Phew. For a moment I thought I was going to have to agree with Musk. He told Trump that computers are not meant for voting. Then he said something (ahem) crazy...
"Trump: "I did ask Elon because he knows more about computers than anybody I know. I said, what do you think of the voting system? He said, computers are not meant for voting. It's too many transactions taking place too quickly.""
Phew. For a moment I thought I was going to have to agree with Musk. He told Trump that computers are not meant for voting. Then he said something (ahem) crazy...
"Trump: "I did ask Elon because he knows more about computers than anybody I know. I said, what do you think of the voting system? He said, computers are not meant for voting. It's too many transactions taking place too quickly.""
What the betting that Trump demands Starmer hand over the Falklands to his Argentinian pal?
Milei isn't demanding them. His position is that the wishes of the people living there should be respected.
My suggestion would be that once we get a decent Government, we jointly exploit the oil wealth that lies under the Falklands with Argentina. Given that to do that we will presumably need their help/assent in some form anyway. We should do that before someone else gets dollar signs and decides to stir up the Argentinians for another go.
It would be good finally to put to bed the troubles of the past, and for Argentina to relinquish its claims fully. Even if we need to build them another group of islands and call it Las Malvinas.
Joint development doesn't fly on the islands.
The oil and gas near the Falklands would be extremely expensive to get to. Deep water and some of the worst weather in the world.
There is a reason that very little has been done there.
None of it is in Argentine territorial waters. It’s all in the Falklands economic zone or international waters.
Nevertheless, they have an interest in the region, and as long as the sovereignty and way of life of the Falkland Islands is unaffected, I don't really see the issue with jointly exploiting these resources. I absolutely don't see that we can do this by ourselves without this raising its ugly head in Argentina again, and therefore attracting bigger sharks into the water to 'help' Argentina press its claim. Far better to do a joint project and avoid any issues from the start.
The bigger issue is the supply base to support the operations. They can't get one in Argentina. Uruguay would be antagonising Argentina if they agreed. Brazil are not inclined to piss off Argentina (although I have been told that at non-Governmental parties are prepared to offer it).
They have even looked at using a base in South Africa. Having been across those waters in a force 12, I wouldn't fancy that contract! (I have had two different house guests recently, both have been involved in the development of Falklands hydrocarbons; and a separate meeting with a third company too.
I wonder whether the oligarchs in Ukraine agreed to pay US oligarchs in minerals for the rake-offs they were getting from the weapons money, but then Zelensky tried to welsh (with Trump perhaps demanding a higher price in payola than was going to the US under Biden), and that this, as well as influence from Moscow, explains how the gap opened up? (With the "joke" being on oligarchs in the EU and Britain.) Because for sure the ex-western elites would have been thinking in terms of benefits from "reconstruction" - that's obvious.
What the betting that Trump demands Starmer hand over the Falklands to his Argentinian pal?
Milei isn't demanding them. His position is that the wishes of the people living there should be respected.
My suggestion would be that once we get a decent Government, we jointly exploit the oil wealth that lies under the Falklands with Argentina. Given that to do that we will presumably need their help/assent in some form anyway. We should do that before someone else gets dollar signs and decides to stir up the Argentinians for another go.
It would be good finally to put to bed the troubles of the past, and for Argentina to relinquish its claims fully. Even if we need to build them another group of islands and call it Las Malvinas.
Joint development doesn't fly on the islands.
The oil and gas near the Falklands would be extremely expensive to get to. Deep water and some of the worst weather in the world.
There is a reason that very little has been done there.
None of it is in Argentine territorial waters. It’s all in the Falklands economic zone or international waters.
Nevertheless, they have an interest in the region, and as long as the sovereignty and way of life of the Falkland Islands is unaffected, I don't really see the issue with jointly exploiting these resources. I absolutely don't see that we can do this by ourselves without this raising its ugly head in Argentina again, and therefore attracting bigger sharks into the water to 'help' Argentina press its claim. Far better to do a joint project and avoid any issues from the start.
The bigger issue is the supply base to support the operations. They can't get one in Argentina. Uruguay would be antagonising Argentina if they agreed. Brazil are not inclined to piss off Argentina (although I have been told that at non-Governmental parties are prepared to offer it).
