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Yeah horses for courses right?

I don’t mind numpads per say - on a desktop keyboard it’s fine, I guess. Even I personally won’t be using them, at least they don’t get too much in the way. I can touch type numbers just fine on the top row. I don’t like to move my hands from the home row if I can help it, least of all for numeric input. And I also hate offset typing, feels like driving a car with the pedals off to one side of your seat, bad ergo.

But I guess if numpads on laptops are your thing, it’s great for you.

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.

Ahh shit -

7. 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.

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.

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.

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!