Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I see that Stop Oil have closed the M25 by scaling gantries.
Assuming they are of sound mind, why do we close the motorway? We don’t close it if there is someone on a bridge.
If they fall off, that’s at their own risk, and we deal with it then. If they drop something off we prosecute them. There’s not a meaningful risk to the drivers of cars.
I'm not sure you'd survive a 70kg body falling through your windscreen at 80mph.
Source: Wrote a minibus off hitting a deer near Ullapool.
Zelensky has said 4.5 million households in Ukraine now without power in nightly address
What are your bosses trying to achieve by doing that?
Its getting cold in ukraine now...not nice to be without power....reason why people like kissinger are calling for negotiations
Lol, the negotiations are quite simple.
When will the Russian army leave Ukraine, 1991 border, how much will be the reparations, and how many more years of international sanctions against Russia should be their punishment?
Shedloads leaving in boxes already and more will follow
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
A lesson for the Tories here, who think "wokeness" outweighs the economy?
No-one on the Tory side thinks that. We think Labour activists think that, and therefore it's good tactics to get them talking about it, so voters think Labour think " "wokeness" outweighs the economy".
If that's the strategy, I'm not sure the execution is up to par, because mainly the people I notice banging on about 'woke' are the right...
I think it is a mix of both in a way.
a) It is only the right that is fixated by woke. b) However if the right do bang on about an almost non existent issue the non-political may well think it is an issue and think the left are bonkers for being so woke, when in fact they aren't. It is a common practice for all side to play. Make your opponents seem like ideological nutters.
I think if the Tories stick to the specific issues in this space that voters care about (eg the Albanian armada) then they will be fine. If they keep banging on about things that most people don't care about then they will be punished because voters have a long list of things they want politicians to fix for them and will think it is ridiculous for them to be wasting time on marginal issues. What I find weird is that so many people on the right seem to confuse left wing nutters on Twitter with the Labour Party. Some loons staking out extreme woke positions doesn't mean that most left of centre people sign up to the same views.
It's not just some nutters on twitter though. If you ever interact with an educational establishment, or the arts, or a museum, or pretty much any sphere of public life, you will be bombarded by the woke's views on matters of race, gender and the environment in the same way that more pious regimes will bombard you with the tenets of their particular faith, or that communist Eastern Europe would bombard you with the tenets of international socialism.
I've got three kids at school and frequently go to museums and the only things I've ever encountered are fairly mainstream views, eg racism and slavery = bad. But I'm going on a primary school trip to a museum tomorrow and will report back if I am offered gender reassignment therapy or a seminar on critical race theory while we're there!
I have never come across anything "woke" in real life, or any issues through schools etc.
My kids school is great, my only frustration recently is that we were asked at very short notice to bring in wooden spoons this morning for a project they're making today for Remembrance. I didn't have any wooden spoons in, and all the local shops were cleared out of them too due to a mad panic of other parents also trying to source the same thing at the same time. Eventually found some, but a bit more notice next time would be convenient.
Other than that, no issues whatsoever.
What? You don't have any wooden spoons? Other parents don't have wooden spoons? Surely everyone who has a kitchen has at least two? I have at least 6. Mysteriously, only one of them has a handle of what I consider a satisfactory length i.e. one where the spoon end can nestle where the base of the pan meets the rim and the handle can balance on the opposite rim, for the large frying pan. This is, I concede, one of the more minor issues which has been tackled on these boards. But I am still surprised by your lifestyle decision.
Ever wondered what that hole was for?
Hanging up the pan. Don't fall for fake 'I never knew that' memes on Facebook.
But it works. Just tried it with a range of pans/saucepans.
So does hanging up the pan...
Was not the point being discussed.
Its a stupid internet meme that this was the reason for the hole in the handle, which it absolutely wasn't.
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
I must applaud that notion and thouroughly concur!
Modification to add: Might it worry our typists with non-UK button-boards, though?
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
Would make referring to d Milliband a tad confusing, no?
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
I must applaud that notion and thouroughly concur!
Modification to add: Might it worry our typists with non-UK button-boards, though?
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
"He wants to break the Ukrainians not at the front line, where that’s not proving possible, but by breaking the West's will to support them. The weak link in this war, potentially, is us." https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1589294040910295040
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Why is this clown still here?
So you dont believe in free speech...so i take it you dont believe in western values then
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
If you think they can't strike back, what is your explanation for all the things that keep blowing up in Russia? Is Putin so unpopular that his own people are trying to sabotage the war effort?
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Why is this clown still here?
So you dont believe in free speech...so i take it you dont believe in western values then
We're not saying you can't post here - we're wondering why you're bothering. And while this site does tend to believe in free speech, it also holds quite specific views on grammar.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
The Ukrainians can and have struck back in Russia. But it's more productive to destroy Russian troops in Ukraine. An entire generation of Russian men are being wiped out along with Russia's military capacity, which is going to screw Putin when the revolt comes. In 20 years time, Ukraine will be a prospering Western country while Russia will still be in the pits.
This idea of climate change "reparations" being banded about at COP27 could be utterly politically toxic for Sunak. I hear he's considering it, which is astonishing.
I can see why worldwide NGOs and Davos Man would push for it, but I really hope he isn't taken in by it.
I see Johnson has gone straight in and opposed it. Another sign that Rishi is too easily subject to establishment capture, and Johnson is loitering in the wings waiting for him to fail.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Why is this clown still here?
Because we all need a good laugh sometimes? I suppose one of these days they will actually manage to produce a troll from their farms who is not so painfully obvious. This current crop aren't worth the money they are paying them.
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
BE fun?
Gah! I spent ages composing that. It was surprising how many times I had to go over it spotting the odd e which had evaded four or five readings. And I still failed!
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
Good show old chap. To form that paragraph without utilising said button took skill and thought.
This is an interesting tweet. Makr of it what you will
Is #Ukraine capable of defeating #Russia without the #US direct intervention? No. Is the #US willing to confront Russia on Ukrainian soil? No. Is Europe interested in joining the battle against Russia in Ukraine? No. Then the US should allow Kyiv to negotiate a ceasefire.
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
BE fun?
Gah! I spent ages composing that. It was surprising how many times I had to go over it spotting the odd e which had evaded four or five readings. And I still failed!
Type it in word. replace all the 'e's with a blank using find and replace and then work out how to craft it without using those incomplete words.
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
Good show old chap. To form that paragraph without utilising said button took skill and thought.
But, sir, look at last two words, not counting actual last. Fail.
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
BE fun?
Gah! I spent ages composing that. It was surprising how many times I had to go over it spotting the odd e which had evaded four or five readings. And I still failed!
Unsurprising, its such a useful letter that it becomes hard to write without it, a great philosopher once wrote how e's are good.
Calv and Lemb being hosted by Burley discussing the rights & wrongs of an MP eating roo anus for money and the delectation of the great British public.
This is an interesting tweet. Makr of it what you will
Is #Ukraine capable of defeating #Russia without the #US direct intervention? No. Is the #US willing to confront Russia on Ukrainian soil? No. Is Europe interested in joining the battle against Russia in Ukraine? No. Then the US should allow Kyiv to negotiate a ceasefire.
It's delusional to think that Ukraine would be eager to negotiate/surrender if only they had permission from the US, and a profound mistake to see "Europe" as a monolithic entity. You should remember that Ukraine, Poland and the UK have a tripartite defence alliance outside NATO.
Is it only me who thinks Desantis would be more of a disaster for America and the world than Trump? Trump was worryingly erratic and his rhetoric could be dangerous but at heart he was Democrat who was too disorganised to properly mount a coup or even get Obamacare repealed. Desantis has all of the dangerous MAGA beliefs with the additional worries that he actually believes them and is smart enough to carry them out.
If Trump gets in he will be more ruthless and extreme this time no doubt...the MAGA crowd are much angrier now
This whole trying to generate strife and division thing is very tedious. It doesn’t work and, even if it did, this site doesn’t matter in the scheme of things
Someones having a bad day...im making a statement of fact....maybe you find the chaotic modern world too much for you....
The four-dot ellipsis is weird, isn't it? Stands out, you'd think it would be avoided by now.
