The euphemism treadmill has not been unalived.
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At winning? No. Count Binface got 26.9% of the vote (1), and overperformed expectations at that. He was not expected to win outright.
At being funny, and making Farage look weak, petty and silly? Yes, he overperformed at that too.
Well, that's worse. Wearing armour into Parliament is specifically forbidden since the year 1313 (1).
I'm sure that Count Binface could argue that it's merely a costume not functional, just plastic resembling actual armour. Or he could switch to a suit and tie.
I have no idea what way that debate would play out, but the debate doesn't need to happen at present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_forbidding_Bearing_of_...
OK, but is the argument that oil refineries don't get the same treatment in war? They're also "large, centralized, easy to destroy". In fact highly flammable. It has been happening, not theoretically but actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025%E2%80%932026_Russian_fuel...
We can find many examples of "Russian oil refinery damaged by Ukrainian drone strike" e.g. today https://www.kyivpost.com/post/82326
> repairs potentially taking up to six months. The strike adds to Kyiv’s escalating campaign against Russia’s oil industry and a growing fuel crunch across the country.
But search again tomorrow and there will be new examples. Refineries and other oil infrastructure are large, located in well-known fixed locations and are highly flammable. This campaign demonstrates what a weak spot they are for a petrostate.
* Ask the people in Crimea how they are dealing with this exact scenario.
* Petroleum refineries are large, fixed, and highly flammable by nature.
It also fits severe water restrictions due to drought. I would not romanticise that much either.
now that it's a proven business model in the centre of the these things, of course.
1) https://octopus.energy/big-on-batteries-octopus-and-catl-tea...
2) https://mybroadband.co.za/news/motoring/648661-electric-truc...
Find my phone: because sometimes you'd rather not spend 5 minutes checking where in the house you might have put it down, so making the phone beep saves time.
Tap to pay: I live in a big city. Serious crime is low, but phone snatching is common. Paying without even taking a wallet or phone out of your pocket is ergonomic. People use it for public transport too.
However, Tap to pay requires payments infrastructure and certification. A watch that does it will always come from a larger corporation because of this. e.g. Pebble watches do not do it.
The "AI health coach" is pointless shovelware. The inevitable "AI feature" that no-one asked for. This is a failing of larger corporations too, so the sweet spot (if it exists) would be NFC without "AI health coach".
The fitbit users already have "google heath coach" in the latest googlified version of the app.
And https://www.reddit.com/r/fitbit/ is full of commentary on how laughably crap it is.
I'd pay more to avoid this kind of "feature".
You don't get vaccines in use for 50 years without vaccines in use for 1 year, and you don't get that without using them for 6 months, and you can say the same about COVID-19 vaccination. Arguing otherwise is just failing to understand linear time.
There can be understanding, but nothing really beats mass numbers of doses over multiple years to generate it.
The safety factors of a vaccine become better understood over time and use, and you can say the same about COVID-19 vaccination.
You should conclude that COVID-19 vaccination - even the early versions - had net very good outcomes too, unless you're a wilfully ignorant conspiracy theorist.
The bar isn't "perfect vaccine", the bar is "significantly better than no vaccine". And this depends on the urgency of the situation.
The only "debacle" is a political/sentiment one, the mainstreaming of crankery, especially in the USA. It's now a full-fledged systemic public health anti-vax debacle.
But MRNA vaccines are a significant new medical tool, not just for COVID-19, not just for viral diseases.
Consider the Oppenheimer movie. The majority of physicists depicted there are people who left Europe around that time.
> That would insinuate they don't care about Scotland though.
You forgot the other states of the United Kingdom: Wales and Northern Ireland. But I disagree, it says nothing at all about Scotland - this seems like the "I like pancakes!" "So you hate waffles?" faulty reasoning. (2)
If you disagree, why don't you care about Wales? /s
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_England https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/
2) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-bitch-dats-a-whole-new-x-w...
Let's not forget that in the early part of the 20th century, Germany was the powerhouse of mathematics and sciences such as physics and chemistry, to the extent that top scientists basically had to learn German (1) and/or study in Germany (2).
How long did it take Germany to recover that preeminent position?
Its a trick question: they did not recover it.
1) https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/162/how-did-german-b...
2) e.g.
> In 1926, Oppenheimer left Cambridge for the University of Göttingen to study under Max Born; Göttingen was one of the world's leading centers for theoretical physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#Early_ca...
For suburbanites with off-street parking, overnight charging and few road-trips or long distance commutes, an EV is these days simply more convenient to operate, and has cheaper total cost of ownership.
For many people, the case for an EV is simply pragmatic - better convenience and cost.
And yes, you can say the same about e.g. Amsterdam vs. The Netherlands. And others.
But also, neither of them were literally isolated like West Berlin.
In my experience, we treat "not being able to deploy to prod" as an warning light, because our ability to fix an actual issue or outage in prod is impacted.
i.e. if there is a prod issue, then we can often ether fix it in code, or roll back to an earlier release. But we need the deploy pipeline to be working in order to do that. The longer a pipeline outage persists over time and across multiple services, the more likely it is that there will be some impact.
It's like driving without a seatbelt - you're fine so long as nothing else goes wrong, so it's not recommended as a state to stay in.
However this is not an argument in favour of 20th century style, non-autonomous individual vehicles as the main transit solution. There are safer and better ways. Autonomous Vehicles will hopefully play a role in that.
As a complete aside, 1 country has done this: Sweden on 3 September 1967 and "It was by far the largest logistical event in Sweden's history"
Does this not very simply constitute yet another large scale attack by Russia on civilian infrastructure?
But mostly, this site in Russia is a legitimate target because it supplies the Russian military.
> intended to ideologically attack and manipulate civilians by terror
Do you mean ... rid Russian civilians of the notion that they can ignore the war that Russia started, because it's happening "over there, not here" ?
Well, yes, that too. No doubt the civilians are complaining now that it's not fair. It wasn't fair when the missiles went the other way, but they could ignore that. Public opinion matters, less so in Russia but it still matters.
But targeting military logistics matters more.
1) https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-strikes-nova-poshta-t...
But "worse on purpose" products typically decrease the quality (and cost to make) without decreasing the sale price to match. It's exploiting the product's reputation for being premium not minimum.
And then the company proceeds to exploit that reputation for all it's worth, by making the product cheaper to make, while keeping the sale price the same, knowing that it takes a long time for the reputation to catch up. But eventually it does and the brand is basically defunct. Used up and discarded, being drained of reputational value.
it is certainly phrased that way, i.e. "There Is No Alternative (1) to bailing the banks out, we can't just let them fail - all their employees will be jobless tomorrow!".
It's not true though, there are plenty of ways to inflict non-lethal financial penalties on a bank to help them learn better, or take them under governance in whole or in part (2) for orderly disposal.
But it has to be politically feasible. Which is harder when the ordinary voters aren't the ones that have the most influence over outcomes.
1) AKA "TINA", "The true meaning of TINA isn’t “No alternative is possible,” but rather, “Stop trying to think of an alternative.”"
Well, yes but there is a distinction between "led to" vs "losing them". The first is indirect, the second is not.
You could expand that as "That gambling by banks offering these risky mortgages to unsuspecting people, actually led to people getting those homes. When the banks who did this did not bear the costs of their actions, and passed them on to their customers, the people losing their homes was the correction."