Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
It saves the powers-that-be from looking at the real threats.
Russia is a threat, but not in a conventional military sense. The threat comes from its influence on our politics and civil peace from its bots and troll farms, and from cyber attacks on our infrastructure.
And from Russia's (and China's) physical attacks on undersea cables carrying communications, internet and electricity. That's one reason we need more ships for the sodding navy.
Scrap the carriers and build something useful.
Except for the carriers being used, already in exercise to defend the Baltics and Poland.
During the Cold War, the USSR spent incredible resources to try and build systems to locate and destroy carriers. Most of that is long gone - but the fear of mobile air power is evident in a lot of their military publications.
This is why Putin bangs on about RORSAT 2.0 and spends a fortune trying to keep the Oscar class subs going.
Daft Idea. Ground based aircraft can reach anywhere in the Baltics or Poland, and are not handicapped by being on a large floating target.
The point of carriers for land attack is varying the direction the attack can come from. And doing so from a mobile location, not a fixed target.
Which is why both the US, UK and French navies have incorporated them into plans for defending various bits of Europe near the sea since the early Cold War.
Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
It saves the powers-that-be from looking at the real threats.
Russia is a threat, but not in a conventional military sense. The threat comes from its influence on our politics and civil peace from its bots and troll farms, and from cyber attacks on our infrastructure.
And from Russia's (and China's) physical attacks on undersea cables carrying communications, internet and electricity. That's one reason we need more ships for the sodding navy.
Scrap the carriers and build something useful.
Yeah, with hindsight buying two carriers looks a bit hubristic. We can't protect them, we can't crew them, and they don't have enough planes. The original rationale was to coordinate with US Navy carrier groups but President Trump has rather put the kybosh on that one.
Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
It saves the powers-that-be from looking at the real threats.
Russia is a threat, but not in a conventional military sense. The threat comes from its influence on our politics and civil peace from its bots and troll farms, and from cyber attacks on our infrastructure.
And from Russia's (and China's) physical attacks on undersea cables carrying communications, internet and electricity. That's one reason we need more ships for the sodding navy.
Scrap the carriers and build something useful.
Yeah, with hindsight buying two carriers looks a bit hubristic. We can't protect them, we can't crew them, and they don't have enough planes. The original rationale was to coordinate with US Navy carrier groups but President Trump has rather put the kybosh on that one.
Sell one to Turkey and the other to India.
There are only two countries in the world with more than two aircraft carriers: China (3) and the US (11). Japan, Italy and India currently tie with us.
I was going to say he was good in the Star Wars films, but to my surprise he wasn't in any of them. Apparently he played Peter Guillam in "Smiley's People", which messes with my head because my head insists Peter Guillam is Peter Jayston or Benedict Cumberbatch. Weirdly the 2011 film pointlessly made Guillam gay, and I think the relentless heterosexuality of his appearance in 2017's "A Legacy Of Spies" was LeCarre's rebuff.
Digression off the point? Me? Never!
I hate to do this but it’s Michael Jayston, as in the Valeyadd.
I’d never watch the 2011 film
The BluRay of Tinker Tailor/Smileys People is banging
Michae Jayston played Guillam in TTSS, but was unavailable for Smiley’s People so Byrne took the role.
He also played the Minister of Employment, Dudley something or other, in the Yes Prime Minister episode ‘Man Overboard.’
And also played the Irish Guards adjutant in a Bridge Too Far, with the immortal line, ‘how the hell do they expect us to keep to schedule on a road like this?’
Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
Let me introduce you the concept of asymmetrical warfare.
Let me remind you that Russia was behind the arson on the properties of the Prime Minister.
Let me remind you on more than one occasion Russia has used biological weapons on the streets of Britain and it it sheer luck that they didn't turn into massive casualty events.
If only we’d had that third aircraft carrier, HMS Duke of York. That would have put on a stopper on Vlad’s shenanigans.
Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
Let me introduce you the concept of asymmetrical warfare.
Let me remind you that Russia was behind the arson on the properties of the Prime Minister.
Let me remind you on more than one occasion Russia has used biological weapons on the streets of Britain and it it sheer luck that they didn't turn into massive casualty events.
It's a state terrorism threat rather than conventional war. We need to equp ourselves to be able to fight that.
Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
Perhaps we should invade the bastards while they are otherwise occupied and down on their knees. I am sure the Russian population would be happy to be part of Greater Finland. They must be desperate for a MaccieDs.
When I was in St Petersburg for the 2018 World Cup, I did visit the Finland Station to admire Lenin's train and statue of him addressing the crowds. There is a Burger King there, but I didn't see Maccy D's.
There were definitely McDonald's in Moscow in 2008. I will happily admit to eating three meals there in one day when breakfast at the fried dumplings and vodka place (the only other option in walking distance from the hotel) got a bit samey.
Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
It saves the powers-that-be from looking at the real threats.
