GreyShuck @ GreyShuck @feddit.uk

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I am not much of a fan of nuts in general: I don't really like the flavours.

Peanuts are not 'nuts' of course, and to me it is precisely because they DON'T taste like 'regular nuts' that I am more attracted to them - although they are still a long way from the top of my savoury snack list.

I watched three films last week:

• Barbie (2023) - pleasingly intelligent satire.
• Colette (2018) - lavish fin de siecle biopic.
• Alice in the Cities (1974) - existentialist road movie prefiguring Wenders' later Paris, Texas.

Which was best? Well, the first, US, section of AitC had more intensity to offer than the European conclusion. Wenders was still developing here. Colette looked beautiful and had a story to tell, but did not seem to get to the root of what kept the protagonist with Willy so long. Barbie also looked good, Gerwig knew what she wanted to say and articulated it pretty well and entertainingly, if a little schmaltzy - inevitably - towards the end.

Overall, I would say that Barbie wins.

Good to see that NE actually has the resources to take action in cases like this - they are massively under-resourced.

However, I wonder how much the cost of this to the developer - £14500 - most of which are court costs - is actually a deterrent. That is not a lot for many developments, and I can see that it would be tempting to simply write it off as an acceptable cost.

There was no mention of whether they developer was required, as a result of this judgement, to add the access tiles and replace the felt as the original licence required either.

What are/were you working on?

I am fairly happy with mine. It varies across the week, since I work at a number of different sites each week. Shortest is 10 mins, longest 40 mins.

I live rurally, the sites are all rural and the drive takes me through some beautiful (officially beautiful: designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) countryside: woodland, heath, farms and villages. It is enjoyable no matter what the season.

I don't think that hate anything about it. Getting stuck behind tractors is fairly common and is a bit of a slog sometimes, but it goes with the territory.

Sometimes I will have a podcast on (Philosophise This, In Our Time, Thinking Allowed etc) other times I am happy without.

Obviously it is driving. Usually just me in a car and there are all the pollution issues around that. The nature of the sites means that it is unlikely that there is going to be public transport at anything like the appropriate times anytime in the foreseeable future - there certainly isn't now. I could, sometimes, cycle to the closest one. But both the public transport and cycling options then make if difficult if and when I am called to one of the other sites during the day - which doesn't happen every day, but is unpredictable.

Que sorpresa!

I have a week and a bit off from Friday. We are heading over to north Wales: reading, walking, meals out and so on. We are both on a bit of a reading kick at the moment, so it will be interesting to see how many more books than usual we get through.

It's been a while since I read anything - in terms of comics - at all really. As it happens Giant Days was about the last that I binged through. And I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I have just jumped back on to 2000AD this week and have been taken by Feral & Foe enough to go back and binge through the two earlier runs. It scratched a fantasty itch that I hadn't really been aware of and I am looking forward to more.

I saw this around the time it was first released. One of the most memorable cartoons I have ever seen, I think. Excellent.

Well, by a convenient coincidence phasing out continued human existence is beginning to look like an increasingly realistic alternative, so that's OK then.

Yes. I had no idea they existed until we had the problem and looked into it.

I have had issues with the paper not feeding well and jamming as a result of high humidity in a copier/printer - but this was a cool/cold high-humidity site in the UK.

That was resolved by fitting an optional heated paper drawer.

Although I am required to use windows machines for work normally and, since we dont have access to firefox, i normally use edge there, there are occasions on which I find it convenient to hop into a similar setup on my home linux machine to get to my work account. I will use edge for that - as well as outlook online etc.

For a work browser, I find it pretty useful. There is no way that I would want to use if for general purposes though.

I have a couple of usernames that I have used - or, more often, used variations of - for quite some time over a range of sites. However, it is not so much that I am attached to them as such. It is more that I can't be arsed to come up with something new each time.

So that would only be 'good' from the point of view of your totalitarian ruler themselves. It doesn't say anything about whether it is good or bad for anyone else. And - critically - only good even for them as long as your ruler was actually competent enough to get to where they wanted to get to in the most efficient way. If they were not going to be taking opposing views into account they would have to be universal experts.

Why is that a good thing? It would only be good if the results of the decisions were good. Making bad decisions fast would make things worse.

Decision speed is simply neutral unless there is an associated bias towards good or bad results from those decisions.

One of the very few that I had to read at school but enjoyed anyway.

I noticed that a new book taking up the story of Manor Farm as a post-Brexit satire has been published just this week: Beasts of England. Obviously I don't expect it to be in the same league as Orwell, but I am actually intrigued to read this, and will get my hands on a copy soon.

This doesn't seem to be a migraine as such - or at least she is not normally subject to them. She has had something similar in the past, but not for about a decade.

We considered quite a few, but in the end she decided on Stardust - we are currently paused for a tea refresh. I have seen it in the past, probably soon after it came out. Fun and entertaining but not outstanding as a Gaiman tale overall.

Yesterday my SO spend all day with a raging headache and throwing up every half-hour or so.

Today she is better, which we are both very pleased about. My day, consequently, has been largely focused around excursions to get 'recovery' foods, doing double duty on household chores, and generally looking after her.

Not what I had planned, but I am very happy that she is better, and I will be settling down with a pizza (she is having baked potato and not sure yet) and we'll be watching an undemanding film this evening.

It's Friday afternoon and I am experiencing a Brain Full Error.