martyoconnor.bsky.social
Keynesian Liberal. Centrist dad.
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Bravo
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I’m sad to say that this was me for much of my adult life.
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It’s Murdoch’s USA equivalent of his UK Sun or Sydney’s Daily Telegraph. Looks fun, but genuinely fucking evil.
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He can start a new band with the Lostprophets shitstain
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Real ‘useless eaters’ vibes
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I really try to understand people on their own terms - to see how their interpretation of the world drives their actions - and to try and avoid dehumanising. But these people are just scum.
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That literally happened in 2012 www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/ms...
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Do you not think the attempted murder of a governor is worth comment?
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Monty kicked his arse.
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Boy, that person really loves emojis huh
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Americans are the the most dangerous drivers in the developed world en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_v...
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Wasn’t the behaviour you described that kicked off this thread about someone in first class though?
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I am owned by a dog and two cats and my life is all the better for it.
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That being said, I was at the Smithsonian 18 months ago and they had an exhibit of what a Neanderthal child looked like based on a fossil skeleton of a two year old and I was in tears.
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He was loved and had a good life I’m sure.
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It’s so good.
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My mum was born in 1946. They still had rationing when she was a child. Notably, the UK received no post war support under the Marshall plan and uniquely had to repay every penny of Lend Lease debt.
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What’s it going to take for these people to realise that most people do not want a revolution?
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Yes, that is who she’ll compare herself to next.
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Why would you preselect someone who tried to be elected for a different party last time anyway?
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And with that, there is now no chance I can travel to the USA for the World Cup next year!
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Capital punishment of even murderers is almost always unjustly applied on race and class grounds. If the current cabinet and advisors end up strung up though I won’t shed a single tear.
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I’ve spent my entire adult life (I’m 50) being firmly against capital punishment. Your current government is making me reconsider.
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In my cover band we play the Beatles I Saw Her Standing There. That song is now closer to the death of Queen Victoria than it is to today.
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Thank you! He has been growing his hair since we took him to see Foo Fighters when he was 8! I hope you are having a great weekend
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My 15yo son played his first ever gig with his band last night. They played three covers and the newest one was Holiday by Green Day. To my horror I realised that song is 20 years old.
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So well! I’m really proud. They only had three songs - Zombie, Plug In Baby and Holiday (Green Day, not Madonna) - but the pub crowd made them play a couple again. He’s so happy
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Rocker!
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The skeletons of ordinary people from the Middle Ages show immense and repeated traumas. It was a shit time to be alive. www.ancient-origins.net/news-history...
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They already started https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2024/11/20/boeings-critical-threat-from-chinas-growing-aerospace-power/
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That’s ok, Chinese airlines will continue to buy Boeing… oh no. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2024/11/20/boeings-critical-threat-from-chinas-growing-aerospace-power/
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Nintendo is very proudly Japanese. WTF would they move to the US anyway?
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Agree - ‘I fought and lost friends to defeat fascism’ or ‘we made do with little and it made us stronger’ are more compelling narratives than ‘something I can’t see was so scary we had to hide inside’
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It was really scary and despite the efforts of weird cranks there was no one to blame.
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He must have run out of clean undies www.theguardian.com/world/2020/s...
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The only mitigating factor is that this is just America. There will still be some demand there even at higher prices and the rest of the developed economies will hopefully continue to buy goods at a similar level to now.
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People will starve.
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God I hope researchers are downloading it
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Fair enough. You don’t want disorganised crime happening.
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It was this one tenor.com/OYMz.gif
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tRaNsIt iS dAnGeRoUs en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_v...
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Also, it’s nice to follow you Patrick! I used to on Twitter but my account was nuked in 2020 for calling an anti-vaxxer a c*** via a game of thrones gif.
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I recently bought two Jet guitars. Chinese made with Korean pickups and Wilkinson parts and they are great. The necks are beautiful and the finishes are excellent.
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A basic iPhone 16 costs $1399 here in Australia buying directly from Apple. That’s about $850US.
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Guitars are a funny product. I _know_ they are mass produced consumer items but because they are wood they are so much more tactile and feel like they _should_ be carved by dedicated artisans.
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Do Americans want to pay $2000 for a basic iPhone? I suspect not.
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I think generally speaking the Indonesian guitars are still better made - Cort invested hugely in their factory there and build for everyone else - but the gap is shrinking.