of damage to even Russia’s naval assets (in large part due to drone warfare). Russia thought they were just going to roll over the border and plant a flag in to Zelensky’s head, yet they remain embroiled in a bitter war of attrition with a military that is a fraction of their size. For what they assumed was going to be a simple border dispute, they have had to convert their economy to a “total war” footing. The ramifications of them throwing scores of their young male population in to a meatgrinder are going to be felt for generations to come, even if/when they “win” and occupy Ukraine… and they know it, given their penchant for kidnapping children.

Militaries are doing more with less these days, person-wise, though still with massively inflated budgets. These days you operate a large standing army when you’re worried that your youth might get bored and tear your country up if you don’t keep them busy rather than because you expect to use them in waves of mass infantry rushes.

I’m not exactly a millionaire but I’d be willing to leave the UK if it wasn’t such a hassle. It’s been quite a while since I’ve felt any national pride in the things we’re doing or our collective priorities.

The likelihood of having even more overseas parties with massive stakes in our economy, infrastructure, and housing with a somehow greater degree of detachment from their impact doesn’t sound great for anyone.

What do you mean they aren’t tax deductible?

Being able to look through all of the details of the victims and crimes feels a little ghoulish.

Looks like a Swede crossed the border one time and was immediately murdered by a Norwegian.

heralding major change

In a good way though, right? Right…?

Yeah… regardless of circumstance, that title is some shitty journalism when you editorialise that much.

Pretty sure I had some of the 3x last week, though I didn’t finish them. They were pretty spicy yes but also they just didn’t taste very nice, it didn’t seem worth it.

Almost feels Borderlandsy.

Bombing of Nuseirat’s busy market area began soon after the raid started at around 11am (9am BST), turning the neighbourhood into “smoke and flames”, Muhannad Thabet, a 35-year-old resident, told AFP.

“People were screaming – young and old, women and men,” he said. “Everyone wanted to flee the place, but the bombing was intense and anyone who moved was at risk of being killed due to the heavy bombardment and gunfire.”

At least one wave of heavy airstrikes was launched to secure the passage of the three men, who had been held together. Argamani was rescued alone, from a separate location.

Not. Discriminate. Enough.

Some of the loudest voices in the anti-war movement in Israel have been families of hostages. Considering the track record of their military action, exchanges and peace talks are a far safer way for their family members to be returned, and they are not happy in their loved ones being used as a pretext for a purge of Gaza’s civilian population.

He won’t need to, it’ll be his “independent” department of justice calling the shots. Sessions and Barr did everything in their power, without committing actual explicit crimes, to keep Trump happy while they were in charge.