If he'd just shut up, he could have been the guy who coined the term "meme" and been remembered as a relatively successful minor celebrity debate-bro.

The Facebook stuff is mostly old stable diffusion models or Dalle, because they're free and relatively easy to use. Midjourney and the newer stable diffusion models get it right most of the time, and have an inpainting feature so you can tell the computer to do that bit again when they don't.

Well, that's nice to see.

They've been able to do hands fine for months now.

AVs sort of exist. There are a lot of quadcopter vehicles they're testing out, but they all have problems to some degree or other.

Holograms are rapidly getting better too.

it tastes pretty good

For fucks sake, it's not like his voters are feudal vassals he can pass on to his liege.

If you can be convinced about magic rocks and meditation super-powers, you can probably be easily convinced about all sorts of stupid shit.

My grandfather was one of the most intelligent people I ever met, he was eloquent and very well read. He did well enough in his O-levels that his school strongly recommended he proceed to higher education. Unfortunately for him, he lived on a farm in rural Wales with seven siblings, and was forced by his parents to drop out of school at sixteen.

He spent the rest of his life as a agricultural worker, which, don't get me wrong, is an important and perfectly fine career, but it always struck me as a waste of potential.

The decision here to effectively deny education to certain children is criminal.

The Matriarchal pagan stuff is a Victorian romantic invention. We know extremely little about the societies of the Celts and related peoples, with the vast majority of what we do know coming from two accounts, both Roman, which are very obviously reductive takes of similar academic rigour to Victorian anthropologists talking about the Australian aboriginals.

While of course, much of what people are attached to in their fixations on the Romans and Greeks is also Victorian fiction, we at least have a wealth of first hand written sources and corroborating archeological evidence. For the Celtic peoples across Europe and particularly in Britain, we have essentially nothing. No idea of what their religion looked like, what their laws and traditions were or how they organised their society.

Trench Warfare moment

Landlords in the UK have a legal requirement to ensure that their property is safe for the occupants. In practice this means following a number of regulations set by the local authorities HHSRS (Housing health and safety rating system).

Most of these include a regulation on maximum window opening height to prevent people accidentally falling out of them, either purely by accident, or when in a "confused mental state" (this is mainly elderly people with dementia or something similar, and drunks).