>A user has posted a classified document online relating to the Challenger 2 in order to improve the accuracy of the design of the tank in combat game ‘War Thunder’.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-challenger-tank-specs-leaked-online-for-videogame/

>>34666

Not a big loss, tanks are a 20th century relic anyway.

Any war between advanced militaries in current year would be a totally impersonal affair wherein helpless footsoldiers are instructed to go and stand places, where they are occasionally instantly killed without warning by a remote drone miles away over the horizon. There would barely be any traditional fighting. Might as well not even bother with the guns.

>>34669

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

In 1913, nobody anticipated the extent to which machine guns and heavy artillery would turn battles into deadlocked attritional conflicts. In 1938, nobody anticipated the extent to which radios and fast vehicles would allow agile armies to sidestep entrenched positions and outrun reinforcements. Nobody can honestly say that they know what the theatre of war will look like after two advanced militaries use their anti-satellite missiles, EMP devices and god knows what classified technology they're keeping under their hats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

I know the MEN is truly dire, Scum-level shitrag tabloid reporting but Jesus Christ this is low, it's just some twat with the world's shittest haircut recanting his holiday.

>>34846
Are those eyebrows real?

>>34840

Someone said something about this that stuck with me, along the lines of "it's not that people are mental for believing the government are doing weird, horrible things, it's when they actually think they can do something about it"

>>34840

I agree with your overall sentiment, but also think this is a slightly cartoonish representation of history. "Paranoid crazy hippies" were just the fringe of a growing mass movement of dissent in the U.S. throughout the 1960s, which was made up of all sorts of groups including students, academia, what remained of labour movements, the civil rights movement, anti-war protesters and veterans, and more.

I'm inclined to believe that perpetuating stereotypes about "crazy conspiracy theorists" is a very effective way of controlling dissent; you're basically misrepresenting the opposition. In fact, I believe there are internal FBI or CIA documents that explicitly stated that rumours of UFOs or speculation about the Kennedy assassination were to be encouraged and disseminated throughout popular culture, precisely for the reason that it distracts from real and evident political conspiracies like COINTELPRO.

I believe a similar tactic has been very skilfully employed since, and is likely to be a factor in what's happening now. Concerns for civil liberties have been very deliberately conflated with anti-science, anti-woman, anti-safety, and whatever else. The reality, of course, is that it's perfectly possible to both recognise the threat of COVID-19 but disagree with government measures taken under that rubric. We've just been polarised into thinking that anyone that disagrees with us must be a caricature.

Some people think that this is a result of the internet, but I don't think that's true either. The internet has accelerated it, but part of the reason the hippy stereotype exists is because of this caricaturing and misrepresentation of dissent. This can also have the strange effect of turning legitimate political movements into shallow cultural movements by attracting people who are just into the aesthetics of it.

>>34842
I have certainly noticed that coronavirus conspiracies are of a much higher calibre than your usual Timecube lunacy. I think schools decided to teach kids critical thinking a few decades ago, so the people would see through lies and misinformation, and it has backfired because a certain level of lies and misinformation are needed to run a country. I don't know anyone who believes vaccines contain 5G mind control, but a lot of people are concerned about side effects that might not show up for a couple of years, and that's obviously impossible to disprove. And there are concerns about testing, and you need to get people to accept the vaccine so you can test it. I am 100% certain that entities try to shape public discourse; I just don't know how widespread it is or if it's our government or the Russians.

>>34843
>and that's obviously impossible to disprove.

Just to say on this point, it isn't really, we have a really good idea of the long term effects of mRNA vaccines and any would be extremely unlikely. mRNA has a very short half life, it's incredibly unlikely to stick around long enough to cause direct effects for a long period of time or effects years later down the line. Any long term delayed effects would have to be down to the immune response, because of that we'd be seeing issues much sooner rather than later and at this point there's been something like over 3 billion doses administered. On the whole it's just very rare for any vaccine to have these long lasting/delayed negative effects that anti-vaxxers are worried about. Whereas the negative effects of long covid are much more likely.