Russia is a threat, but not in a conventional military sense. The threat comes from its influence on our politics and civil peace from its bots and troll farms, and from cyber attacks on our infrastructure.
And from Russia's (and China's) physical attacks on undersea cables carrying communications, internet and electricity. That's one reason we need more ships for the sodding navy.
Scrap the carriers and build something useful.
Except for the carriers being used, already in exercise to defend the Baltics and Poland.
During the Cold War, the USSR spent incredible resources to try and build systems to locate and destroy carriers. Most of that is long gone - but the fear of mobile air power is evident in a lot of their military publications.
This is why Putin bangs on about RORSAT 2.0 and spends a fortune trying to keep the Oscar class subs going.
Daft Idea. Ground based aircraft can reach anywhere in the Baltics or Poland, and are not handicapped by being on a large floating target.
Ground bases can't move. If the enemy does a Bodenplatte on them, you're screwed. In the cold war the RAF practised basing Harriers from clearings in forests and such like, on the assumption their bases would get hit right away. But today's fighters can't do that.
A base that moves, is difficult to find and attack, and can launch low-observable strike aircraft is a huge asset.
Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
It saves the powers-that-be from looking at the real threats.
Russia is a threat, but not in a conventional military sense. The threat comes from its influence on our politics and civil peace from its bots and troll farms, and from cyber attacks on our infrastructure.
And from Russia's (and China's) physical attacks on undersea cables carrying communications, internet and electricity. That's one reason we need more ships for the sodding navy.
Scrap the carriers and build something useful.
Except for the carriers being used, already in exercise to defend the Baltics and Poland.
During the Cold War, the USSR spent incredible resources to try and build systems to locate and destroy carriers. Most of that is long gone - but the fear of mobile air power is evident in a lot of their military publications.
This is why Putin bangs on about RORSAT 2.0 and spends a fortune trying to keep the Oscar class subs going.
Daft Idea. Ground based aircraft can reach anywhere in the Baltics or Poland, and are not handicapped by being on a large floating target.
The point of carriers for land attack is varying the direction the attack can come from. And doing so from a mobile location, not a fixed target.
Which is why both the US, UK and French navies have incorporated them into plans for defending various bits of Europe near the sea since the early Cold War.
Maybe military technology and capabilities have moved on a bit in the last 80 years. Better to heed the lessons from a Ukranian war where drones now dominate the battlefield and seas than continue to plan for a hot version of the early Cold War.
Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
Let me introduce you the concept of asymmetrical warfare.
Let me remind you that Russia was behind the arson on the properties of the Prime Minister.
Let me remind you on more than one occasion Russia has used biological weapons on the streets of Britain and it it sheer luck that they didn't turn into massive casualty events.
If only we’d had that third aircraft carrier, HMS Duke of York. That would have put on a stopper on Vlad’s shenanigans.
Does anyone else wonder whether these Colonel Blimps know what they're talking about when they say we'll be invaded by Russia in 2030? It's bonkers! Can't they make the leap that Ukraine was invaded because Russia has a claim on it? I don't think even that batty soldier who's spent too long under the sun lamp can think they have a similar claim to the UK.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
It saves the powers-that-be from looking at the real threats.
Russia is a threat, but not in a conventional military sense. The threat comes from its influence on our politics and civil peace from its bots and troll farms, and from cyber attacks on our infrastructure.
And from Russia's (and China's) physical attacks on undersea cables carrying communications, internet and electricity. That's one reason we need more ships for the sodding navy.
Scrap the carriers and build something useful.
Except for the carriers being used, already in exercise to defend the Baltics and Poland.
During the Cold War, the USSR spent incredible resources to try and build systems to locate and destroy carriers. Most of that is long gone - but the fear of mobile air power is evident in a lot of their military publications.
This is why Putin bangs on about RORSAT 2.0 and spends a fortune trying to keep the Oscar class subs going.
Daft Idea. Ground based aircraft can reach anywhere in the Baltics or Poland, and are not handicapped by being on a large floating target.
The point of carriers for land attack is varying the direction the attack can come from. And doing so from a mobile location, not a fixed target.
Which is why both the US, UK and French navies have incorporated them into plans for defending various bits of Europe near the sea since the early Cold War.
Maybe military technology and capabilities have moved on a bit in the last 80 years. Better to heed the lessons from a Ukranian war where drones now dominate the battlefield and seas than continue to plan for a hot version of the early Cold War.
If either side had air superiority, would drones dominate in the same way?
I think Putin waits until after September elections but maybe there isn't that time luxury?
The sudden closure of the rail borders with Finland and the Baltics is potentially explicable as part of preparations for mobilisation in the near future.
If it's decided that there has to be a crackdown on dissent at the same time as the mobilization - which polling suggests would be epically unpopular - then I guess the September elections don't matter so much.
Edit: The other weird thing that has happened recently is the two-day talks between Putin and Lukashenko, with no official announcement of their content and purpose, followed by Lukashenko travelling to Beijing to talk to Xi. Something is going on. Mobilisation might be part of it, or it could be something else.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
It saves the powers-that-be from looking at the real threats.