What also stands out is the sentence structure of short clauses separated by ellipses with no punctuation save for an opening capital letter. Very odd the number of new posters we get using that unusual and distinctive style.
Especially as the four-dot ellipsis is an atrocity that should be dealt with by an immediate and aggressive use of the ban hammer, if not the space cannon.
Agreed. Added.
• Heavy lifting • Colour me … • IANAE/IANAL • Feature, not a bug • Ad hom • This • It’s a view • North of • As I’ve said passim • One of those irregular verbs • Late of this parish • Nail. Head. • Unspoofable • …. (four dot ellipsis)
That's 'This' as a complete comment? We are still allowed, under your proposals, to use 'this' within a sentence, such as this one?
I think this board should go past banning words (such as 'this') and ban using individual buttons. I think a day without using a button 'twixt "W" and "R" on our laptops should be fun!
Good show old chap. To form that paragraph without utilising said button took skill and thought.
But, sir, look at last two words, not counting actual last. Fail.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Why is this clown still here?
So you dont believe in free speech...so i take it you dont believe in western values then
You don't understand free speech and more than you do punctuation.
It does not included requiring private internet sites - particularly small ones that have no claim to be some kind of public utility - to be completely unmoderated. Indeed to require such would be a denial of free speech rights.
Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright is a whole novel with no e in it.
If youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.” A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport. Up to about its primary school days a child thinks, naturally, only of play. But many a form of play contains disciplinary factors. “You can’t do this,” or “that puts you out,” shows a child that it must think, practically or fail. Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain has no opposition, it is plain that it will attain a position of “status quo,” as with our ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog or lion was not born with a brain on a par with ours; why such animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and schooling, that paramount position which Man holds today. But a human brain is not in that class. Constantly throbbing and pulsating, it rapidly forms opinions; attaining an ability of its own; a fact which is startlingly shown by an occasional child “prodigy” in music or school work. And as, with our dumb animals, a child’s inability convincingly to impart its thoughts to us, should not class it as ignorant. Upon this basis I am going to show you how a bunch of bright young folks did find a champion; a man with boys and girls of his own; a man of so dominating and happy individuality that Youth is drawn to him as is a fly to a sugar bowl. It is a story about a small town. It is not a gossipy yarn; nor is it a dry, monotonous account, full of such customary “fill-ins” as “romantic moonlight casting murky shadows down a long, winding country road.” Nor will it say anything about tinklings lulling distant folds; robins carolling at twilight, nor any “warm glow of lamplight” from a cabin window. No. It is an account of up-and-doing activity; a vivid portrayal of Youth as it is today; and a practical discarding of that worn-out notion that “a child don’t know anything.” Now, any author, from history’s dawn, always had that most important aid to writing: an ability to call upon any word in his dictionary in building up his story. That is, our strict laws as to word construction did not block his path. But in my story that mighty obstruction will constantly stand in my path; for many an important, common word I cannot adopt, owing to its orthography.
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It could well be that Donald Trump will win both the Republican nomination and the presidency. Two key moments that may turn out to have sealed the end of the US regime were in January 2021 when Mike Pence refused to activate Article 25 and the following month when so many Republican senators voted to acquit Trump at his second impeachment trial.
Now it's down to a few state judiciaries to find him guilty of commercial and financial crime, tax fraud, charity fraud, etc., but they seem to be having an awful lot of difficulty in pulling their fingers out.
It's nearly 2023 already and the guy hasn't got anywhere near any handcuffs or a courtroom dock, let alone a prison cell.
After the state judiciaries have wimped out, it will be down to Mary Trump, and er... a reborn Lincoln Project maybe? Saturday Night Live is unlikely to have much of an effect.
"Stop Trump" - which is so necessary - is looking somewhere between weak and pathetically weak.
A big announcement in the next fortnight, huh? Is he waiting for Elon Musk to reinstate his Sh*tter account?
Is it possible to set an alert for when we're properly back to terrible puns and politics, and don't have to put up with spam and links to Twitter accounts full of illuminati nonsense?
Is it possible to set an alert for when we're properly back to terrible puns and politics, and don't have to put up with spam and links to Twitter accounts full of illuminati nonsense?
This idea of climate change "reparations" being banded about at COP27 could be utterly politically toxic for Sunak. I hear he's considering it, which is astonishing.
I can see why worldwide NGOs and Davos Man would push for it, but I really hope he isn't taken in by it.
I see Johnson has gone straight in and opposed it. Another sign that Rishi is too easily subject to establishment capture, and Johnson is loitering in the wings waiting for him to fail.
Boris said a clear no to repatriations? He had a pop at fracking. Makes you think Truss and her government would already have given a clear no to repatriations? So there are clear differences between the Boris and Sunak administration from early 2020 to this summer and the Truss one - the question is, the difference between Boris and Sunak on one side and Truss and her support on the other a greater gap than between Boris and Sunak on one side and Starmer’s Labour and Lib Dems on the other?
With the Sunak government adopting Labours economic policy positions like windfall taxes, and Sunak adopting Red Ed’s repatriations on Net Zero for the world, can you see as clear a difference between Sunak and Labour as there is between Sunak’s government and the supporters of Truss different approach?
I think it points very clearly to which policy positions the Tory party will go to in just two years, when Sunak is beaten and Tory’s need to elect a leader of the opposition.
It could well be that Donald Trump will win both the Republican nomination and the presidency. Two key moments that may turn out to have sealed the end of the US regime were in January 2021 when Mike Pence refused to activate Article 25 and the following month when so many Republican senators voted to acquit Trump at his second impeachment trial.
Now it's down to a few state judiciaries to find him guilty of commercial and financial crime, tax fraud, charity fraud, etc., but they seem to be having an awful lot of difficulty in pulling their fingers out.
It's nearly 2023 already and the guy hasn't got anywhere near any handcuffs or a courtroom dock, let alone a prison cell.
After the state judiciaries have wimped out, it will be down to Mary Trump, and er... a reborn Lincoln Project maybe? Saturday Night Live is unlikely to have much of an effect.
"Stop Trump" - which is so necessary - is looking somewhere between weak and pathetically weak.
A big announcement in the next fortnight, huh? Is he waiting for Elon Musk to reinstate his Sh*tter account?
After making history as the first Love Island star to compete on the ITV show, the 31-year-old reality star has left the camp after being involved in a 'medical drama'.
For some value of history, @ydoethur will be pleased by the extension of his discipline.
A lesson for the Tories here, who think "wokeness" outweighs the economy?
No-one on the Tory side thinks that. We think Labour activists think that, and therefore it's good tactics to get them talking about it, so voters think Labour think " "wokeness" outweighs the economy".
If that's the strategy, I'm not sure the execution is up to par, because mainly the people I notice banging on about 'woke' are the right...
I think it is a mix of both in a way.
a) It is only the right that is fixated by woke. b) However if the right do bang on about an almost non existent issue the non-political may well think it is an issue and think the left are bonkers for being so woke, when in fact they aren't. It is a common practice for all side to play. Make your opponents seem like ideological nutters.
I think if the Tories stick to the specific issues in this space that voters care about (eg the Albanian armada) then they will be fine. If they keep banging on about things that most people don't care about then they will be punished because voters have a long list of things they want politicians to fix for them and will think it is ridiculous for them to be wasting time on marginal issues. What I find weird is that so many people on the right seem to confuse left wing nutters on Twitter with the Labour Party. Some loons staking out extreme woke positions doesn't mean that most left of centre people sign up to the same views.
It's not just some nutters on twitter though. If you ever interact with an educational establishment, or the arts, or a museum, or pretty much any sphere of public life, you will be bombarded by the woke's views on matters of race, gender and the environment in the same way that more pious regimes will bombard you with the tenets of their particular faith, or that communist Eastern Europe would bombard you with the tenets of international socialism.
I've got three kids at school and frequently go to museums and the only things I've ever encountered are fairly mainstream views, eg racism and slavery = bad. But I'm going on a primary school trip to a museum tomorrow and will report back if I am offered gender reassignment therapy or a seminar on critical race theory while we're there!
I have never come across anything "woke" in real life, or any issues through schools etc.
