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Dad, husband, retired civil engineer, pragmatist, atheist, humanist, guitarist, cyclist. DMs are switched off 🚫. I won't follow back 0 bio-0 post accounts. These are muted or blocked.
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When will the tanks arrive?
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Could be Russia except for the horses.
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I'm still optimistic that BBC and Sky would get around to it eventually. Maybe naive. Old enough now not to get too hung up on what mediocre politicians say anyhow.
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Exactly. If eventually Blue sky withers on the vine, then I'll have to do without. There's no way I'll consciously support anything that Musk does*, says or owns. * If he brings down Trump, I'll give him a slow clap.
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Clearly a man of deep thought and principle. A Reform characteristic.
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Apparently it doesn't matter to the semi-conscious 7000+ voters in Hamilton voting for Reform yesterday.
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I appreciate the need for accuracy and clarity and defer to your experience. However, where sight loss is avoidable where vaccines are concerned, perhaps an impact could be made towards anti-vaxxers by describing it as 'catastrophic', 'permanent' or 'lifelong' sight loss?
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Too ironic.
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AI response: it sounds like you value the lives of women and children. Are these only Israeli lives or would you like to consider all those killed?
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The extreme contortions needed to explain flat Earth physics isn't lack of knowledge. It's mendacity aimed at destruction of knowledge and is, as such, dangerous. Huge respect for Neil deGrasse Tyson but he's being polite.
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When you see a guy that you know, if you'd been at school together, you'd be lifelong friends.
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Canada is on a roll!
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The historical irony is excruciating.
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But Africa's just another big country like China, over on the right hand side of the planet isn't it?
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This is the shot the FDA just tanked for the US, it "outperformed the existing standalone vaccines for both viruses." Here was the good news on May 7: www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Surely there must be Brexit supporters who can see the propaganda and deceit? They can't all have abandoned their thinking skills, can they?
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Glad they wasted their money in the end. Fools.
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Partly
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That at least would mitigate my feelings for the UK 'vote' right now.
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The UK receiving 0 public points but awarding 12 to Israel tells you all you need to know about the UK.
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Seconded.
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The cost was £622k and people are sentenced to custodial sentence when sums like these are stolen/embezzled.
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The real surprise would be if that were not the case. To UK kids, it's not your fault.
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Is Keir Starmer doing some kind of experiment to see if attracted Reform voters will exceed lost Labour voters? There lies political ruin. He should know better.
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How right you are.
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He also identified as a Pope and God's representative on Earth. I'm sure he's a nice guy but there's a stratospheric level of delusion right there.
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I know it's only MAGAs that don't seem to know that 👍
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As a Scotsman, let me clarify that if I'm selling a $50 bottle of Scotch to an American friend and he has to pay $60, take it from me, it's not me that's paying the extra $10. From the home of Adam Smith, we know things about money and that ain't how tariffs work. You're being scammed America.
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Around 3 years min each for the punishment and for their rehabilitation, they pay back the £620,000. Does that sound about right?
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Also listened to NIN The Fragile a couple of days ago.
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Yes, Genesis and Pink Floyd. I'm guessing there's many who could tick that list on here.
Listened to all of these in the last week.
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They should. Unfortunately the kids who die from measles didn't make a conscious choice - it was their abusive parents.