Russia is a threat, but not in a conventional military sense. The threat comes from its influence on our politics and civil peace from its bots and troll farms, and from cyber attacks on our infrastructure.
And from Russia's (and China's) physical attacks on undersea cables carrying communications, internet and electricity. That's one reason we need more ships for the sodding navy.
Scrap the carriers and build something useful.
Except for the carriers being used, already in exercise to defend the Baltics and Poland.
During the Cold War, the USSR spent incredible resources to try and build systems to locate and destroy carriers. Most of that is long gone - but the fear of mobile air power is evident in a lot of their military publications.
This is why Putin bangs on about RORSAT 2.0 and spends a fortune trying to keep the Oscar class subs going.
Daft Idea. Ground based aircraft can reach anywhere in the Baltics or Poland, and are not handicapped by being on a large floating target.
The point of carriers for land attack is varying the direction the attack can come from. And doing so from a mobile location, not a fixed target.
Which is why both the US, UK and French navies have incorporated them into plans for defending various bits of Europe near the sea since the early Cold War.
That would be fine if the F-35B we have doesn't have a loaded range of a little over 450 miles while we need to keep the carriers at least 100 miles from the coast.
It's hard to see given or likely adversaries that gives us much in the way of different directions. Are we really going to send a £2bn Carrier with upto 1600 on board North East of Spitzbergen or into the upper Gulf.
Meanwhile Russian Kalibr cruies missiles have arange of over 1,500miles which lets them fly low and reach Faslane from a truck on the Kola peninsula that cost £2m and has four men in it.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
The first two weeks are to watch the world cup and visit friends in the UK and the last two weeks to go on holiday.
I'm not sure the fates care what you are planning to do with your time off, they simply register that you have time off and rub their evil little hands together.
Dear God. I fear for my cringe. I'm not sure he is grasping the seriousness of our situation, or his. His position is precarious enough, with few ideas, no real mandate and appointing yesterday's men. He really shouldn't be seen doing stuff like this, it will grate and go down like cold sick. Time for this, but no time for questions on his vague plans.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
The first two weeks are to watch the world cup and visit friends in the UK and the last two weeks to go on holiday.
I'm not sure the fates care what you are planning to do with your time off, they simply register that you have time off and rub their evil little hands together.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
The first two weeks are to watch the world cup and visit friends in the UK and the last two weeks to go on holiday.
I'm not sure the fates care what you are planning to do with your time off, they simply register that you have time off and rub their evil little hands together.
Can't see how the Suwalki Gap holds to be honest.
Poles. They are armed to the teeth. They will burn Moscow again if we don't stop them.
'If Labour held a World Cup watch party, what would it be like? “Orange squash. Non-alcoholic beer;” “They’d keep changing venues because they couldn’t make up their minds;” “It wouldn’t be a working man’s club;” “The food would be quite bland. Hummus. Nothing with any flavour.” Who would they be cheering for? “Scotland;” “Ghana;” “Congo;” “They wouldn’t put the England flag up”.
What about the Conservatives’ World Cup party? “It would be on the lawn in Henley;” “The Ritz or somewhere;” “The football is on in the background but they’re actually watching the tennis. Or the golf;” “They’re not watching, they’re too busy networking;” “Prosecco and cucumber sandwiches. They’re talking about polo”. How about Reform UK? “It would be on the White House lawn with Donald. They’re all cheering for America;” “A proper stinking pub. The Dog and Duck. Faces painted with England flags;” “No, I think it would be a private members’ club. The most expensive champagne but a Union Jack tablecloth;” “They’d be cheering for the whitest team. Sweden or someone”.
Would there be a Green World Cup party? “It would be like a festival. They’d all have purple hair and identify as trees;” “They’re cycling round the park to get the TV going;” “They’d cheer for everyone, because everyone’s a winner in the Green Party. You get a medal for taking part”.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
The first two weeks are to watch the world cup and visit friends in the UK and the last two weeks to go on holiday.
I'm not sure the fates care what you are planning to do with your time off, they simply register that you have time off and rub their evil little hands together.
Can't see how the Suwalki Gap holds to be honest.
Poles. They are armed to the teeth. They will burn Moscow again if we don't stop them.
They are just starting their buildup.
Putin may be about to go Even Fuller Tonto.
If he thinks the situation is personally existential, what does he have to lose.
Grabbing a land corridor to Kallingrad might keep the windows closed for him, for example.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
Been following this series avidly. Really well done.
...and horribly prescient
You may be interested to know that FixEdit's similar adaptation of "Red Storm Rising" is on archive.org . I'll DM you the links [EDIT: I just did so: check your inbox]
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
The first two weeks are to watch the world cup and visit friends in the UK and the last two weeks to go on holiday.
