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  1. The old and the young are on the sharp end of the con. Maybe less pointing fingers at each other, in this thread anyway?

    Spot the blags and who sold them to you? You've got hindsight now, it's much easier. Being in denial only helps them get away with it.

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    Chop chop.

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  2. We have a nice East African restaurant nearby. We really liked the staff, beer and experience.

    MR's pic is pretty much what you get.

    A vast pancake in the middle of the table with different dishes tipped on it, everyone piles in from all sides. Just use hands if you like? It's fun.

    We felt it fell down in a couple of places.

    The pancake is fermented. I'm ok with fermented foods generally, but it wasn't like kimchi. It was like slightly vinegary carpet underlay.

    It's in Tooting, so it's up against quite a lot of cuisines that offer lots of little dishes on one plate.

    The thalis and lamprises are better, for me. Roti, paratha, chapathi, naan and puri breads are wonderful, then there's rice too.

    There is fusion Indian/African food, it's not a recent fad. Indians settled Africa and got to grips with the local produce.

    We had one of these, ran by the Thanki family, that was a top restaurant. Grandma came in at the weekends and made the specials.

    These burned bananas in their skins would come to the table. First timers would look on in horror :D They were fooking amazing.

    The building they were in was knocked down and the block redeveloped, sadly. You still see people asking the family to return on FB.

  3. Rinsed and rinsed and rinsed again, in water filled with shit.

    From the word go privatised water has failed the consumer.

    F**k the shareholders off. Get water paying for itself. Eventually it'll return profits to the state.

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    In water industry circles, the Whitehall codename for the contingency plan for Thames Water’s failure has taken on a new meaning. Project Timber was so-called because of fears that the collapse of Britain’s biggest water company could have far-reaching consequences. But water wags have been humming Monty Python’s Lumberjack song, noting the risk Thames’s predicament poses to the company’s biggest shareholder, the Canadian pensions behemoth Omers.

    The fate of Thames, which serves 16 million customers, hangs in the balance. Rishi Sunak has even parachuted in his business aide, the former Morgan Stanley banker Franck Petitgas, to oversee talks between Thames, the regulator, Ofwat, and the environment department, the Financial Times reported.

    The immediate threat is a £190m loan owed by the water company’s ultimate parent, Kemble, which has caused its auditors to warn it could run out of money by the end of April, when it is due to be repaid.

    Sources close to Thames believe that the loan will probably be reworked to “amend and extend”, giving Kemble a payment holiday in return for higher interest rates long-term. However, investors are pushing Ofwat to allow Thames to pay dividends up to Kemble to service its debts. Meanwhile, Ofwat may decide a £37.5m dividend paid in October was a breach of Thames’s licence and fine it.

     

    Grauniad

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    Public satisfaction with the NHS has dropped again, setting a new low recorded by the long-running British Social Attitudes survey.

    Just 24% said they were satisfied with the NHS in 2023, with waiting times and staff shortages the biggest concerns.

    That is five percentage points down on last year and a drop from the 2010 high of 70% satisfaction.

    The poll - the gold-standard measure of the public's view of the health service - has been running since 1983.

     

    BBC

    Look at that last column. Not a clue still. Still wondering how they haven't levelled up?

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    As AI-powered image generators have become more accessible, so have websites that digitally remove the clothes of people in photos. One of these sites has an unsettling feature that provides a glimpse of how these apps are used: two feeds of what appear to be photos uploaded by users who want to “nudify” the subjects.

    The feeds of images are a shocking display of intended victims. WIRED saw some images of girls who were clearly children. Other photos showed adults and had captions indicating that they were female friends or female strangers. The site’s homepage does not display any fake nude images that may have been produced to visitors who aren’t logged in.

     

    https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nude-generator-chilling-look-at-its-victims/

    Inevitably.

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    Since the UK’s highly divisive 2016 vote to leave the European Union, the country’s political discourse has spun wildly off center. The economy is in deep decline, the cost of living has spiraled, and public services are collapsing—water deregulation has left Britain swimming in a moat of its own excrement. The national conversation has been dominated by the Conservative government’s cartoonish policies and culture wars over gender, “wokery,” and climate change. The ruling party has abandoned the political center ground to govern from the fringes. In doing so, it has thinned the membrane that separates the mainstream from the dark currents of far-right extremism and misinformation that flow online.

    In that bullshit cinematic universe, Khan is a recurring character, a unifying figure for a dissonant global coalition of racists, conspiracists, anti-vaxxers, and climate change deniers. There’s a fictional Sadiq Khan who lives on the internet and in the heads of the far right, and a fictional London that he runs—a “Londonistan” given over to migrants, extremism, and knife crime; a dire warning of the cost of liberal leftist rule. This is partly why Khan needs that police protection. Threats to his life are routine now, part of the violence that has returned to British politics for the first time in decades...

    ... Disinformation isn’t always about favoring a particular side. It helps hostile authoritarian states like Russia—or domestic authoritarians like Trump—undermine the foundations of governance, causing people to lose faith in democracy itself. “The objective is to get a society to the point where nobody knows whether something is real or not, and therefore, that society cannot function,” says Taylor. Sometimes chaos is the only goal.

     

    Wired

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  7. On 19/03/2024 at 16:07, Marka Ragnos said:

    I'm seeing more and more students at US universities whose reading skills have deteriorated badly, particularly in the last five or six years. It's striking.

    The Chinese don't let their own children on the zoo that is Tiktok in the West.

    People are shit at spotting thin ends of wedges.

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    A nearly pristine issue of Action Comics #1 — the first appearance of Superman — goes under the hammer next month and is expected to surpass the world’s highest-ever comic book price of $5.3 million.

    “Without Superman and Action Comics No. 1, who knows whether there ever would have been a Golden Age of comics — or if the medium would have become what it is today,” said Barry Sandoval, the vice president of Heritage Auctions, which is staging the April 4 sale.

    The book is so coveted, collectors will snap up copies — and even pages — in any condition. 

    “The colors are stunningly rich, and the cover is almost pristine and largely unmarred,” the lot description explains. It is rated 8.5 [Very Fine+] in collector parlance.

    Industry experts believe only about 100 copies of the 85-year-old comic book, out of 200,000 printed in 1938, survive.

     

    New York Post

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  9. 8 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

    While I have no brief for the LibDems, they are at least a moderate party. I find it quite disturbing that a filthy bunch like Reform appear to be more popular. 

    The gammonati been radicalised by the brother Barclay, Murdoch, Viscount Rothermere and the rest over time.

    Younger, poor critical thinking types are influenced by the likes of Team Putin, the rich right wing nutjobs of the US, Tate, random dicks of Twitter and thick c*nts down the pub.

    Both factions have been utterly mugged off and are losing it a bit.

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