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March Across the Belts - Wikipedia

I thought Sweden invaded Denmark marching across the ice there once, but reading about it I realise they came the other way. Still, bet the Danes tremble in fear every time they see a bit of ice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_A...

I’ve heard of one, two tops, of all those names. Feel like I’m winning here.

”Skammen måste byta sida” är en bra formulering

Interesting disconnect between reading news and social media, and then going to job interview after job interview where no-one, not a soul, asks me how I use AI.

With a name like Restore Britain they’ve got to be in favour of rejoining the EU, right? Right?

I’m currently staying in a hotel room with not only a decent reading light, but also a Big Light in the ceiling. I humbly request the people responsible get a pass when this day comes.

Yup, which is why one should be wary of 'labour vs. capital' reasoning. Much of 'capital' is just pensioners squeezing that lemon of labour for its juice.

Idag är fettisdagen och jag är i fel land, till och med felare än vanligt. Semmelsuget håller på att äta upp mig inifrån.

Police given the power to break up youths congregating in groups of more than two

Fun anecdote: in 1999 I phoned up a Swedish high-tech type prestigious employer and asked about a summer internship. Was told straight up ”well, we usually reserve those for family and relatives of our employees”.

We all know dark secrets lurk among the non-printable characters in the ASCII table

Sometimes it feels like we took the massive hose that said ”global advertising revenue” and connected it to the socket that said ”IT capex”, and the machine was in no way designed for the volumes involved and now nothing works anymore

You are not alone

I signed up thinking ”I should support this” and quickly realised that, well I should, but it is good value for money anyway

My version would be a gritty mockumentary with no evil shenanigans going on. Reviewers would be ecstatic about the piercing dissection of what it means to be part of society and so on

Story idea: ’lost tribe’ but it’s just a small village somewhere in the UK that gradually stopped communicating with the outside (eyewitness accounts from delivery drivers etc ”oh yeah, them, bit strange, never thought much about it tbh”)

I feel this should come with a ’it will get worse before it gets better’ disclaimer

This little guy tho

Entire world: welcome to the “decathlon,” ten classic athletic skills in one event!

Finland: no. biathlon. Two things. Ski and gun

Dusting of my ”go on, say it Bart” reaction pic to be ready to post it first

We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change | Gordon Brown The abuse of women by figures such as Epstein, and of political power by the likes of Mandelson, must be confronted. As far as I am able, I will play my part, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brow...

What to do with the powerless, exploit or unite? I keep coming back to this question as the core right-left axis. So nice to read Gordon Brown mention ”the effort to prevent the powerful acting with impunity against the powerless”, great man.

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100% truth

”What’s the best pasta?” came up in the office once, and two minutes in it had descended into a full out hate fest on farfalle with everyone egging each other on worse than online conspiracy theorists

Ok so looks like my sinful lifestyle can be hedged by various good deeds under the assumption that the second coming intensity is more or less stationary

In my experience Air Canada can hurt you in ways one could not foresee, or even imagine.

On the positive side though: as long as the government leans on them a little, the compensation process will be smooth and reasonably fast.

Times Magazine cover preview, Peter Mandelaon at home in his Wiltshire kitchen, with dog. "I've had a lot of bad luck, no doubt some of it my own making."

Feel like I'm going mad.

The crypto crash rumbling through certain low tax regimes

If you truly believed that getting rid of the illegals would bring about a shangri-la of social and economic benefits you wouldn't start the project in liberal cities in blue states with resistant governments, you'd start in red states with friendly governments and make an example for others

This has got to be annoying times to live through if your name is Al

Tage Danielsson har för övrigt redan sagt allt som behöver sägas om både AI-hypen och Chat Control.