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I remember my unit of jump pack equipped ratlings with fondness (that was when playing the original Rogue Trader)

If you mean this guy... Then nah... maybe a bit personality wise, but he has more wrinkles and less hair than I do Only recent picture I have of myself is not really for sharing, besides being half a year old, it's me doing some mock posing in front of the wall sized mirrors in an empty gym. I.e. exactly the kind of silly stuff you'd do when you're completely alone and nobody's looking I have other pictures of myself of course, but they have friends too on them, so not going to share those either.

I can't even get a Cappuccino for that But, as always, it needs to be held up against the average households purchasing power. When I first moved to New Zealand (almost 20 years ago), I used my own 'Beer Index' to compare prices in stores to how many beers it translated into and compared it with similar Danish cost in (Danish) beers for similar products. I only found out years later, that there was a similar, well known McDonald Burger index for price comparison.

A review of the latest expansion for The Universe...

The old English accountant who invented sports analytics after WWI was mocked for his teams playstyle at the beginning. Today, the most successful sports clubs, regardless of whether it's Football or NFL, use it. Don't underestimate the ability to see the patterns of this world... https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61648608.amp Charles Reep: The military accountant who brought data analysis to English game

I spent 30 minutes thinking about it and came up blank. Can't think of a lookalike actor. Can't think of an actor (or even their characters) that would fit the personality. Maybe I have an identity crisis?

I was curious about Denmark, as they are mostly self sufficient with gas and oil (having a bit of both in the North Sea and relying more and more on renewable energy). Turns out they do (or did, old numbers) import some oil from Russia, but not crude oil. No idea what 'Oils Obtained from Bituminous Mineral' is edit: Sounds like something used for asphalt manufacturing...

Hey, what's the rush. Steam engines were old before someone made a working internal combustion engine

Cobra looks like it has a certain appeal... i really need to check it out some day As for Gleipnir, dang, they really left a lot out of the Anime, didn't they? From your post, about 3/4 of the story (and I still liked the anime a lot)

Same mate... same. Assumptions and generalizations are two of humanity's failures. Something about our brains wanting to reduce the workload and stop rethinking things over and over leading to shortcuts based on small sample sizes or some such (too many years since I read up on it). Still, it's such a limitation of the use of human intellect, it's criminal

As if the companies truly cares… the added cost of fines will be passed on to the consumers (or a few thousand employees let go, anything to avoid jeopardising they dividends)

Completely void of any logic (or truth), but funny indeed. He had me when he conflated Ukraine and LGBT rights Good satire of the way people think leftists think.

I do sometimes wonder if “The Great Sage” isn’t somewhat more than just a smug encyclopaedia

That time I got reincarnated as a slime episode 21... The slime overlord turned school teacher manages to earn the respect of the kids... backed in part by a giant intimidating and growling giant dire wolf (leaving no doubt that the kids are close to becoming dog food) and a "test", where the kids all get 10 minutes of one on one fighting and a chance to see if they can take him down. Of course it was never really a contest and he also observes that none of their excess magical energy got "burnt off" in the skirmishes. One kid, Chloe caught his attention for reasons he can't pinpoint. He shows them Shizu's mask (which they all recognize) and tell them she entrusted them to him and he will do anything he can to save them. The kids start acting just a little nicer.... Following up on his hunch, that Shizu survived until adulthood because of her merging with a superior spirit, he asks the Dryad for advice, where to find superior spirits. She points him towards something called The Dwelling of Spirits, ruled over by The Queen of Spirits. Yeah... getting all spiritual now (including a nightly conversation, well monologue, with Shizu's spirit where he repeats his commitment to save the kids) Unfortunately, the Queen of Spirits that the Dryad served, passed away a long time ago and she has no connection to the current ruler. Which means, she can't give him any directions towards an entrance to the place Rimuru spends the next month trying to figure out how to access the place. More teaching, class excursions, lessons and bonding exercises follow. A chance encounter with a human gives him a clue to the places whereabouts, as she claims it was close to the village where she grew up. Off Rimuru, Ranga and the class goes in search of superior spirits...

Way to go! Curiosity reflex triggered... whereabouts???

You should visit Scandinavia some day

That's a bit like saying all conservatives are religious nut cases and vice versa... too much generalization and mixing of ideologies. I was surprised the Mona Lisa thing didn't get attributed to BLM

I refuse to read any of Murdochs outlets, but from a more trust worthy site (Wales Online), it was an environmental activist that smeared the glass in front of the painting with cream... (didn't say if the cream was from free range cow milk) Sorry, your holy crusade against the radical left needs to be postponed a bit. Wouldn't want to waste all that zealotry....

Most famous drinking song ever to come out of London?

There are always exceptions. One of my all time favourite movies was Finding Nemo. Pixar managed to make a desk lamp more expressive than anything in all Lucas' post 1980 movies combined. But for every exception, there is a horde of generic, soulless CGI movies...

