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So Trump has appointed Musk to some government position. Let's hope he does as well there as he did at Twitter X his vanity domain, eh? ...

Hahahahahahahaha. ...

I wish people would just shut up with all the 'Kamala Harris is to blame, because ...' shit: if, when offered a choice between a candidate who promises very loudly and clearly to uphold democracy and a fascist, you pick the fascist, then you are a fascist1. It doesn't matter that Harris was not perfect: she was far from perfect, but she wasn't a fascist, and Trump is. Kamala Harris is not to blame for the awkward fact that there are more than seventy million fascists in the USA. Shut the fuck...

When I was young, I can remember my grandparents (born in the early 20th century) saying that talking to Germans was always awkward: you always wanted to ask them what did they do in the war? In the coming years talking to Americans will be just the same: everyone will want to ask, who did they vote for? Were they, are they, fascists? And they will answer no, of course they didn't vote for him, of course they're not racists, not fascists. But about half of them were, about half of them are. ...

everyone will agree which of the two Joker films is better. And it's going to be Joker: folie à deux. ...

It's funny that people are drawing exactly the wrong lesson from ClownStrike. The lesson people draw: 'Windows shit, Linux/macOS wonderful', followed by the inevitable stupid fight about which exactly of Linux and macOS is the most wonderful. The lesson people should draw: 'if you allow the clown privileged access to your systems you are a fool who should not be running a brick'. 'Ah', pipe up the chorus of smug neckbeard *nix weenies, 'but you see we never do that, because the architecture o...

298 of the Fortune 500, 538 of the Fortune 1000, 8 of the top 10 financial services firms, 7 of the top 10 manufacturers, 8 of the top 10 food & beverage companies, 8 of the top 10 auto companies, 43 of the 50 U.S. states, 6 of the top 10 healthcare providers and 8 of the top 10 technology firms ... use a product which can automatically download an update which will render their systems catatonic1. Or, you know, an update which gives a bad person free access to them: rendering the systems ...

whether what happened on Saturday were the first shots of the second American civil war. But I think they probably were. ...

If Biden were to order Trump to be assassinated, he would be immune from prosecution. If he were to order the assassination of any or all of the Supreme court judges he would be immune from prosecution. I'm not saying he should do these things. But he could, and doing so might be better than the alternative. The rule of law in the USA is dead. In a few months, democracy in the USA will probably be dead. It's over. ...

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. ...

I started off loving this: the first couple of episodes were just brilliantly clever and although the kind of timescales aren't plausible for real three-body stellar systems, you can forgive them that. Then it just dropped the ball by introducing magic: how do the aliens talk to us? Oh, right, they have superluminal communications technology. Which is magic, not science, and if it did exist would mean they could send information into the past and thus solve the prediction problem they have. ...

So I have an iPad and an iPhone. Both are running the most recent version of iOS / iPadOS. The phone is a few feet away from me, on charge, and has lots of signal. They are signed in to the same Apple ID. I am in a hotel in a major city in a first-world country. This is not some weird left-field scenario. Using the iPhone as a hotspot for the iPad works ... mostly. Like, quite often you have to reboot one or both of them. It almost never works for long enough to watch a movie. Often you...

Extremism is the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance, that aims to: 1 negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others; or 2 undermine, overturn or replace the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights; or 3 intentionally create a permissive environment for others to achieve the results in (1) or (2). So that's the tory party then, right? ...

want to set someone's head on fire? Because I did. ...

Throw the fucking switch ...

I was driven away, let me remind you, by things like sickness, hate and the death of truth. ...

He's just, you know, fascist adjacent ...

Californian regulations forbid insurers from using the latest climate models to set prices, since protection would become more costly. Premiums must be based on the average payout over the past 20 years, rather than the latest science. Shying away from ambiguity is understandable. Sticking your head in the sand is plain foolish. – The Economist, 15th July 2023 ...

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. – John Rogers ...

The apocalypse can come along any moment, and here at Tesla we have the best in apocalypse technology. – Elon Musk I wonder if it has ever occurred to Elmo's giant intellect that, when the apocalypse comes, charging arrangements for your 3-tonne penis-extension are going to be, shall we say, difficult? No, of course it hasn't: that would require thinking, which is not really Elmo's strong point. ...

On Thursday, the Covid inquiry was shown a private WhatsApp exchange between Dame Angela and Prof Edmunds, sent at the time of the meeting, which refers to Rishi Sunak as "Dr Death, the Chancellor". BBC Is there anything more to say? ...

Hamas: commits unforgivable atrocities on a large scale against Israeli citizens, killing many people in a very public and awful way. Israel: reacts the way the US did to 9/11 or even worse, causing very large numbers of deaths in the Gaza strip and committing war crimes such as attempting to starve the population and so on. And people who are already quietly antisemitic are suddenly publicly antisemitic, and people who were already publicly antisemitic start doing things other than merely spe...

Barbie was released this July and is the highest-grossing film of the year, with no sign of being surpassed. Its global box office total stands at $1.43bn (£1.17bn) – about 10 times its budget. Among the records the film has broken are the best-performing film ever made by a solo female director; the 14th highest-grossing film of all time; and the most lucrative cinema release ever for Warner Brothers Turns out the people whining about it were just what they sounded like all along: a tiny num...

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What Rishi Sunak said. I'm interested in setting out my vision for the country, and people can make their own judgement. What I would say is, you’ve got to take a stand on things. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me on everything, but people will have a clear idea of what I believe, what I stand for, and the direction in which I want to lead the country What he thought. I see a vision, yes, a vision. A barren, polluted wasteland where the people I have allowed still to live, covered ...

Here is a quote from this BBC news article: The government said its plan would: Review guidance on 20mph speed limits in England, to prevent their use in "areas where it's not appropriate" "Amend guidance" on LTNs "to focus on local consent", and weigh public support for those already introduced Stop councils implementing "15-minute cities", where essential amenities are always within a 15-minute walk Seek to reduce the hours where cars are banned from bus lanes Target "overzealous" enforcem...

From now on, whenever some new climate-change-related catastrophe happens, I'm just going to treat it as if it was Rishi Sunak's fault. It's not entirely true, but it's close enough and it makes me feel better. Greece is on fire – Wow, thanks, Rishi! Half of England is underwater – Good work there, Rishi! Thousands of people have died in the latest heatwave – That's certainly going to help NHS waiting lists, Rishi, well done! It's probably useful to take the same approach to othe...