Thank you! I was about to post the very same. This from X earlier today: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FSamaHoole%2Fstatus... (Text below in case you're unable to access X.) Sama Hoole @SamaHoole 10h 1066, England. William the Conquering just taken the throne. Within months, he issues the Forest Laws. Hunting deer is now forbidden to anyone below noble rank. The punishment isn't a fine. It's death. Not execution by sword, which would be quick. Execution by hanging, slow strangulation, body displayed in the village square as a warning. Sometimes they'd blind you first and let you starve instead. The cruelty was the point. These weren't conservation laws. The deer population was massive. Herds roamed freely across thousands of acres of "royal forest" that just happened to include the land peasants had been hunting on for generations. The real reason becomes clear when you look at what replaced venison in the peasant diet. Bread. Lots of bread. Grain-based gruel. Pottage made from whatever vegetables they could grow. The lords continued eating venison. Multiple deer per week. Whole roasted boars. Fatty game birds. Their tables groaned with meat at every meal. The peasants ate grain and were told it was God's will that only nobility could hunt. The Church backed this up with sermons about knowing your place in the divine order. A peasant family could watch deer walk through their barley field, destroying their crop, and be executed for killing the deer to feed their starving children. The deer belonged to the king. The barley belonged to the king. The peasant belonged to the king. And the king ate venison while the peasant ate gruel. This wasn't about protecting animals. It was about controlling protein access. A population fed on grain is weaker, more compliant, easier to manage. A population eating meat is stronger, more energetic, more likely to cause problems for the ruling class. The Forest Laws stayed in effect for 800 years. Eight centuries of restricting meat to the elites while forcing the masses onto grain. And during those eight centuries, the peasant class got shorter, weaker, more disease-prone with each generation. The nobility, eating their venison and boar, stayed tall and strong. You can see it in the armor. Noble armor from the 1400s fits a 5'10" man. Peasant remains from the same period average 5'3". Same genetics. Different diets. The nobility ate what humans evolved eating. The peasants ate what they were allowed to eat. The elites have always known: Control the meat supply, control the population.

Our hospitals are full of younger than how it used to be people with UPF caused diseases, diabetes being top. Hospitals are for accident victims and having babies, not self or industry induced behaviour.

Two examples: 1. A decade or so ago, in my capacity as a tech entrepreneur, I was in chats with some engineers at a certain well known UK University. I went to visit the Uni's core technology lab re a joint venture. It was staffed mainly by young Chinese, who were very odd in their behaviour, but at the time, I did not know anything about the Chinese efforts to infiltrate our institutions. A wealthy Chinese woman who was involved tried to lure me (and other British business people) to her home somewhere else. I declined. 2. Later I want to a mixer in London held by our patent attorneys at the time. All the company partners were there along with clients. Much alcohol being consumed. I got to talking to a Chinese lady who had bene working for the firm but told me she was looking for a new job, and asked me for a role. She said she had previously been working for the UK government. She was very inquisitive and I did find it all very concerning. I did not take things further. Fast forward to today, with Chinese part ownership of some of our critical infrastructure utilities including a water company, and I can see the big picture now. China has inserted or been trying to insert it's tentacles everywhere. This is immensely serious. I am glad I did not release any of my companies IP, even under NDA. Ironically, I do buy solar panels from Longi via UK's City Plumbing, but they are good, and there is no risk to national security in doing so. Our solar electronics are from Victron, a Dutch company, so China cannot disable our energy generation! It was obvious China used Covid to make a killing, mainly via al the PPE tat. UK government were fooled hook line and sinker. Trump has always known China is a threat, he's a superb judge of character and saw through their smiles and BS.

...cupboard, each grouped in types, IE, USB-C to USB-C, USB-A to USB-C, HDMI, mini HDMI, 3.5mm to 3.5mm, Lightning to USB-C and so on. Damned useful! The most of a type I have is USB-A to USB-C then microUSB that is pretty much dead.

Finally, the MSM is beginning to crumble, so we get a more raw honest analysis of what is going on, everywhere. The MSM is the middleman, the car salesman who blacks the tires, vacuums the carpet & puts additive in the engine to hide the cracked head.

