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- 2024-05-02 04:52am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
- Replies: 63
- Views: 5598
Re: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
On the other hand, do you really think whoever the GOP want to replace him with is going to be better?
- 2024-04-23 05:20am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
- Replies: 769
- Views: 125747
Re: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
What really funges my tokens about Grok is that Musk has apparently read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and come to the conclusion that what his company's digital assistant project really needs to stand out from the crowd is Genuine People Personalities(TM). The only person I've ever heard of ...
- 2024-04-18 11:28am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
The separatist movement in the Donbas region might not have been manufactured out of whole cloth by the KGB Social Media Shit-Stirring Directorate, and the Ukrainian government very probably hasn't always done right by its Russian-speaking citizens, but that sure as hell doesn't justify trying to ta...
- 2024-04-14 08:33am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 530
- Views: 126527
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Just discovered Blackmore's Night, eh?
TIL my tablet can charge through the USB-C socket in a pinch, albeit painfully slowly.
TIL my tablet can charge through the USB-C socket in a pinch, albeit painfully slowly.
- 2024-04-12 05:31pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: OJ Simpson dies aged 76
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1046
Re: OJ Simpson dies aged 76
I thought he was a basketball player for some reason. Then again I'm too young to remember his career pre-disgrace and from a country where most people know as much about American football as the average US national knows about cricket.
- 2024-04-11 03:50pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 813
- Views: 404127
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Ghetto edit: Found a pretty good summary here. The therapy-based approach encourages patients to consider alternative reasons for their gender-related distress, often eating disorders, neurodivergence, or social acceptance (as if being trans makes you popular at school) – all of which must be carefu...
- 2024-04-11 02:06pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 813
- Views: 404127
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Anyone want to summarise the Cass review please? All I'm seeing is stories about fucking JKR being vindicated. I haven't seen the full thing yet, but apparently the highlights include rejecting any study on the effects of puberty-blockers that didn't meet an impossible-to-achieve standard of qualit...
- 2024-04-11 08:44am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 813
- Views: 404127
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
I'm giving serious thought to volunteering to go to the Labour Party conference as a delegate just so I might get a chance to give Wes Streeting a right slap upside the head. https://twitter.com/leftiestats/status/1777954673867051245 BREAKING: Labour pledges to implement the recommendations of the &...
- 2024-04-11 03:07am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 530
- Views: 126527
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
I am currently wrestling with that right now. Sad thing is, when I first got mine from Cardiff Council it was really easy. Ten minutes, in and out, no need for an appointment, gave it to me right then and there. What they didn't mention, is that despite the card saying "valid until 2032" ...
- 2024-04-10 03:00pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 530
- Views: 126527
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
What was even the point in that...?
Anyway. On a slightly lighter note, TIL disabled bus passes take so long to show up in the mail that you get a two-week grace period to continue using an expired one. Saved me a non-trivial amount of money, that.
Anyway. On a slightly lighter note, TIL disabled bus passes take so long to show up in the mail that you get a two-week grace period to continue using an expired one. Saved me a non-trivial amount of money, that.
- 2024-04-10 04:29am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
"Is it undemocratic to ban political parties" "Well, it really depends" It may be a good idea , or necessary to protect the government, but Democratic? Are you insane? There's nothing undemocratic about banning a political party that's refusing to abide by the rules and conventi...
- 2024-04-09 05:12pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Ah, so banning political parties isn't an assault on Democracy? Well, it depends on the context, doesn't it. Banning political parties for being too successful and upsetting the status quo? Yeah, that's a problem. Banning political parties for commiting or conspiring to commit acts that meet the te...
- 2024-04-09 07:51am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
And even if you could, I think it'd ea bit of a reach to describe banning political parties that are actively trying to help Russia take over the country some sort of assault on democracy.
- 2024-04-05 12:02pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza, humanitarian crisis certain to ensue
- Replies: 581
- Views: 47019
- 2024-04-04 04:20pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
A little weaponised incompetence helps justify the budget sometimes, that's all I'll say.
- 2024-04-04 05:59am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
I'm honestly surprised that Ukraine's conscription age is as high as it is, given that in most countries you can enlist as a volunteer at 18 and that's when there isn't a war on.
- 2024-03-24 04:37pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Under other circumstances I would consider the real-life GLA and a bunch of Call of Duty villains made flesh turning their guns on each other to be cause to break out the popcorn, but I sincerely doubt that even a fraction of the people who died in that concert hall were guilty of anything worse tha...
- 2024-03-17 10:20am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 530
- Views: 126527
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
TIL that nobody really makes 2TB MicroSD cards yet, despite the fact that numerous eBay sellers have them listed. I thought it was just faulty at first...
Oh well, at least I get free postage for returning it.
Oh well, at least I get free postage for returning it.
- 2024-03-14 07:21pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
My last word on this particular topic will be this: If anyone deserves a bit of slack for taking the position that there's got to be a strictly limited number of ways the invading forces of Nazism could be any worse than what they already have to put up with, it's someone who lived through the Holod...
- 2024-03-13 10:48am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
- Replies: 530
- Views: 126527
Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
The M113 is almost as versatile as Mike Sparks makes it out to be, isn't it?
- 2024-03-13 07:21am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
As I have pointed out on previous occasions when this came up, the Ukrainians are not in a position to turn down volunteers just because they have questionable backgrounds. I would however sincerely hope that their officers and NCOs are under strict instructions that any soldier caught mistreating R...
- 2024-03-07 06:26am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
- Replies: 63
- Views: 5598
- 2024-03-07 06:18am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 24390
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
I don't think there's ever going to be actual peace , as opposed to the sort of peace you get where everyone's busy rearming, until and unless Putin is removed from office in favour of someone who might plausibly come to the negotiating table in good faith. Why would the Ukrainians sue for peace whe...
- 2024-02-17 05:22am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 147118
- 2024-02-16 06:12am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
- Replies: 813
- Views: 404127
Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Yeah, I know. Peter Bone was thoroughly unpleasant even by Tory standards, and the swing to Labour was gratifyingly hefty.