PC Jeff: 'Scuse me sir, can you wind down the window.
[Car window rolls down. PC Jeff Looks in]
PC Jeff: Dave!
[PC Dave rolls down police car window]
PC Dave: Yeah.
PC Jeff: Can ya check we haven’t got a wee exhaust leak inte our vehicle.
PC Dave: Sure. Why?
PC Jeff: Just do it…then come here and I’ll go check again.
On the train to town, early morning, pissing it down so everyone smells like wet dog, pretty packed but you manage to get a seat on the end of a 6 seater section. There’s space in the middle as well but you don’t wanna cramp window person.
The train pulls in to the next stop, and fills up. You get asked to move up to make room for someone to take the third seat on the end of the row. Ordinarily you’d keep the end but becuase its so packed, you move down to save a fight.
They sit down.
You hear the heavy laboured breathing, then come the sniffles and the cough.
You shallow breathe.
Lastly, you smell the Eucalyptus breath from the person next to you and think…
It’s me tomorrow. I’m done for
This is fantastic news.
More redundancy and safety with friendly countries. We need more fallbacks from the US going full Facist.
Pressing X to doubt
I’d go the opposite way, I’d play out an intricate strategy based on the first few boxes, then use probability and high level maths to work out where I’d choose the next box.
…or that’s what I’d tell 'em. I’d have a box in my head based on a completely random fact like, how many audience members are wearing red sweaters, or something else utterly stupid, and I wouldn’t stop until I’d got a good offer or got to the end - I’d just keep feeding them absolute bollox until the second to last box and when they film the whole pause to open the last box, I’d tell them I made the whole theory up and open it so they couldn’t cut it from the show.
Michael Palin.
The man’s been everywhere and can still be incredibly intelligent & engaging while there’s always a disarming aura - and if that don’t work, his sense of humour will get you every time.
Is this sarcasm?
How does this make things better?
It hands a vital service over to an American company that can then strong-arm the UK/EU into other dubious decisions. This would absolutely be the worst solution due the US now controlling the EU satellite architecture.
It’s what currently got us here in the first place - the over reliance on the US.
You realise Bezos is just as equally culpable as Musk in Trump’s reign? He’s on his kneels and sucked that mushroom just as much as Elon.
The US will absolutely panic once this starts to spread.
They will have no control, and no eyes on what Europe does with its money.
Power to the EU.
No doubt they are lobbying hard to bring this to the attention of Jabba the Trump.
Now UK has to step up and join
I really hope someone puts their foot down and takes Lithography completely off the table from the get go.
Don’t dangle the carrot because China has been known just to steal it and make their own.
ASML stays Dutch, ASML stays dominant.