I'm not sure the fates care what you are planning to do with your time off, they simply register that you have time off and rub their evil little hands together.
Can't see how the Suwalki Gap holds to be honest.
Poles. They are armed to the teeth. They will burn Moscow again if we don't stop them.
They are just starting their buildup.
Putin may be about to go Even Fuller Tonto.
If he thinks the situation is personally existential, what does he have to lose.
Grabbing a land corridor to Kallingrad might keep the windows closed for him, for example.
Seriously with what; a couple of hundred vintage tanks crewed with kids with a fortnights training.
We watched them build up their full arm for months before they invaded Ukraine and thy struggled to get forty miles against a far smaller army.
For an offensive you need at least 3 to 1 concentrated to 7 to 1 for breakthrough!
Poland has 200k troops! Where are Russia getting 600k new troops of any standard. Poland has almost 800 tanks and outwith what is stuck in Ukraine the entire Russian tank force from Europe to China is less than 1,500!
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
Been following this series avidly. Really well done.
...and horribly prescient
You may be interested to know that FixEdit's similar adaptation of "Red Storm Rising" is on archive.org . I'll DM you the links [EDIT: I just did so: check your inbox]
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
The first two weeks are to watch the world cup and visit friends in the UK and the last two weeks to go on holiday.
I'm not sure the fates care what you are planning to do with your time off, they simply register that you have time off and rub their evil little hands together.
Can't see how the Suwalki Gap holds to be honest.
Poles. They are armed to the teeth. They will burn Moscow again if we don't stop them.
They are just starting their buildup.
Putin may be about to go Even Fuller Tonto.
If he thinks the situation is personally existential, what does he have to lose.
Grabbing a land corridor to Kallingrad might keep the windows closed for him, for example.
Seriously with what; a couple of hundred vintage tanks crewed with kids with a fortnights training.
We watched them build up their full arm for months before they invaded Ukraine and thy struggled to get forty miles against a far smaller army.
For an offensive you need at least 3 to 1 concentrated to 7 to 1 for breakthrough!
Poland has 200k troops! Where are Russia getting 600k new troops of any standard. Poland has almost 800 tanks and outwith what is stuck in Ukraine the entire Russian tank force from Europe to China is less than 1,500!
Peter.
That sounds exactly like the thinking before many wars kick off - “the rational calculus is X therefore Y won’t happen”.
How many times in history has the country that started/expanded a war, actually won?
So, I decided that I need an ephemeral version of Slack. Basically, I need the ability to colaborate with people temporarily by creating a chatroom, with file upload, webhooks, etc. But all simple and anonymous: you just need a -say- 8 character room ID (and rooms get deleted after 60 minutes if no one is logged in).
And I thought ... you know what, I'll try this with Antigravity, Claude Code and Qwen3.6bn 35bn MoE / OpenCode.
Claude Code and Qwen/OpenCode one shotted it: they both got it working off one (long-ish) prompt. Now, obviously, I then spent 30 minutes refining their output. And Claude showed by far the better design chops. But -you know what- Qwen/OpenCode got the technical side of it absolutely spot on. And it was running on my laptop (a fairly beefy 48gb MBP). And it was actually quickler than Claude Code.
I'd give Claude 9/10, and Qwen/OpenCode 8/10. (Crucially, both of them sketched out a basic test framework, and didn't hand back control to me until tests were passing. Claude loses points for being really irritating, and asking me permission for running grep commands in the working directory.)
Both handily beat out Antigravity. Which produced a really beautiful home page, but it didn't actually work, and needed some debugging. Plus, when you got into using the app, there were some very questionable design choices.
I let the LLMs chose the name of the app.
Antigravity went with VaporChat (7/10). Qwen went with FlashChat (5/10).
And Claude really hit it out the park (so to speak) with "poof". (Which I'm going to give 1/10.)
My main takeaway, though, was that Qwen/OpenCode -which was running on my laptop- was much, much better than I would have expected. I can see myself using it on planes or whenever there is no (or limited) web access.
So, I decided that I need an ephemeral version of Slack. Basically, I need the ability to colaborate with people temporarily by creating a chatroom, with file upload, webhooks, etc. But all simple and anonymous: you just need a -say- 8 character room ID (and rooms get deleted after 60 minutes if no one is logged in).
And I thought ... you know what, I'll try this with Antigravity, Claude Code and Qwen3.6bn 35bn MoE / OpenCode.
Claude Code and Qwen/OpenCode one shotted it: they both got it working off one (long-ish) prompt. Now, obviously, I then spent 30 minutes refining their output. And Claude showed by far the better design chops. But -you know what- Qwen/OpenCode got the technical side of it absolutely spot on. And it was running on my laptop (a fairly beefy 48gb MBP). And it was actually quickler than Claude Code.
I'd give Claude 9/10, and Qwen/OpenCode 8/10. (Crucially, both of them sketched out a basic test framework, and didn't hand back control to me until tests were passing. Claude loses points for being really irritating, and asking me permission for running grep commands in the working directory.)
