usget.bsky.social
Car nerd. Frequent bicyclist. Views not my own but those of a medium sized Great Dane. West Malvern. Mostly here for the #weirdcartwitter refugees.
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Originally a Clarkson proposal
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Essentially you’re describing A View To A Kill
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My beautiful, late model E30 318i Touring was stolen on Christmas Day 2008. Apparently they wanted to use it as a getaway vehicle. It was abandoned after they discovered it had about 75hp and overheated. Police impounded it. Wanted £500 fee to return it, I couldn’t afford. Never saw it again. 😞
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Oh god yeah, it’s objectively rubbish compared to the OEM! But a lot of fun. The twincharged 420 “big block” was my favourite iteration I think, the current diesel feels a bit meh
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Have you seen the Robot Cantina one on YouTube? Definitely worth a watch if not
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I guess your posts will look like this:
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Good on you
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Perhaps it would be fairer to describe it as “all inclusive” rather than “free”
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Well it’s a maintained lease, so that takes care of tyres and VED. (And fair play if you get a Dolphin to do enough skidz to wear the tyres out over a 2 year lease!)
I know it’s not walking-cheap but you’re being a bit harsh I’d say
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Where’s the lie? You mean because you’ll still need to pay insurance etc? Or because the electricity cost is pretty much baked into the lease cost? (A quick glance says it’s £10 per month saving against the best available lease and intelligent octopus go tariff)
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And gives you a score on the screen
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I have no issue with the responsible use of AI to improve productivity. I use it and I help clients use it.
I have a problem with AI being used to replace thought…
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I further suspect that a small proportion of people believe these things can be fixed by a software update
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My partner has just marked a set of masters assignments, where at least 50% of them were (very obviously) entirely generated by AI.
There should be a ban system, similar to cheating in sport. Get caught using non-existent references and you’re banned from academia for 6 months.
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Aka “the car with the other weird Mazda engine that’s not a rotary.”
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Regrettably, someone I studied with now describes his job title as “Chief Disruptor”.
He was a good dude too. Wonder what happened.
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I have a last minute entry.
The cabin pressure’s rising
My coke has got no ice in
Air hostess
I like the way you dress
You know I hate to fly, but I feel much better
Occupied my mind writing you a love letter
I messed my pants
When we flew over France
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Spoilsport 😜
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It just strikes me that, given how valuable the oil must have been, “let’s bomb the shit out of it” feels like a slightly gungho decision
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As you’ve gone through the reports, maybe you can answer: was any thought given to trying to recover the oil into another tanker, like a giant acquatic Henry? Obviously you’d have to separate the seawater but that doesn’t feel insurmountable, given the well-known tendency of oil to float.
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That sounds like exactly the sort of thing someone who had used 14,000 litres of napalm on a boat would say
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If they are going to play this silly game I wish they’d at least do some showboating. Put Neuer up front and Kompany in midfield or something
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“Single-handedly raising the economy,
Ain’t no chance of the record company dropping me,
Press be asking, do I care for sodomy?
I dunno, yeah, probably?
I’ve been looking for serial monogamy,
Not something that looks like Billy Connolly”
Can’t decide if it’s shit or brilliant tbh
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That whole song is a contender, “dancing on the hood in the middle of the wood of an old Mustang” is atrocious. Obviously the structure is mad; but also very few Mustangs were imported before about 2008 so the chances of finding one in a wood in Basildon, let alone dancing on it, are remote at best
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Why be a god when you can be a dang ol king.
youtu.be/XmmHoam7y5U?...
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I must admit I like the look of them, but there’s a reason they recalled them all in the US! I’d stick with the i3!
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I was on an EasyJet flight to Glasgow to collect my DC5. In the row in front was a gentleman who was attracting some attention from members of staff. One of them got a selfie with him. Still to this day have no idea who he was - I’m not good at recognising faces. Best guess is David Tennant?
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Are you absolutely certain it’s the very thing they’ve been summoned here to hear about and you haven’t got your dates mixed up? They thought they were going to hear some sparkling material about industrial waste recycling
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What to expect next:
– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”
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Well I mean they did call it a spring. No surprise it bounces a bit
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I would trade any sort of messy UI for a Siri that worked properly and some sensible updates to automations in the Home app.
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Hope you enjoyed it
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I think you need some fibre
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Has to be a rapper surely
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Paul Scholes challenges have a lot in common with British trains. Always late and you don’t want to be stood in front of one
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A little like Beyoncé because you, too, could fail to sell out the Spurs arena? 😆
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Which I think helps make your point for you 😁
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In defence of the adenoidal and picky Bond fans, the last five minutes of the last movie was entirely unacceptable. It was like going to see the next Pixar film and the last five minutes being bloody, horrific violence. I came out of the cinema genuinely angry
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On the plus side you nailed the crossbar challenge
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This is Bert.
The pigeons have started to troll him by facing the other way. Then they shit on our decking.
Bert doesn’t mind. He’s a moron.
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With apologies to Sir Humphrey
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Could have been worse. Could have been “courageous”
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I came here to say this! Maybe not Mook for me, but Kevin and Dalton genuinely make an unbelievable double act. Whether Dalton’s self tappers schtick could survive an Amazon budget is another matter though
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My carpet is also stylish
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This isn’t an unsquareable circle (is that a word? It is now)
60% of income tax is paid by the top 10% of earners, so as long as they aren’t disproportionately represented in that 57%, you’ve still got the potential to raise cash. Plus military spending gives economy a boost.