They have even looked at using a base in South Africa. Having been across those waters in a force 12, I wouldn't fancy that contract! (I have had two different house guests recently, both have been involved in the development of Falklands hydrocarbons; and a separate meeting with a third company too.
Fuck Uruguay. What are they going to do about it?
What's your beef with Uruguay?
I don't have a beef with Uruguay. Mark tells us that we could not build the supply base that we would need to support a joint UK-Argentinian oil project around the Falklands because Uruguay would antagonise Argentina if they agreed. I can't see how it would be any of their business or why we would care about their displeasure.
Phew. For a moment I thought I was going to have to agree with Musk. He told Trump that computers are not meant for voting. Then he said something (ahem) crazy...
"Trump: "I did ask Elon because he knows more about computers than anybody I know. I said, what do you think of the voting system? He said, computers are not meant for voting. It's too many transactions taking place too quickly.""
Phew. For a moment I thought I was going to have to agree with Musk. He told Trump that computers are not meant for voting. Then he said something (ahem) crazy...
"Trump: "I did ask Elon because he knows more about computers than anybody I know. I said, what do you think of the voting system? He said, computers are not meant for voting. It's too many transactions taking place too quickly.""
What the betting that Trump demands Starmer hand over the Falklands to his Argentinian pal?
Milei isn't demanding them. His position is that the wishes of the people living there should be respected.
My suggestion would be that once we get a decent Government, we jointly exploit the oil wealth that lies under the Falklands with Argentina. Given that to do that we will presumably need their help/assent in some form anyway. We should do that before someone else gets dollar signs and decides to stir up the Argentinians for another go.
It would be good finally to put to bed the troubles of the past, and for Argentina to relinquish its claims fully. Even if we need to build them another group of islands and call it Las Malvinas.
Joint development doesn't fly on the islands.
The oil and gas near the Falklands would be extremely expensive to get to. Deep water and some of the worst weather in the world.
There is a reason that very little has been done there.
None of it is in Argentine territorial waters. It’s all in the Falklands economic zone or international waters.
Nevertheless, they have an interest in the region, and as long as the sovereignty and way of life of the Falkland Islands is unaffected, I don't really see the issue with jointly exploiting these resources. I absolutely don't see that we can do this by ourselves without this raising its ugly head in Argentina again, and therefore attracting bigger sharks into the water to 'help' Argentina press its claim. Far better to do a joint project and avoid any issues from the start.
The bigger issue is the supply base to support the operations. They can't get one in Argentina. Uruguay would be antagonising Argentina if they agreed. Brazil are not inclined to piss off Argentina (although I have been told that at non-Governmental parties are prepared to offer it).
They have even looked at using a base in South Africa. Having been across those waters in a force 12, I wouldn't fancy that contract! (I have had two different house guests recently, both have been involved in the development of Falklands hydrocarbons; and a separate meeting with a third company too.
Fuck Uruguay. What are they going to do about it?
What's your beef with Uruguay?
I don't have a beef with Uruguay. Mark tells us that we could not build the supply base that we would need to support a joint UK-Argentinian oil project around the Falklands because Uruguay would antagonise Argentina if they agreed. I can't see how it would be any of their business or why we would care about their displeasure.
He was talking about building a base on Uruguayan soil. The issue is that any South American country hosting a base for U.K. oil & gas exploration in the Falklands will piss off Argentina.
Nazi salutes are getting normalised in the US now. I wonder if we'll get to a stage where not doing one sees you either primaried or losing your federal contract?
It's like we're living in the flashbacks of a zombie film, where you see the first news reports of mysterious new disease.
And then the feckers try to gaslight the world by saying that it wasn't a Nazi salute.
A good slice of this board thinks posters are being hysterical when they point out that politicians who support the AfD, Putin, use Nazi language and make Nazi salutes might err, be a bit Nazi.
It’s not a particularly helpful term - because it immediately makes people think about toothbrush-moustaches and German dictators.
It’s the same with “fascist”. The left abused the terms for so long to try and demonise their moderate opponents that they no longer have the power to shock.
Thank goodness we have the right’s measured use of commie, Trot and Stalinist as an example of restraint.
For some reason Stalinist doesn't seem to be as common a derogatory label as the others in my experience. Is that because people associate Stalin and communism more strongly, or because Trotskyite groups were more prominent in the West among loony marxist groups?
(I'm assuming here there are non-loony marxist groups, which is perhaps over generous, like assuming there were moderate BNP branches).
