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From the troubles of the world I turn to gin.

Six litres of gin to be precise. I last made sloe gin in 2016. I was upset to find that the raw material has pretty well doubled in price over the last five years thanks to heavy tax, alcohol sanitizers and gin's new fashionable status.

The Welsh government levies an extra tax on alcoholic drinks and it would have been cheaper for me to burn the petrol on a 90 mile round trip to buy it in England.

Any kids come knocking on my door tonight are going home in a barrow.

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Eight signs that you are in a simulation

1. Large numbers of consciousnesses interacting together is a strain on local processing capacity. Where many consciousnesses are in the same place, for example in a crowd, the capability of each individual consciousness is limited to avoid overloading the servers.

2. To save processing power, interactions at microscopic and smaller levels are only simulated if directly observed; otherwise a larger-scale approximation is used. This means that, at very small scales, systems behave differently when they are observed to when they are not observed.

3. A lengthy period of beta testing with relatively few instances is followed by a slightly-too-rapid expansion for the resources available.

4. There are fewer bugs than there used to be, but still quite a lot of bugs. The bugs that remain only impede functionality occasionally, however, and they are quite fascinating when examined closely.

5. A complicated system of rotating downtime is implemented to allow the generation of more instances than can be handled by the servers at once.

6. Large parts of the environment are fairly obviously procedurally-generated; however, some parts have clearly had a lot of design thought lavished on their individual components. The graphics were less good in the early days, but this has been fudged away with the use of different types of visual representation (photographs, paintings, etc.) for past content from different eras.

7. Some meta-enthusiastic programmer has introduced the capability for instances in the simulation to be able to run their own simulations, only of course not as powerful given recursiveness issues with the amount of processing power required. This may have led some in the simulation to infer that simulations cannot possibly be powerful enough to explain their reality.

8. Several fundamental changes were made in the early stages of the simulation (for example, moving from a flat environment to a spherical one), necessitating the introduction of an elaborate backstory to explain why the latter case had actually been correct all the time.

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"A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."

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I'm going for Bombus hypnorum here, apparently first found in the UK in 2001 but I'm pretty sure I've seen white tailed, ginger thoraxed bumblebees with black abdomens since I was a child. That's a lot longer ago that 2001.

Also, I'm sticking with Endymion non-scriptus, which name has much greater dignity (and poetry) than the repulsive Hyacinthoides.

Wikipedia (whose article on B. hypnorum suggests an obnoxiously invasive program of research) says 'Queens in this species can be polyandrous... Because of multiple mating, sisters in a colony may have different fathers', which has a nasty stench of the judgemental voyeur.

They're bumblebees -- leave them alone. Reserve your spite for your own species.

2021-05-19T08:53Z 52.680930 -3.713169

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Nantucket

I’ve recently been making my way through Tom Scott’s youtube canon documenting his approach to completing all achievements, side-quests and map exploration in the game of life... where was I? Oh yes... and found a piece on why Shakespeare could never have been French.

It contains the first line of a limerick, to which I will shortly return.

Wikipedia has this in its article on limericks: ‘... the true limerick as a folk form is always obscene... describing the clean limerick as... rarely rising above mediocrity".’

Scott’s YT thumbnail shows the words ‘There once was a man from Nantucket’, which line has its own Wikipedia entry. I implore you to read the article (it’s a short one) as it illustrates perfectly the criticism above.

Put down your coffee before you start reading because it’s also a good illustration of a punchline.

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Hen bont.

Old bridge. There’s a pre-Roman homestead just off camera to the left, or at least the stone foundations of the round houses, stock enclosure and outer wall.

The bridge itself probably isn’t much more than a couple of hundred years old but this was the stream at the bottom of the garden and has probably had a bridge here for the last three thousand.

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I wonder what is it about this that makes me think of something drowning and grasping at the air?

Storm-Damaged Tree In Wales Gets Transformed Into A 50 Ft Hand Worth $16,000

Simon O’Rourke is an environmental artist from North Wales specializing in wood sculpture. Simon’s webpage and social media profiles are full of photos capturing his stunning and unbelievably detailed sculptures, with one of them being this giant 50 ft hand reaching for the sky.

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If you have to show different mountains for Wales and England, such that you can't claim that Snowdon is in England, then you must ensure that Scafell looks bigger than Snowdon.

With all the respect that's due to wildbounds.com of, that's right the south east corner of the UK...

... small dick complex.

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nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could

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Spotted another dragon yesterday.

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Milkwort, Polygala vulgaris.

52.76962 -3.708934 2021-05-02T12:02:30Z

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Aberllefenni.

52.677237, -3.813430 2021-04-25T,09:39:30Z

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Restitution.

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Stop f**king littering

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Eglwys Oen Duw

52.156612 -3.589995 2021-04-23T19:00:14Z