An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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Paul "I used to be in Iron Maiden" Di'Anno's version of ARnRC has replaced GG's in my Xmas playlist, because the song's a banger. (Paul's versions of White Christmas and Silent Night are quite good, too.)
01.12.2025 12:11 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Put him back to presenting BBC Breakfast. He was just about competent at that.
01.12.2025 12:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In the what pot?
28.11.2025 08:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
!!! Have you got your own recording you can release?
25.11.2025 11:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And the whole reason the WWW was invented was to make it easy to link to things.
25.11.2025 11:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Best Batman film ever.
23.11.2025 10:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ace!
(I'll get my coat.)
20.11.2025 09:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Mia Wallace & Gromit
As requested by Paul Savage
12.11.2025 11:42 β π 314 π 77 π¬ 7 π 4
Consent-O-Matic
consentomatic.au.dk add-on may help?
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04.10.2025 10:56 β π 61 π 20 π¬ 3 π 0
Can someone explain to this Brit what the purpose of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution is?
Thanks.
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Thanks; thats the sort of mistake I make when I post at 01:00 ... :)
03.10.2025 00:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A wooden replica siege engine, stands in front of a stone castle. A piece of purple fabric is wrapped around the tall central support beam.
#NationalPoetryDay βοΈ
Roses are red,
Water comes in litres,
Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres.
#Wales
02.10.2025 20:32 β π 156 π 42 π¬ 7 π 2
Home - David Rowe Retro Artwork
He did lots of art for the computer games industry and the dungeons for kid's tv show "Knightmare". davidrowe.net
02.10.2025 23:53 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The idea of single apps is just a mutation of web portals.
βWrite programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.β
25.09.2025 19:18 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
He's famous for having a stroke, isn't he...?
25.09.2025 22:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and itβs possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread π§΅)
24.09.2025 20:30 β π 29784 π 10024 π¬ 731 π 1556
How'd she get that job, then?
19.09.2025 21:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by KnowlesKnows
TV Nation: "CEO Challenge"
First thing I thought of when I read this was the "TV Nation CEO Challenge" : www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HLw...
19.09.2025 21:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Did you have a particular private media company in mind...? ;)
(Saw you on Novara earlier in the week. You were both great and, as far as this viewer at least was concerned, welcome.)
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18.09.2025 22:57 β π 137 π 29 π¬ 7 π 1
Top 5 YouTube channels?
17.09.2025 19:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
When was it filmed, please, anyone?
15.09.2025 21:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Now give us just as much attention as Charlie Kirk was given!!!πππ
12.09.2025 14:16 β π 28 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
Was it worth it? #massshootings #schoolshootings #charliekirk #guncontrol Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons
12.09.2025 03:48 β π 1411 π 550 π¬ 43 π 45
Not a word has come from this government, for a month, about
Racist attacks in Britain: graffiti & intimidation
The sewer of racism online
These racist attacks on government ministers
The world's richest man promoting fascists who want to eradicate minorities from the UK
07.09.2025 19:44 β π 743 π 239 π¬ 18 π 14
Angry bollard.
#WorldBollardAssociation
06.09.2025 19:48 β π 1421 π 119 π¬ 41 π 26
skeletal war as a woman in a dress, a young man' any european youth'
'Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy.'
'Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy.' Cartoon, 1936, by Clarence D. Batchelor, which won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._B...
07.09.2025 12:43 β π 359 π 99 π¬ 3 π 3
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