I think anyone with half a brain is Marxist to some extent. Marx wrote widely and compellingly on many subjects, just as eg Hayek did.
It's the political ideologies resulting from Marxist thought that are so damaging, not least the Communist manifesto, which understandably discredits Marx's other work.
Anyone that is marxist definitely has half a brain
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others!"
What the betting that Trump demands Starmer hand over the Falklands to his Argentinian pal?
Milei isn't demanding them. His position is that the wishes of the people living there should be respected.
My suggestion would be that once we get a decent Government, we jointly exploit the oil wealth that lies under the Falklands with Argentina. Given that to do that we will presumably need their help/assent in some form anyway. We should do that before someone else gets dollar signs and decides to stir up the Argentinians for another go.
It would be good finally to put to bed the troubles of the past, and for Argentina to relinquish its claims fully. Even if we need to build them another group of islands and call it Las Malvinas.
Joint development doesn't fly on the islands.
The oil and gas near the Falklands would be extremely expensive to get to. Deep water and some of the worst weather in the world.
There is a reason that very little has been done there.
None of it is in Argentine territorial waters. It’s all in the Falklands economic zone or international waters.
Nevertheless, they have an interest in the region, and as long as the sovereignty and way of life of the Falkland Islands is unaffected, I don't really see the issue with jointly exploiting these resources. I absolutely don't see that we can do this by ourselves without this raising its ugly head in Argentina again, and therefore attracting bigger sharks into the water to 'help' Argentina press its claim. Far better to do a joint project and avoid any issues from the start.
The bigger issue is the supply base to support the operations. They can't get one in Argentina. Uruguay would be antagonising Argentina if they agreed. Brazil are not inclined to piss off Argentina (although I have been told that at non-Governmental parties are prepared to offer it).
They have even looked at using a base in South Africa. Having been across those waters in a force 12, I wouldn't fancy that contract! (I have had two different house guests recently, both have been involved in the development of Falklands hydrocarbons; and a separate meeting with a third company too.
Fuck Uruguay. What are they going to do about it?
What's your beef with Uruguay?
I don't have a beef with Uruguay. Mark tells us that we could not build the supply base that we would need to support a joint UK-Argentinian oil project around the Falklands because Uruguay would antagonise Argentina if they agreed. I can't see how it would be any of their business or why we would care about their displeasure.
He was talking about building a base on Uruguayan soil. The issue is that any South American country hosting a base for U.K. oil & gas exploration in the Falklands will piss off Argentina.
Why should they?
Don’t Chile hate Argentina? Seem to recall Brazil do as well.
Minerals deal seemingly imminent. Not going down too well according to Ukraine Telegram reactions:
While it is, undoubtedly, blackmail, it is (I suspect) a price well worth paying from Ukraine's point of view.
That depends entirely on what they get from the US in return. Given the current administration, I’d say you’re considerably overestimating the likely quid for their quo.
This mix of arrogance and condescension suggests I’m right.
Sununu urges Zelensky to ‘be careful’ not to anger Trump
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5159120-chris-sununu-volodymyr-zelensky-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-war/ …Sununu also gave credit to the Trump administration for seemingly sidelining the prospects of Ukraine joining the NATO military alliance — an idea that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth poured cold water on after being confirmed to lead the Pentagon. “Let’s just stop with that nonsense,” the New Hampshire Republican said Friday. “That’s just, that’s what kind of led to a lot of this. And so I do give them credit for trying to be a bit blunt about it, but yeah, it’s not about conservatives or Democrats or Republicans supporting this or that.” “This is an international stage. This is what’s best in America’s interest,” he added. “Of course, that has to be taken first, but also in the western hemisphere.” Trump has previously said that Putin wants to make a deal to end the war in Eastern Europe and criticized the way former President Biden and his administration handled the conflict. “But I’m telling you, Biden said the wrong things. Zelensky said the wrong things. They got attacked by somebody that’s much bigger and much stronger,” Trump said earlier this week in an interview with host Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Radio. The criticism comes as the White House presses Zelensky to accept an offer related to Ukraine’s rare minerals. If accepted, the U.S. would ensure Ukraine has security guarantees in return for negotiating an end to the war. Zelensky did not greenlight the agreement, but some Trump officials are confident that he will come on board. He has also indicated in the past that he is open to it. The ex-New Hampshire governor, who led the state from 2017 to 2025, stated that he always thought “democracy” was “on the line” in the Russia-Ukraine war. “The Ukrainian people stood up and pushed back and pushed back on Putin appropriately. And now there’s going to be some capitulation to get peace,” he said. “They all want peace. There’s no question on that.”
Minerals deal seemingly imminent. Not going down too well according to Ukraine Telegram reactions:
While it is, undoubtedly, blackmail, it is (I suspect) a price well worth paying from Ukraine's point of view.
That depends entirely on what they get from the US in return. Given the current administration, I’d say you’re considerably overestimating the likely quid for their quo.
This mix of arrogance and condescension suggests I’m right.
Sununu urges Zelensky to ‘be careful’ not to anger Trump
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5159120-chris-sununu-volodymyr-zelensky-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-war/ …Sununu also gave credit to the Trump administration for seemingly sidelining the prospects of Ukraine joining the NATO military alliance — an idea that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth poured cold water on after being confirmed to lead the Pentagon. “Let’s just stop with that nonsense,” the New Hampshire Republican said Friday. “That’s just, that’s what kind of led to a lot of this. And so I do give them credit for trying to be a bit blunt about it, but yeah, it’s not about conservatives or Democrats or Republicans supporting this or that.” “This is an international stage. This is what’s best in America’s interest,” he added. “Of course, that has to be taken first, but also in the western hemisphere.” Trump has previously said that Putin wants to make a deal to end the war in Eastern Europe and criticized the way former President Biden and his administration handled the conflict. “But I’m telling you, Biden said the wrong things. Zelensky said the wrong things. They got attacked by somebody that’s much bigger and much stronger,” Trump said earlier this week in an interview with host Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Radio. The criticism comes as the White House presses Zelensky to accept an offer related to Ukraine’s rare minerals. If accepted, the U.S. would ensure Ukraine has security guarantees in return for negotiating an end to the war. Zelensky did not greenlight the agreement, but some Trump officials are confident that he will come on board. He has also indicated in the past that he is open to it. The ex-New Hampshire governor, who led the state from 2017 to 2025, stated that he always thought “democracy” was “on the line” in the Russia-Ukraine war. “The Ukrainian people stood up and pushed back and pushed back on Putin appropriately. And now there’s going to be some capitulation to get peace,” he said. “They all want peace. There’s no question on that.”
That line about ensuring security guarantees causes me some concern.
What’s happened to SeaShantyIrish - wasn’t he a friend/aquaintance of yours? Haven’t seen him for a while? Unless of course he’s busy surveying mineral deposits for Trump Mining Co in Ukraine at the moment?
What’s happened to SeaShantyIrish - wasn’t he a friend/aquaintance of yours? Haven’t seen him for a while? Unless of course he’s busy surveying mineral deposits for Trump Mining Co in Ukraine at the moment?
@SeaShantyIrish2's last post was in the early morning of Nov 6th 2024. I hope they're OK.
Nazi salutes are getting normalised in the US now. I wonder if we'll get to a stage where not doing one sees you either primaried or losing your federal contract?
It's like we're living in the flashbacks of a zombie film, where you see the first news reports of mysterious new disease.
And then the feckers try to gaslight the world by saying that it wasn't a Nazi salute.
A good slice of this board thinks posters are being hysterical when they point out that politicians who support the AfD, Putin, use Nazi language and make Nazi salutes might err, be a bit Nazi.
It’s not a particularly helpful term - because it immediately makes people think about toothbrush-moustaches and German dictators.
It’s the same with “fascist”. The left abused the terms for so long to try and demonise their moderate opponents that they no longer have the power to shock.
Thank goodness we have the right’s measured use of commie, Trot and Stalinist as an example of restraint.
For some reason Stalinist doesn't seem to be as common a derogatory label as the others in my experience. Is that because people associate Stalin and communism more strongly, or because Trotskyite groups were more prominent in the West among loony marxist groups?
(I'm assuming here there are non-loony marxist groups, which is perhaps over generous, like assuming there were moderate BNP branches).
I think anyone with half a brain is Marxist to some extent. Marx wrote widely and compellingly on many subjects, just as eg Hayek did.
It's the political ideologies resulting from Marxist thought that are so damaging, not least the Communist manifesto, which understandably discredits Marx's other work.
Anyone that is marxist definitely has half a brain
Maxh the Marxist?
Gah yes I see how my post reads. I would not describe myself as a Marxist any more than I would describe myself as a Hayekian. My point is simply that there are almost always nuggets of good thinking in any intellectual theory, and there are more in Marx's writings (particularly his sociology) than in many others. But because Marx was the father of such a destructive political ideology in communism, it obscures what is more interesting in his writings.
Minerals deal seemingly imminent. Not going down too well according to Ukraine Telegram reactions:
While it is, undoubtedly, blackmail, it is (I suspect) a price well worth paying from Ukraine's point of view.
That depends entirely on what they get from the US in return. Given the current administration, I’d say you’re considerably overestimating the likely quid for their quo.
This mix of arrogance and condescension suggests I’m right.
Sununu urges Zelensky to ‘be careful’ not to anger Trump
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5159120-chris-sununu-volodymyr-zelensky-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-war/ …Sununu also gave credit to the Trump administration for seemingly sidelining the prospects of Ukraine joining the NATO military alliance — an idea that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth poured cold water on after being confirmed to lead the Pentagon. “Let’s just stop with that nonsense,” the New Hampshire Republican said Friday. “That’s just, that’s what kind of led to a lot of this. And so I do give them credit for trying to be a bit blunt about it, but yeah, it’s not about conservatives or Democrats or Republicans supporting this or that.” “This is an international stage. This is what’s best in America’s interest,” he added. “Of course, that has to be taken first, but also in the western hemisphere.” Trump has previously said that Putin wants to make a deal to end the war in Eastern Europe and criticized the way former President Biden and his administration handled the conflict. “But I’m telling you, Biden said the wrong things. Zelensky said the wrong things. They got attacked by somebody that’s much bigger and much stronger,” Trump said earlier this week in an interview with host Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Radio. The criticism comes as the White House presses Zelensky to accept an offer related to Ukraine’s rare minerals. If accepted, the U.S. would ensure Ukraine has security guarantees in return for negotiating an end to the war. Zelensky did not greenlight the agreement, but some Trump officials are confident that he will come on board. He has also indicated in the past that he is open to it. The ex-New Hampshire governor, who led the state from 2017 to 2025, stated that he always thought “democracy” was “on the line” in the Russia-Ukraine war. “The Ukrainian people stood up and pushed back and pushed back on Putin appropriately. And now there’s going to be some capitulation to get peace,” he said. “They all want peace. There’s no question on that.”
Sure, but I'm reminded of the parable of the Sultan's advisor who was sentenced to death, and promised to teach the dog to sing.
Just getting the US out of Russia's orbit, in return for a promise of minerals that may or may not be valuable at some point in the future and which will no doubt be subject to the democratic decisions of future Ukrainian governments seems like a ugly trade, but probably one worth doing.
boulay asked: "What’s happened to SeaShantyIrish"? Don't know, and am a little worried about him, too.
(He lives in Seattle; I live in a Seattle suburb, across Lake Washington from the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Washington As far as I know, we have never met, except on line, here.)
You can't have the moment without a man. And you can't become the man without a moment. History teaches us this if it teaches us anything. But does history teach us anything? I'm not sure it does. It's interesting but I rather doubt its teaching skills.
Another Nazi salute at CPAC. How long until Trump does one on live TV?
"I had my annual presidential physical exam last week and they said, 'Sir, can you raise your right arm out to the front,' and they said that no president since Andrew Jackson has done it so perfectly."
Minerals deal seemingly imminent. Not going down too well according to Ukraine Telegram reactions:
While it is, undoubtedly, blackmail, it is (I suspect) a price well worth paying from Ukraine's point of view.
Is this really down to give us what we want and we will back you against Russia. If not we will back Russia? If so this is just mercenary and nobody would blame Ukraine if they subsequently reneged on any agreement. America would be hated throughout the world, by everyone. Is that what they want?
Do we get our fags back if it turns out smoking causes lung cancer but suppresses other cancers?
The only two good rules I follow: (1) exercise is good for you, so use your body and move about as much as you, and, (2) if you can't replicate it in your kitchen, don't eat it.
boulay asked: "What’s happened to SeaShantyIrish"? Don't know, and am a little worried about him, too.
(He lives in Seattle; I live in a Seattle suburb, across Lake Washington from the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Washington As far as I know, we have never met, except on line, here.)
Ah ok thanks, I had some false memory that he introduced you to PB - maybe it was someone else he introduced.
I am very glad we have Sir Keir Starmer as PM now and not Nigel Farage. I do believe he will come to be viewed as one of the great PMs.
It's looking that way, isn't it. The moment. The man.
What's so funny about you as a character is that you write and post comments like this entirely without irony.
Regardless of party politics , it’s helpful right now we have a party in power with a decent majority for 4 years. A bit of stability in a world of chaos.
Trump is purging the military top brass to replace them with 'more compliant' individuals.
I am curious about the motivation of any such individuals. I can see in the very short term career advancement, but in the next 5 or 10 years, unless the republic is overthrown and the insane clown and his posse remain in charge it's not going to end well for them
How many of Hitler's top generals did well out of it...?
Changing Joint Chiefs around the start of a presidential term isn’t, in itself, all that unusual. Which is not something you can say about the simultaneous dismissal of three Judge Advocates General.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
Racism, sexism, homophobia will all become very apparent soon, sadly. The rights of anyone not white and straight will slowly be reduced - as has already become the case for women.
That's what the illiberals want.
The generals would not have been fired, had they been fervent admirers of Trump; expressed support for slavey; claimed that the 2020 election was stolen etc.
Saying someone is a "DEI hire" is now an acceptable way of expressing racism
No, it means you oppose racism - in this case reverse racism.
That would be more believable if we weren’t seeing the Trump administration firing supposed “DEI hires” and then replacing them with complete incompetents, whose main qualifications are that they looked good on Fox News,
As a matter of interest, has Trump appointed any minorities since his anti DEI campaign started?
He’s nominated Mehmet Oz.
Good pick…
Dr. Oz: The uninsured “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss” with “15- minute physicals” provided by the government “in a festival like setting.”
I am very glad we have Sir Keir Starmer as PM now and not Nigel Farage. I do believe he will come to be viewed as one of the great PMs.
It's looking that way, isn't it. The moment. The man.
What's so funny about you as a character is that you write and post comments like this entirely without irony.
You're surely not denying this is a Moment. That's what you need to shine, so let's see if he does rather than assume that he won't. All patriots should get behind him with some positive energy.
There is a conspiracy theory that Hollywood films are used to foreshadow the acts of the lizard people. I have no interest in the film 'The Conclave', but isn't that what happens when a Pope dies? Fair gives you the willies!
I hope (and pray) that Pope Francis beats the odds and makes a strong recovery.
90 per cent, apparently. From the link: Produced by an advisory group focused on improving diversity, equality and inclusion in the fire service, the report found that 9.3 per cent of firefighters were women
Lol. They've changed it. Earlier it said “that 9.3 per cent of firemen were women”.
I’m glad this has been picked up on. Frankly I’m fed up with the amount of minority friends and women whose houses have burnt down whilst firemen just sat there watching it, wolf whistling or shouting racist abuse as houses turned to ash.
People might have noticed that the fire brigade brutally snubbed the Village People by refusing to send along a representative to band auditions too.
The only message they will understand is if we boycott them and refuse to use their services.
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"Trump: "I did ask Elon because he knows more about computers than anybody I know. I said, what do you think of the voting system? He said, computers are not meant for voting. It's too many transactions taking place too quickly.""
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1893012075129012246
Too many transactions???
Voting should not be done by computers, that is certainly correct.
Your regular reminder that some Minis were electrified 25 years ago for the stupid remake of the Italian job.
The producers of the film invited the makers to take a look. They weren’t interested.
Trump = the id of the ex-West?
‘It’s blackmail’: Ukrainians react to Trump demand for $500bn share of minerals
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/22/its-blackmail-ukrainians-react-to-trump-demand-for-500bn-share-of-minerals
Everton v Man United was the most one sided 2-2.
This is a very one sided three point game.
Edit. Now 10-10.
That said, the problem the US has is that they will sometimes have upwards of 50 or 100 votes happening simultaneously for a single voter.
And they want instant results, or it's fraudulent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c984enp4480o
Someone will be along shortly to ask, "is it vegan?", for the millionth time in a minute.
Why should they?
Given the current administration, I’d say you’re considerably overestimating the likely quid for their quo.
This mix of arrogance and condescension suggests I’m right.
