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[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 1 points 27 minutes ago

Why do so many of their laptops have numpads? I don’t want to type with my hands offset to the left I want to type straight on, no numpad, centralised letters.

Just read Dubliners by James Joyce. A very interesting series of short stories telling a wider story about Ireland at the time, nationalism, alcoholism, decline, struggle and ambition. Would recommend.

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 31 points 18 hours ago

Ahh shit -

  1. Replace all bad ideas with good ideas

How did we not think of that? Because until now we’ve been trying to just have more bad ideas as nobody thought of using good ideas.

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 25 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I think this was always the game plan, the Tory government had run out of popular support that Labour was picking up, but if there was a real left wing opposition they may actually make people’s lives better which might make left wing policy popular - can’t be having that now, can we?

So Starmer is paradropped in with Wes Streeting and Rachel Reaves in tow to continue the glorious work of Osborne in transfering wealth from poor to rich using austerity, reduced workers rights and protections, slashing the safety net for people and beating down dissent with culture war cudgels. And in so doing they essentially provide no functional change from the Tories before them.

This is perfect for capital, they can continue their project uninterrupted, and it has the masterstroke of meaning when it comes round to election time again Labour will be miserably unpopular for continuing Tory politics, the Tory’s will still be the Tories. The people will want change - and so they should, it’s quite clear life isn’t getting better here, quite the opposite - and the only party (with any real support) seriously offering actual genuine change is Reform, which is serving serious hard right accelerated change.

This reactionary shift isn’t going to make anyone’s life better (if you aren’t a CEO or merchant banker at least), in fact far worse, but it is at least marketable as a change from the interchangeable Tory/Labour identical duopoly. So I should imagine with this message and the backing of the media machine they will sweep into power.

Then as the contradictions of capitalism on a dying planet become more unbearable, we can hurry along with our right wing facist government towards the eventual death cult ending as greater and greater populations of scapegoats need to be sacrificed on the alter of capitalism to fend off the inevitable collapse.

doomjak

On the other hand, someone out there will be purchasing more and more stuffed animals as a consumer coping mechanism to cope with their soul destroying life circumstances.

The problem is that real capitalism has never been tried.

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No mouth, must scream.

I have downloaded Balatro on my phone. I feel historians of my life will consider this move to have been a mistake.

Sure for just making and returning queries, but what about the model training in the first place, what about dust to dust on the data centre and the water usage etc.

Hypothetically; If London’s Quaker community gets on The Mayflower 2 in 2025 where do they go to start anew? Mars? The moon? Antarctica? America, again, but this time it’s personal? I think something like them trying to colonise Taiwan would be a good watch. Seeing world leaders adopt a 3 Chinas policy recognising the governments sitting in Beijing, Taipei and New Jamestown.

That was a really good video!

Other thought, have you had a blood test for your tsh levels? Sounds like you need more thyroxine. Just a thought, I could be totally wrong, I’m not a Dr and cannot diagnose someone off a one off internet comment.

 

trump-enlightened bring the problem before the wise guru.

 

Today Drop Site News is publishing a landmark investigation about the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza by British journalist Owen Jones. His report is based on interviews with 13 journalists and other BBC staffers who offer remarkable insights into how senior figures within the BBC’s news operation skewed stories in favor of Israel’s narratives and repeatedly dismissed objections registered by scores of staffers who, throughout the past 14 months, demanded that the network uphold its commitment to impartiality and fairness. Jones’s investigation of the BBC has three main components: a deeply reported look into the internal complaints from BBC journalists, a quantitative assessment of how the BBC characterizes the year-long siege on Gaza, and a review of the histories of the people behind the coverage—and, in particular, one editor, Raffi Berg.

 

inshallah

 

I swear I’m not just listening to the Disco Elysium soundtrack on loop.

dubois-dance kitsuragi-dance

 

monkey-typewriter

 

I just want to be part of the fun.

 

They all seem to be either pointlessly obsessed with electoralism despite not even being able to convince their own friends and family to vote for them (like barely double digit total votes), TERFs (on terf island - surely not!), trots, or just so small that it’s just 1 person and their two sock puppet accounts on a Facebook page (also what is with the use of Facebook?!)

 

It turns out US Navy boats can’t handle rough seas either. farquaad-point

The US MIC really is showing us what they can do.

 

Including amusingly Elon himself. Whose bond movie prop lotus was spotted in some footage.

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