My kids school is great, my only frustration recently is that we were asked at very short notice to bring in wooden spoons this morning for a project they're making today for Remembrance. I didn't have any wooden spoons in, and all the local shops were cleared out of them too due to a mad panic of other parents also trying to source the same thing at the same time. Eventually found some, but a bit more notice next time would be convenient.
Other than that, no issues whatsoever.
What? You don't have any wooden spoons? Other parents don't have wooden spoons? Surely everyone who has a kitchen has at least two? I have at least 6. Mysteriously, only one of them has a handle of what I consider a satisfactory length i.e. one where the spoon end can nestle where the base of the pan meets the rim and the handle can balance on the opposite rim, for the large frying pan. This is, I concede, one of the more minor issues which has been tackled on these boards. But I am still surprised by your lifestyle decision.
Ever wondered what that hole was for?
Hanging up the pan. Don't fall for fake 'I never knew that' memes on Facebook.
But it works. Just tried it with a range of pans/saucepans.
So does hanging up the pan...
Was not the point being discussed.
Its a stupid internet meme that this was the reason for the hole in the handle, which it absolutely wasn't.
This is an interesting tweet. Makr of it what you will
Is #Ukraine capable of defeating #Russia without the #US direct intervention? No. Is the #US willing to confront Russia on Ukrainian soil? No. Is Europe interested in joining the battle against Russia in Ukraine? No. Then the US should allow Kyiv to negotiate a ceasefire.
It's delusional to think that Ukraine would be eager to negotiate/surrender if only they had permission from the US, and a profound mistake to see "Europe" as a monolithic entity. You should remember that Ukraine, Poland and the UK have a tripartite defence alliance outside NATO.
It is very far from delusional to think that Russia's desperation for some sort of face saving negotiation grows by the day.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Why is this clown still here?
So you dont believe in free speech...so i take it you dont believe in western values then
You don't understand free speech and more than you do punctuation.
It does not included requiring private internet sites - particularly small ones that have no claim to be some kind of public utility - to be completely unmoderated. Indeed to require such would be a denial of free speech rights.
Ok i agree ban abusive posters sure...but banning different viewpoints leaves you with a boring echo chamber and you then miss the contribution of some excellent posters with well thought out views
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I see Musk has gone from "Comedy is legal now" to "Perm ban for anyone changing their name to Elon Musk" inside a week.
Exactly as predicted.
I don’t see how Musk + Twitter are sustainable. I don’t see how Musk is different from a 14 year old boy, for that matter. Thinks he’s very clever, but isn’t. After the Paul Pelosi thing, he’s now had to delete a post where he approved of a quote from a neo-Nazi. He is the loosest of loose cannons.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Why is this clown still here?
So you dont believe in free speech...so i take it you dont believe in western values then
You don't understand free speech and more than you do punctuation.
It does not included requiring private internet sites - particularly small ones that have no claim to be some kind of public utility - to be completely unmoderated. Indeed to require such would be a denial of free speech rights.
Ok i agree ban abusive posters sure...but banning different viewpoints leaves you with a boring echo chamber and you then miss the contribution of some excellent posters with well thought out views
Don't worry, the stream of banned Muscovite Trolls that you'll inevitably be joining didn't contain any excellent posters with well thought out views.
To give credit where credit's due, DJ41 might be a Russia troll like you but actually puts some effort in to his trolling. I vote we keep him as our pet.
This is an interesting tweet. Makr of it what you will
Is #Ukraine capable of defeating #Russia without the #US direct intervention? No. Is the #US willing to confront Russia on Ukrainian soil? No. Is Europe interested in joining the battle against Russia in Ukraine? No. Then the US should allow Kyiv to negotiate a ceasefire.
It's delusional to think that Ukraine would be eager to negotiate/surrender if only they had permission from the US, and a profound mistake to see "Europe" as a monolithic entity. You should remember that Ukraine, Poland and the UK have a tripartite defence alliance outside NATO.
Unless the US turns off the $2bn/month money tap then Zelenskiy would be dumb to negotiate before the Ukrainian elections next year.
While he is, what my late mother would have described as, 'a good turn but on too long' he's not dumb.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
Why is this clown still here?
So you dont believe in free speech...so i take it you dont believe in western values then
You don't understand free speech and more than you do punctuation.
It does not included requiring private internet sites - particularly small ones that have no claim to be some kind of public utility - to be completely unmoderated. Indeed to require such would be a denial of free speech rights.
Ok i agree ban abusive posters sure...but banning different viewpoints leaves you with a boring echo chamber and you then miss the contribution of some excellent posters with well thought out views
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A lesson for the Tories here, who think "wokeness" outweighs the economy?
No-one on the Tory side thinks that. We think Labour activists think that, and therefore it's good tactics to get them talking about it, so voters think Labour think " "wokeness" outweighs the economy".
If that's the strategy, I'm not sure the execution is up to par, because mainly the people I notice banging on about 'woke' are the right...
I think it is a mix of both in a way.
a) It is only the right that is fixated by woke. b) However if the right do bang on about an almost non existent issue the non-political may well think it is an issue and think the left are bonkers for being so woke, when in fact they aren't. It is a common practice for all side to play. Make your opponents seem like ideological nutters.
I think if the Tories stick to the specific issues in this space that voters care about (eg the Albanian armada) then they will be fine. If they keep banging on about things that most people don't care about then they will be punished because voters have a long list of things they want politicians to fix for them and will think it is ridiculous for them to be wasting time on marginal issues. What I find weird is that so many people on the right seem to confuse left wing nutters on Twitter with the Labour Party. Some loons staking out extreme woke positions doesn't mean that most left of centre people sign up to the same views.
It's not just some nutters on twitter though. If you ever interact with an educational establishment, or the arts, or a museum, or pretty much any sphere of public life, you will be bombarded by the woke's views on matters of race, gender and the environment in the same way that more pious regimes will bombard you with the tenets of their particular faith, or that communist Eastern Europe would bombard you with the tenets of international socialism.
I've got three kids at school and frequently go to museums and the only things I've ever encountered are fairly mainstream views, eg racism and slavery = bad. But I'm going on a primary school trip to a museum tomorrow and will report back if I am offered gender reassignment therapy or a seminar on critical race theory while we're there!
I have never come across anything "woke" in real life, or any issues through schools etc.
My kids school is great, my only frustration recently is that we were asked at very short notice to bring in wooden spoons this morning for a project they're making today for Remembrance. I didn't have any wooden spoons in, and all the local shops were cleared out of them too due to a mad panic of other parents also trying to source the same thing at the same time. Eventually found some, but a bit more notice next time would be convenient.
Other than that, no issues whatsoever.
What? You don't have any wooden spoons? Other parents don't have wooden spoons? Surely everyone who has a kitchen has at least two? I have at least 6. Mysteriously, only one of them has a handle of what I consider a satisfactory length i.e. one where the spoon end can nestle where the base of the pan meets the rim and the handle can balance on the opposite rim, for the large frying pan. This is, I concede, one of the more minor issues which has been tackled on these boards. But I am still surprised by your lifestyle decision.
Ever wondered what that hole was for?
Hanging up the pan. Don't fall for fake 'I never knew that' memes on Facebook.
But it works. Just tried it with a range of pans/saucepans.
So does hanging up the pan...
Was not the point being discussed.
Its a stupid internet meme that this was the reason for the hole in the handle, which it absolutely wasn't.
Attending the funeral of my grandfather today. Born in Poland; when Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany invaded Poland, he and his family were sent to a Siberian prison camp. When Nazi Germany invaded Russia, he was released and made his way to the Holy Land where he eventually found himself in a refugee camp in North East England, where he made the rest of his life and leaves many grandchildren.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
Russia is pioneering a new type of economy. The one where all the smart young wealth creators, managers, inventors, administrators have all left Russia. The world will watch this experiment in the same way it watched Pol Pot and his Year Zero approach.
Spoiler: in 5 years time, Russia will be a hollowed out husk of the country it was before it invaded Ukraine. Its hydrocarbons industry will be patched up, leaking, lacking investment, lacking basic western technologies, its products bought at discounts from those who will gouge the prices.
And still the remaining thick drunkards in Moscow and St. Petersburg will blame NATO.
Don’t you mean “they will blame Satanic Nazi GAYTO”?
