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For want of a better word, it's a fucking miracle that any of these things are still standing...

And Winchester: https://hampshirearchivesandlocalstudies.wordpress.com/2018/10/03/commemorating-winchester-cathedrals-diver/ But it's alright because in the early 20th Century they got an actual diver in to shore it up:

About Salisbury: https://thefogwatch.com/the-miracle-of-salisbury-cathedral/

Do you find that people hurriedly change the subject if you start asking too many questions about where they come from or what happens "upstairs"?

The sandal's on the other foot now, eh, Zeus?

Although it doesn't have the same satisfying fall-and-rise arc as Dune, if that's what your mate likes about it. More just "everything's so fucked that getting impaled on a metal thorn tree by an incomprehensible god of death seems like a pretty good option". It's great, though.

Hyperion, maybe?

I've been trying a bit of TidalCycles, which sort of bleeds over into learning a bit of SuperCollider and a bit of Haskell. I only just twigged that operator precedence in SClang is strictly left-to-right which explains some stuff that had been messing with me for a while. Seems broadly good...

We met some people in a bothy in the Cairngorms one winter who were based in South Wales and did bog-standard cave diving in the UK, but were also really into cave diving in ice caves in glaciers in the Alps. Apparently you can only do that between about two and four in the morning because...

Job done.

Back on KS in general - one of the things that I think should be worrying about him even for people who are broadly on board with his politics is that his strategy seems to be to i) point out how shit everything is at the moment and ii) unambiguously rule out anything that Labour might do once...

This was pretty much every Zhao thread too IIRC.

Should probably have known better than to get involved in a trial TBH, For future reference, what does this judgement say that we're now allowed to say?

"I’ve done a few dealings in the city, met a number of stockbrokers and I can tell you in all my life that I’ve never seen such dishonesty and greed. It’s like a big betting shop - a bookies, a casino - where they’re all screwing each other and the rest of the world."

Still good.

There's pod machines, there's also home espresso machines that use pressurized portafilters (ie a bit of metal with a small hole in) to provide pressure rather than relying on the coffee grounds themselves. I think either of those is probably okay if you really want espresso shots and you like...

The big question with a lot of coffee stuff is what you're actually after and how much you're willing to spend on it. Do you want to marvel at the sweet blackcurrant notes of a light-roast single estate Kenyan bean or do you actually prefer something that basically "tastes like coffee", ie big...

http://www.zarkonnen.com/tilled_into_the_soil

Is it getting worse for the actual musicians yet, or just for the people that work there? Not that that's great either, obviously...