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The trolley guy’s been fired. There are no more ethical dilemmas.

I teared up reading the wrapper of my Dr. Bronner's chocolate bar.

Would you like some tranquility?

My cat Bobbie just stole a piece of lettuce from my salad and tried to eat it. She then spit it out in disgust and looked at me like it was my fault. I don’t have a photo of her with the lettuce, but here is one of her yesterday looking real guilty when I caught her sticking a dirty paw in my tea.

This study appears to show that an AI will hack the system to cheat at chess! ... when the researchers tell it to and give it the file to "hack". time.com/7259395/ai-c... what I can't find is the actual study. Has it been released?

I spent years being like “look guys American fascism doesn’t have to look like the German kind, it’s always been a transnational movement that draws on a variety of symbols and traditions ….” And now they’re just out there doing literal Hitler salutes.

“Food is now rotting near starving people”.

Yes! All of this. Also was taking the other days about clothes that gave you electric shocks, plus rusting cars, shops that sold nothing useful when there was no Internet alternative, and being offered BNP newspapers at football ground as "a little light reading"

Idea for an alt history sci-fi horror story: during WW2 a new technology forces everyone to know about every gruesome and banal personal detail about Hitler 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

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Nobody can picture how weird and mad it is in these people’s offices now.

I’m going to learn how to play hardcore punk just so I can scream NO NEW MOM PHONE over and over again in rhythm

Can u get one that says HATTER?

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

I find that young working class people ask me a lot about the 90s because they perceive it as the last decade that was actually good, but I tell them it only looked that way because the 80s were so unbelievably horrific.

Not fond of liberal columnists acting high and mighty about the Overton Window when they’re happy to pal around with “Stig” Abell despite ZERO mea culpa from him about publishing Katie Hopkins calling refugees “cockroaches” and calling for gunboats to be sent after them.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that Elon Musk is a lying sack of shit. www.dw.com/en/fact-chec...

I'm not having Fraser Nelson playing dumb on the rise of racism on the right after years spent printing Murray, Liddle, Taki and Shriver. I literally had a DM row with him years ago where I said this would happen.

*eyes closed tightly, muttering to myself* Jar Jar Binks lollipop tongue can't hurt me Jar Jar Binks lollipop tongue can't hurt me Jar Jar Binks lollipop tongue can't hurt me Jar Jar Binks lollipop tongue can't hurt me Jar Jar Binks lollipop tongue can't hurt me

think what grates most about Fraser Nelson's "a dramatic shift? of MY Overton window?" shtick is that those of us who kept talking about the Spectator's dangerous slide to the right were treated as hysterical, not able to see the humour in shock jocks, etc etc, when we were just clearly right!

Share a character who didn’t deserve their fate

This is the kind of naive glorification of pre globalisation 'small towns' that I find so unrealistic. Technology evolved, and it wasn't as if there wasn't crime without immigrants. Nostalgia won't restore the idealised times that never were, we need to understand the world of today.

Labour has a real counterattack opportunity if they’re brave enough to take it. More spending, both for public services + defence, using the need to prep the UK for war to justify breaking fiscal rules/tax pledges. Be unequivocal in calling those seeking to undermine the UK traitors and quislings.

"How can you be a remotely competent historian without acknowledging this thing I just made up in my head right now for which there is no evidence???"

That Fraser Nelson piece is so incoherent. I mean, how you can write this with a straight face?

I would get the history of the witch panics right before posting saccarine dross like this. going-medieval.com/2023/10/20/y...

Oh my god I’ve been in my mum’s attic

This wilful inability to admit his own role in promoting what he now condemns is an unbeatable example of the hotdog meme plus the leopard meme

We’re still investigating but it appears someone used our WiFi to start a war with Björk