..buy an Apple TV latest gen. My otherwise great Sony TV begin to slow down being based on Android. I bought used AppleTV 4K Gen 3 and could not believe how fast, slick and easy to use it is. It's turned by TV into something way way better and up to date. And no pop ups or sluggish UX. Re fridges, don't buy one, and if they insert the ads AFTER you bought one, demand a refund! They will learn. If it's Opt In, then fair enough.

Not mentioned in the Slashdot text is the way the movie The Day After Tomorrow envisioned this, albeit in an exaggerated form. However, the science, explained by the English scientist in the movie, was pretty accurate. The movie was produced by FOX, and they are right wing. I read somewhere the movie was made to exaggerate the effects of climate change such that when the reality struck, it would not seem so bad. And therefore, we would not go after big oil! Crazy or what? This reply powered by my 1000 watt solar panels. Doing my bit.

Thank you for that perfect and accurate analysis. You are spot on. Not mentioned in the Slashdot text is the way the movie The Day After Tomorrow envisioned this, albeit in an exaggerated form. However, the science, explained by the English scientist in the movie, was pretty accurate. The movie was produced by FOX, and they are right wing. I read somewhere the movie was made to exaggerate the effects of climate change such that when the reality struck, it would not seem so bad. And therefore, we would not go after big oil! Crazy or what? This reply powered by my 1000 watt solar panels. Doing my bit.

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You are spot on. Greetings from England, where the collapse of empathic intelligence by our leaders, and even some of the jobsworth public, is worrying. Same in Canada too, where they have banned hiking in the interests of making people get fat so big diabetes can profit. I mean, due to fire risk. The West has collectively lost the plot. No wonder Trump is working with Putin. For all the flaws of Russia, the people, like Asians, are not so woke and stupid.

I'm a designer of 40+ years experience. I finally tried Figma the other day. 1. It was almost impossible to work out how to use it - oh the irony! 2. The masses of videos that they post are terribly produced and don't explain how Figma works, just features babbling talking heads and awful 1970s graphics patterns. 3. I expected to be launched into a nice intuitive canvas where I could drag and drop elements, enter text to caption them and so on. Nope! Awful UX. 4. Was obvious the app is owned by a huge over staffed corporation with no direction, just a desire to grow stock value through complex subscription models. More revenue for Adobe. I am closing our company account and going back to sketching UX concepts on my superb Amazon Scribe (Gen 1) and then creating proper mockups and such using Adobe Illustrator, draw.io and even the simple but useful to have it their, drawing app built into Google Docs. (Insert > Drawing > New) The latter two allow collaboration or sharing. What I really want when working remotely from my team is a huge eInk whiteboard for under £2000/$2000.

I have been reading (and loving) Slashdot for so long, I cannot remember. (When was it founded?) And other than The Register (whose previous editor I knew), Slashdot has remained outside the dumb creepy toxic hateful rude childish woke behaviour of The Verge, Reddit, WIRED and in particular, Gizmodo. But I am saddened to read the comments below this column on the Robotaxi trial. You may notice that a few days ago, Starship 10 exploded during fuelling for an engine test. Despite the huge fireball and such, not a singe person was injured, never mind killed. That's because SpaceX are very careful about safety. Likewise this small Robotaxi trial in Austin, Tesla were making sure that if something did go wrong, the chances of injury to pedestrians and/or passengers was remote. Nothing they did interfered with the ability of the software to control the vehicles autonomously. Now this has been achieved, with only one error (that did not result in any harm and the vehicle corrected itself), Tesla can move to the next level with more vehicles, less supervision etc in baby steps. Once they do that, we're talking Level 4 autonomy. Yes, they are late with FSD, but damn, it's taken no longer than the 10 years it took Sony, Philips, Toshiba, Matsushita etc to develop DVDs, a far less involved achievement. (I own a Model Y LR with FSD here in UK. Cannot use FSD yet, but I paid £6000 for it because I know it will eventually work, and as a software dev, understand some good things take time.)

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:) Slashdot wants me to type more here, so, la de dah, de dah, de lah. I do like a strong pick me up after a galactic snooze.

I love their stuff, just yesterday received a 140w GanPower charger with a little built in display. Anyway, thought they were founded by ex Google and Apple employees from USA.