Both handily beat out Antigravity. Which produced a really beautiful home page, but it didn't actually work, and needed some debugging. Plus, when you got into using the app, there were some very questionable design choices.
I let the LLMs chose the name of the app.
Antigravity went with VaporChat (7/10). Qwen went with FlashChat (5/10).
And Claude really hit it out the park (so to speak) with "poof". (Which I'm going to give 1/10.)
My main takeaway, though, was that Qwen/OpenCode -which was running on my laptop- was much, much better than I would have expected. I can see myself using it on planes or whenever there is no (or limited) web access.
Can any of those things be run by logging onto an account on a browser instead of downloading a thing onto my laptop?
ITV player stinks. All I want to do is to wind the action back a few minutes to see the goal and it's not possible. You can either watch live or start from the beginning.
So, I decided that I need an ephemeral version of Slack. Basically, I need the ability to colaborate with people temporarily by creating a chatroom, with file upload, webhooks, etc. But all simple and anonymous: you just need a -say- 8 character room ID (and rooms get deleted after 60 minutes if no one is logged in).
And I thought ... you know what, I'll try this with Antigravity, Claude Code and Qwen3.6bn 35bn MoE / OpenCode.
Claude Code and Qwen/OpenCode one shotted it: they both got it working off one (long-ish) prompt. Now, obviously, I then spent 30 minutes refining their output. And Claude showed by far the better design chops. But -you know what- Qwen/OpenCode got the technical side of it absolutely spot on. And it was running on my laptop (a fairly beefy 48gb MBP). And it was actually quickler than Claude Code.
I'd give Claude 9/10, and Qwen/OpenCode 8/10. (Crucially, both of them sketched out a basic test framework, and didn't hand back control to me until tests were passing. Claude loses points for being really irritating, and asking me permission for running grep commands in the working directory.)
Both handily beat out Antigravity. Which produced a really beautiful home page, but it didn't actually work, and needed some debugging. Plus, when you got into using the app, there were some very questionable design choices.
I let the LLMs chose the name of the app.
Antigravity went with VaporChat (7/10). Qwen went with FlashChat (5/10).
And Claude really hit it out the park (so to speak) with "poof". (Which I'm going to give 1/10.)
My main takeaway, though, was that Qwen/OpenCode -which was running on my laptop- was much, much better than I would have expected. I can see myself using it on planes or whenever there is no (or limited) web access.
Can any of those things be run by logging onto an account on a browser instead of downloading a thing onto my laptop?
Get yourself a $5 VPS. Put a web based SSH server on it. Login. Install Claude Code or Codex or whatever.
The cheapest way to get started is probably OpenCode + one of the really cheap Chinese models on the backend.
So, I decided that I need an ephemeral version of Slack. Basically, I need the ability to colaborate with people temporarily by creating a chatroom, with file upload, webhooks, etc. But all simple and anonymous: you just need a -say- 8 character room ID (and rooms get deleted after 60 minutes if no one is logged in).
And I thought ... you know what, I'll try this with Antigravity, Claude Code and Qwen3.6bn 35bn MoE / OpenCode.
Claude Code and Qwen/OpenCode one shotted it: they both got it working off one (long-ish) prompt. Now, obviously, I then spent 30 minutes refining their output. And Claude showed by far the better design chops. But -you know what- Qwen/OpenCode got the technical side of it absolutely spot on. And it was running on my laptop (a fairly beefy 48gb MBP). And it was actually quickler than Claude Code.
I'd give Claude 9/10, and Qwen/OpenCode 8/10. (Crucially, both of them sketched out a basic test framework, and didn't hand back control to me until tests were passing. Claude loses points for being really irritating, and asking me permission for running grep commands in the working directory.)
Both handily beat out Antigravity. Which produced a really beautiful home page, but it didn't actually work, and needed some debugging. Plus, when you got into using the app, there were some very questionable design choices.
I let the LLMs chose the name of the app.
Antigravity went with VaporChat (7/10). Qwen went with FlashChat (5/10).
And Claude really hit it out the park (so to speak) with "poof". (Which I'm going to give 1/10.)
My main takeaway, though, was that Qwen/OpenCode -which was running on my laptop- was much, much better than I would have expected. I can see myself using it on planes or whenever there is no (or limited) web access.
Can any of those things be run by logging onto an account on a browser instead of downloading a thing onto my laptop?
Get yourself a $5 VPS. Put a web based SSH server on it. Login. Install Claude Code or Codex or whatever.
The cheapest way to get started is probably OpenCode + one of the really cheap Chinese models on the backend.
So, I decided that I need an ephemeral version of Slack. Basically, I need the ability to colaborate with people temporarily by creating a chatroom, with file upload, webhooks, etc. But all simple and anonymous: you just need a -say- 8 character room ID (and rooms get deleted after 60 minutes if no one is logged in).
