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and if you fucking shut up about it for five minutes nobody except about ten wingnuts would give the slightest shit

tempted by Black Country joke but suspect 4 million others have preceded me

and the fact that we worry that we might be hypocritical if we do the same from our side, is why our side does not prevail and their side does, permanently

Incorrect. It served a dual function as it also delighted those of us who were worried Grange Hill might be on.

You can see why the topic of “governments declaring people they hate and want to hurt are terrorists” might be an awkward issue in Britain right now, where the government has declared that a lot of protestors they hate and want to hurt are supporting terrorism.

why is the energy disaster thing nonsense? genuine question, I just don't know

"only the cash you can afford to lose" - oh THAT cash, I was wondering what to do with that, was thinking of saving on the gas bill by burning it, but yes derivatives trading by someone else does seem more appealing now you mention it

seems to be a bit of a drumbeat emerging, up to and including Martin Lewis, that we should all be giving more of our money to the sugar rush kids in the City to stick on the 2.30 at Newbury

Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent Well, what if everyone who matters is backing Netanyahu on the understanding that if it gets very embarrassing, they can simply blame everything on him then continue as normal, knowing nobody important will meaningfully object to this or otherwise call bullshit on it? 12:41 • 14/12/2023 • 123 Views

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our consumption of tin foil has risen since we got one

a bit more evidence that structuring the entire economy on a bunch of excitable children and their algorithms may not be the best idea

On holiday, I notice that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda, which very much makes me think that residents with a view of some incredibly mid Cotswold or other can put a sock in it.

I mainly want it to go to LaGrange Callaway next

The Meta TV ads seem to have landed on "use our product if you want to come across as a complete arsehole", which is an interesting strategy.

Monica Galetti and Maisie Adam

Actually a pretty good interaction imo. Not the quite common police response of "stop arguing or I'll nick you". More "ok let's look it up - yep the way it's written could allow us to think that" - might be ultimately wrong, but not unreasonable. We can't expect them to do the job of a judge.

Hear me out: Monica Galetti and Maisie Adam #masterchef

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This touches on something I was trying to articulate the other day. For some reason there's a set of people who see podcasts as a distinct, strange form. If the question was phrased "why do people record their live events" it would be even more obviously ridiculous.

AFTER THIS YEAR, WHAT NEXT?

NSF - LIVE IN FRANCE

#LiveInFrance

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Look forward to this being applied to all laws in all circumstances

When I was growing up in MK, before the A43 was improved, the place was basically one big heliport for the entire GP weekend.

I note that Palestinian solidarity was well within normal acceptable politics in, say, 2001. Now in 2025, the same politics, the same statements - the same people - are frighteningly insane, wildly extreme, utterly unacceptable, to be cracked down upon. So who is it, whose politics have radicalised?

The Saudi team are winning the Saudi funded competition are they?

I suppose it's tricky to define genocidal armies as a protected group

Don't know what hope there is for UK politics when the PM and other MPs are queuing up to condemn the BBC for what a musician said on a live, unscripted broadcast but do everything possible to avoid confronting the fact that Israel engages in the deliberate mass killing of civilians.

The biggest threat is Reform and the way to defeat Reform is to move to the left is not contradictory.

Raises the entertaining possibility of him getting booed off stage this weekend

excellent joke

Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.