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Given that season 2 is meant to be the last for Andor, it's started pretty slowly. It could do with a lot more rebellion/espionage and a lot less imperial domestic bliss and high society weddings. At this pace it feels like another 2 seasons are required to take us from Andor the new rebel to ...

dpedin wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 8:15 am
EU didnt impose tariffs on the UK ... we asked them to! [cut]

Yeeb said the EU retaliated with tariffs, a few times on this thread - par for the course coming from your average Brexiteer. Although in his case, seemingly ex-Brexiteer? ex-Brexit-curious, in rehab?

Timothy Snyder offers a calm and measured response to the shitshow in the WH

https://snyder.substack.com/p/five-failures-in-the-oval-office?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=310897&post_id=158132584&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=watch_now_gif&r=8ijhb&triedRedirect=true&utm ...

Milk the hydrogen cow for all the grant money you can squeeze out of it and then write it off as a tax expense when it runs dry.

Indeed. That's exactly what Airbus and a few other actors in aviation did and still do.
5 years ago they promised operational hydrogen fueled aircraft for 2035 (IIRC ...

Sad news, enjoyed the daily crossword threads RIP

Yup, it's mostly thanks to him I've been enjoying cryptics for the last, er, 15 years maybe? More perhaps. I still do 3-4 grids a week, and try to spread the love of that great game in my (French) circles, so I have a thought about him every now ...

Biffer wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 3:59 pm
I'm not going down this line. Any definition that fits on here is going to be too simplistic, and you're the kind of poster who will immediately take a statement and twist it to its extreme,rejecting any nuance.

So, get fucked.

Watching Andor these days, I think it's my favorite piece of the Star Wars productions, even including Eps IV/V/VI.
Grim atmosphere, some depth in many characters - even basic villains have a back story.
Just discovered what I think clinches it for me, what gives it a unique adult feel: there's one ...

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Chilling, quite literally (from yesterday's J. Obrien's):
Iowan GOP caucus voters asked whether they'd rather have Trump as dictator or Biden as president
tl;dl: Dictator please. (at least for some of them, I don't know what they edited out)

I just watched this interview of Dominic Grieve. No real hot topics, but an interesting ex-insider's view, to me.

Daily Octordle #172

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Nice tidy shape.
Wordle 391 6/6*

3 tries for the last one killed me
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Yeech

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and yuck.

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Wordle 388 3/6*

Pretty lucky, 5 possibilities for the initial still remained.
ed: I see above many were stuck in that quicksands.

Frustrating today

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Guy Smiley wrote: Sun Jul 10, 2022 1:58 pm
GuLi, some of us play the ‘hard’ rules in the settings and that’s why our results are marked with the ‘*’ asterisk.

Thanks Guy, I'll give it a try though this seems to be how I play already.

Wordle 386 3/6

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Anybody knows why some scores are suffixed with a '*' - e.g. TB63's above, "4/6*" - while some aren't?

By the way, TB63, in response to your 'spoiler' of a few posts ago -
I often (as today) start with STARE - less [ed: fewer, dammit] vowels but S, T, R are very ...

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and

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So, which dirtbag will use the dead cat bounce of the Johnson removal to call a snap election and give us give more Tory rule as the faithful flock back now that the naughty boy has gone?So, which dirtbag will use the dead cat bounce of the Johnson removal to call a snap election and give us give ...

Both Qu_ and Octordle better than my average I think. It's very much a question of luck, I struggle on ones the rest of you breeze through.

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GuLi wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:55 pm
Marylandolorian wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:49 pm
Thanks, but didn’t see it in the programming, which day / time does it start?
Vendredi 21h (heure de Nice) pour CO-ST

Ooh, I answered another question

Sorry.

Marylandolorian wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 12:49 pm
Thanks, but didn’t see it in the programming, which day / time does it start?

Vendredi 21h (heure de Nice) pour CO-ST

TB63 wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:32 am
You need to select new style game Guli..

Thanks TB! ed.: and Tilly :)
Now it works.

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I don't have a score though, contrary to you all. What do I do wrong?

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#Heardle #109

https://www.heardle.app

A lot of the songs are completely unknown to me - the recent stuff mostly, but most of those I guess I get on either the 1st or first 2 seconds. I suppose it's a common pattern.

WordHurdle 196 4/6 #wordhurdle

Ok, 6 tries only for 6 letters can be hard.

Never heard of Phrazle or WordHurdle before.
Phrazle 23: 2/6

#phrazle

https://solitaired.com/phrazle

Lucky enough on this one. Let's try the other.

Ah, posted the above too fast. Well, guess it's to celebrate the #88.
Quordle went a little better than usual:
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I suppose they made a special today? Same for you guys?

Morning hlvp, thanks- pretty dull here, but the little rain is welcome as we had a
rather dry Spring until last week-end.
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PARISH, IS + Hotel +PAR

I'm more on the "there's no such thing as unmistakable really, let's settle for fairly recognizable'" side.
Not mentioned above:
Richie Blackmore, though it's probably his distinctive riffs.
John Renbourn, I could pick (haha) him up a few times not knowing the piece. Ok, once I thought it was Jansch ...

Hi there, thanks h!
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EGRET, sooTERGEese<

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NEAREST, NEST + ARE

...and low grey and cold here too. Where's this Spring dammit?

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RETICENT, bRETt + nICk + rENé + Time

Hello G. Nice to see you're fine.
Have a nice day and fun with the rest !

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REPUTATION, European + PUT + RATION

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WORD, "whirred"

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LIMB, LIMBo - 0

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