Chemistry Researcher from UK, based in Japan.
May post about Chemistry, research, food, language things, beer.
These days, usually reading how the world appears to everyone else.
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This means any app that uses the chrome browser as a back-end may be picking up information.
In Japan, this includes the My Number Portal App for digital Government services, health insurance, pensions, etc.
…and it's on the 4th day 'cause it takes three to get ready.
RE: @roastinghouse@mastodonapp.uk
Not in the UK anymore but alliances of indie beer or coffee shops with local doorstep delivery troupes are the absolute business.
Wonder if my old Bristol haunts or SE22's Hop Burns Black are on here… hit them up and do a bean swap/collab?
RE: @keyboards@mastodon.social
Old school kanji/kana keyboard.
Anyone who could touch-type on this could probably have flown a space shuttle one-handed.
Yes, but it has spread as ice hockey awareness/interest has.
Former UK-based field hockey keeper now nostalgic.
RE: @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange
This is a gripping but terrifying read.
A simple idea, beautifully executed.
Alarming results, well documented.
Reads like investigative journalism,
Still ongoing: Could it get a Pulitzer?
RE: @independent@flipboard.com
Microwaves? Interesting tech but what about the consequences?
Tinned chocolate pudding spending by rival militaries is about to go through the roof.
Fire engines will be conscripted in defence.
Steel cutlery will be recycled maliciously.
007 will carry a Mars bar.
RE: @independent@flipboard.com
When your country is even worse at dating than you were…
That said, the UK, having been through 250 years of divorces resulting from mistreating others, was only ever going to be doomed to cataclysmic rebounds…
RE: @independent@flipboard.com
"Additionally, the UK pledged to remove tariffs on 1.4 billion litres of ethanol, used to produce beer, which comes from the US."
…I think the yeast is meant to produce that in situ from sugar.
Proof that a lot of UK "beer" is absolute crap.
RE: @independent@flipboard.com
"“The idea of a special relationship we should now completely forget. It’s a transactional relationship with Washington as with every other country,” [Lord Ricketts] told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme."
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Was it not always so, given Republican economic strategy and Democrat sympathies with Ireland (which was abused by the UK for centuries)
Generally speaking, if a relationship partner leaves you, 250 years is a long time to refuse to stop trying to cosy up.
Special like a food chain.
Not the time for witticisms; nor any insight to give other than, "heck, all you non-white, non-Anglophone, sexual minority, neurodiverse and/or technologically aware people on here saw this shit coming before white Christendom opened its eyes, not to wake up but double down…
…which you also predicted, at that".