So, last week Brazil counted 120m votes in 4 hours. What are the prospects of Americans being able to achieve this on similar numbers within 4 weeks (and arguably more than 2 months if you include any runoffs)? Close to zero I would say. Why do Americans put up with this?
Attending the funeral of my grandfather today. Born in Poland; when Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany invaded Poland, he and his family were sent to a Siberian prison camp. When Nazi Germany invaded Russia, he was released and made his way to the Holy Land where he eventually found himself in a refugee camp in North East England, where he made the rest of his life and leaves many grandchildren.
RIP
Wow. I often marvel at the changes that generation saw and the lives they lead. Your grandfather, I think, had an even more remarkable life than most. I hope that amongst the inevitable sadness that there can be happiness and thankfulness at a remarkable life.
The Washington race for Senate between incumbent Patty Murray and Republican Tiffany Smiley is unexpectedly close. And I think that is because Murray has run such a lackluster -- though very expensive -- campaign. In her ads, she often looks both tired and bored, so much so that I wonder about her overall health. (She was born October 11, 1950). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Murray
That could be why Mitch McConnell decided to put so much money into this race.
But I think the damage done to the Republican Party here in Washington state by Donald Trump will keep her in for one more term.
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A 24 year-old woman shut down a major highway in UK just now. She says it’s for the climate but she’s obviously suffering from severe mental distress, narcissism, and grandiosity. “Why does it take young people like me?” she asks.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
If you think they can't strike back, what is your explanation for all the things that keep blowing up in Russia? Is Putin so unpopular that his own people are trying to sabotage the war effort?
Lucky Strike is a very popular brand of cigarette in Russia.
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Maybe if we could see an end to oil and gas exploration, not to mention coal, in the UK it there would be less reason for them to protest.
Given we still need oil, gas and coal for the foreseeable future then it’s not going to happen.
They can protest all they like. All they are doing is pissing people off.
Yes, 1) Stopping the extraction of fossil fuels while doing nothing about the consumption of it is pointless virtue signalling. It's consumption we need to focus on. 2) And we are focusing on it! I get so frustrated with the failure to acknowledge the astonishing progress made in this over my lifetime. Back in 1990, the idea that we could get half of our electricity from renewables, that we could make serious inroads intro electrifying the country's vehicles - it would be seen as a fantasy. And yet here we are, and the trajectory towards net zero in the coming years looks even steeper. There is a massive success story to be told. That's not to say that decarbonising is easy; it is hard, but achievable, and we are doing it. It very much doesn't happen overnight. But to any reasonable observer the speed of change is pretty impressive. And the UK is doing well, but is far from being an outlier: the world in general, I think, has a very good story to tell.
We are going to need fossil fuels for the rest of my lifetime, and so their extraction is still needed. But they will get increasingly marginal.
This idea of climate change "reparations" being banded about at COP27 could be utterly politically toxic for Sunak. I hear he's considering it, which is astonishing.
I can see why worldwide NGOs and Davos Man would push for it, but I really hope he isn't taken in by it.
I see Johnson has gone straight in and opposed it. Another sign that Rishi is too easily subject to establishment capture, and Johnson is loitering in the wings waiting for him to fail.
Boris said a clear no to repatriations? He had a pop at fracking. Makes you think Truss and her government would already have given a clear no to repatriations? So there are clear differences between the Boris and Sunak administration from early 2020 to this summer and the Truss one - the question is, the difference between Boris and Sunak on one side and Truss and her support on the other a greater gap than between Boris and Sunak on one side and Starmer’s Labour and Lib Dems on the other?
With the Sunak government adopting Labours economic policy positions like windfall taxes, and Sunak adopting Red Ed’s repatriations on Net Zero for the world, can you see as clear a difference between Sunak and Labour as there is between Sunak’s government and the supporters of Truss different approach?
I think it points very clearly to which policy positions the Tory party will go to in just two years, when Sunak is beaten and Tory’s need to elect a leader of the opposition.
Truss is dead. Long live Trussism.
Gentle tip: your posts are too long and have too many questions in them; reading them is hard work and, in this case, to get to a point and a conclusion you'd clearly already reached.
A 24 year-old woman shut down a major highway in UK just now. She says it’s for the climate but she’s obviously suffering from severe mental distress, narcissism, and grandiosity. “Why does it take young people like me?” she asks.
She probably is suffering from mental problems, but this critic seems mostly to be using the names of mental problems as insults - which shouldn't be encouraged. That's the impression I formed when I got to the word "grandiosity" anyway. Then on a second reading I realised maybe I should already have formed it at the word "narcissism". Cults prey on and exacerbate mental problems and they induce them in those who at first only had naivety. This is no joke.
How long will it take before ER etc. start killing people? And not high-level targets. I mean passers-by, people driving cars, people who are just unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Funny how nobody from Extinction Rebellion has been jailed yet for flying drones over busy airports such as Gatwick.
I see Musk has gone from "Comedy is legal now" to "Perm ban for anyone changing their name to Elon Musk" inside a week.
Exactly as predicted.
I don’t see how Musk + Twitter are sustainable. I don’t see how Musk is different from a 14 year old boy, for that matter. Thinks he’s very clever, but isn’t. After the Paul Pelosi thing, he’s now had to delete a post where he approved of a quote from a neo-Nazi. He is the loosest of loose cannons.
Well he's not at all stupid, quite the opposite, within his range of expertise.
The management of a social media platform - as opposed to the prior extremely successful use of that platform - evidently does not fall within that range.
The young, impressionable, lost, middle classes have sadly always been attracted to cults. Their listless, privileged lives leave them open to radicalisation Today, these same lost souls gravitate towards cultists at Just Stop Oil & Extinction Rebellion
Maybe if we could see an end to oil and gas exploration, not to mention coal, in the UK it there would be less reason for them to protest.
Given we still need oil, gas and coal for the foreseeable future then it’s not going to happen.
They can protest all they like. All they are doing is pissing people off.
Cheapest electricity now comes from Renewables.
No fossil fuel cars sold after 2030.
"Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer vowed to end the UK’s dependence on fossil fuels and achieve zero carbon energy by 2030. He announced plans for all the country’s electricity to be generated by renewable and nuclear power by the end of the decade. Labour claimed the plans would save UK households a total of £93bn over the rest of the decade – or an average saving of £475 for each household every year."
New fossil fuels exploration will take years to produce anything and will be more expensive than renewables. Labour and Lib Dems plus Greens of course will put an end to new fossil fuel exploration, but we have to wait two years for an election before that can start.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
The lack of punctuation and grammar makes it a bit difficult to understand what you're getting at sometimes. But the lack of any underlying logic makes it even harder. (Both of which actually confirm my opinion that you're all too human. But maybe with robot bosses telling you what to do.)
You seem to be implying that the Ukrainians would like to attack the civil population of Russia - in the same way the Russians are now attacking the civil population of Ukraine - but that the threat of nuclear retaliation holds them back. Whereas the threat of nuclear retaliation is not inhibiting the Ukrainians at all when it comes to attacking the Russian military.
Perhaps you should consider the possibility that the Ukrainians understand that it's Putin waging war on them, not the Russian people ....that they don't want to commit a war crime ....that they think defeating Putin militarily is the most likely way of getting him mercifully wiped from the recollection of the human race.
David L asked: "So, last week Brazil counted 120m votes in 4 hours. What are the prospects of Americans being able to achieve this on similar numbers within 4 weeks (and arguably more than 2 months if you include any runoffs)? Close to zero I would say. Why do Americans put up with this?"
The United States is a federal system, with the states (and DC) having their own election rules. So, some states will count very quickly, and others won't. In Washington state, for example, we have almost universal vote by mail -- with ballots being acceptable as long as they are postmarked by tomorrow, or dropped in a "drop box" before 8 PM. So Washington counties won't even have all the ballots tomorrow night.
That provision is intended to increase participation, and probably has had a small effect, just as early voting does.
(There were some federal reforms after the 2000 presidential election.)
Plans for £250m Royal Yacht Britannia replacement championed by Boris Johnson are sunk by Rishi Sunak Bidders told today. Ministry of Defence statement due soon.
