As predicted in “Industrial Society and Its Future“
Rabbi Daniel Walker said the terror attack in Manchester was a “desecration”.In a joint statement with Heaton Park synagogue’s executive and trustees, Walker said the “loss we feel is beyond words”.
Sir Steve Watson, the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, said:
“this injury may have been sustained as [an] unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end.”
Personally, if you consider death following the discharge of a firearm an “unforeseen consequence”, I think you’re doing something wrong. Seems more like an inevitable consequence to me. Bloody stupid thing to say.
Attached: 1 image Good quote.
Amazing source of self-criticism.
Learned the meaning of some words today:
Exophthalmic (adj.), from
Impecunious (adj.) – having little or no money
Prurient (adj.) – an inordinate interest in sex
TIL that they’re called “outplacement consultants” or “career transition specialists”. I didn’t meet one. I just had reason to look it up.
It's taken me 35 years and five ZX Spectrums to complete The Hobbit. Feels like a bigger deal than buying my house or having my family. I kept this quest secret for so long, I can only mention it here. Now I'm finally in a comfy tunnel-like hall, feeling like I've won at life.
I felt a bit like that after I finally managed to watch the end of The Godfather. I’d given up halfway through SO many times.
New spammy 404 #regex
I use the Redirection plugin on WordPress. As a result I am in a constant arms race with spammy 404s, like these:
/page/320/?s
/page/7/?s=九州通2025校园招聘
/page/87/?s=Which of the following can result if an embryo implants close to the internal opening of
Redirection supports regular expressions and this is one of the few regular chances I get to use them. I only use simple Ignore so there’s no real harm if I get them wrong either. I just need to keep the logs clean(er) so I can see the legit 404s.
This is what I got:
^\/page\/\d+\/\?s.*And the final redirect in Redirection looks like this:
So, now in the USA, while you’re pregnant with your rapist’s baby, you shouldn’t have pain relief.
Can’t quite believe that the UK government is in exactly the same position as it was throughout the Sunak years. Completely obsessed with its own appearance whilst, apparently, doing absolutely nothing of note except talking about illegal migration. Pass a Bill or something. Jeez.