Buelldozer

Give Commander a Medal!

This show suffers from the same illogical plots, very questionable dialogue, and blatant canon failures

So it’s basically the same as TOS? Excellent!

Excellent! Should have been longer though.

Are you honestly saying I can steal the better part of a billion dollars and hop across the border to Mexico without worry?

In other longer articles you find out that it’s nowhere nearly a billion. The Solar Farms used to underpin the investments do exist and are productive. They have value in the hundreds of millions of pounds, but its apparently not quite enough to satisfy all of the bonds when they come do in 2025 and 2026.

This article points the finger almost exclusively at Liam Kavanagh and almost ignores Sean Clark, Thurrock’s Finance Director.

A bit of digging turned up this much longer article published a year ago and while Liam Kavanagh and his companies feature in it there’s also quite a bit more about Sean Clark’s role in all this.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-07-15/his-companies-made-a-deal-for-138m-of-taxpayers-money.-where-has-it-gone

Could be 10,000 Wagners and NATO wouldn’t be concerned. They’d be destroyed by air power in a matter of hours.

I haven’t seen a new truck without a bed liner in decades.

Plenty of 'em out there homie. I bought a used DMax in 2019 and despite being a Denali edition it didn’t come with a bedliner, just a rubber mat for the floor. I should have had one sprayed in when I got the truck because my box is now beat to shit.

I think all the previous owner did with it was tow a horse trailer.

My DMax is a pretty truck but the beat to crap box, without bedliner, is under a tonneau cover so you can’t see it. Another thing you can do is check the receiver hitch, if it’s scratched / rusty inside then you know its being used to tow something. 🙂

Hmmm, good information. When I have more time I’ll dig deeper.

“Bases”, when the majority of them are an office building with 20 people or less in it. Then there’s the ones like “Corinto (Nicaragua)” with no information listed and when click the base location turns out to be in the middle of the water with literally nothing there. Seriously, show me where this supposed base is. Perhaps its hiding in that little tiki hut on the beach or maybe it’s packed away in someone’s backyard shed?

The US has a lot of bases, there’s no denying that, but there are most definitely not 850 of them. That database is pure propaganda.

I took a few minutes and looked into this. Centrica owns more and does more than just British Gas Energy and looking at their website it appears that BGE is actually a pretty minor part of their profit picture as it represents only 98M GBP of the 3.3 Billion GBP reported by Centrica (and audited as such) in 2022.

If you download their 2022 Financial Statement (PDF Warning) it appears that by revenue BGE is smaller than Centrica’s Energy Market & Trading and by profit it is vastly smaller. If you jump to “4 . Segmental analysis © Adjusted gross margin and adjusted operating profit” you find that in 2022 BGE had an operating profit of only 72 Million GBP while EM&T and Upstream had 1,400 Million and 1,793 Million respectively.

The overwhelming majority of their profit isn’t coming via BGE charging consumers!

So the article headline is wrong. British Gas (Energy) did not have a 969 Million GBP profit, the Centrica group did and based on historical performance it’s quite likely that BGE only contributed 10% or so to that number.

This doesn’t mean that folks in the UK aren’t being overcharged or that something shouldn’t be done with your tax structure but this article leaves out critical detail that leaves the reader with false assumptions.

Gallium and germanium can be had as byproducts of the refining of aluminum and lead IIRC.

It’s really NBD, we have the ability to make our own and so do many Euro countries. We just didn’t bother because it’s a dirty process and China did it cheap.

Why would they face any legal consequences any more than any other social media?

Instance location. Content comes at you from all over the Fediverse but once its in your instance it’s actually located on your server. It’s obvious how even regular NSFW stuff can be a problem if your instance is sitting in a ME country but perhaps less obvious (and more troublesome) is text based content.

For instance if a user is enrolled on an instance located in Germany and then subscribes to Neo-Nazi content from an instance located in the United States. That NN material is now on your instance but much of it is probably illegal in Germany. What happens when the German Authorities find out and come knocking?

Even “Child Porn” isn’t nearly as cut and dried as most people think. Things like /c/tinytitties or /c/flatchested from lemmynsfw are arguably illegal in a place like Australia since the person can be perceived as under-age due to their physical characteristics. It gets worse when you toss in the AI Generated stuff.

Big Tech does a lot of juggling trying to stay clear of these problems and they have large legal teams to help them when they run into trouble. I rather doubt that most instance admins have the resources for it.

But for how long will it take for them to find another sucker of a mod to do it for free?

Modding, especially on larger subs, is a PITA and takes way more time than most people think. You can always find users who say they will do it but in my experience with across several 1M+ subs most new mods will either drop out or go inactive in 3 weeks or less.

Less popular subs in the 250k user range will sometimes only get 1 or 2 volunteers and sometimes no one at all.

It isn’t nearly as easy to replace moderators as you’re making it out to be.