>>34843
>I think schools decided to teach kids critical thinking a few decades ago, so the people would see through lies and misinformation,

I'd be interested to know what you're referring to, here, because actually I think one of the main functions of education is to instill a certain level of compliance in people, and certainly to keep debate within certain boundaries. I think it's far more likely that whatever skepticism you see at the moment is the result of the kind of movements we were discussing before hand just making its way into the education system as previous generations became teachers.

>and it has backfired because a certain level of lies and misinformation are needed to run a country.

This depends in whose interests you would like the society to be run. You have to remember that the responsibility for the conflicted response to COVID-19 can't be placed on the public alone, although people seem far more inclined to attack eachother as 'covidiots' or 'anti-maskers' rather than criticise power. The UK government has managed to find the worst of all worlds in its policies; prolonged lockdown, overwhelming of the health system, and negative economic effects.

Personally I think there have been forms of dissent that have brought about hugely civilising effects on our society, and that the certain level of "lies and misinformation" you refer to are not in the interest of simply running a country, but running it in a very specific -- often violent and repressive -- way.

>>445295
Someone on my road has not only concreted over their front drive but painted the concrete to match their front door and some other bits. Obviously the paint started coming off right away, and the concrete isn't flat so most of the time there's a puddle across 2/3 of the available space. I dread to think what their back garden looks like.

>>445300
>the one I'm in now (and commonly around here) won't even allow a man a shed.

I hear this a lot about HOAs - they sound like a nightmare. All of my radio friends say they also stop them putting up antenna in their gardens; which is strange because when you visit the US the first thing that strikes you is the lack of "planning permission" as we would see it.

>>445302
>>445303
These posts reminded me of my parents' street, which is a casualty of cars becoming more widespread and bigger in size. Both sides of the street have a tenfoot, with every house either having a garage behind on a separate lot, or a smaller garage embedded into the back garden. The latter is much too small for a car nowadays, and the tenfoot offers far too little space to even get in and out, so everyone on that side of the street has been knocking down their front wall, putting a dropped kerb on the street, and just parking in their front garden, which has then made street parking a complete shambles, and makes the whole street look a mess.

>>445304
It seems to be two extremes. If you live outside of an HOA, or in a traditional HOA which is actually run by the Os of the Hs, then you can pretty much do whatever you want (and people obviously do). If you live in one of these private HOAs, there *is* a "planning permission" process, but you're never gonna get approved for anything. A work friend lives in a similar HOA to me, and said that everyone just installed "playhouses" for their kids, since that's allowed, which just also happen to be tall enough for an adult man and completely filled with power tools.

>>445305
>tenfoot

Whatever happened to Hullfa.gs?

>>445306
City of Culture killed it off, Hull's too good to stay indoors now.

>>13923
>with the added spice that a perfectly suited internal candidate transferred to the hiring location about two weeks before the job posting

Last year they were making redundancies from one of the departments at work, with two out of four people set to lose their job. Less than a week after it was announced who was being made redundant one of those who'd kept their job handed her notice in.

>>13925
I've got something similar at the moment, some idiot decided to do corporate restructuring during a pandemic so everyone is just leaving. I'd do it myself but I'm too lazy.

>>13925
Something similar at my place of work. Silly restructure. Mass redundancies.

Just after a couple of weeks when they told the team who was getting sacked, myself and 3 other people handed in our notices, and all of us were safe anyway. But we started looking because we didn't want to play about and wait for the executives to pick who they wanted gone. So now, a team of 16 will be a team of 2.

There is a recruitment freeze because of the restructure, so to get around the fact that they are losing close to 90% of the team, they decided to get contractors... on expensive day-rates...

I don't understand how these people think.

>>13927
For me everyone's job is officially secure, aside from having to apply again, and instead of hiring consultants they just expected me to take on everything. Fortunately this has had quite the opposite effect where once I finished my in-tray everyone has kept assuming that I'm very busy and I no longer care enough about my job to mention it.

We all know the real reason, someone up top gets bored and runs with some stupid idea to make their mark.

LinkedIn.

>>445250

Explain how visual comparison to entirely undiscovered extra-terrestrial life can be factual.

