Iβm a popularist who follows the evidence. Democrats must nominate Jerome Powell.
08.03.2026 01:12 β π 239 π 34 π¬ 9 π 2Iβm a popularist who follows the evidence. Democrats must nominate Jerome Powell.
08.03.2026 01:12 β π 239 π 34 π¬ 9 π 2Is this a certain Canadian law professor
08.03.2026 01:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0yup
26.01.2026 03:27 β π 311 π 59 π¬ 0 π 1The Myanmar folks are doing God's work and for a while there was a random German girl in her 20s who was probably the only human being on Earth with a decent concept of what the general state of the Sudanese Civil War was.
08.03.2026 00:00 β π 125 π 8 π¬ 2 π 1I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times
07.03.2026 23:44 β π 2221 π 641 π¬ 21 π 44The approximate population is about 3,500 people. A lot of them are rightly pissed off they were forced out without compensation in the 60s but most of the people who are suddenly great friends of the Chaggosians had almost certainly never heard of the place before last year
07.03.2026 23:26 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0See I love both Dalton films but the Brosnan era does have a better tone overall
07.03.2026 23:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Its less they've all gone mad and more the only ones left are the nutcases. Hannan has always been totally fruitloops its just that he is now more prominent than ever as the other people are all gone.
07.03.2026 22:57 β π 21 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Oh look itβs like a third of your neighbors when you live in exurban Texas
07.03.2026 21:20 β π 238 π 15 π¬ 11 π 1Flipside of this is that a fully professionalized Civil Service often has really weird institutionalized biases that are harder to flush out, but it does mean you don't get the usual crowd of foreign policy types who managed to ride the coat tails of an appointee
07.03.2026 20:41 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1Some of this is the usual US thing where the blurry line between political appointees and the Civil Service creates dubious incentives, in a Parliamentary system you know where political control actually sits at least
07.03.2026 20:37 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
My genuinely most unpopular opinion is that I like VAR and when I see a match without it and there's an error it ruins the game.
I'm much more bothered by inaccuracy than waiting a few minutes every now and again.
Shutting an oil well isnβt like turning off a faucet.
Itβs a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse β and an indicator the Kuwaitis donβt see choke points improving anytime soon.
This was clear from the jump, but the Venezuela invasion going as smoothly as it did, from a pure operational perspective, is going to prove catastrophic in the long run.
06.03.2026 14:34 β π 5679 π 660 π¬ 219 π 63Twitter user eoghan: How dare poor people get free medical advice <quote tweet from Twitter user Polymarket: BREAKING: New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.> Twitter user YBrogard79094: JUST MAKE HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBLE Twitter user eoghan: AI is literally free healthcare. Being a communist must be exhausting
07.03.2026 14:00 β π 2961 π 387 π¬ 91 π 123The original Bond character is not really a sophisticate, he's a thug with expensive tastes and Connerry got that. The Dalton Bond was interesting in that it knocked out the thuggishness and Brosnan just full on makes him a sort of rougish man of the world.
07.03.2026 16:09 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Difficult to fully explain but the Pierce Brosnan version of Bond really is a very 90s construct isn't he. The character in his hands just seems abruptly contemporary in a way that even Dalton couldn't quite get to.
07.03.2026 16:01 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Insiders are talking, quietly and off-the-record for now, of increasing disquiet in the falconing community about a potential breakdown in surface-to-air communications.
07.03.2026 14:19 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0If long-term gyre widening trends continue, we think there is a high likelihood of the centre proving unable to hold
07.03.2026 13:34 β π 83 π 14 π¬ 4 π 0Analysts are forecasting that as of Q2 2026, the falcon will no longer hear the falconer.
07.03.2026 13:25 β π 88 π 17 π¬ 1 π 1
Broke: Monzo shouldn't be shaming its customers
Woke: Monzo's customers should get a grip and stop complaining
Bespoke: how dare my bank talk to me in this informal tone. You are providing me a service and I am your client - act like it.
Lionel Hutz from the simpsons editing a business card which reads "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - NO MORE FOREVER WAR" to read "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST? NO, MORE FOREVER WAR"
28.02.2026 13:38 β π 1692 π 476 π¬ 4 π 3Unsurprising that the Daily Star has better ethics than broadsheet newspapers
07.03.2026 12:06 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I really do dislike this aggressive informality in corporate comms sometimes
We're 18 months off 'uwu it seems you've been a smol bean and not paid the mortgage. We're evictereening you in 14 days'
It goes back to a Mirror story which essentially reported it as "Ian Huntley pretends to transition to cause grief for prison authorities" from memory
07.03.2026 12:05 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0his killer being a man who murdered three people including a pregnant woman who he also raped is a perfect demonstration of how βpaedophile huntersβ are just violent men looking for a socially acceptable target for their violence
07.03.2026 10:02 β π 457 π 104 π¬ 9 π 2"The regime is bad therefore massacres of civilians are excusable"
07.03.2026 00:20 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0NO THAT WAS MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT STUPID FUCKING PLAN
06.03.2026 22:32 β π 269 π 52 π¬ 7 π 0Honestly for all of the bitching about the UK's civil service it does prevent these dumbasses flooding the zone
07.03.2026 00:13 β π 40 π 5 π¬ 0 π 2