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This is absolutely psychotic. How can Labour think that in any way—optically, practically, and in pure fucking human rights terms—this is sane or acceptable? No way.

No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

Oh goodness yes. Well said.

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

Median Age of All US Homebuyers: 59 Years.

It was 39 in 2010.

Torsten at Apollo

よくまとまっていて読みやすいですね。

Voted Green at the last general election for precisely this reason (very specifically because Labour were already starting to flirt with rolling back climate spending promises)

I am catching up on Money Stuff after not having time to read anything much for a couple of months, and...the world has clearly become notably stupider. I have always felt MS to be an anecdotal Synthetic Stupidity Index and it feels like we're at record highs

Mask off, hood on moment for Condé Nast

Phone was in sleep mode and went to VM (he left his own cell so I could call back, another odd misjudgment). So at least he didn't get to talk to panicked 3am me.

But...every step on the decision tree says "send a fucking email" in this case. There's no version where him calling has a good outcome.

Having another of those "do US people not know about timezones" moments this morning. Sales guy from US firm we'd spoken to a while back calls my personal cellphone (where'd he even get the number) at 2:40am local time, apparently to touch base and see if we're still interested.

日本語脳と英語脳の切り替えがバグってHINGEをひんげ（貧毛？）と読む

Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

I was not aware of this.

Also it seems like kind of a silly overengineered solution? But maybe customising the mechanism that feeds the fridge to this one use case makes less sense than a general-purpose robot that will one day emerge to stack the shelves too?

restofworld.org/2025/philipp...

A mother with settled status whose child is disabled. The father is British by birth. They have received DLA for the child. A Tory government would deport her?

I'd really like any Conservative who has ever talked about the "party of the family" to explain why this is the right thing to do.

There was also BZ, a *much more powerful* hallucinogen than LSD, which they fielded in Europe until 1969. The account I heard is that the USA withdrew it in a hurry when they learned how the USSR secured battlefield nukes—not with permissive action locks, but with KGB guards.

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If *any* dependent receives *any* form of social protection at any point, you lose your legal status, as drafted. It is sloppy, mad & ludicrously extreme all at once

sorry, man, but this is breathtakingly, shockingly corrupt in every fucking way it can be, and an open and shut and uncomplicated case for impeachment. he didn’t even pay for these lawyers, his donors did, for fuck’s sake.

Thiel: wait, am *I* the Antichrist?

ウナギは陸でも狩りをする―魚類の陸上進出に関する新たな発見― | 東京大学 先端科学技術研究センター

これすごい。野生での観察（胃内容物）と、実験でオオウナギの陸上での狩りを確認している。河口から離れると、胃内容物が全部陸域の生きものだった個体もいる。ムカデとか、ゴキブリとか、写真ではかなり大きなカニさんを食べてる。

実験では10匹のオオウナギ（各個体で191～238時間の実験を実施）で、「計3,713回の上陸行動が観察され、うち42回で実際に陸上捕食が成功」だって。餌はコオロギ。

ウナギは陸でも狩りをする―魚類の陸上進出に関する新たな発見― | 東京大学 先端科学技術研究センター www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/news/rele...

法律はいいとして「ルール」の定義が気になる。「これが日本のルールだから」という万能フレーズを手に入れてうるさいこと言ってくる老害が増えそう。

あと、観光客、労働者、永住者をすべて「外国人」と分類するのはおかしくないか。移民という言葉がもしタブーだったらせめて外国籍の住民とか。

Cf recent podcast between Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates, which included one rec I’m now reading

Being a white man with intellectual leanings and an interest in history my first inclination in these interesting times was to read Snyder (and others) on the Holocaust.

I now suspect reading Black authors on the Civil War is the more uncomfortable and relevant thing to do.

参政党の主張って迷惑メールに引っかかる人狙い？というぐらいロジックが狂ってる。

This -official Conservative policy - is essentially identical to the Reform policy that the Prime Minister described as "racist and immoral" and would "rip out country apart".

Would be good if media and politicians pointed this out .

They at least avoided the Guardian’s mistake of assuming that the “Rijicho” in “Hakkaku Rijicho” was a given name.

Then when I emailed them to say “uh that means ‘chairman’, his given name is Nobuyoshi” they published a correction that said “Nobuyoshi is his family name”.

Study history or the people who want things to turn out differently this time will try and make you repeat some of the really dodgy stuff that happened last time around

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

公明、連立離脱で野党協議参加へ　政治改革、夫婦別姓協力も 公明党は、自民党との連立離脱に伴い、立憲民主党を中心とした野党間協議に参加する方向で調整に入った。関係者が11日明らかにした。党幹部は企業・団体献金の規制強化をはじめとする政治改革や、選択的夫婦別姓 ...

Not an opposition coalition yet, but given the will they could block Takaichi as PM and pass a no-confidence motion in the government, which would make things profoundly interesting for a while

www.47news.jp/13280068.html

Hard to overstate what a load of absolute dogshit he talks in these transcripts. Trump-level incoherent.