I was trying to think of what the opposite of plot armour is called, cos it’s that.

I thought you meant you were competing over who gets to be the owner, but no. Keep fighting that good fight! Perhaps inviting your household to its 40th birthday will win hearts and minds.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/8/uk-announces-sanctions-on-illegal-israeli-settlements

I don’t think the UK is quite as cowed as you seem to think it is.

The Gamers Nexus video is pretty convincing, and demonstrates the logs and activities they’re reporting. The LG response basically admits to half the things GN claimed, yet somehow LG says they’re lies. I guess it’ll work on people that only read headlines.

I understand it with the given explanation, but I would be utterly mystified if I came across this code in the wild.

Oof, too soon

A welcome return to more ruthless scoring from Greg.

I thought that Nina had said “oh” and then “k”, but she then went on to pronounce a bunch of polysyllabic words one syllable at a time (including okay). I’m glad they defended “Matt, 'ress” - I thought it was genius.

Matt Lucas didn’t play the drums in his song, which made me sad. The scoring for that task was a bit of a mess.

Richard was looking quite pleased with himself for winning the studio task, unless he was just amused by some studio banter.

I thought all the gaps on the page were photos that hadn’t loaded, but they’re just removed ads :( Zero photos.

These articles have a few photos: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-09-robots-protest-rampant-ai-poland.html https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/robots-take-to-warsaw-streets-to-protest-rampant-ai

One of England’s kickers, Helena Rowland, has found a much bigger margin for error with the smaller ball, saying: “If you get it slightly wrong, the difference is massive.”

The fly-half says England players have noticed passes “dying”, falling to the floor earlier than expected, “which they wouldn’t have done previously”.

Is that meant to say a much smaller margin for error with the smaller ball (or that the normal ball has a smaller margin for error than the new ball)? I tried to find the quote somewhere else, but this Beeb article seems to be the source.

That’s a smart idea - surely everyone has at least one pair that they get out the wash and think why did I wash these instead of throwing them out?

2592 equations - wow, that’s a lot more segments than I thought you’d need.

I thought the five second rule was how long until you could claim a newly-vacated seat.

Everyone just calls that “Cats Does Countdown” anyway, so the number is irrelevant.

Good /c/fakehistoryporn content

Is it that slow outside of a VM? Either way, this seems like a very sensible patch.

Which one?

That’s the tail of a cat that wants to be friends.

Is that true globally? I seem to remember that some ocean areas wouldn’t have as many satellites visible as e.g. polar orbits don’t visit all of the globe.

It also doesn’t pretend the page failed to load when it detects an ad blocker.

The only thing I can think is that they’re comparing with a single system (e.g. GPS or BeiDou), even though GNSS receivers will combine all four systems to get very high accuracy (a few metres).