Time to start live streaming a lettuce again to as the traditional Liz Truss standard for how long her projects last…

I think that in the database space MS-SQL was never the best option at any level or at least not for long.

Oracle could be said to still be the best amongst databases for high performance and very large datasets, but in my experience in the smaller and mid-sized databases space things like Postegres and even No-SQL databases surprassed MS-SQL already back in the late 90s, early 00s.

The Apache Web Server

Basically, EMP but directed.

How much of that effort to prohibit “hate” speech in the EU isn’t just the Germans supporting the Zionist Regime by claiming that criticism of it and their actions is “hate speech” in very much the same way as the Trump Regime claims that criticism of his own regime’s actions is hate and even terrorism, and trying to get it in place EU-wide using the EU institutions as a backdoor?

The EU isn’t exactly immune to the subversion of Humanitarianism and Rule of Law coming from Fascist regimes, especially when one of its leading countries, Germany, is quickly sliding back to it’s old ways, this time around under Zionist (an ethno-Fascist ideology, sames as the Nazis) puppet strings.

I’m definitely pro-EU, which is why I think we need to be very aware of the rotten apples we have in this basket and their attempts at spreading their rot.

Remember Cambridge Analitica, most of whose money came from wealthy Americans?

Maybe they were or maybe they weren’t in cahoots with Russia, but sure as hell it was the very same members of the American “elites” who supported Trump’s rise who also bought Brexit.

Britain’s careless openness to American influence makes it easy for Americans to play it like a fiddle.

“Curious how the name of the person we’re calling for is the same as my name”

The graph doesn’t even make clear if it’s using inflation adjusted USD (which is the only fair way to compare trade numbers over a period of decades) or just nominal annualized USD (where 1 USD represents quite a different amount of worth in 1990 than it does in 2025).

That is not a positive indication on the competence of the people doing it, and it seems unlikely that they fucked up something as basic as this whilst at the same time being professional enough to dig up and include information on estimated rerouted trade flows (which would be a lot more work to obtain).

Mind you, inflation adjusted USD wouldn’t really change the trend, but it would change the steepness of the growth over the years, plus it’s just the proper way to represent such data.

The funny bit is that I don’t at all disagree with the idea of an international independent special court for the crimes of Russia in Ukraine.

I just think the UK shouldn’t be involved in it in any way form or shape, because for anybody who hasn’t been living in the middle of the British Propaganda environment (or pro-Zionist propaganda like in the US) British Governments are painfully double-faced.

This idea coming from the Spaniards or the Irish would be great and far more likely to be taken seriously by stakeholders worldwide because at least those two can’t be accused of having different standards for different combinations of Genociders and victims.

By making this statement, likely for local political propaganda purposes (both to help shore-up support on their Left for what is a pretty Rightwing New Labour Government and for the usual “See, Britain is an important player in the world!” political performance so common there) the British Government might have just made such a thing less likely to happen rather than more.

I believe that a real, strong and fair International Rule Of Law would help Palestine and that the two-weights-two-measures kind of Propaganda used of performative “International Rule Of Law” detracts from it Globally being real, strong and fair.

I don’t think a performative demand for “Justice except if the perps are our mates” from the most hypocrite country leadership around will advance the cause of International Rule Of Law even when it comes to the Russian invasion of Ukraine because it just reinforces the impression outside the West that the “Justice” of the West isn’t really Just or even honest - it’s a great way to (as is it’s only real objective) to get kudos from a certain crowd that abhors what Russia is doing whilst not having a tendency to look beyond the superficial in a skeptical way for even the words one agrees with, but comes with the secondary side effect that people in all those nations out there which are not aligned in this specific subject just become more suspicious of Western words and motivations and hence less likely to cooperate.

Such performative statements for local political gains neither advances the cause of Global Humanitarianism nor the cause of International Rule of Law, probably the opposite.

Such idea would much better be voiced by a different country (say, Spain), not one practicing the very opposite of what it preaches and with quite a long tradition of being double-faced.

Racist child murder supporting hypocrisy.

You need one of those even more for Israel, but the British political elites are active and willing accomplices in that specific Genocide.

One rule for some, another for others…

Hypocrisy is very much the core trait of the British upper classes.