>>445251

>entirely undiscovered extra-terrestrial life

That is evidently just your opinion.

>>445251

So is it safer at the train station or on the high st on one of those massive bicycle racks?

>>445291

The safest place to park your bike is next to a nicer bike with a worse lock.

The only bicycle locks that will actually stop a half-serious thief are the Kryptonite New York Fahgettaboudit Mini and the Abus Granit X-plus Mini 54. They're genuinely a pain in the arse to get open. Anything else can be popped open in about 15 seconds with a pair of long-handled bolt cutters or a bottle jack.

Some of the beefier motorbike chains will stop a professional thief, but they're hugely expensive and impractically heavy. Cable locks and folding locks are useless, chain locks are surprisingly easy to cut (they give the thief too much room to manoeuvre) and D-locks can only really be trusted if they've got at least a 13mm case-hardened shackle and they're just barely big enough to fit around the bike and post.

Fortunately you don't need to make your bike impossible to steal, just less attractive than the available alternatives. If there are two bikes on the same stand of similar value, a thief will go for the one with the worse lock. If there are two bikes on the same stand with equally good locks, a thief will go for the one with that is easiest to sell.

Making your bike harder to sell at a reasonable price is just as valuable as getting a better lock. Scrape off the decals, file off the brand names on the components, give the frame a really ugly re-spray with a rattle can. If you make your bike less attractive to a random bloke in a pub, you make it less attractive to a thief.

>>25044
Amazon price trackers show it's currently at the lowest price in history. You might be conflating the Switch and the Switch Lite.

>>25045
Aldi had them for £230 last Black Friday and I believe Tesco did the same, but I could have sworn that they were cheaper than that before prices shot up due to lockdown anyway.

>>25044
I absolutely remember Argos having an offer in April because I budgeted for it. They were immediately out of stock because they'd all been bought up by scalpers and then sold for considerable mark-ups. Same story on Amazon where retailers were sold out and all you could get were scalpers or companies in HK where you'd be waiting for months if it arrives at all.

Then I realised that there's nothing on the Switch I'd want to play that couldn't be bought for my laptop and I have no use for a portable device.

>>25046
What is going on here? Why is the mascot for Black Friday a Christmas carrot? Why is L I K E the most important word in that copy?

>>25048
I can't explain the LIKE - maybe they're saying you will LIKE their bargains? Pretty pisspoor if so - but Kevin the Carrot has been Aldi's Christmas mascot since 2016, and Black Friday is considered the start of the Christmas shopping season.

https://www.aldi.co.uk/kevin

>>32076
Tried a xiami miband for a while, but the problem is that the screen was so sensitive that my sleeve would press things, doing things like randomly setting alarms, or keep pausing workouts I was trying to track.

The heart rate monitors are useful but nowhere near as accurate as a chest strap. The sleep tracker is interesting but really isn't telling me anything I don't know.

>>32076
I got an Apple watch thingy when they added heart beat measuring, mostly because it integrates with PagerDuty which I need for my job, but the stats were a neat gimmick that convinced me.

It's now a glorified oyster card for me with some NFC payment thrown in, so I completely agree. The one upside is that it's passable for navigation if your preferred maps app integrates with it. No use at all in the car, but when walking or using public transport to a new location it's nice to be able to just check my wrist instead of having to pull out the phone.

>>32074
>Oh, aye, torrenting this mess is surely going to be much less hassle.

Yes actually, it is.
Type HITMAN 2: GOLD EDITION – V2.70.1 + ALL DLCS in the search bar after googling the website I mentioned, click 'magnet'. Wait for download, run the installer.

And if you can't do that then you don't deserve leisure time.
And if you can't manage to u>>32074">https://fitgirl-repacks.to/repack/1157-hitman-2>>32074

>>32075

Fill me in on this so I don't have to go on r/aftertheloop or something. What have they done now?

I mean I might be an outlier because supporting massive faceless corpos like those is already inherently amoral from where I'm standing, but apparently they've done something so beyond the pale even normals are prepared to put down their dopamine pipes.

