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Spent last night and today playing couch games with old friends This morning I finally started getting the knack of Tekken 7 to the extent the much more practised host decided we should play something else Which is how I discovered "Golf with Friends" is an amazing everyone being together game

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

3 normie* friends have independently said they'd like Elon to be assasinated. so given how annoying he must be if you're his body guard how about a whip around *by my standard of normie, which means apolitical nerds

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I can believe there are folks without an internal monologue, but for the rest of us, any idea how to stop theirs from vacillating between incoherently screaming and inconsolable weeping?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Can you have a just peace with an enemy that does this routinely?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

One of the boring things I know is that the increased NATO spending 'commitment' wasn't one, it was a communique agreeing the aspiration to reach the stated figure It was more like something knocked off so they could head to the bar, than a hard and fast NATO rule

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

There is a moderate chance that the Kremlin delusion that all pro-democracy movements, in what used to be their near-abroad, are driven by the US and the Brits, and that the Anglo-Saxons are always trying to usurp them, means they think getting Trump onside will stop Ukraine from resisting

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

While I see they're trying to sell out Ukraine, I don't see a mechanism for Ukraine being forced to accept a capitulation being in place, at least not in the next 12 months, and probably longer. Ukraine has resources and materiel for at least 12 months more war Russia on the other hand may not

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

people will come on this website and say anything. "Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a liberal". no he wasn't. that isn't true.

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

For use in general conversation when I'm slagging off Russia, I aim for concision, is it fair to call Muscovy the Principality that got rich by being the tax collector for the Golden Horde? Also is the Russian idea of it not having borders is more a Mongol than Westphalian understanding of nations?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Samsung (and all others) should not be allowed to continually change their terms of service Once a month a chunk of legalese that I'm not qualified to understand arrives, the T&Cs alone are 30 page scrolls, and the privacy one about 45 scrolls Nobody is reading all of that, so why ask for consent?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Suspect Trump doesn't know anything much about it but, anyone got any idea what happens to AUKUS once Elon stumbles upon it?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

once interviewed for a tele-sales job It was clear the objective was to get receptionists to agree to fill their spare storage space with 'our' sanitary products When I asked them what happens when you've so over-sold to your customer they are unhappy, the interview was quickly curtailed

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

There's this weird idea that because Putin went pretty much all in, and his bluff didn't work, that he shouldn't have to leave that table without many chips left No wonder Trump's casinos went bankrupt

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It also looks like the PR shot for an ITV series about a company of squaddies lead by a hard but fair NCO

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

sometimes ponder if I had done LSD before trying A-level Further Maths I'd have not had to drop it for being too weird and mind breaking

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I'm just a bit thick and don't get it at all, but quite how the utter nonsense of Neoplatonism influenced both Christian and Islamic theological thought boggles my mind

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I'm no masive monarchist, but we need to send Chuckles or William to Canada to speak about their history and our unique cultural ties Whilst the Commonwealth is a bit silly, this is a time when the old ties matter, and we need to show them solidarity

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Next time Vance is in Europe, some 'extremist' should consider zeroing him Perhaps we're at the "would you go back in time and kill adult baby Hitler?" conjunction but without fucking with the timeline

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Had to stop watching V.D. Vance speaking as I was unable to stop saying "quisling cunt" at an ever increasing volume

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost.

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments