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Farage caught out in blatant lie He pretends to care about poor people while proposing our NHS replaced by US-style private healthcare where the super-rich get excellent care the well-off go bankrupt the poor left to die "Our NHS is not safe in Nigel Farage’s hands" www.youtube.com/shorts/Q9fnI...

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

We were too spineless to regulate these billionaire freaks, so now one of them gets to decide whether Ukrainian drones can catch the missiles aimed at Ukrainian kids. We have failed spectacularly.

Farage says there’s no room for racism in his party. Is that in the same way there’s no room for another sardine in a tin of sardines?

Right! Off to read the BBC News website's coverage of the scandals unearthed at Reform. Back already!

Boycott Starlink!

Absolutely not. Humans evolved to live on Earth and there’s no other place that has the right amount of everything we need, like climate, liquid water, mix of oxygen and non-toxic gases in the atmosphere, magnetic field, gravity, puppies, kittens, etc.

Ex-BBC Director-General, last year. The key words are, 'Win over' & 'adapted'. No news service has to 'win over' viewers. They must report accurate & unbias news. The most sinister word is 'adapted'. Twisting news & introducing bias to support their plan. It's a scandal that they even consider it.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

I mean it’s not a vetting problem, is it? It’s that it’s a racist party, run by racists, with racist policies, for the benefit of racists. The fact that it turns out to be full of racists is not a glitch

In short: Fuck that, and fuck them. iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...

Rare opportunity to invest in no future.

It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”

A Very Bad Thing to Do….

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

web dev feels like an enormous pile of workarounds on top of workarounds full of tech debt and regrets

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

fixed it for you, Slimy Nige.

I see that we're now at the "using big words in your book is ableism" point in the degradation of media literacy. You have in your hand a device that can pull up the definition of any word, dictionaries exist. If you don't know a word, look it up. What the hell has happened to curiosity??

England red card.. So does the king call fifa now? Is that how this works?

I think we just passed oops.

Talk to me some more about climate change being a hoax…

I think we would be better off with clean water and affordable electricity than a Google that scans information and summarizes for us.

Memo to pretty much (but obviously not quite) everybody in the media…

im not really into the whole 'enduring worsening conditions until we get to vote next' ideology some people have

Corporations: "We invented a robot that drinks water!" Everyone: "What? Why would you do th-" Corporations: "All of the water actually!" Everyone:.... Corporations:... Everyone:... Corporations: "Also your taxes are going up!"

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

Hey you there, struggling artist. You, the one self doubting and questioning yourself. Wondering if it is all worth it. In the shadow that is the mourning of the loss of John Blanche I feel sad for never having had the chance to say thank you to him for all the joy he brought. So now I'm […]

With Trump turning the Freedom 250 event into a rambling self-congratulatory speech about Donald Trump, what was once intended to celebrate the birth and history of the United States will now commemorate its demise.

I don't understand why the powers that be measure the economy by the stock market, which is too easily manipulated I would love to see the economy measured by the average persons' disposable income Leave those thieves in suits out of the equation

In 2006, the film Idiocracy depicted the White House in a fictional time when the United States was incredibly tacky and stupid. Frankly, they underestimated what the reality of the United States being incredibly tacky and stupid would really look like.

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

They said we have very little time to avert a climate catastrophe, so we doubled down on oil, gas, and data centres.