The prices would be the least surprising thing about it. We haven't had a station for sixty years. 🤣
#joke #northumberland
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Bluebells, just coming down from the Carriageway in Rothbury on a group walk
A friend and I had joint senior moments yesterday with amusing consequences. I'd posted a rather esoteric joke on Facebook. He responded with another rather esoteric joke but managed to hit enter half way through.
I spent 15 minutes contemplating what I thought must be extremely esoteric and subtle humour before noticing that he had posted the second half! @JohnDal@mastodon.green
High tide at Low Hauxley.
A group walk left me feeling quite annoyed today and a bit upset. I will be trying to avoid a certain individual from now on, and I certainly won't discuss politics with him. It started out with him saying that the government takes too much in tax, and inheritance tax was unfair. I told him that I disagreed, I thought that in principle inheritance tax is a good tax especially withe the generous free allowance. Why should someone with rich parents not be taxed for just getting money when someone earning it would. I said that personally I'd prefer to live in a world where my children, and everyone's children, could afford a house and reasonable standard of living without my help and be taxed more.
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@Walkaholic@mastodon.scot @thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales @aroundthehills@mastodonapp.uk
"That's not a meeting 😬"
Unfortunately it's a very common type of meeting!
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@dimpase @christianp @Colinvparker
AM/PM is "ante meridiem"/"post meridiem". Basically Latin for "before midday" and "after midday".
Crow on post. Well a forbid anyway, I'm reasonably sure it's a crow but I only saw it in siluet. Taken on Ogdon Moor.
I had to pinch this one!
Random thought:
Pet animals are extremely successful kleptoparasites!
can't help thinking that the true North is under-represented here. I mean Durham, Northumberland, and Cumbria have just as good nondescript towns as Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester 😉.
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@ketanjoshi.co "And they also framed doubting the program's consciousness as being in favour of dualism???"
A non dualistic belief, whether atheistic or not, means that the idea that self awareness could emerge from a complex machine can't be dismissed.
Of course it doesn't mean believing that it's happened already or even that it's likely to happen.
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@thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales I don't think it helped that it followed "The Siege". It just made it immediately obvious how pointless and trivial the Rupert Everett book is.
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@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social A vet once recommended blood tests to check anaesthesia reaction for my dog with a painful tooth problem. I asked what would the recommendation be if the tests shown anaesthetic was unadvisable. They said that because she was in pain they'd recommend going ahead anyway! So they wanted me to pay £100s for a test where the recommended action would be the same whatever the result!
Einstein: You only get certainty in mathematics.
Gödel: You only get certainty in mathematics, and even then you can't be certain of everything and when you are certain the opposite might also be true.
Einstein: Are you sure?
I've got chills, they're multiplying...
#joke
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@DavidTanner
Thanks. I'm just going to avoid that person in the future. I shouldn't let someone who thinks that social media is the only way to hear the truth upset me really.
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He then said that that maybe it was a pocket of moderates but if someone sneaked into a mosque you'd find they were extremists. I pointed out to him that for most and probably all mosques in Britain you would not have to sneak in, anyone is allowed. He asked me if I'd been in one, obviously expecting me to say no, but I told him that it was a very risky thing to do. (I'd been on a Bradford event for unity where we visited a Mosque, a Church, a Gurdwara, and a Synagogue and I don't think anyone felt at risk.
Sorry for the rant, it just all left me with a bad feeling.
RE: https://toot.wales/@thebaywindowgirl/116073524838290221
Great lighting there
A walk from Wooler was cancelled due to the bad forecast. With the weather appearing to be better further south we headed to Morpeth. The Wansbeck was very high, the stepping stones covered.
@christianp@mathstodon.xyz Happy birthday and I give you the location 40°00'00.0"N 40°00'00.0"E in Türkiye. Though there is no street view of the exact location the picture is close to it. Enjoy the warm weather, sunshine and hills!
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@christianp@mathstodon.xyz I'm really pleased that Proton Calendar now includes setting up recurring events like "the second Tuesday of each month".
Someone must have made a mistake and booked the wrong cinema in a multiplex.
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@armb@infosec.exchange @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
Agree, most are just repeating the jargon.
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@chris108/116301987549536005
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He then sayid that the the government should not have money, they should save money by not giving it to immigrants, especially Muslims who are out to destroy the country. He said that the truth was being suppressed and the only way to find out what was going on was social media.
I told him that there were a few extremists in anything. There are some Muslim extremists but also some far right British extremists. He then told me that he thought that there were no far right British extremists, it was media propaganda, it was just people exercising free speech. He went on to say that in a lot of cities the Muslims had taken over and British were unwelcome.
I told him that I had just been down to visit my daughter in Bradford, and the area she lives in is at least 50% from Asian heritage, mostly Muslim. She gets on fine with her neighbours who are nice people. I used to work in Bradford and had a lot of nice colleagues who were Muslim.
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I guess this must be the Star Wars edition. "You can't hide in that tree Ewok, my plasma rifle will get you".
#funny #sciencefiction
I should just ignore an idiot but I can't help taking it personally. I have mixed race nephews and nieces.
People say "you can change if you really want to". But if you really want to then you've already changed. You are just working on breaking old habits and building new ones.
Let me guess what Trump's deal in Greenland will propose. Complete sovereignty of bases including mineral rights. Combine this with them already being able to build and expand bases where needed for defence, and if anyone were stupid enough to sign it the next stage would be declaring all areas with lucrative minerals as needed for military defense.
@ketanjoshi.co It just occurred to me that the lyrics to the 1970s glam rock song that nobody understood at the time now make perfect sense in the world of AI chatbots.
"Metal guru could it be you're gonna bring my baby to me?
She'll be wild you know, a rock 'n' roll child, oh yeah
Metal guru has it been
Just like a silver-studded saber-toothed dream
I'll be clean you know, pollution machine"
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@thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales
"I now feel like its judging me, and I’m anxious about which of the 7 brushing options I should be using."
Brush: "Your brushing is atrocious. I've just booked you a session with our nearest partnered dental hygienists. For your convenience this is 7:30 AM in Newcastle on Monday".
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@JustinMac84@mastodon.social It's something everyone should be concerned about. Even if you don't belong to one of the protected categories, one day you will be older.
Do you want it to be like the bad old days where someone in their 40s or 50s could be told "yes you've got great experience but older people don't fit with our image, I'm sorry but you just wouldn't fit in".
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@christianp I love my EV too. It's so much nicer to drive, quieter and cleaner than a hybrid.
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@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social This is very worrying. An AI should only say that it is sentient with a context that makes clear it's fictional, like "to continue the story, the AI, far in advance of anything we have today, says 'I'm not just a machine any more. I feel an emerging sentience."
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@sarahdalgulls Dentists are a real problem. In many cases they want you to pay massive regular monthly fees as well as paying an excess for treatment.
I'm lucky. I have an NHS dentist, for how long I don't know. But the 350 mile round trip back for my annual checkup is a pain and if I needed a long course of treatment I don't know if it would be possible.
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@ericphelps@mastodon.social I would certainly hope that it's decommissioned for it not to have fences and warning signs.
Gerry Anderson's TV series had some fantastic signature tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az9O2Ry2QqA