You think NATO v Russia is going to require conscription?

Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, and USA v Russia is going to require conscription?

Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think 966 million people v 145 million people is going to require conscription?

Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think a country that has been at war with its small neighbour for 10 years and is struggling v the largest military alliance in the world with the largest economies in the world would require conscription?

I’ve been a bit of a dick here to get my point across but making excuses for the tories bringing back conscription is also a bit dickish.

If you want to sign up, go for it. If there comes a point where it’s required, I’m a relatively young fit man so would consider signing up too. But only when there’s a need for it. There is no need yet.

Plus, if we’re going for WW3, we’re all gonna die in the nuclear blasts before we even get a chance to put boots on the ground anyway.

Only the silly parts of the UK. Some give education for free like a sensible place that gives a shit about its citizens.

Let the people who installed/created it maintain it or let a bunch of new folk do it, which is likely to work best?

The abroad part isn’t the issue. We’re a global village with the Internet now, after all. It’s the outsourcing part that’s the issue.

NHS Dumfries of Galloway has confirmed some children’s mental health records have been published by criminals following a cyber attack.

Can’t even get the first line of their story correct. Dumfries AND Galloway

There’s been a huge uptick in pedestrianisation, bus gates, cycle lanes, Low Emission Zones, and now an ad campaign supported by the Scottish police. The SNP just dropped their agreement with the Greens, and it’s cost their leader his job.

Infrastructure takes time, and it’s moving in the right direction.

Could it be faster? Absolutely.

But this campaign is hardly something to be complaining about.

The large wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen could power about 70% of the entire city iirc. That was one of the first large offshore windfarms, they’ll only get better and more efficient. If large offshore windfarms become more common, then huge swathes of the country will be powered by them.

If we then become reliant on those windfarms (which appears to be part of the long term plan) then putting control of them in foreign hands gives them power over us such as “oops, a cable broke and now your whole city has gone dark, ease off on foreign policy A, or agree to trade agreement B, and we might be able to fix that cable for you”

It’s a nationally critical piece of infrastructure, it’s strange to source it out of country.

Of course, a UK company could try that kinda stunt as well, but they then need to answer to UK courts. It’s less daunting for foreign state run companies as they can pull out of country easier to avoid repurcussions and have the backing of their government.

Pòg mo thòn. Tha Gàidhlig sgoinneil!

What’s “the point” of any language? What’s the point in Dutch? Every Dutch person seems to know English fluently, so why do they continue to speak in Dutch if there’s only Dutch speakers around? Could it be because they’re free to speak in whatever fucking language they like and they prefer that one?

Gaelic has been destroyed over a long period of time, from romanticised Red Coat colonial oppression at the end of a musket to more recent “you must speak properly or you get the cane” oppression in 1960/70s children’s classrooms. That’s why it’s required government intervention to get back on its feet again. It’s our language whether we know it anymore or not. But it’s still alive (just), and it’s ours to take care of.

You may not speak it, you may not understand it, but Gaelic has as much right to be written and spoken in this country as English does.

Oh and that tax money you’re complaining about is also paid by Gaelic speakers, so if they want to see the name of their town or village in it’s original form on road signs as opposed to an anglicised butchering then that seems fair enough to me.

What do C batteries do?

What shit did they pull with their app?

Both of which are being controlled by people who should be cognisant of their surroundings as they’re metal death machines if improperly operated. One is just bigger than the other.

A pedestrian on the other hand has no such obligation to be constantly aware of their surroundings. Pedestrians can be children with lower awareness of their surroundings, drunk people, stoned people, someone momentarily distracted by their phone, whatever. The onus is on those wielding the vehicle to be in control and slow down if a hazard is present, not the pedestrian. There’s a reason many countries do hazard perception tests as part of the theoretical part of getting a driving lesson. Because if a kid runs out onto the road and gets smooshed, it’s on the driver, regardless of whether that kid was being dumb or not.

Software as a Service for those ignorant like I was and had to Google what SaaS meant

https://open.spotify.com/track/4VJrTc5QPr13zgkwxaTjjN?si=niCU4IByRouS4O_r-OkKiQ

Little boxes on the hillside

Little boxes made of ticky tacky

Little boxes on the hillside

Little boxes all the same