lonelyjoeparker.bsky.social
Science and music, lectures a bit. Sleeps more. A few bike/active travel/public transport bits.
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Fair point
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ICRC if you want full transparency but they won't buy shells obviously
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He is literally the first person to stand up to trump as a peer since the election. Which in itself is shocking
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Great maybe spend more than 1.5% of GDP on defence?
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Not immediately, still feels like the Wild West a bit.
One big takeaway though. Women coming home at night will use an ebike for the slightly higher speed and leaving it near their house so they don't have to walk. Or they take a cab.
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Loved this! Also this.. reckon the CO would make a good interviewee
Seen 'Top Guns: Inside the RAF'?
Watch it here on Channel 4: www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
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Last time I checked, hiring skilled technicians and qualified leaders (but paying them less than industry would), forming them into a team, and delivering a mission or service was really quite easy, so no problem here.
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16/ It also has a huge number of internally displaced people, making it very difficult to create an accurate electoral register. The UK had a similar problem in WW2 - almost 3.75 million people were displaced internally, compared to about 3.6 million in Ukraine currently.
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17/ The US, Australia and Canada were able to hold elections during wartime because they suffered very little internal disruption due to the war. The UK was in a very different situation then, with very similar difficulties to those being experienced by Ukraine now. /end
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15/ Ukraine is subject to all of these difficulties and more. Unlike the UK, it has a large amount of territory and millions of citizens under enemy occupation, who are unable to participate in an election.
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8/ This was not the first time the Nazis agitated for a general election. Another German-controlled broadcaster urged the British people in May 1942 to "start a new and louder demand for a General Election, a people's vote."
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5/ In July 1942, English-language German broadcasts urged the UK to hold a General Election on the grounds that the British people had not been allowed to have a say about whether they wanted to continue the war with Germany or to have declared war on Japan in December 1941: