baggins
@baggins@beehaw.org
At 66, I'm a serious music (mainly prog rock) loving, geeky cat butler living in Ware UK. A lover of all things LOTR, since I first read it over 50 years ago, scifi and what have you. Ex soldier, and other trades ;-)
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 6 days ago:
I meant horse racing courses.
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 1 week ago:
Good idea. Racecourses as well.
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 1 week ago:
Close them down ans solarise them.
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 1 week ago:
Or your name is Trump.
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 1 week ago:
It is. Trump gets this piece. Putin gets this piece. And so on.
Europe needs to stand together on this and cut ties with USA.
Trump is a Russian asset.
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 2 weeks ago:
Will try it im my car ;-)
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 2 weeks ago:
Looks good, but unfortunately my car (2019 UK Kia Niro hybrid) only accepts Android Auto - and it’s pretty much the only time I’d use the phone for navigation as it provides the GPS for the car :-(
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 2 weeks ago:
It stems from General Magic - look them up on WIkipedia. I saw this quote and realised how forward thinking those guys were "In 1990, Porat wrote the following note to Sculley: “A tiny computer, a phone, a very personal object . . . It must be beautiful. It must offer the kind of personal satisfaction that a fine piece of jewelry brings. It will have a perceived value even when it’s not being used… Once you use it you won’t be able to live without it.” Nailed it.
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 5 weeks ago:
What sort of person makes almost his first task something so petty? And in front of a crowd of
supporterscultists. I notice he signs with a big sharpie instead of a pen like a normal president. That’ll be so it’s bigger than other signatures and everyone can see it. - Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 1 month ago:
That’s the bit I don’t understand either.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 1 month ago:
There was one in Hertford (near Ginger Indian restaurant) around Christmas, think it had French plates. Remember having a laugh as it was pissing down and they were having trouble turning round in our small streets. Everyone else manages though, even the dustman ;-)
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 1 month ago:
No security or monitoring? No warnings about digging or mining?
- Comment on Sweden starts building 100,000 year storage site for spent nuclear fuel 1 month ago:
And yet I keep hearing from nuclear fans that there’s nothing to worry about and that it’s safe. And how is this cheaper than renewable. That place has to be maintained and secured for 100,000 years.
If we put that onto our timeline, we were just getting out of Africa and using stone tools.
That’s not the sort of gift we should be leaving our descendents. Okay we have to deal with what we have, but we shouldn’t be making any more of the stuff. Because there will be an accident somewhen down the line.
- Comment on Biden warns of ultra-wealthy 'oligarchy' threatening US democracy in farewell address to the nation 1 month ago:
And by his lack of action, let them in. ‘Sleepy Joe’ seems rather an apt moniker, although not for the Mango Mussolini’s reasons.
- Comment on X raises Premium Plus subscription pricing by almost 40 percent 2 months ago:
As someone in the comments pointed out, ‘Grifters gotta grift’.
- Comment on EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax 2 months ago:
Good, the less cheap tat the better.
- Comment on Trump nominates fracking magnate and climate change skeptic as energy secretary 3 months ago:
Of course it is. They’ve not (yet) been taken over by billionaire fascists.
- Comment on Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them 3 months ago:
Welcome to cable* TV!
*With or without wires.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 3 months ago:
Well played. I’d forgotten all about that :-)
- Comment on Tech Giants Are Set to Spend $200 Billion This Year Chasing AI 3 months ago:
Two posts up from this, is a post about a complete OS on a 1.44MB floppy.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 3 months ago:
No, we shouldn’t be doing that either.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 3 months ago:
It’s disgraceful that we grow food to deliberately throw away.
- Comment on Eat lead 4 months ago:
You could just ask the mice.
- Comment on 'Utter rubbish': Putin dismisses MI5 claims Russia trying to create mayhem in UK and Europe 4 months ago:
He’s correct though, they’re not trying. They’re doing.
- Comment on Funky guys I found in my last hunt. 4 months ago:
Why NSFW?
- Comment on Google tests showing full recipes right in search results 4 months ago:
Great. More 3 page life stories about someone’s partner and their fur babies and puppers (I hate that term with a passion) before you get to the recipe.
Sticking with DDG but going to retest Kagi, as DDG seems to be slipping.
- Comment on Vaping ‘to be banned outside schools and hospitals’ in England 4 months ago:
Good luck with that. After all it worked so well with cigarettes.
- Comment on Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean? 5 months ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password 5 months ago:
Disney Plus says adding an “extra member” to an ad-supported plan will cost $6.99 monthly, with that price going up to $9.99 for its ad-free plan.
- Comment on Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors 5 months ago:
Excellent work.