[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

1,500 dead and injured “every single day

No idea how many of those are dead vs injured, but to put that into context, the UK lost 457 people in Afghanistan in a 20 year period, and 179 in Iraq. 255 were lost in the Falklands.

I'd take the figures coming out of Ukraine with a pinch of salt but even if they're half of what's being said, these numbers are crazy. Such a crazy waste of life on all sides.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 12 points 2 days ago

I'd doubt the NHS would go for this. Our experience is that they heavily promote breastfeeding and seem to put as much resistance into using formula as possible.

This would seem at odds with their current approach of trying to get more people to breastfeed.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Has there ever been a single one that's worked?

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

I know absolutely fuck all about satellites but I have to assume on something this old, that it's extremely unlikely.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 36 points 2 days ago

"It's still relevant because whoever did move Skynet-1A did us few favours," says space consultant Dr Stuart Eves.

"It's now in what we call a 'gravity well' at 105 degrees West longitude, wandering backwards and forwards like a marble at the bottom of a bowl. And unfortunately this brings it close to other satellite traffic on a regular basis.

"Because it's dead, the risk is it might bump into something, and because it's 'our' satellite we're still responsible for it," he explains.

So basically, you can't park there mate!

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[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago

Such people aren't fans of the sport, they go primarilly to cause trouble in a group.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 9 points 4 days ago

I think that's football fans in general to be honest.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 7 points 4 days ago

Monthly Active Users (MAU) is probably the best metric for the health of Lemmy. A lot of these instances that are shutting down may be single-user instances or ones that people spun up just to mess about with them.

However, please donate to your instance if you can, it doesn't have to be much :)

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Beehaw gives me weird, cult like vibes. You MUST be happy and positive, or you're OUT. I'm probably entirely wrong, but that's how they come across to me when I started looking into their rules when I thought about creating an account.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 9 points 5 days ago

It could be useful to link to some relevant communities in this posts description if people do want to ask questions.

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Edit: changed title to reflect the updated title in the article

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For me it would be where the sun is shining, the house is tidy and there's no chores to do.

Start off with a decent breakfast and a decent mug of coffee. I'd have had my run the previous day so can rest a bit. Maybe head out for a walk, grab some lunch at the local garden centre. I've just redownloaded the game Ingress after not playing it for years, so maybe play that for a couple of hours.

Get home and watch the F1 while I prepare and cook a lasagne in the afternoon. Smash said lasagne with a glass or two of a nice red wine and then spend the evening playing Minecraft for a few hours, then an hour or two of reading before bed.

The reality though is far different as I have two young kids!

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But do the categories (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral) just make no sense against the possibile answers?

The instructions for the game are at the top. A player picks a word from a card and the other player has to guess the word they've picked, starting by asking if it's an animal, vegetable or mineral.

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The consumption facility for illegal drugs including heroin and cocaine is set to open in Glasgow.

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[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 103 points 11 months ago

None of them. I don't care who they are, nobody should be a billionaire.

[-] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 158 points 1 year ago

There's Linux distro called suicide Linux that wipes your hard drive on any mistyped command.

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