po8crg.gadsden.online
Three-time Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate, Man Utd and Red Sox fan, cis man, he/him/his, 83 protons, not a werelabradoodle, in spite of my appearance
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They are a massive fire hazard in the Algarve - paper companies love them but there's a lot of political pressure to restrict them because they make wildfires much worse.
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I am once again moved to ask: why does no-one market these railways? There are, I think, 5 people on this train, and it feels selfish that we are hogging this all to ourselves. #TheNarrowWay
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The UK is getting weather that is perfectly normal in Florida, but lethal if you lack Florida's infrastructure for dealing with it.
Seattle gets perfectly normal weather for Minnesota, but lethal if you lack Minnesota's infrastructure for dealing with it. Etc.
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I've been thinking about this. Do you think it would be useful to introduce a Black (British) and an Asian (British) category on the census so Black and Asian people can clearly identify themselves as British just as White people can?
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If you say you've got a consistent, coherent strategic vision, I want to hear about the place where you'd *like* to do something that you can't (or where you have to do a thing you don't like).
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Taking a day off away from the military is something I think even they can see is a bad idea.
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The Kaiser, not a noted humourist, had a genuinely good joke about that: he said he wanted to go to a performance of the Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
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There's a reason why élan has that little squiggle on top of the e.
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The UK royal family had to rename themselves (from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor). So did various other families (e.g. from Battenburg to Mountbatten).
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German Shepherds were renamed Alsatians.
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Just make them listen to Cocaine and Rhinestones.
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we cannot have this conversation
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We cannot have this conversation
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We cannot have this conversation
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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My dehumidifier is the main reason I haven't splurged on aircon yet.
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Hope you get to ride the front seat in a DLR and pretend you're driving the train. Always cheers me up.
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Also your house plants!
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I seem to have remove both duplicates of "people rich enough to move to a tax haven" from my original skeet.
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So the legal position of the day is not a solid indication of where will be safest in five or ten years. At the moment, Portugal and Malta probably rate at the top. But both have anti-trans right wingers doing well but not winning elections yet. What if they win?
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Very often, the difference between (e.g. European) countries is in whether they had a left or right government and how determinedly anti-transphobia their left has been.
Very often a single politician is all that was holding back the transphobia: in the UK, that was Theresa May, for instance.
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People should start reporting negative information about Native Americans or black people or immigrants.
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I've only done it with a political party, but it's definitely a better experience with other people - you can swap anecdotes, you speak to more people, and you can go grab a colleague who is a bigger expert when you're stumped with a tricky question.
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One reason we shouldn't apply too much pressure on this is that various MPs kept missing votes in the late nineties and it turned out later that there were secret Northern Ireland peace talks going on. No-one noticed because other MPs that missed votes also declined to answer.
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Unless you get a public statement from an MP that didn't vote, you'll never know for sure. And there are plenty of good reasons for not making a public statement - MPs don't owe you their medical history, and ministers in particular might be in confidential talks.
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Unless there's a public statement, it's hard to be sure - and MPs don't owe people their medical privacy, and if someone was (for example) in Ukraine or Gaza, then they would be advised to keep that secret until they get back.
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It means they didn't vote. They may have deliberately abstained, they may have been off sick, they might be abroad (e.g. foreign office ministers rarely vote), they might be paired (evening out numbers when someone on the other side is sick), etc.
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Do I think that Wes Streeting (e.g.) was doing this because he's anti-abortion? Yes, probably. But not recording a vote on this doesn't prove anything.
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Ministers don't usually vote on conscience issues unless the vote is likely to be close - more so they can stay in the office and work than because they need to display neutrality.
And in a group of 650, some people will be off sick, and then there is pairing.
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I don't know specific cases, but if an MP was (for example) visiting Kyiv to speak to the Ukrainians, or had travelled to Gaza or Iran or Israel, then they wouldn't be able to get back easily and quickly.
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votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...
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Don’t trust anyone whose entire politics are defined by their “ick” response, however intellectualised.