This idea of climate change "reparations" being banded about at COP27 could be utterly politically toxic for Sunak. I hear he's considering it, which is astonishing.
I can see why worldwide NGOs and Davos Man would push for it, but I really hope he isn't taken in by it.
I see Johnson has gone straight in and opposed it. Another sign that Rishi is too easily subject to establishment capture, and Johnson is loitering in the wings waiting for him to fail.
Reparations is a politically loaded word and should be avoided for that reason, but it's in the interests of countries in the developed world - such as the UK - to help mitigate the effects of climate change in the developing world. If we don't, the mass movement of peoples escaping the consequences of drought, flood and famine is only going to get greater. Handing over some money and sharing technology are both going to play a role - the latter a far greater one than the former.
The really meaningful battle is going to be around the transfer of greentech to the developing world and whether that should involve compulsory licensing.
The young, impressionable, lost, middle classes have sadly always been attracted to cults. Their listless, privileged lives leave them open to radicalisation Today, these same lost souls gravitate towards cultists at Just Stop Oil & Extinction Rebellion
Maybe if we could see an end to oil and gas exploration, not to mention coal, in the UK it there would be less reason for them to protest.
Given we still need oil, gas and coal for the foreseeable future then it’s not going to happen.
They can protest all they like. All they are doing is pissing people off.
Cheapest electricity now comes from Renewables.
No fossil fuel cars sold after 2030.
"Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer vowed to end the UK’s dependence on fossil fuels and achieve zero carbon energy by 2030. He announced plans for all the country’s electricity to be generated by renewable and nuclear power by the end of the decade. Labour claimed the plans would save UK households a total of £93bn over the rest of the decade – or an average saving of £475 for each household every year."
New fossil fuels exploration will take years to produce anything and will be more expensive than renewables...
For energy generation, certainly. But that's not the only thing oil is used for, and it will be a couple of decades before chemical feedstocks manufactured using renewable energy are anywhere near as cheap.
And it will be well into the 2030s before we all stop driving ICE cars.
I am massively in favour of doing everything we can to accelerate the energy transition, but it's important to remain realistic.
A 24 year-old woman shut down a major highway in UK just now. She says it’s for the climate but she’s obviously suffering from severe mental distress, narcissism, and grandiosity. “Why does it take young people like me?” she asks.
My inner pedant notes that, from the video, the campaign name is a bit misleading - it's not a case of 'just stop oil' but also 'stop gas too'.
1. Russian-sympathetic poster arrives posting content which seeks to undermine "The West's" orthodox view on eg the Ukraine war, but also democracy, the US, Jaffa Cakes, etc 2. Everyone says "you are a Russian-sympathetic poster posting content which seeks to undermine...etc 3. Russian-sympathetic poster says what about freedom of speech, etc while continuing to seek to undermine...etc 4. Russian-sympathetic poster is banned because everyone is focused on him and therefore the accusation of troll become self-fulfilling.
A real shame imo because if they are a Russian-sympathetic poster then why not engage. Let's hear the Russian-sympathetic view. We are just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting la la la. It's a shame, especially so on PB of all places.
He/She/(they but I doubt it) wasn't wrong when they said on certain topics PB is like an echo-chamber with no dissenting voices allowed.
The young, impressionable, lost, middle classes have sadly always been attracted to cults. Their listless, privileged lives leave them open to radicalisation Today, these same lost souls gravitate towards cultists at Just Stop Oil & Extinction Rebellion
Maybe if we could see an end to oil and gas exploration, not to mention coal, in the UK it there would be less reason for them to protest.
Given we still need oil, gas and coal for the foreseeable future then it’s not going to happen.
They can protest all they like. All they are doing is pissing people off.
Yes, 1) Stopping the extraction of fossil fuels while doing nothing about the consumption of it is pointless virtue signalling. It's consumption we need to focus on. 2) And we are focusing on it! I get so frustrated with the failure to acknowledge the astonishing progress made in this over my lifetime. Back in 1990, the idea that we could get half of our electricity from renewables, that we could make serious inroads intro electrifying the country's vehicles - it would be seen as a fantasy. And yet here we are, and the trajectory towards net zero in the coming years looks even steeper. There is a massive success story to be told. That's not to say that decarbonising is easy; it is hard, but achievable, and we are doing it. It very much doesn't happen overnight. But to any reasonable observer the speed of change is pretty impressive. And the UK is doing well, but is far from being an outlier: the world in general, I think, has a very good story to tell.
We are going to need fossil fuels for the rest of my lifetime, and so their extraction is still needed. But they will get increasingly marginal.
Agreed - and there's no need to explore for more. We don't need new coal mines and oil rigs, they will pretty soon become stranded assets.
Russia is pioneering a new type of warfare...destroy the energy infrastructure of a non nuclear power knowing that country is powerless to strike back in their own country because of a threat of nuclear weapons use....quite clever in a twisted way
It seems to me that almost exactly the converse is true.
So far from the Ukrainians being powerless to strike back in their own country, they are striking back very effectively and Russia is losing the war. The Russians don't dare to use nuclear weapons, but Putin is so politically vulnerable that he feels he must retaliate, so he hits high-profile civilian targets, which will have little effect on the Ukrainian war effort and won't even kill large numbers of civilians. But evidently Putin hopes it will save enough of his face for him to survive.
But the ukrainians cant strike back in russia whilst the russians can destroy ukraines energy infrastructure at will leading to a miserable and freezing winter for many ukrainians. It is possible by january zelensky becones very unpopular
The lack of punctuation and grammar makes it a bit difficult to understand what you're getting at sometimes. But the lack of any underlying logic makes it even harder. (Both of which actually confirm my opinion that you're all too human. But maybe with robot bosses telling you what to do.)
You seem to be implying that the Ukrainians would like to attack the civil population of Russia - in the same way the Russians are now attacking the civil population of Ukraine - but that the threat of nuclear retaliation holds them back. Whereas the threat of nuclear retaliation is not inhibiting the Ukrainians at all when it comes to attacking the Russian military.
Perhaps you should consider the possibility that the Ukrainians understand that it's Putin waging war on them, not the Russian people ....that they don't want to commit a war crime ....that they think defeating Putin militarily is the most likely way of getting him mercifully wiped from the recollection of the human race.
Go easy on Martin10, English may not be his first language.
1. Russian-sympathetic poster arrives posting content which seeks to undermine "The West's" orthodox view on eg the Ukraine war, but also democracy, the US, Jaffa Cakes, etc 2. Everyone says "you are a Russian-sympathetic poster posting content which seeks to undermine...etc 3. Russian-sympathetic poster says what about freedom of speech, etc while continuing to seek to undermine...etc 4. Russian-sympathetic poster is banned because everyone is focused on him and therefore the accusation of troll become self-fulfilling.
A real shame imo because if they are a Russian-sympathetic poster then why not engage. Let's hear the Russian-sympathetic view. We are just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting la la la. It's a shame, especially so on PB of all places.
He/She/(they but I doubt it) wasn't wrong when they said on certain topics PB is like an echo-chamber with no dissenting voices allowed.
We have posters who post alternative views and are not banned. The ones that can string an argument together and use punctuation other than '....'.
DJ41 is an example of a relatively new poster who has not been banned, despite some indications of suspect behaviour (as detailed by RCS) due to otherwise meeting the above criteria.
The young, impressionable, lost, middle classes have sadly always been attracted to cults. Their listless, privileged lives leave them open to radicalisation Today, these same lost souls gravitate towards cultists at Just Stop Oil & Extinction Rebellion
Maybe if we could see an end to oil and gas exploration, not to mention coal, in the UK it there would be less reason for them to protest.
Given we still need oil, gas and coal for the foreseeable future then it’s not going to happen.
They can protest all they like. All they are doing is pissing people off.
Cheapest electricity now comes from Renewables.
No fossil fuel cars sold after 2030.
"Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer vowed to end the UK’s dependence on fossil fuels and achieve zero carbon energy by 2030. He announced plans for all the country’s electricity to be generated by renewable and nuclear power by the end of the decade. Labour claimed the plans would save UK households a total of £93bn over the rest of the decade – or an average saving of £475 for each household every year."
New fossil fuels exploration will take years to produce anything and will be more expensive than renewables. Labour and Lib Dems plus Greens of course will put an end to new fossil fuel exploration, but we have to wait two years for an election before that can start.
Oil and gas and coal have other uses than producing electricity.
As for this plan heard it or similar so many times in the past. Numerous green new deals. Always launched in a fanfare and never deliver. Ialso doubt they will end up stopping new exploration.
The young, impressionable, lost, middle classes have sadly always been attracted to cults. Their listless, privileged lives leave them open to radicalisation Today, these same lost souls gravitate towards cultists at Just Stop Oil & Extinction Rebellion
Maybe if we could see an end to oil and gas exploration, not to mention coal, in the UK it there would be less reason for them to protest.
Given we still need oil, gas and coal for the foreseeable future then it’s not going to happen.
They can protest all they like. All they are doing is pissing people off.
Cheapest electricity now comes from Renewables.
No fossil fuel cars sold after 2030.
"Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer vowed to end the UK’s dependence on fossil fuels and achieve zero carbon energy by 2030. He announced plans for all the country’s electricity to be generated by renewable and nuclear power by the end of the decade. Labour claimed the plans would save UK households a total of £93bn over the rest of the decade – or an average saving of £475 for each household every year."
New fossil fuels exploration will take years to produce anything and will be more expensive than renewables. Labour and Lib Dems plus Greens of course will put an end to new fossil fuel exploration, but we have to wait two years for an election before that can start.
So Keir Starmer has vowed to do what the Tories have already implemented? 🤔
The ban on new fossil fuel cars after 2030 isn't an original Labour idea, it was put in place by the Tories.
In the mean time we need oil and gas for the transition. We can either import that from the likes of Sheiks and Putin, or extract our own.
Fools who want to stop domestic extraction of oil and gas before we transition away from domestic consumption of it do not understand the science of what is happening.
David L asked: "So, last week Brazil counted 120m votes in 4 hours. What are the prospects of Americans being able to achieve this on similar numbers within 4 weeks (and arguably more than 2 months if you include any runoffs)? Close to zero I would say. Why do Americans put up with this?"
The United States is a federal system, with the states (and DC) having their own election rules. So, some states will count very quickly, and others won't. In Washington state, for example, we have almost universal vote by mail -- with ballots being acceptable as long as they are postmarked by tomorrow, or dropped in a "drop box" before 8 PM. So Washington counties won't even have all the ballots tomorrow night.
That provision is intended to increase participation, and probably has had a small effect, just as early voting does.
(There were some federal reforms after the 2000 presidential election.)
That system has always struck me as absurd - how long do they wait for USPS to deliver?
1. Russian-sympathetic poster arrives posting content which seeks to undermine "The West's" orthodox view on eg the Ukraine war, but also democracy, the US, Jaffa Cakes, etc 2. Everyone says "you are a Russian-sympathetic poster posting content which seeks to undermine...etc 3. Russian-sympathetic poster says what about freedom of speech, etc while continuing to seek to undermine...etc 4. Russian-sympathetic poster is banned because everyone is focused on him and therefore the accusation of troll become self-fulfilling.
A real shame imo because if they are a Russian-sympathetic poster then why not engage. Let's hear the Russian-sympathetic view. We are just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting la la la. It's a shame, especially so on PB of all places.
He/She/(they but I doubt it) wasn't wrong when they said on certain topics PB is like an echo-chamber with no dissenting voices allowed.
We have posters who post alternative views and are not banned. The ones that can string an argument together and use punctuation other than '....'.
DJ41 is an example of a relatively new poster who has not been banned, despite some indications of suspect behaviour (as detailed by RCS) due to otherwise meeting the above criteria.
So what exactly is/was the complaint with Martin10? Dodgy VPN? Used too many "e"s?
Obviously @rcs1000 can ban whomever he wants but it is a shame.
1. Russian-sympathetic poster arrives posting content which seeks to undermine "The West's" orthodox view on eg the Ukraine war, but also democracy, the US, Jaffa Cakes, etc 2. Everyone says "you are a Russian-sympathetic poster posting content which seeks to undermine...etc 3. Russian-sympathetic poster says what about freedom of speech, etc while continuing to seek to undermine...etc 4. Russian-sympathetic poster is banned because everyone is focused on him and therefore the accusation of troll become self-fulfilling.
A real shame imo because if they are a Russian-sympathetic poster then why not engage. Let's hear the Russian-sympathetic view. We are just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting la la la. It's a shame, especially so on PB of all places.
He/She/(they but I doubt it) wasn't wrong when they said on certain topics PB is like an echo-chamber with no dissenting voices allowed.
On what serious topic do you think no dissenting voices are allowed on?
I see Musk has gone from "Comedy is legal now" to "Perm ban for anyone changing their name to Elon Musk" inside a week.
Exactly as predicted.
I don’t see how Musk + Twitter are sustainable. I don’t see how Musk is different from a 14 year old boy, for that matter. Thinks he’s very clever, but isn’t. After the Paul Pelosi thing, he’s now had to delete a post where he approved of a quote from a neo-Nazi. He is the loosest of loose cannons.
He has many faults, but Musk is clearly very clever.
A Texas-based work colleague of mine spent her Friday evening queuing in a rainstorm to cast an early vote. She waited for 2.5 hours. She's white and middle class, so not an obvious target for suppression - though she is based in Austin, which is far more liberal than much of the rest of the state. It is just mind-boggling how hard it is to vote in the US and how people there accept it. No wonder turnouts are so low.
1. Russian-sympathetic poster arrives posting content which seeks to undermine "The West's" orthodox view on eg the Ukraine war, but also democracy, the US, Jaffa Cakes, etc 2. Everyone says "you are a Russian-sympathetic poster posting content which seeks to undermine...etc 3. Russian-sympathetic poster says what about freedom of speech, etc while continuing to seek to undermine...etc 4. Russian-sympathetic poster is banned because everyone is focused on him and therefore the accusation of troll become self-fulfilling.
A real shame imo because if they are a Russian-sympathetic poster then why not engage. Let's hear the Russian-sympathetic view. We are just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting la la la. It's a shame, especially so on PB of all places.
He/She/(they but I doubt it) wasn't wrong when they said on certain topics PB is like an echo-chamber with no dissenting voices allowed.
The "people" who use the St Petersburg Ellipsis aren't worth engaging with. They're not "Russian-sympathetic posters" (that's people like Luckyguy and Dura), they're Putin's weapons.
1. Russian-sympathetic poster arrives posting content which seeks to undermine "The West's" orthodox view on eg the Ukraine war, but also democracy, the US, Jaffa Cakes, etc 2. Everyone says "you are a Russian-sympathetic poster posting content which seeks to undermine...etc 3. Russian-sympathetic poster says what about freedom of speech, etc while continuing to seek to undermine...etc 4. Russian-sympathetic poster is banned because everyone is focused on him and therefore the accusation of troll become self-fulfilling.
A real shame imo because if they are a Russian-sympathetic poster then why not engage. Let's hear the Russian-sympathetic view. We are just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting la la la. It's a shame, especially so on PB of all places.
He/She/(they but I doubt it) wasn't wrong when they said on certain topics PB is like an echo-chamber with no dissenting voices allowed.
The "people" who use the St Petersburg Ellipsis aren't worth engaging with. They're not "Russian-sympathetic posters" (that's people like Luckyguy and Dura), they're Putin's weapons.
So let's show then up and humiliate them with how ridiculous their positions are. Don't ban them.
1. Russian-sympathetic poster arrives posting content which seeks to undermine "The West's" orthodox view on eg the Ukraine war, but also democracy, the US, Jaffa Cakes, etc 2. Everyone says "you are a Russian-sympathetic poster posting content which seeks to undermine...etc 3. Russian-sympathetic poster says what about freedom of speech, etc while continuing to seek to undermine...etc 4. Russian-sympathetic poster is banned because everyone is focused on him and therefore the accusation of troll become self-fulfilling.
A real shame imo because if they are a Russian-sympathetic poster then why not engage. Let's hear the Russian-sympathetic view. We are just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting la la la. It's a shame, especially so on PB of all places.
