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> They are the ones who provided Russia with Shahed drones.

Shaheeds are aerodynamic clones of the Israeli Harpy SEAD drone, which in turn were based on the German Dornier DAR of the 1980s.

Compared to the loitering anti-radar DAR, the Shaheed is electronically extremely simple and not much more advanced than the WW2 V-1.

The fact that Russia started producing Shaheeds reflects more on the poor state of Russian industry than any sophistication of Iranian technology.

The problem is, you don't realise that you did.

One day you'll need to buy something outside your sphere of knowledge; a washing machine, drain cleaner, car tyres, whatever. The seeds of biased selection have already been implanted by years of conditioning.

That would explain his May 2025 Tweet that "nothing can stop what is coming"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gzqc6BLWYAAat2i.jpg

It doesn't really act that way, as (1) it can't be accessed with keyboard shortcuts and (2) it's difficult to scan for the desired feature as it's a visual jumble of buttons and text. Oh, and it might not be visible! Sometimes features can only be found in pop-out dialogs.

Having used Office products for 30+, my most-used feature of the Ribbon is Search, because I don't have time to waste hunting through a poorly-organised heap.

'Delight the customer' is a basic tenet of business. A business that wants repeat customers, that is.

> 1. Think of Amazon as a search engine for products.

That's difficult to do when their search is so atrociously bad. It ignores keywords and places matches well down the page, if it displays them at all.

Plus the classic 'choose a department to enable sorting' prompt. 30 years and their programmers can't work out how to order items from different 'departments'. Why should a customer have to know about their internal taxonomy?

It's probably better to think of Amazon as a product promotion engine. What the customer thinks they want is less important than what Amazon wants to sell.

Until the agent decides that it's more efficient to fake an approval, and carries on...

> I'm incredibly angry about having lost freedom of movement.

I think this was indicative of much of the thinking on both sides of the debate though; focusing tightly on a single, subjective aspect for or against.

"Why the EU is important / abhorrent to me right now?" rather than something like "What is the anticipated future nature of the EU and what does that mean for the UK?"

Oh, probably fortuitous that I was blocked by Cloudflare.

Nope, I've just opened FB in a tab. Top posts:

- Chris Hadfield using a fire extinguisher to show how rockets work

- A friend's trip to a gig

- Video of a restored TWA flight engineer training simulator

- Mountain weather for my region tomorrow

- A rare colour photo of a 1930s biplane

You assumed gunshots. He could have used a bow and arrow, or a blowpipe.

Have we just forgotten the DRM issues with Blu-Ray? I can't even watch them on Linux without relying on leaked keys.

That's why legal unencrypted availability online is such a boon.

> It was new and advanced back then.

Siri was bought for $200 million in 2010 from Stanford Research Institute ( hence the name ). It wasn't developed at Apple.

Alpine would disagree, the A290 EV is nearly a tonne lighter and has won awards as the 'Best Fun EV'.

One simply can't make a tonne disappear, in handling terms.

'User' has been a term in computing for decades before the current Cloud Services fad ( hence uid ).

One uses a hammer, one uses a microwave, one uses a computer, one uses a word processor. Nothing negative towards the user, they're being productive with the product.

If anything it's derogatory in the other direction, towards the manufacturer, reducing the fruits of their labour to that of a simple tool.

No effect, captain.

In 30 years of using desktop Linux I've never been able to interrupt a swapstorm. The only way out is long-press the power button.

BMW Financial Services.

Very few people in Europe 'own' their cars nowadays.

I've bookshelves full of obscure nonfiction but only dip into specific chapters when curiosity demands, which is most days. But every day it's a different book. I can't remember when I last read an entire book, it just seems inefficient. Get the info, appreciate the learning, move on.

"Sustained reading for entertainment" sounds like an ordeal rather than delight.

Or, as my partner does, keep a page magnetted to the freezer, divided into three 'shelves', with a list of what's where.

> It's about making people feel safe.

I don't think that's a common perception of airport security. Few people take reassurance from it, most consider it a burden and hindrance that could stop them getting their flight if they don't perform the correct steps as instructed.

The lifting of this restriction is an example, the overwhelming response is "oh thank goodness, now I don't have to pay for overpriced water" and not "is this safe?"

Amazon made $17.4 billion profit in Q3 2025 alone. That is, they made so much money they couldn't find any way to spend over five BILLION per month even with this 'excess' headcount.

Steering Assistance, please

Let's not slaughter the language for the sake of a few letters.

I'd be more concerned about insurance being voided due to an undeclared modification to the vehicle.

In the UK any third-parties will still be compensated, but the first-party will get nothing and will struggle to get car insurance in the future.

Establishing the price ceiling is difficult, though. You might arbitrarily set it as $23, but be sniped at $23.30. The sniper bot only needs to bid that small increment over your arbitrary ceiling.

Can you really say that $23 was your hard limit, or would you have paid $23.40? Unless you're buying something also available at retail, nobody can be that accurate in foresight.

Sniping removes the 'contemplation window' to reconsider your bid.

> But one thing Stalin was really good at was killing Nazis.

He killed more of his own people then he did Germans, probably by ratio of 5:1

The original meme-tool for password extraction was a rubber hose, which made more sense. It also pre-dated XKCD by several decades.

> We already have the right to station as many troops there as we want!

Only at Thule. The 2004 re-agreement rescinded the unrestricted establishment of bases:

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/04-806-Denm...

It significantly emasculated the 1951 agreement:

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/den001.asp#art2para...

> Seriously, who does that?

That's an insightful question about Greenland, which Denmark desperately wanted to retain in the 1950s to the extent of unilaterally making it a 'part' of the Kingdom without consulting the Greenlanders.

Ironically it was only Belgium that spoke out, based on its own colonial dirty laundry.

https://unric.org/en/greenland-and-the-un-colony-or-not-a-co...

> You'll meet other people, make friends

'Making friends' doesn't occur by just being in proximity to people.

Quite likely at the end of the night they'll return to their lives and you won't be invited to interact with them again until the next meeting. That's if you're not excluded from existing club cliques - I've gone to many different meetings and come away at the end feeling more alone.

Eventually though I suspect that web access to banks will be rescinded too, much like HMRC in the UK no longer permits companies to submit their taxes through the websites.

In the future, everything will need an 'app'.