And I thought ... you know what, I'll try this with Antigravity, Claude Code and Qwen3.6bn 35bn MoE / OpenCode.
Claude Code and Qwen/OpenCode one shotted it: they both got it working off one (long-ish) prompt. Now, obviously, I then spent 30 minutes refining their output. And Claude showed by far the better design chops. But -you know what- Qwen/OpenCode got the technical side of it absolutely spot on. And it was running on my laptop (a fairly beefy 48gb MBP). And it was actually quickler than Claude Code.
I'd give Claude 9/10, and Qwen/OpenCode 8/10. (Crucially, both of them sketched out a basic test framework, and didn't hand back control to me until tests were passing. Claude loses points for being really irritating, and asking me permission for running grep commands in the working directory.)
Both handily beat out Antigravity. Which produced a really beautiful home page, but it didn't actually work, and needed some debugging. Plus, when you got into using the app, there were some very questionable design choices.
I let the LLMs chose the name of the app.
Antigravity went with VaporChat (7/10). Qwen went with FlashChat (5/10).
And Claude really hit it out the park (so to speak) with "poof". (Which I'm going to give 1/10.)
My main takeaway, though, was that Qwen/OpenCode -which was running on my laptop- was much, much better than I would have expected. I can see myself using it on planes or whenever there is no (or limited) web access.
Can any of those things be run by logging onto an account on a browser instead of downloading a thing onto my laptop?
Get yourself a $5 VPS. Put a web based SSH server on it. Login. Install Claude Code or Codex or whatever.
The cheapest way to get started is probably OpenCode + one of the really cheap Chinese models on the backend.
I understood everything up to "Get yourself a". ELI5 plz.
(narrator: viewcode is thinking of doing a PhD in 2027 and has started putting out proposals. But it will require AI and viewcode be stupid)
I hope the England management team have read this article just in case the same thing is attempted with regard to the hotel the team are staying in (if they beat DR Congo).
"Hours before kick-off, hundreds of Mexico fans gathered outside their opponents' team hotel. Footage from the street showed car horns and motorcycle engines being used in a bid to wake the players up. Others were even seen playing trumpets as they created a raucous atmosphere outside the hotel."
I hope the England management team have read this article just in case the same thing is attempted with regard to the hotel the team are staying in (if they beat DR Congo).
"Hours before kick-off, hundreds of Mexico fans gathered outside their opponents' team hotel. Footage from the street showed car horns and motorcycle engines being used in a bid to wake the players up. Others were even seen playing trumpets as they created a raucous atmosphere outside the hotel."
That’s a step up from setting off the hotel fire alarm at 3am, which is the more traditional sleep interruption strategy for visiting teams.
Another professor, who submitted amicus briefs to the court, points out that mass immigration isn't in the least bit a novel thing which was not contemplate by the framers of the 14th Amendment.
Mass Chinese immigration (some of which flouted contemporary restrictions, and would be defined as "illegal" today) was, of course, very much a thing around the time of the amendment's passage.
Kavanaugh's history is wrong/grossly misleading at p.8.
In the very least, he had a duty to read the briefs (our brief!) & Jackson's concurrence, and he had to address the background of illegal slave trade and the restrictions against Roma & mass Chinese immigration. https://x.com/jedshug/status/2071993983882920338
It is alleged that the former Lagan Valley MP sexually pestered women, visited a gay sauna while denouncing homosexuality and got drunk on foreign trips – and vomited over the mayor of Beijing – while professing to be a teetotaller
It is alleged that the former Lagan Valley MP sexually pestered women, visited a gay sauna while denouncing homosexuality and got drunk on foreign trips – and vomited over the mayor of Beijing – while professing to be a teetotaller
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Which is why both the US, UK and French navies have incorporated them into plans for defending various bits of Europe near the sea since the early Cold War.
There are only two countries in the world with more than two aircraft carriers: China (3) and the US (11). Japan, Italy and India currently tie with us.
He also played the Minister of Employment, Dudley something or other, in the Yes Prime Minister episode ‘Man Overboard.’
And also played the Irish Guards adjutant in a Bridge Too Far, with the immortal line, ‘how the hell do they expect us to keep to schedule on a road like this?’
The main symptoms of infection include loss of appetite, weight loss, cramping, bloating, increased gas, nausea and fatigue
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/parasite-diarrhea-us-outbreak-cyclosporiasis-b3006191.html
Need more detail.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/fda-suspends-quality-control-food-testing-staff-cuts
April 2025
As as a rule I bold the headline and italicise the bits from the article.
I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy.
At first it started in the attic then moved to the basement.
I spent 3 days living in the bathroom.
I had to ask my father to drive all the way to London to look after me and bring supplies.
Patient being tested for suspected Ebola virus at Glasgow hospital
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/30/patient-being-tested-for-suspected-ebola-virus-at-glasgow-hospital
Also, why are you getting health news from a betting site? Am I missing something?