It's not just some boring shite about treating a woman badly is it?

>>32081
The AB thing does have a lot of boring equal opps office politics stuff, but there are a couple of really nasty things in there, like blokes getting pissed up at work and crawling under the women's desks to get a look and not being remotely subtle about it, and the blokes who were openly passing around upskirt and fanny pics of the women. It got so much for one woman that she killed herself.

The Ubisoft thing is mostly about how the company is run by a bunch of rapists who got away with it for years and let other rapists get away with it for years, and how they've done absolutely fuck all about it. Lots of senior positions are held by the boss's family, including his son who may have been a rapist.

As for EA, ... they're fucking EA, innit.

>>445281
>All the top sites are owned by the same company (Mindgeek)
Nope.

>>445285
Which one's don't they own? All I can think of is XNXX and Xhamster.

>>445286
Which don't they own that belongs to one?

>>445287
I feel this sentence makes sense, but my brain can't accept it.

>>445288
>Which one's don't they own?
>one's
>Belonging to one

>>5581

That's an interesting hypothetical. If there were a magical alcohol-free scotch that tasted exactly the same, would I drink it?

If it tasted exactly the same, as in, somehow had the alcoholic taste without the other effects like Star Trek synthehol, if anything I would probably drink much more.

I've always liked the idea of having a ritualistic nightcap, but I am an absolute lightweight and would feel awful.

>>5585

You don't want a night cap. It is just a normalisation of alcoholism. Doctors say it actually disrupts the REM cycle, those doctors apparently undervalue what a disruptive fucker acute withdrawal is to sleep.

>>5577

I don't doubt your sincerity in liking it, but the post that provoked my stance was this >>5562 and doubt they were being anything other than pretentious.

>>5583
Two weeks later and I can report that I'm noticeably eating more but also that I've become much more popular on dating apps. The latter is as useful as a chocolate teapot at the moment but it's nice to learn that was the only thing holding me back. Unless Big-Aubergine boosts your profile when you quit.

What's worked for me is keeping score of the days and not wanting to break the streak. Last night I saw a couple smoking cigarettes and calmed the urge to go buy a pack by noting that I was near the two-week mark. Also drumstick squashies taste like shit now that I've stopped smoking.

I quit 7 months ago but now that it's summer the thought of a ciggie is just nice. Truly a horrible time of year, sunny out, benches in pub gardens ripe for sitting on and scantily clad women ripe for chatting to over a cigarette.

They need to invent a tobacco that's perfectly healthy and non-addictive.

>>42213
Oh, it's the prime minister's kid. I didn't know because I'm not psychic.

>>42214 He's got a lot of kids, it was a fair chance.
Also, wouldn't. Not sure why.

>>42215
It's probably that she's wearing an absurd outfit but give no torso or neck, like a gibbon but not nearly as funky. There's a better picture where you can make out her tits but they still have her pants up to her nipples.

You can tell it was a chick in charge of this photoshoot.

I'd prefer the woman in the OP, frankly.

>>42217
Christ, same here. I don't know what to think about that. Back in 5 mins.

>>42093

I assume this is fake, but I'm going to have a go on it later nonetheless.

It does look like her boobs, having compared them to the time her left one popped out on a saturday morning kid's TV show, I forget which.

>>42094

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ8WwGXz2A8

Helen Flanagan. Because sometimes you can't beat the classics.

Brazilian women are anatomically implausible.

>>14556

Aye but in the depths of winter you're drinking hot cups of tea like the rest of us and of what good is your SnowShock to you then Ozymandias?

>>14557
Global warming innit. Mr SnowShock is years ahead of his time.

>>14557

It's a running joke at work that I never wear a coat and only drink cold drinks. I am the Ice King and I will drink slush deep into winter. And as >>14558 points out, once the sun really starts to cook the earth in the coming years, you will all be lining up to trade your women and ammunition for a tall cool plastic cup of blue raspberry.

Also the heat generated by the twin compressors when it's running is borderline uncomfortable, I'm sure left on long enough it'll heat my garage up entirely so I can have a tropical winter.