He/She/(they but I doubt it) wasn't wrong when they said on certain topics PB is like an echo-chamber with no dissenting voices allowed.
On what serious topic do you think no dissenting voices are allowed on?
The Ukraine war.
Edit: but it changes. Lockdown when they were happening, for example; vaccines, etc
1. Russian-sympathetic poster arrives posting content which seeks to undermine "The West's" orthodox view on eg the Ukraine war, but also democracy, the US, Jaffa Cakes, etc 2. Everyone says "you are a Russian-sympathetic poster posting content which seeks to undermine...etc 3. Russian-sympathetic poster says what about freedom of speech, etc while continuing to seek to undermine...etc 4. Russian-sympathetic poster is banned because everyone is focused on him and therefore the accusation of troll become self-fulfilling.
A real shame imo because if they are a Russian-sympathetic poster then why not engage. Let's hear the Russian-sympathetic view. We are just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting la la la. It's a shame, especially so on PB of all places.
He/She/(they but I doubt it) wasn't wrong when they said on certain topics PB is like an echo-chamber with no dissenting voices allowed.
The "people" who use the St Petersburg Ellipsis aren't worth engaging with. They're not "Russian-sympathetic posters" (that's people like Luckyguy and Dura), they're Putin's weapons.
Indeed, we have a whole spectrum of people here ranging from outright Russian-sympathetic posters (LuckyGuy, Dura etc), to Russia-agnostic/be afraid of nukes posters (Leon, Ishamael, Topping sometimes), through to hardcore NAFO proponents (too many to name).
The trolls that get banned aren't banned for sharing views shared by Dura etc, they're banned for breaking the site's rules.
The young, impressionable, lost, middle classes have sadly always been attracted to cults. Their listless, privileged lives leave them open to radicalisation Today, these same lost souls gravitate towards cultists at Just Stop Oil & Extinction Rebellion
Maybe if we could see an end to oil and gas exploration, not to mention coal, in the UK it there would be less reason for them to protest.
Given we still need oil, gas and coal for the foreseeable future then it’s not going to happen.
They can protest all they like. All they are doing is pissing people off.
Yes, 1) Stopping the extraction of fossil fuels while doing nothing about the consumption of it is pointless virtue signalling. It's consumption we need to focus on. 2) And we are focusing on it! I get so frustrated with the failure to acknowledge the astonishing progress made in this over my lifetime. Back in 1990, the idea that we could get half of our electricity from renewables, that we could make serious inroads intro electrifying the country's vehicles - it would be seen as a fantasy. And yet here we are, and the trajectory towards net zero in the coming years looks even steeper. There is a massive success story to be told. That's not to say that decarbonising is easy; it is hard, but achievable, and we are doing it. It very much doesn't happen overnight. But to any reasonable observer the speed of change is pretty impressive. And the UK is doing well, but is far from being an outlier: the world in general, I think, has a very good story to tell.
We are going to need fossil fuels for the rest of my lifetime, and so their extraction is still needed. But they will get increasingly marginal.
Agreed - and there's no need to explore for more. We don't need new coal mines and oil rigs, they will pretty soon become stranded assets.
I think even at our most optimistic rate of decarbonisation, we will still be consuming *some* oil, gas and coal in 25 years. I think it will account for < 1% of overall energy use, but we won't be entirely rid - and there will be a need for oil for non-energy uses. (I think 25 years is the sort of lifespan we need to look at for a new extractive facility) I think even if we hit that target, without further exploration, we will be importing the stuff. Indeed, probably even with further exploration we will be importing the vast bulk of what we will consume over the next 25 years. On that basis, I think investment in further extraction makes sense. But I concede I have no numbers to back any of this up - it's just a best guess based on a non-specialist's understanding of the industry. And I am entirely convinceable the other way.
We face a hellish situation after tomorrow, States changing their election rules ensuring Trump is elected. Then what leading Democrats arrested on trumped up charges, moves to a one party state, martial law and world chaos.
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Exactly as predicted.
Long @ 1.11 Reps to take the House.
Long @ 1.45 Trump to run.
Short @ 4.8 Trump for the Nom.
Short @ 6.2 Trump for the WH.
The 1st 2 look like cash in the bank. The 2nd 2 are well underwater.
Every kid at school should be made to watch this 1,000 times. It is superb. Just pb.com's type of thing:
https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1589481064703328256
Modification to add: Might it worry our typists with non-UK button-boards, though?
https://twitter.com/jakluge/status/1589294040910295040
2/10 See me.
In a similar vein, I also like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Wu0Q7x5D0
The same people (I guess?) have also done similar ones specifically for Europe and the Americas (and maybe others).
And while this site does tend to believe in free speech, it also holds quite specific views on grammar.
I can see why worldwide NGOs and Davos Man would push for it, but I really hope he isn't taken in by it.
I see Johnson has gone straight in and opposed it. Another sign that Rishi is too easily subject to establishment capture, and Johnson is loitering in the wings waiting for him to fail.
I spent ages composing that. It was surprising how many times I had to go over it spotting the odd e which had evaded four or five readings. And I still failed!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001dxt0
Quite interesting, kind of on topic
Is #Ukraine capable of defeating #Russia without the #US direct intervention? No. Is the #US willing to confront Russia on Ukrainian soil? No. Is Europe interested in joining the battle against Russia in Ukraine? No. Then the US should allow Kyiv to negotiate a ceasefire.
5:47 PM · Nov 6, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1589313509825073153?s=20&t=z6fg0KKziWzl_zAbj57yQg
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/economic-discontent-fuels-gop-hopes-midterms-draw-close/story
Given their recent history, it's a slight puzzle to me why the Republicans have such a significant lead on trust in handling the economy. FWIW.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1589540534904815617?s=20&t=CXp8ql-5FQxO-fGHBtwrsg
It does not included requiring private internet sites - particularly small ones that have no claim to be some kind of public utility - to be completely unmoderated. Indeed to require such would be a denial of free speech rights.
If youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting
world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run
across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.” A child’s brain starts
functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant
atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring
out its purport.
Up to about its primary school days a child thinks, naturally, only of play. But many a
form of play contains disciplinary factors. “You can’t do this,” or “that puts you out,”
shows a child that it must think, practically or fail. Now, if, throughout childhood, a brain
has no opposition, it is plain that it will attain a position of “status quo,” as with our
ordinary animals. Man knows not why a cow, dog or lion was not born with a brain on a
par with ours; why such animals cannot add, subtract, or obtain from books and
schooling, that paramount position which Man holds today.
But a human brain is not in that class. Constantly throbbing and pulsating, it rapidly
forms opinions; attaining an ability of its own; a fact which is startlingly shown by an
occasional child “prodigy” in music or school work. And as, with our dumb animals, a
child’s inability convincingly to impart its thoughts to us, should not class it as ignorant.
Upon this basis I am going to show you how a bunch of bright young folks did find a
champion; a man with boys and girls of his own; a man of so dominating and happy
individuality that Youth is drawn to him as is a fly to a sugar bowl. It is a story about a
small town. It is not a gossipy yarn; nor is it a dry, monotonous account, full of such
customary “fill-ins” as “romantic moonlight casting murky shadows down a long,
winding country road.” Nor will it say anything about tinklings lulling distant folds;
robins carolling at twilight, nor any “warm glow of lamplight” from a cabin window. No.
It is an account of up-and-doing activity; a vivid portrayal of Youth as it is today; and a
practical discarding of that worn-out notion that “a child don’t know anything.”
Now, any author, from history’s dawn, always had that most important aid to writing: an
ability to call upon any word in his dictionary in building up his story. That is, our strict
laws as to word construction did not block his path. But in my story that mighty
obstruction will constantly stand in my path; for many an important, common word I
cannot adopt, owing to its orthography.
...
and so on.
The young, impressionable, lost, middle classes have sadly always been attracted to cults. Their listless, privileged lives leave them open to radicalisation Today, these same lost souls gravitate towards cultists at Just Stop Oil & Extinction Rebellion
https://twitter.com/MartinDaubney/status/1589589088440840192?s=20&t=z6fg0KKziWzl_zAbj57yQg
Now it's down to a few state judiciaries to find him guilty of commercial and financial crime, tax fraud, charity fraud, etc., but they seem to be having an awful lot of difficulty in pulling their fingers out.
