His voice physically distresses me. No joke. I get a kind of psychic nausea, feel genuinely queasy, and have to turn it off He’s the first actual human being to suffer from the Uncanny Valley effect (View Post)

You should I absolutely despise reality TV. I’ve managed to avoid all of Love island, Strictly, etc The only one I like is Masterchef but that’s coz it’s genuinely interesting and sometimes produces … (View Post)

Do you know who we should ally with, in military technology (and much else)? Japan We are already working on a new fighter We need an independent deterrent, they want a deterrent (and are probably ve… (View Post)

What if they don’t care? That’s one disturbing rationale. What if they’ve decided that NATO can go fuck itself (ditto Ukraine), and the Europeans are a bunch of expensive effete losers determined to … (View Post)

Pace the risible @bondegezou, my interest in this has always been the semiotics, not the substance. Why are senior figures saying these truly bizarre things about UFOs and aliens? This is another to … (View Post)