Sununu urges Zelensky to ‘be careful’ not to anger Trump
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5159120-chris-sununu-volodymyr-zelensky-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-war/
…Sununu also gave credit to the Trump administration for seemingly sidelining the prospects of Ukraine joining the NATO military alliance — an idea that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth poured cold water on after being confirmed to lead the Pentagon.
“Let’s just stop with that nonsense,” the New Hampshire Republican said Friday. “That’s just, that’s what kind of led to a lot of this. And so I do give them credit for trying to be a bit blunt about it, but yeah, it’s not about conservatives or Democrats or Republicans supporting this or that.”
“This is an international stage. This is what’s best in America’s interest,” he added. “Of course, that has to be taken first, but also in the western hemisphere.”
Trump has previously said that Putin wants to make a deal to end the war in Eastern Europe and criticized the way former President Biden and his administration handled the conflict.
“But I’m telling you, Biden said the wrong things. Zelensky said the wrong things. They got attacked by somebody that’s much bigger and much stronger,” Trump said earlier this week in an interview with host Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Radio.
The criticism comes as the White House presses Zelensky to accept an offer related to Ukraine’s rare minerals. If accepted, the U.S. would ensure Ukraine has security guarantees in return for negotiating an end to the war.
Zelensky did not greenlight the agreement, but some Trump officials are confident that he will come on board. He has also indicated in the past that he is open to it.
The ex-New Hampshire governor, who led the state from 2017 to 2025, stated that he always thought “democracy” was “on the line” in the Russia-Ukraine war.
“The Ukrainian people stood up and pushed back and pushed back on Putin appropriately. And now there’s going to be some capitulation to get peace,” he said. “They all want peace. There’s no question on that.”
Outrageous scenes in Sofia where our EU office has been vandalised.
In Europe, we exercise the right to demonstrate in a peaceful way. Violence and vandalism are never the answer.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020640/quotes/?item=qt2768181
Good evening, everybody.
Some 222 doctors who thought they had passed a key exam they sat nearly 18 months ago have now been informed they failed. Another 61 who believed they had failed have now been told they passed in what has been called a "life-altering" and "catastrophic" error.
https://news.sky.com/story/calls-for-compensation-after-hundreds-of-doctors-received-wrong-exam-results-in-atrocious-and-life-altering-error-13313954
Oops.
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/5020501#Comment_5020501
Ministers are considering whether to scrap the UK's Payment Systems Regulator and fold it into the City watchdog as part of efforts to remove red tape from the economy, Sky News can reveal.
https://news.sky.com/story/payments-watchdog-could-be-abolished-in-pms-purge-of-regulators-13314470
The Muskification of Starmer's Britain.
But undeniably exciting
Report claims Britain’s fire service is ‘institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/22/uk-fire-service-council-report-racism-misogyny/ (£££)
Rugby Union should be the answer to questions of international geopolitics.
Just getting the US out of Russia's orbit, in return for a promise of minerals that may or may not be valuable at some point in the future and which will no doubt be subject to the democratic decisions of future Ukrainian governments seems like a ugly trade, but probably one worth doing.
Don't know, and am a little worried about him, too.
(He lives in Seattle; I live in a Seattle suburb, across Lake Washington from the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Washington
As far as I know, we have never met, except on line, here.)
Sounded like he was from Pretoria, which can't be true..
https://x.com/g900ap/status/1892830493248266670
Can’t detect a difference between those two.
Diagnoses of the disease among those aged between 25 and 29 have risen by one quarter in the UK since the early 1990s, increasing twice the rate of those over the age of 50.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/22/jessica-brady-new-cancer-training-royal-college-gps/ (£££)
Do we get our fags back if it turns out smoking causes lung cancer but suppresses other cancers?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/22/pope-francis-now-in-a-critical-condition-after-respiratory-crisis-vatican-says
(Smoking helps with schizophrenia, apparently. Don't know of any others.)
"So Cardinal, how would you strengthen the relationship between the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations?"
"That would be an ecumenical matter."
I hope (and pray) that Pope Francis beats the odds and makes a strong recovery.
Lol. They've changed it. Earlier it said “that 9.3 per cent of firemen were women”.
People might have noticed that the fire brigade brutally snubbed the Village People by refusing to send along a representative to band auditions too.
The only message they will understand is if we boycott them and refuse to use their services.