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In Blighty, the worst case scenario simply involves sending a snail mail letter to the company secretary (address from Companies House) saying "I cancel".

When sending it, don't forget to collect your(free) proof of posting certificate from the post office counter just in case of legal shenanigans.

Job jobbed.


Seconded.

How Crapita continue to get government contracts despite all their failings is simply beyond me.

Their latest cockup is fucking up civil service pension administration, so it's not like those who work for the government are except from their screwups.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/27/capita_pension_portal...


Good lord!

It was once common knowledge that VHF radio ("FM") typically doesn't travel over the horizon, LW and MW radio ("AM") travel by ground wave and are regional, but that you need shortwave kit for international and global communications.

Quite how a reader on a modern technical news site is unaware of this (no, you can't send direct messages to spies half way around the planet to be received on an "AM/M" car radio) shows just how common public knowledge of radio communications has faded over the last few years.


> Control: Free App

Ugh.

I have as much love for solar as the next hippy, though I can't be the only one put off by a lack of an open API and, *gasp*, a complete set of physical controls.

This IoT shite has gone too far.


It's always better to back up ones arguments with facts.

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

The USA really hasn't been doing well lately.


That's just a small part of it. EU has a better quality of life, better food, better housing, better public infrastructure.

You would do well to understand why that has happened since 1945 and just how the USA hugely benefited from that state of affairs.

I'm not here to argue who this has benefited the most, or if the benefit has been mutual to us all and for world peace; however Mango Mussolini has shown us the USA can never again be entirely trusted as a good faith partner. We are indeed living in changing times and there is no way of going back to the old hegemony.

EDIT: Britain finally finished paying back war loans to the USA in..... 2006! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-American_loan


> I'm guessing that one reason we got Trump is that the Democrats presented two poor alternatives in a row.

Oh please.

Are you seriously comparing the disaster that is Mango Mussolini to the likes of (practically any) alternative candidate?

The sad reality is that the American people wanted Trump and _voted_ for him. TWICE! The rest of the world has come to terms with this and knows there is no going back to the old hegemony (put simply, the American people may vote for another Trump; we now know the USA can no longer be trusted as a good faith partner). The world has changed, and many in the USA who didn't vote for Trump have yet to realise this and still think they can go back.

Besides, if all candidates are crap, you vote for the one that will do least harm. And then look at reforming a political system which leaves voters with such a poor choice.


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> The people hunger for democracy,

They surely reform of the two party system (and one where you realistically need to be wealthy to stand a chance of election) is the only solution?

Give people a choice!


> how many people in the country still think he's doing a great job.

'In the country' being 'in the USA'.

Everybody else outside the boarders of the USA is thinking "how the mighty have fallen".


Yes, that's what "in the country" means..

It is also exactly these same people of the USA whose thinking is going to matter for determining what happens next, not anyone else. It is immaterial what "everyone else outside the borders of the USA" thinks in the context of the country.


The USA is so overwhelmingly powerful, the phrase is apt: "When it sneezes, the world gets a cold."

The nation that owns the majority of nukes is run by an actual idiot with dementia, and his corrupt picks.

The nation with the majority of aircraft carriers and submarines...

The nation with the largest GDP...

The nation that makes the tech most of the world runs on...

It is terrifying, the international implications that a collapse of my country would cause, but even that pales to the malicious damage it can cause.


Yes. And for the context of this conversation, the people in the USA are what matters. It's not like this regime is going to give up just because other countries dislike them. Their core fan base think it's going gangbusters.

A reputable company will follow the GDPR and not share my personal data without explicit opt-in consent. Dodgy LLMs are anybody's guess.

Is the NSA GDPR compliant?

*sigh*

Dodgy companies are a bigger danger to my (and your) privacy and wellbeing than the American NSA will ever be.


Famously, the 'Trump Tariffs' were almost certainly determined by LLM, hence tariffs being applied on uninhabited islands.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=trump+tariffs+decided+by+a


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