Bastards and scabs. It’s a good look

That’s a great read, thanks. I’ve seen a lot of gloomy nonsense from the right wing press, so it’s good to get a decent report of actual progress

Gaoling CEOs for the pollution would seem like a better option, and might somewhat mitigate people’s current urge to just shoot them

They’re not poor people, they’re immigrants and all that entails. When I worked in the can in Calais, the fast would turn up and start fights and abuse people, and the police just watched. It’s not a great environment round there

And apparently that’s not an euphemism

Fuck off with trying to dress him up as closer to them than to us

No, I merely meant that if two dudes can build a working example in a garage, there’s no way that there aren’t some really beefy ones in an MoD weapons lab somewhere

Disappointing image, no standard scale reference

The Tech Ingredients YouTube channel just managed to make one of these, so surely there ought to be effective ones for military applications by now

Not even a little Nazi gold tax?

I think I was specifically thinking if Rivian, with their monocoque built in such a way that if you sent the wing, the whole shell is pretty much a write-off, but what you say is irritatingly true.

Yeah, I really enjoy Mastodon, this news sucks. Got any recommendations on what I might replace it with for iOS?

As someone who lives in the countryside, and drives a small old truck for necessity, these people are a pain in the ass, and make everything worse for people like me. The trend for making trucks bigger, less easily repairable, with fancier interiors and plastic everywhere is driven by this idiotic posturing, not by the average person who actually uses them as the tool they’re supposed to be

I’ve altered it, I was aiming to use an anonymised link, as screw YT if at all possible, but didn’t realise it’d only work in the DDG browser. Hey ho, lesson learned.

Soz, I didn’t realise that the duck player links only work in the browser - I’d rather post anonymised links, but hey ho, if it only works for me then that’s not much use, is it?

It’s a banger of a track though, isn’t it?! Credit to Jon Barbas’s yearly round-up of thrash albums for introducing it to me, I’ve had this on repeat quite heavily!

Glad they’re really getting their teeth in to the important issues of the day

Ha, yeah, to be fair, I didn’t read the article, I just looked at the research paper it was based on. I’ve given up on a lot of science reporting, it sensationalises things from otherwise sensible studies far too often

P.I.C.N.I.C.

The last paragraph of the synopsis above kinda details why this might matter - areas of the brain don’t have such defined and limited purposes as musculature.

A recent similar study found that the area of the brain responsible for spatial location is smaller in people who rely on sat-nav exclusively. That might not seem like much of a problem, as everyone has one in their pocket now, so so what? Well, it turns out that that area is also responsible for mapping our social landscape too, and if it shrinks, our ability to maintain larger and more complex social groups suffers. The ability to read is quite a specific skill, but strongly linked to the kind of imagination used to create these complex worlds and characters in your imagination - how would loosing that ability affect designers/artists/architects etc?

Mario did it, it’s easy to confuse them