"What's a defensive strike" is a reasonable question. If Trump's administration ever accepts responsibility for killing 165+ schoolchildren in Minab, they will surely claim the real target was the local naval base. A "defensive strike". The children will then be "collateral damage". Stuff happens?
Wow! Looks like a remake of Apocalypse Now! But a gig is a gig 🤔
The big health and safety risk here of course is the infinite loop. But there's double time on Sundays 🤔
It's also a war zone 🤔
Not to mention the hoards of rampaging football fans from Vilareal singing Beatles songs 🙁
And a slow, slow free-kick with the referee ostentatiously looking at his watch.
Maybe it's bad luck to paint uphill ? Always start at the top? 🤔
Can't remember the last time I painted a gas-holder while wearing a tie and polished leather shoes🤔
Subscribers to KAGI get a selection of AI models included in the fee. I rather like "GLM-4.7 (reasoning)" which seems generally reliable for research and free from the occasional wild misunderstandings that plague the others. Yes, it's Chinese made, but open-source.
I have a few projects that will need it - probably only for audio frequencies, so arguably overkill (but stupidly cheap, so why not?)
Well, a bit more than that - but still absurdly cheap! But I gather that analogue Tektronix are still much admired and regularly pop up on the S/H market. I did consider looking for one!
Ooh, an unboxing moment! The FNIRSE DPOX180H. This is what passes for a dual trace 180 Mhz oscilloscope nowadays. Barely any larger than a mobile phone, these things used to take up most of your workbench. But at least it has "digital phosphor" for that 1950s radar vibe.
Lunch today in Figueres' restaurant of the moment, "El Nou Suprem". A decent and quite aspirational menú del dia, with 3 courses and wine for EUR 19. Popular with working people. Not fine dining but certainly 'high velocity dining'. The table next to us were in and out in 36 mins 🤔
..are not universal, eg UK residents in Bahamas & Maldives are double taxed. And even where treaties exist, they do not relieve ALL taxes, eg UK residents in FR still pay ISF & CGT on UK property.
So why did UK decide in 2016 to let Isabel & others live tax-free? And shouldn't this be changed? 🤔
AIUI, Isabel Oakeshott and others like her do not pay income tax ANYWHERE. This appears to be a UK gov decision.
UK, like most countries, taxes by default its CITIZENS on their GLOBAL income, wherever they live. This could mean Double Taxation, so treaties (DTTs) exist to relieve this. But DTTs ..
I don't think it has. I'm being a bit facetious because after years with hardly any rain, it's a shock to see a puddle! But the drought has been serious - specifically in our corner of France. Local farmers really aren't sure what to do. Anything you might grow needs some water.
After 3 years of drought here in the Pays Catalan, some made the mistake of praying for rain - and now we have a biblical flood. So that's today's walk written off. Demi-tour. I will not engage with mud! 🤔
Yes, apparently! And IIRC, the otherwise finished product eventually has to be 'watered down' to get the strength right. Obviously, they can't just use tap water - so they have special wells into which the precious liquid seeps through Cambrian rocks for 10 million years. Or something like that!
I think it was Lagavulin? Long time ago!
Guided tours & tastings, sometimes combined with golfing holidays, seemed to be a big part of their business! Whisky production by itself was a bit precarious, as it takes forever to make and the market goes up and down, with a major slump in the 1980s.
Years back, we did a guided trip around an Islay distillery, while sea kayaking in the area. It was striking that almost all of the ingredients were shipped in! Maturation used recycled barrels from Jack Daniels (!) and the finished product was tanked to the mainland for bottling. Local product?🤔
These people will apparently do one-offs, working from a photo, but EUR 98 is a slightly expensive joke🙂.
Dried hibiscus flowers 🤔
(I'd pay 20 Euros for one of those!)
(Sorry, crossed threads! The suffragettes targetted Haslemere station!)
So Trump has 2 encounters with GOD in the same week 🤔
And what about Haslemere railway station! 🙂
I have a better idea for Kristi Noem, one which celebrates a fine Catalan tradition. Worth 15 euros any day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer
I love the way the suffragettes enjoy 83% approval among supporters of the Labour Party - whose leadership today would have to proscribe them as terrorists (alongside Palestine Action). The suffragettes actually planted bombs and attempted to assassinate Lloyd George!
So Kristi Noem's replacement at the DHS, Markwayne Mullin, is a former Mixed Martial Arts Fighter. But has he mastered the pizza-throwing manoeuvre? And is this one of the qualities he might bring to the job? 🤔
How to write a letter!
Starmer will likely have to fire Mahmood, but on past form will take months to do it - just as he took 18 months to decide against the Rwanda scheme. Meantime, the Greens should do pretty well!