Also, norovirus whilst camping on an island. Thankfully, it's a 48 hour wonder.
To either make it stop or kill me.
A base that moves, is difficult to find and attack, and can launch low-observable strike aircraft is a huge asset.
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@WarMonitor3
I think Russia is about to declare a large mobilisation...
https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/2072046671001686496
I think Putin waits until after September elections but maybe there isn't that time luxury?
If it's decided that there has to be a crackdown on dissent at the same time as the mobilization - which polling suggests would be epically unpopular - then I guess the September elections don't matter so much.
Edit: The other weird thing that has happened recently is the two-day talks between Putin and Lukashenko, with no official announcement of their content and purpose, followed by Lukashenko travelling to Beijing to talk to Xi. Something is going on. Mobilisation might be part of it, or it could be something else.
MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Russian government decreed to close several railway border crossings on the state border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia.
"The movement of people, vehicles, goods and cargoes" via the border crossings designated by the government is suspended. The Russian Foreign Ministry was instructed to notify Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki about the decision made by Moscow and effective from July 1.
The closed border crossings include St. Petersburg-Finlyandsky, Vyborg, Vyartsilya, Ljuttja and Svetogorsk (all of them for Finland), Pechory-Pskovskiye on the border with Estonia, and Pytalovo bordering on Latvia.
https://tass.com/politics/2153709
Parties to the right of centre: 49.3%
Parties to the left of centre: 45.1% (not including SNP, PC because they aren't included on the page)
https://electionmaps.uk/polling/vi
I can't remember the right of centre parties being as high as this on this measure.
It is Scrödingers Russia: similtaneously collapsing in chaos due to fuel shortages and unable to occupy a Donbas colliery, and also a major military threat requiring every country in Europe to spend tens of Billions on boy-toys.
It saves the powers-that-be from looking at the real threats.
Russia is a threat, but not in a conventional military sense. The threat comes from its influence on our politics and civil peace from its bots and troll farms, and from cyber attacks on our infrastructure.
And from Russia's (and China's) physical attacks on undersea cables carrying communications, internet and electricity. That's one reason we need more ships for the sodding navy.
Scrap the carriers and build something useful.
Except for the carriers being used, already in exercise to defend the Baltics and Poland.
During the Cold War, the USSR spent incredible resources to try and build systems to locate and destroy carriers. Most of that is long gone - but the fear of mobile air power is evident in a lot of their military publications.
This is why Putin bangs on about RORSAT 2.0 and spends a fortune trying to keep the Oscar class subs going.
Daft Idea. Ground based aircraft can reach anywhere in the Baltics or Poland, and are not handicapped by being on a large floating target.
The point of carriers for land attack is varying the direction the attack can come from. And doing so from a mobile location, not a fixed target.
Which is why both the US, UK and French navies have incorporated them into plans for defending various bits of Europe near the sea since the early Cold War.
That would be fine if the F-35B we have doesn't have a loaded range of a little over 450 miles while we need to keep the carriers at least 100 miles from the coast.
It's hard to see given or likely adversaries that gives us much in the way of different directions.
Are we really going to send a £2bn Carrier with upto 1600 on board North East of Spitzbergen or into the upper Gulf.
Meanwhile Russian Kalibr cruies missiles have arange of over 1,500miles which lets them fly low and reach Faslane from a truck on the Kola peninsula that cost £2m and has four men in it.
Peter
Can't see how the Suwalki Gap holds to be honest.
I am told that one does not need to be a lawyer to be on Scotus.
https://x.com/andyburnham/status/2072022100018188295
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5EiVP-rT14
If corner is awarded when it should be a goal kick then VAR will intervene.
If it's a corner but a goal kick is awarded then VAR will not intervene.
Basically they are looking to avoid goals being scored from wrongly awarded corners.
What about the Conservatives’ World Cup party? “It would be on the lawn in Henley;” “The Ritz or somewhere;” “The football is on in the background but they’re actually watching the tennis. Or the golf;” “They’re not watching, they’re too busy networking;” “Prosecco and cucumber sandwiches. They’re talking about polo”. How about Reform UK? “It would be on the White House lawn with Donald. They’re all cheering for America;” “A proper stinking pub. The Dog and Duck. Faces painted with England flags;” “No, I think it would be a private members’ club. The most expensive champagne but a Union Jack tablecloth;” “They’d be cheering for the whitest team. Sweden or someone”.
Would there be a Green World Cup party? “It would be like a festival. They’d all have purple hair and identify as trees;” “They’re cycling round the park to get the TV going;” “They’d cheer for everyone, because everyone’s a winner in the Green Party. You get a medal for taking part”.
https://conservativehome.com/2026/06/30/lord-ashcroft-who-is-this-person-my-focus-groups-on-the-starmer-burnham-transition/
Admittedly the Germans were poor. But the Dutch put 5 past Sweden...
Putin may be about to go Even Fuller Tonto.