It's nearly 2023 already and the guy hasn't got anywhere near any handcuffs or a courtroom dock, let alone a prison cell.
After the state judiciaries have wimped out, it will be down to Mary Trump, and er... a reborn Lincoln Project maybe? Saturday Night Live is unlikely to have much of an effect.
"Stop Trump" - which is so necessary - is looking somewhere between weak and pathetically weak.
A big announcement in the next fortnight, huh? Is he waiting for Elon Musk to reinstate his Sh*tter account?
Rashida Tlaib had it right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVBqXvMouJg
With the Sunak government adopting Labours economic policy positions like windfall taxes, and Sunak adopting Red Ed’s repatriations on Net Zero for the world, can you see as clear a difference between Sunak and Labour as there is between Sunak’s government and the supporters of Truss different approach?
I think it points very clearly to which policy positions the Tory party will go to in just two years, when Sunak is beaten and Tory’s need to elect a leader of the opposition.
Truss is dead. Long live Trussism.
For some value of history, @ydoethur will be pleased by the extension of his discipline.
"For some value of" can probably go on the list.
To give credit where credit's due, DJ41 might be a Russia troll like you but actually puts some effort in to his trolling. I vote we keep him as our pet.
While he is, what my late mother would have described as, 'a good turn but on too long' he's not dumb.
You cannot bribe or con
Thank God! Fox News Tucker Carlson
But, seeing what the man will do
Unbribed - there is no reason to!
(With apologies to Humbert Wolfe.)
But you're not one of those.
I presumed it was native to Baltimore and surrounds (the Wire), but he used it in Treme (New Orleans) and Show Me A Hero (Yonkers), so who knows.
Oxford would be the last place I expect it.
RIP
I often marvel at the changes that generation saw and the lives they lead. Your grandfather, I think, had an even more remarkable life than most.
I hope that amongst the inevitable sadness that there can be happiness and thankfulness at a remarkable life.
That could be why Mitch McConnell decided to put so much money into this race.
But I think the damage done to the Republican Party here in Washington state by Donald Trump will keep her in for one more term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dIXIqaWNuE
They can protest all they like. All they are doing is pissing people off.
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1589585377803014146
A 24 year-old woman shut down a major highway in UK just now. She says it’s for the climate but she’s obviously suffering from severe mental distress, narcissism, and grandiosity. “Why does it take young people like me?” she asks.
1) Stopping the extraction of fossil fuels while doing nothing about the consumption of it is pointless virtue signalling. It's consumption we need to focus on.
2) And we are focusing on it! I get so frustrated with the failure to acknowledge the astonishing progress made in this over my lifetime. Back in 1990, the idea that we could get half of our electricity from renewables, that we could make serious inroads intro electrifying the country's vehicles - it would be seen as a fantasy. And yet here we are, and the trajectory towards net zero in the coming years looks even steeper. There is a massive success story to be told. That's not to say that decarbonising is easy; it is hard, but achievable, and we are doing it. It very much doesn't happen overnight. But to any reasonable observer the speed of change is pretty impressive. And the UK is doing well, but is far from being an outlier: the world in general, I think, has a very good story to tell.
We are going to need fossil fuels for the rest of my lifetime, and so their extraction is still needed. But they will get increasingly marginal.
How long will it take before ER etc. start killing people? And not high-level targets. I mean passers-by, people driving cars, people who are just unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Funny how nobody from Extinction Rebellion has been jailed yet for flying drones over busy airports such as Gatwick.
Friends in high places?
The management of a social media platform - as opposed to the prior extremely successful use of that platform - evidently does not fall within that range.
No fossil fuel cars sold after 2030.
"Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer vowed to end the UK’s dependence on fossil fuels and achieve zero carbon energy by 2030. He announced plans for all the country’s electricity to be generated by renewable and nuclear power by the end of the decade.
Labour claimed the plans would save UK households a total of £93bn over the rest of the decade – or an average saving of £475 for each household every year."
New fossil fuels exploration will take years to produce anything and will be more expensive than renewables. Labour and Lib Dems plus Greens of course will put an end to new fossil fuel exploration, but we have to wait two years for an election before that can start.
You seem to be implying that the Ukrainians would like to attack the civil population of Russia - in the same way the Russians are now attacking the civil population of Ukraine - but that the threat of nuclear retaliation holds them back. Whereas the threat of nuclear retaliation is not inhibiting the Ukrainians at all when it comes to attacking the Russian military.
Perhaps you should consider the possibility that the Ukrainians understand that it's Putin waging war on them, not the Russian people ....that they don't want to commit a war crime ....that they think defeating Putin militarily is the most likely way of getting him mercifully wiped from the recollection of the human race.
The United States is a federal system, with the states (and DC) having their own election rules. So, some states will count very quickly, and others won't. In Washington state, for example, we have almost universal vote by mail -- with ballots being acceptable as long as they are postmarked by tomorrow, or dropped in a "drop box" before 8 PM. So Washington counties won't even have all the ballots tomorrow night.
That provision is intended to increase participation, and probably has had a small effect, just as early voting does.
(There were some federal reforms after the 2000 presidential election.)
Plans for £250m Royal Yacht Britannia replacement championed by Boris Johnson are sunk by Rishi Sunak
Bidders told today. Ministry of Defence statement due soon.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/11/07/royal-yacht-britannia-replacement-plans-scrapped-rishi-sunak/
The really meaningful battle is going to be around the transfer of greentech to the developing world and whether that should involve compulsory licensing.
But that's not the only thing oil is used for, and it will be a couple of decades before chemical feedstocks manufactured using renewable energy are anywhere near as cheap.
And it will be well into the 2030s before we all stop driving ICE cars.
I am massively in favour of doing everything we can to accelerate the energy transition, but it's important to remain realistic.
2. Everyone says "you are a Russian-sympathetic poster posting content which seeks to undermine...etc
3. Russian-sympathetic poster says what about freedom of speech, etc while continuing to seek to undermine...etc
4. Russian-sympathetic poster is banned because everyone is focused on him and therefore the accusation of troll become self-fulfilling.
A real shame imo because if they are a Russian-sympathetic poster then why not engage. Let's hear the Russian-sympathetic view. We are just sticking our fingers in our ears and shouting la la la. It's a shame, especially so on PB of all places.
He/She/(they but I doubt it) wasn't wrong when they said on certain topics PB is like an echo-chamber with no dissenting voices allowed.
DJ41 is an example of a relatively new poster who has not been banned, despite some indications of suspect behaviour (as detailed by RCS) due to otherwise meeting the above criteria.
As for this plan heard it or similar so many times in the past. Numerous green new deals. Always launched in a fanfare and never deliver. Ialso doubt they will end up stopping new exploration.
The ban on new fossil fuel cars after 2030 isn't an original Labour idea, it was put in place by the Tories.
In the mean time we need oil and gas for the transition. We can either import that from the likes of Sheiks and Putin, or extract our own.
Fools who want to stop domestic extraction of oil and gas before we transition away from domestic consumption of it do not understand the science of what is happening.
Obviously @rcs1000 can ban whomever he wants but it is a shame.
No 10 has said Rishi Sunak continues to have full confidence in Gavin Williamson
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63530070
I saw a suggestion he is bipolar, and bought Twitter during a manic episode and is now on a depressive cycle
Edit: but it changes. Lockdown when they were happening, for example; vaccines, etc
All that’s happened since is PM has said Williamson’s conduct was “unacceptable” and two more female MPs — one a minister — have shared details of his conduct.
https://twitter.com/pippacrerar/status/1589589881378189312
The trolls that get banned aren't banned for sharing views shared by Dura etc, they're banned for breaking the site's rules.
(I think 25 years is the sort of lifespan we need to look at for a new extractive facility)
I think even if we hit that target, without further exploration, we will be importing the stuff. Indeed, probably even with further exploration we will be importing the vast bulk of what we will consume over the next 25 years.
On that basis, I think investment in further extraction makes sense.
But I concede I have no numbers to back any of this up - it's just a best guess based on a non-specialist's understanding of the industry. And I am entirely convinceable the other way.