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Top Trumps is a popular card game for kids here.

As a kid that’s a hilarious name because “trump” is also a euphemism for fart. To this day, fart is the first thing I think of when I hear the word trump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Trumps

Again, as repeated elsewhere in the thread, Musk requested that Starshield be slowed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/10/16/musk-appro...

> and the decision reportedly came from the White House.

That looks like outdated information. The request to slow Starshield came directly from Musk.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/10/16/musk-appro...

I have no interest in Siri or always-on AI assistants. I turn as much of that off as I can.

I do have an interest in local, private inference though and I am willing to pay for that.

Apple segmenting the market is actually a good strategy. Horses for courses, as they say.

The CIA already had the SA-C46[1] for that “unexplained death” scenario. I believe ot was developed “but not used”… ;) ;)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAC-46_(handgun)

Yes that makes senses. It's a hedge.

Meta's past behaviour has been to ignore illegality in business, with the hope that they can either win in court or stave off legal action altogether.

That's how they acted with the books they pirated to train models and when they targeted children with gambling products to increase revenue.

They love a legal grey area. It's not what's moral it's what you can get away with.

Yep I find the Elizabeth Line in London has this effect too.

I find it a bit freaky to be honest but you do get used to it.

It’s an interesting question. I would also guess that this kind of behaviour would be illegal for private companies in many countries even if you don’t do it domestically.

> Reuters has reported that billions of dollars’ worth of Meta’s ad revenue comes from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content. In the US, ICE and other government agencies have bought software that uses ad tech data to track people’s movements.

I don't know if an ad blocker protects against Discover-Tech’s Controlium but in general you'd be a fool to allow ads in your browser in at this point. The ad industry is pretty shady all round.

In my head this record sounds like the "Tonge Singers" from Joe Barnes' The Rare Folk:

https://youtu.be/mA19d7OoS38?t=110

That sounds like something completely made up by trolls.

It's like me saying I'm on the Pope's Super Secret Christmas List because some random on Reddit said so.

It's just amateur propaganda.

Given the choice, I think I would prefer to go as browser native as possible.

Library code is useful for abstraction but browser native APIs are always going to be more stable over the long term.

If I have to vibe code now then at the very least I should be able to take advantage of agents to reduce the number of external "moving parts" involved by going native.

e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone...

Why bother with an external framework when it's built in? My familiarity with React no longer matters.

I'll probably move towards using library code only for things like cross compatibility shims, to be removed over time, but that's about it.

Oh yeah, I used Gopher at uni. I think this whole world wide web thing is probably a fad. :P

Yes, I definitely agree. The Scenic is probably the one I'd get given the choice. I've driven one and liked it a lot. Good range, easy to handle and very comfortable IMHO.

> like the Leaf and the BMW i-series.

I don't know about the i-series but the current Leaf is not a city car. Nissan's small city car is the Pixa.

The Leaf is mid sized and well designed for longer distance travel with a range of 387 miles.

Well the Renault Twingo is slated to be under 20K and the Dacia Spring is already around 12K. Both have similar specs so it doesn't sound that far fetched to me.

If you want a anonymous car there's no end of choice. A lot of people won't though.

There's nothing wrong with a Seagull, if you like it that's great but how can you claim it's is both cheap and "not that cheap" at the same time? Surely it's one or the other?

This 2CV is going to be really cheap. There are buyers on a budget that will really appreciate something a bit different that won't break the bank. It's a mistake to think that all working class people want exactly the same thing in a car.

How did that end for Prigozhin? Where is he now?

I don't think that really matters.

If it was just about the looks it would be boring as hell but if you ignore the cosmetics, it's still light weight and low cost by the standards of other modern electric cars.

Remember this is the very bottom segment of market and a very competitive space to be in.

This is not a car aimed at me but I still think it's interesting.

With all the hype around the nostalgia it seems to be slipping by people that this 2CV also has a class leading weight at under a tonne.

Lighter weight means better range for a smaller battery, more efficient tyres and lower road wear. It's one of the reasons why the target price is going to be so low.

It's a really cheap car but I think to do that they still have to have some good engineering in it.

I disagree. I think the current crop from Renault are really good.

The Renault 5, Renault 4 and Renault Megan are class leading and have some style about them.

I just wish they came with better privacy controls but then all the car manufactures are operating a cartel when it comes to surveillance.

> “You can turn it off!” he said.

> “Yes,” said O’Brien, “we can turn it off. We have that privilege.”

Probably different rules for management.

> I've always been amazed why the 2CV is seen as a styling icon.

It's because the design was simple and cheap but effective. It's a distinctive, original design that was bought by everyone from farmers to the aristocracy.

Take the badge off that BYD and you would struggle to tell it apart from any other soulless boring car. In 5 years time BYD will have changed the design with nothing retained and still nothing distinctive about it.

This new 2CV on the other hand is very distinctive to the point where some will love it and some will hate it.

It's a good cheap, small car that will be easy to drive in cities. It's also "classless" car in the best sense.

Some people will want it regardless of how much money they have. It's the opposite of "try hard". You'd only buy a Seagull because you can't afford something better (from BYD or anyone else).

> No one is clamoring for an electric $50K VW Rabbit (VW Golf).

Actually the electric Golf (Rabbit) already exists, it's called an ID.3. It's about the 5th best selling electric car in Europe so it's, apparently, exactly what a lot of people want.

Where Russia was forced out of Ukraine they left behind mass civilian graves. Bodies found with hands tied behind their backs, shot in the back of the head.

Surrendering to Russia does not bring peace to Ukraine only more suffering.

They have to fight on, Russia does not.

It’s worth pointing out that Russia doesn’t need to “surrender” to stop the war. It just needs to withdraw.

That’s not surrender because Russia started this invasion without provocation. It wasn’t under attack and Ukraine hadn’t joined NATO.

Russia had no reason to invade except as a show of force.

If Putin suddenly declared he’d met his objectives and withdrew who’s to say otherwise?

This just strikes me as the equivalent of all the politically correct/"woke" language policing that we had to go through.

Both sides redefine terms because they think it will change people's thought processes and they can catching anyone not following the rules in a purity test.

It annoyed me when we forced to change name of master branch to main branch and this super intelligence bullshit annoys me as well. It's fucking stupid.

> Venezuelan oil infrastructure is very much degraded

Russia is in the middle of a war. It's oil infrastructure is famously under attack by a very successful Ukrainian campaign. Russian oil infrastructure it degraded as hell.

This is not even a large enough volume of oil to have much affect on US demand so why is Trump doing a deal with the enemy?

All he's doing is hurting US foreign interests. This has Polymarket scam written all over it.

It’s just another “don’t look up” issue.

We’ve known about global warming for years and ignored it. People know and still buy bigger cars every year.

Pick up trucks are so huge now you can’t see the child you’re about to run over and they sell like hot cakes.

In surveys truck owners say they only care about occupant safety. They know about the issue for pedestrians, they just don’t care.

Same with shifting industrial production and jobs to China. We know these things are problems for the next generation. When it comes to purchases people don’t care.

Why would AI be any different?

I'll tell you what, first they find concrete proof that this is happening then they can start controlling what people say like we're naughty little children.

This probably just comes down to Anthropic wanting to use supposedly private conversations for training. I'm going to keep spoiling my data for them. Bunch of cunts. :P

This is going to be tough for me. I talk to Claude like Don Logan talks to Gayle in Sexy Beast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT7FOjnGw1Q

It's a machine. We should be able to treat it as such.