I've always wondered why frozen carbonated beverages have never taken off in this country - apart from Tango Ice Blast, it seems to be unobtanium. I'd jerry-rig my own machine, but pressure vessels give me the fear.

>>14560

I'm with you, a frozen coke is a thing of beauty on a warm day.

>>34814
I know a few art spaces in semi-industrial areas that have people living in them for ... I don't know how long but they always seem to be there.

>>34807

You do need planning permission to convert a commercial property into a residential one, but as of next month it'll be a permitted development right under Class MA.

https://www.planninggeek.co.uk/gpdo/changes-of-use/class-ma/

>>34817
I'm curious how squatting rights intersect with planning rights, and if that's getting abused. If some interest wanted an industrial area turned into a residential development, could they secretly fund a commune to live in that area and "allow" them to build and develop amenities for a decade and then turn around and "buy them out" and go ham because now it's residential?

>>34818

You could in theory, but you wouldn't really need to. The new reforms to the planning system give the presumed right to convert most commercial properties to residential use. Council planning departments have a very short list of grounds to object to such a conversion, otherwise they have to give you permission.

If you wanted to develop on a large scale you'd need to jump through some hoops with regards to transport impacts, your development needs to have natural light in every habitable room, but otherwise there's really nothing they can do to stop you.

I'm currently looking for a suitable light industrial unit to convert, because I've always wanted a house with three-phase power and a loading dock.

>>34821
You're still constrained by building standards, though. If you're planning to build hutches for students, they have to be able to stretch their legs out and express natural behaviours such as shitting in buckets. It's a low bar.

It's going to be fascinating to see some of the horrendous conversions. My local council already (8 years ago?) converted a load of their city centre offices into student hovels in a strange arms-length deal. The conversions done with cardboard, string and piss buckets will be much more fun.
I'm pretty much in favour of it as a plan - have people actually live in city centres again, it's just the implementation that's going to be grim at times.

>Two schoolboys who ambushed a 13-year-old and stabbed him to death after a dispute on social media have been found guilty of murder.

>Olly Stephens suffered fatal stab wounds to his chest and back in a field in Reading, Berkshire, on 3 January. He had been lured there by a girl and was then attacked by two boys carrying knives, Reading Crown Court was told.

>The girl, 14, admitted manslaughter. She will be sentenced with the two boys, also both 14, at a later date.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-57901344

>>34805
>He had been lured there by a girl and was then attacked by two boys

I wonder how many men have been caught in such a trap throughout history. There's no defence.

>>29923

I don't follow the footy, and I'm fucking thick.

>>34805 >>34806
This is why I don't hang out with 14-year-old girls.

>>34810

That's what I don't get about paedos, you should have learned at school that you can't trust women, even when they're kids.

>>9713
I usually watch a women's event as a bit of a teenage tradition. Unfortunately I might give it a miss this year as staying up late to ogle women's abs feels a bit wrong'un.

You can just watch an illegal stream. I imagine they will be called something like 'olympicstreams' possibly using the .me.

>>9720

The Paralympics is always good for a questionable wank.

>>9719
> Some hobby sports are now being picked up as niche events, like climbing and skateboarding.

I tend to enjoy those "niche" competitions a lot more than the more mainstream events as for the first couple of events at least the former tend to fit closer to the modern olympic idea of "amateur athletes" that's been completely lost in the established disciplines. While there's undeniable beauty in seeing athletes perform asymptotically closer to the maximum the human body can achieve, I find more fun and joy in seeing a slightly scrappy performance by people who are quite good and really try hard.

>>9722
The Paralympics is outstanding in every conceivable way. My all-time favourite sporting moment is from the Paralympics (the 200m in London 2012; I forget the name of the disability category but you'll know it when you see it). Also, they're all niche sports; it's the ultimate hipster tournament. Sure, sprinting and hurdles and cycling are pretty generic, but not when you have no legs.

>>9700
They effectively have. The police have said they arrested a 31 year old and Everton only have two 31 year old players, Delph and Sigurdsson. The press have now come out and said it isn't Delph.

