Your comment reminded me of the fun fact that there's more water in Loch Ness alone than all of England and Wales' lakes and rivers combined!

Add in all the other Scottish rivers and lakes, and you can see why Westminster is loathe to let Scotland have independence.

Some places just have a fuckton of water, and the Australian outback is not where Mad Max will take place irl in the future, but in these places.

You think NATO v Russia is going to require conscription?

Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, and USA v Russia is going to require conscription?

Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think 966 million people v 145 million people is going to require conscription?

Or, sorry, let me rephrase that. You think a country that has been at war with its small neighbour for 10 years and is struggling v the largest military alliance in the world with the largest economies in the world would require conscription?

I've been a bit of a dick here to get my point across but making excuses for the tories bringing back conscription is also a bit dickish.

If you want to sign up, go for it. If there comes a point where it's required, I'm a relatively young fit man so would consider signing up too. But only when there's a need for it. There is no need yet.

Plus, if we're going for WW3, we're all gonna die in the nuclear blasts before we even get a chance to put boots on the ground anyway.

Let the people who installed/created it maintain it or let a bunch of new folk do it, which is likely to work best?

The abroad part isn't the issue. We're a global village with the Internet now, after all. It's the outsourcing part that's the issue.

NHS Dumfries of Galloway has confirmed some children’s mental health records have been published by criminals following a cyber attack.

Can't even get the first line of their story correct. Dumfries AND Galloway

Paper isn't always secure!

https://soranews24.com/2024/04/26/japanese-city-loses-residents-personal-data-which-was-on-paper-being-transported-on-a-windy-day/

The large wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen could power about 70% of the entire city iirc. That was one of the first large offshore windfarms, they'll only get better and more efficient. If large offshore windfarms become more common, then huge swathes of the country will be powered by them.

If we then become reliant on those windfarms (which appears to be part of the long term plan) then putting control of them in foreign hands gives them power over us such as "oops, a cable broke and now your whole city has gone dark, ease off on foreign policy A, or agree to trade agreement B, and we might be able to fix that cable for you"

It's a nationally critical piece of infrastructure, it's strange to source it out of country.

Of course, a UK company could try that kinda stunt as well, but they then need to answer to UK courts. It's less daunting for foreign state run companies as they can pull out of country easier to avoid repurcussions and have the backing of their government.

To be fair, Ukraine is part of a defense agreement too. A shame one of the signatories is the aggressor...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

Even one of the most revered OG dictators who willingly gave up his power after just 16 days was still an asshole.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus

A benevolent dictator is still a dictator.

What shit did they pull with their app?

Both of which are being controlled by people who should be cognisant of their surroundings as they're metal death machines if improperly operated. One is just bigger than the other.

A pedestrian on the other hand has no such obligation to be constantly aware of their surroundings. Pedestrians can be children with lower awareness of their surroundings, drunk people, stoned people, someone momentarily distracted by their phone, whatever. The onus is on those wielding the vehicle to be in control and slow down if a hazard is present, not the pedestrian. There's a reason many countries do hazard perception tests as part of the theoretical part of getting a driving lesson. Because if a kid runs out onto the road and gets smooshed, it's on the driver, regardless of whether that kid was being dumb or not.

Software as a Service for those ignorant like I was and had to Google what SaaS meant

https://open.spotify.com/track/4VJrTc5QPr13zgkwxaTjjN?si=niCU4IByRouS4O_r-OkKiQ

Little boxes on the hillside

Little boxes made of ticky tacky

Little boxes on the hillside

Little boxes all the same