If he thinks the situation is personally existential, what does he have to lose.
Grabbing a land corridor to Kallingrad might keep the windows closed for him, for example.
I'm on a France Argentina final again.
You may be interested to know that FixEdit's similar adaptation of "Red Storm Rising" is on archive.org . I'll DM you the links [EDIT: I just did so: check your inbox]
We watched them build up their full arm for months before they invaded Ukraine and thy struggled to get forty miles against a far smaller army.
For an offensive you need at least 3 to 1 concentrated to 7 to 1 for breakthrough!
Poland has 200k troops! Where are Russia getting 600k new troops of any standard. Poland has almost 800 tanks and outwith what is stuck in Ukraine the entire Russian tank force from Europe to China is less than 1,500!
Peter.
Its like some crap tribute act to the Gordon Brown era.
Will Ed Balls be offered a job as well.
Is the Labour party admitting its not elected anyone talented from 2010 onwards ?
How many times in history has the country that started/expanded a war, actually won?
Full Tonto, remember?
I was not filled with hope that he would prove to be an improvement but he's doing his very best to extinguish every last bit of it.
So, I decided that I need an ephemeral version of Slack. Basically, I need the ability to colaborate with people temporarily by creating a chatroom, with file upload, webhooks, etc. But all simple and anonymous: you just need a -say- 8 character room ID (and rooms get deleted after 60 minutes if no one is logged in).
And I thought ... you know what, I'll try this with Antigravity, Claude Code and Qwen3.6bn 35bn MoE / OpenCode.
Claude Code and Qwen/OpenCode one shotted it: they both got it working off one (long-ish) prompt. Now, obviously, I then spent 30 minutes refining their output. And Claude showed by far the better design chops. But -you know what- Qwen/OpenCode got the technical side of it absolutely spot on. And it was running on my laptop (a fairly beefy 48gb MBP). And it was actually quickler than Claude Code.
I'd give Claude 9/10, and Qwen/OpenCode 8/10. (Crucially, both of them sketched out a basic test framework, and didn't hand back control to me until tests were passing. Claude loses points for being really irritating, and asking me permission for running grep commands in the working directory.)
Both handily beat out Antigravity. Which produced a really beautiful home page, but it didn't actually work, and needed some debugging. Plus, when you got into using the app, there were some very questionable design choices.
I let the LLMs chose the name of the app.
Antigravity went with VaporChat (7/10). Qwen went with FlashChat (5/10).
And Claude really hit it out the park (so to speak) with "poof". (Which I'm going to give 1/10.)
My main takeaway, though, was that Qwen/OpenCode -which was running on my laptop- was much, much better than I would have expected. I can see myself using it on planes or whenever there is no (or limited) web access.
The cheapest way to get started is probably OpenCode + one of the really cheap Chinese models on the backend.
The cheapest way to get started is probably OpenCode + one of the really cheap Chinese models on the backend.
(narrator: viewcode is thinking of doing a PhD in 2027 and has started putting out proposals. But it will require AI and viewcode be stupid)
The next match is in Mexico, at altitude, in a Stadium where the home side hasn’t been beaten for ages.
https://talksport.com/football/world-cup/4376652/england-last-16-opponents-mexico-fans-ecuador-hotel/
"Hours before kick-off, hundreds of Mexico fans gathered outside their opponents' team hotel. Footage from the street showed car horns and motorcycle engines being used in a bid to wake the players up. Others were even seen playing trumpets as they created a raucous atmosphere outside the hotel."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgmv98ez3zo
So if an intrepid punter plonks $1 billion on the USA to beat Bosnia tonight...
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But the White House denied he was profiting from the presidency.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgmv98ez3zo
So if an intrepid punter plonks $1 billion on the USA to beat Bosnia tonight...
It's got webhooks. If you need to pull together a chat conversation, share files, etc., really easily... then I think it's pretty cool.
Justice Thomas’ dissent is hands down one of the MOST intellectually dishonest legal opinions I have EVER seen..
https://x.com/adamscochran/status/2072002307819020571
Law professor briefly sets out the chief logical fallacies in Thomas's opinion.
Mass Chinese immigration (some of which flouted contemporary restrictions, and would be defined as "illegal" today) was, of course, very much a thing around the time of the amendment's passage.
Kavanaugh's history is wrong/grossly misleading at p.8.
In the very least, he had a duty to read the briefs (our brief!) & Jackson's concurrence, and he had to address the background of illegal slave trade and the restrictions against Roma & mass Chinese immigration.
https://x.com/jedshug/status/2071993983882920338
It is alleged that the former Lagan Valley MP sexually pestered women, visited a gay sauna while denouncing homosexuality and got drunk on foreign trips – and vomited over the mayor of Beijing – while professing to be a teetotaller
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/29/dup-members-knew-allegations-jeffrey-donaldson-party-says
Michael Lonsdale was utterly terrific in it.
It’s an excellent drama.