Tenebris Nox

Why doesn’t your company provide parking? Why should other people not be able to park because people with business vehicles hog residential parking?

I live in a road that’s nearly 150+ years old. Not sure that the planners foresaw vans and monster-cars. They were probably more concerned with horses and carts. I doubt trademen parked their carts and hitched their horses outside of other people’s houses in the street.

I don’t blame him. Choice of one stable and expanding authoritarian regime and one unstable and expanding authoritarian regime. Do the Chinese police hold nurses down in the street and shoot them?

Why aren’t the vans parked in commercial car parks or premises? And why do their owners insist on parking them wherever they like (but not their own drives!) without any thought for pedestrians? At the same time, after about 7pm it becomes almost impossible to find a parking space largely because of the sheer number of vans. I’m not talking about the little white vans but the big ones. Commercial vans and pickups have no place being parked in residential streets. Or, charge them higher rates of parking permit fees for commercial vehicles. No one is driving a big van as their family vehicle - unless they’re Steptoe & Son or Trotters Trading.

Palantir = truly evil Skynet.

Are these “talent liason” outposts what used to be called spies? And doesn’t the UK have “talent liason” people in China? Excuse me if I’m not really shocked about this. Surely, rather than moan about it, the UK security services need to use some James Bond-types to investigate (using some futuristic gadgets like chewing gum that blows up etc) and sort it out. Usually these “talent liason” outposts are inside volcanoes or deep sea bases. Should be easy to spot in UK.

Welcome to the UK… country that once had aspirations to be a center of digital tech… now just wants a Victorian factory education for its kids. Soon pen and paper will be too radical and chalkboard slates will be reintroduced. You can hear the “teach from the front”-types salivating already. “The Empire was built on rote and chalk, Mr Gradgrind!”

In the last 5-10 years our residential road has gone from having normal family cars parked outside houses to pretty much these types of monstrosities and - worse - transit vans. Our Yaris looks like a toy car in comparison to these behemoths! What’s worse is the ones who have drives can’t fit them so they park in the street.

In other news: rabid dog bites gurning man.

Yes, I was referring to the technical hurdles you have to jump to be able to participate in Gemini. Surely we want stuff like this to be participatory rather than passive read-only?

Mild is an understatement. It’s likely beyond the ability of most people to set up. To the extent it’s exclusionary.