That's the best thing about thirty-one-year-old Evertonians.

There's 30 of them!

>Police have been called in after embarrassing photos of Wayne Rooney on a night out were shared on social media.

>One of the images shows Rooney, 35, fast asleep on a chair with a scantily clad woman lying on a bed in the background. The former Manchester United striker apparently fell asleep upright with his chin on his chest and hands in his pockets. Two wine glasses and several empty bottles can be seen underneath the chair.

>A video clip of another girl apparently breaking wind near the Derby County manager has also been viewed over 175,000 times.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/police-called-over-photos-wayne-24613596

A woman farting near Wayne Rooney's sleeping face is the news.

>>9717
>Mooney Rooney
Brilliant.

>>9723
She done a proper long, wet fart.

>>15872

I would imagine by this stage it's difficult for pedolad to find IPs where he isn't already banned.

I am the first of the two posters banned for antiSomali sentiment. I didn't intend to be racist, I thought was on the level of "Americans are fat" or "Germans are scat fetishists", but I appreciate it veered more into the area of dolphin rape so I am sorry.

>>15874
>Somalis look like aliens they have big craniums and weak jaws, very skinny, disproportionately large head. They look very different from your Nigerians and your Jamaicans.

Seems a little racist to me, chief.

>>15875
It's only racist because you know Somalians are black. If he'd been talking about people from Wrexham or the Welsh in general, we'd all be fine with it. No double standards here, chief.>>15875

>>15876
>... or the Welsh in general, we'd all be fine with it

I am Welsh. I disagree.

Speaking of which, some cretin has gotten themselves banned from 3 of the 4 Opera VPNs available to me. Please don't nuke the last one, .gs is one of my very few connections to the land of my fathers.

>>444851

Also the technology is fundamentally different. Buses and trains use series hybrid systems, which are basically just an electric motor hooked up to a diesel generator. Hybrid cars use parallel hybrid, where both the electric motor and the petrol engine are connected to the wheels. Parallel hybrid systems are more complex, but they allow for clever tricks to boost performance and improve efficiency, particularly on small engines with big turbochargers.

With that said, hybrid is a stopgap technology - the (very near) future is pure electric.

>>444851
Surely with the growing popularity of SUVs and the like, we can extrapolate that the average car will be bigger than a Plaxton Paladin by 2026?

I had a dream that I was in prison. It was for insulting somebody on the Internet or something.

I was at a cash machine and it kept spitting loads of money out. I took it home for safe keeping, because I was going to return the money and didn't trust anyone else in that position to but CCTV images of me at the cash machine made the news before I had the chance to do anything, so I was the subject of a witch hunt.

A woman in an office I used to work in visited me while I was in bed. I quickly got my work laptop out and went straight to business to cover the fact that I had just woken up. After a while she awkwardly left and another woman I used to work with came in. "Oh for fucks sake, can't I get some peace!" I thought to myself.

Went straight to work again to resolve her queries but she became annoyed and left repeatedly saying that she won't be visiting me again. Then I realised that it was my birthday and they'd really come to say hello and wish me a happy birthday. Maybe I should be less emotionally detached at work and also in my personal life but that's difficult.

>>445070
I remember something like this making the news once, a cash machine was spitting out £20 to anyone that asks for £10 so it quickly became very popular with people emptying their accounts. The bank was fine with it and let them all off.

In your next dream just take the money.

>>445252
Here in Birmingham we haven't seen rain in a few weeks.
Birmingham could do with a good flood.

>>445252
Blew my mind as well, I went to the shops this afternoon and while it was pissing it down it didn't look like any flood risk. There's still rain coming for the rest of the week so hopefully it will distract my boss enough that I can get away with doing fuck all.

Don't know why you have people driving through flood water. It doesn't matter how far you have to go for a hotel, surely it's still better than risking your car being trapped.

>>445252

Ahhh fuck yas. It's not like anyone down there cares when it's Hebden Bridge or wherever flooding like clockwork year after year. You lot need another Grenfell.

>>445257
What is it about ethnic minorities burning to death that you enjoy the most?

>>445259

Don't start.