I don't know what it is about CGI, but it usually just feels very "lifeless". The kind of stuff you would use to prototype a live action movie sequence with, to show your actors how you imagine an action sequence should happen before doing it for real

Slime story continued, episode 20... For those who don't get the irony of Milim's 'Showing newfound restraint' comment in the last video clip, the last time she got really angry she completely wiped out a nation (Milim the Destroyer indeed)... It starts out in a hot spring (very Japanese I suppose), everybody relaxing after the latest scare and disaster averted. Milim brings up the subject of Rimuru becoming a demon lord again (she wouldn't object!). Rimuru is confused however, why would he want to be that and what's the merit in it? Milim being a bit baffled by the question, why did she become one? Milim is/was a dragonoid like Veldora, who currently resides in one of Rimuru's pocket dimensions inside him since episode 1 (where he agreed to take up residence for now, to escape the trap that had been laid for him). She can't remember why she did so, but poses it as a question... did something bad happen to me and I became one out of frustration? Leaving Rimuru confused, as to why she's asking him why she became one... But... she suddenly thought up one benefit. Thanks to being a demon lord, she gained herself a bestie! Anyway, she takes off because she has to "go back to work", which means hang out with other demon lords and do demon lord stuff. Which concludes the mini-arc that was Milim's introduction. Rimuru is now getting back to a promise he made to Shizu. Leaving people in charge of his city, he makes his way to the Kingdom of Ingrassia, together with Ranga (his dire wolf). Through contacts, he had already sent a letter of introduction to the founder of the school "The Freedom Academy", which was originally one of Shizu's students, 'Yuuki' and a Japanese family name (which I cant spell correctly from top of my head, too many syllables), which Rimuru takes as he's probably originally from Japan, just like Shizu was (full name Shizue Izawa). As for why these kids needs some attention... they are all summoned from other worlds and discarded as "failures", because their summoner didn't get what he wanted out of them. That leaves them with accumulating magical powers, which will soon kill the kids by spontaneous self combustion and/or explosion. Not a bright future ahead for these kids and they know they're not going to grow old. Shizu survived because her summoner forced her to merge with a superior fire spirit, which absorbed some of the magical energy until she got strong enough to control both the spirit and the magic. Rimuru make his way past the city guard and for the first time in a long time is in a city with the hustle and bustle of a human city (having previously been to the Dwarven capital and other cities with a lot of mixed species in the streets). He's convinced the city must be very wealthy as they have glass windows! Rimuru meets Yuuki and after a bit of misunderstandings (because he was using Shizu's mask to hide his magical aura at the city gates and Yuuki thinks he has killed Shizu to take her mask), he gets on Yuuki's good side by using his knowledge of manga's to instantly print a library of manga's that Yuuki hadn't read before he got summoned to this world He gets the job. Even a regular salary On their way to class, Yuuki drops the name 'Hinata', being one of Shizu's former students, but Rimuru knows very little about her other than Shizu mentioning she had a student by that name who left her. Well, the class is something out of a horror movie. A bunch of kids rampaging through the class room, not giving a damn about anything, because hey, we're going to die tomorrow anyway, right? More to follow later...

That’s because Denmark and naval based Harpoon missiles don’t go hand in hand… I remember when this was new news https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Harpoon_missile_misfire_incident

I don't care about their family lives... unless it's symptomatic of their personality. I.e. married/unmarried/same sex marriage... couldn't care less. It's completely irrelevant. I do expect my politicians to show traits I appreciate in a politician however. Honesty, dedication and hard work in all aspects of their lives. If they are not trustworthy outside a parliament, they are not trustworthy. End of story. But what I expect of a government is a bit different. I think the Swiss are on to something. Let people decide on issues, big and small between elections. Most governments (and oppositions) will run on single issues or close to it. But all the "other issues" that barely get addressed? They are decided by governments in ways that sometimes take the people who voted them in by surprise. To take an example from decades ago... people vote in a government in Copenhagen on some promise of blah blah. Without consulting anyone else in the matter they sign a treaty to sell the oil rights in the North Sea to a private company. Or sign a treaty to build a bridge between Denmark or Sweden. Or... you get the picture. People were never asked if they wanted any of those things, because it happened between elections. I know it's not viable in a lot of places in the world, but Denmark has the infrastructure to allow a lot of things to be done online, including elections. Might as well send out issues for referendums too. Even if Maastricht 1992 still scares the **** out of politicians (the politicians and the elite were like 95% in favour of Maastricht, problem was, the Danes themselves weren't). But we need a lot more direct democracy on a number of issues, without letting the politicians run roughshod over people, only asking if the "other party" is worse or less bad every 4 years or so.

@BruceVC I was being semi serious when I suggested Trump would’ve been more likely to support Russia over Ukraine…. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61614782