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Unfortunately photographed in a way to illustrate its one bad feature - it can rest on its back with the prongs up, and cause foot pain that pieces of Lego can only dream of causing
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'victory' - 1,000,000 causalities
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I hate that it's necessary for Ukrainian pilots to be doing this
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1 red, 1 white, 1 rose, 1 dark and 1 milk and that's my five for the day.
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Maybe Ukraine needs to give them a few more lessons so they remember it properly this time...
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Are you suggesting that the Russians didn't learn their lesson the first time?
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Artyom:
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Which is a great secondary effect of ingenious attacks like this - even if Ukraine never attempts anything with trucks again, it'll still be a drain on the Russian economy.
Which is nice.
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Quality alt text on these.
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Of course one option, no no, hear me out, would be....
Make the very miserly benefit system means test just a bit less miserly.
I know, crazy idea. It'll never catch on
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I really don't think it's _that_ smart (no offence to you or Roland intended!)
It had even occurred to me that using the EU deal could be a face saving excuse to change winter fuel payments - admittedly just because both were mentioned one after the other in a podcast.
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I'm guessing it costs a fraction of air defence missile prices and can be produced both natively and in bulk much easier than missiles.
What I'm really hoping is that it costs a fraction of what Russia is spending to build the Shahed's, so it can help bankrupt Russia as well as defending Ukraine
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And that poll is even showing the cursed Brexit percentage 52:48
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Ukraine delegation:
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Oh you and your 'facts' and 'reality'.
Despicable language and approach from Labour and Starmer
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Depressingly so
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If they maintained their innocence behind closed doors, then the lawyers had to represent their case as best they could.
However I strongly suspect that behind those closed doors, there would have been some *extremely* firm advice from the lawyers about how the trial was likely to go...
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Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of vitamins. Full of marrowbone jelly.
youtube.com/watch?v=dhjG...
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To stretch the cutlery analogy, it's saying here is a fork therefore it can't be a spoon, ignoring that while relatively less common, sporks are a thing.
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I've no specific legal knowledge, but I can see how a deportation order issued by a court might have a warrant attached to it.
I strongly suspect the 'orders' Miller refers to are not court orders. They're probably written in crayon
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except any not-for-profit set up would probably be lumbered by the debts of the existing companies, and so would be doomed from the start.
The companies need to be left to go bankrupt. nationalise what's left. I'm led to believe you can buy assets really cheap after a business goes bust...
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I kept checking the BBC's dedicated live feed on the app, but each time the news was that he was still dead.
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Admonish. Great word. Criminally underused.
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Also Liz Truss?
(Kidding. She's been beyond help for a while, and not sure even Trump could damage her cause further)
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Still wouldn't save her from the men in ICE jackets...
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So the story is that a policy, designed to free up second homes for people without first homes, is achieving its policy goal.
Ok. Well done everyone.
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The 20% would also likely fall apart if the 20% understood Farage's *actual* policies, as opposed to what they assume his policies are.
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And again, this is why NATO needs Ukraine.
The conversation always seems to be about what NATO can 'give' to Ukraine, never recognising what Ukraine can provide to the rest of NATO.
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So lots of foreign cash for our universities, then people are staying on and filling lower paid job vacancies.
Being mercenary, sounds like a win win for the UK. Not so great for the foreign students.
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Fake - there's no way trump would put a tariff on Mordor
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How is that not protected by air defence?
I mean, I know why it's not, but if they can't protect something so obviously important to the war effort, it speaks volumes about Russia's wider vulnerabilities.
Unless of course they have a big friendly nation supplying them with materials...
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My autistic daughter is very, very hopeful that you are right and that it is an April Fools.
In her world, everyone should know the proper episode titles, and she takes it as a source of pride that she does 😄
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Alternatively....
That's the first thing he could think of when you asked, rather than telling you what he was actually thinking about
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I thought it was when the WH started banning journalists or organisations like AP, or when it said the press pool could no longer choose its own representative. Or maybe when it invited a TASS representative to the Oval office...
I naively imagined any of those would have caused group action.
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You're only eligible for a Darwin award if you remove yourself from the gene pool before you procreate.
Republicans weirdly seem to be targeting their more elderly base with crackpot healthcare ideas.
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I for one struggle to believe that their opsec practices are anything but top notch, the best at cyber. So smart
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Unless and until the Single Market is abolished, breaking down the EU into individual countries when talking about trade volumes is... well, disingenuous doesn't begin to cover it.
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Maybe, just maybe, the fact you can't be sure the name on screen is who you think it is, is a hint you shouldn't use it for National Security stuff. FFS.
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Well I for one am shocked, *shocked* i tell you to find out that quietly putting in the hard graft day in, day out to serve his constituents is not how Nigel is spending his time
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Narrator: despite publicly saying he would, Trump did not buy a Tesla the next day.
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Just a short step from that to describing them as 'radical leftists'.
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A *spineless* crank.
(Compare his previous strong comments in support of Ukraine and against Putin, against the image of him sitting meekly on that oval office sofa hoping it would swallow him up)
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Even if Vance wasn't referring to the 2 NATO countries that have openly declared they will send troops, then
(a) it implies he is really not up to speed with what is being offered and
(b) he still hasn't said which 'random' NATO allies he had in mind that he was insulting
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Yep. Can't help thinking that a T72 is difficult to fit in a dinghy.
It's almost as if they're not comparable issues at all...
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It's just full on alternate reality isn't it?
Acknowledging the fact that Russia invaded in the first place is also now somehow a partisan issue over there.
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Which is another example of why NATO should be begging Ukraine to join.
It's difficult to overstate the value of the knowledge and experience of 21st century warfare that Ukraine has gained. That has been earned with blood and suffering, and NATO would be privileged to have it shared with them.
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You do hope that at some point, the MAGA supporters will have a 'Are we the baddies?' moment of self reflection.
I'm not expecting one anytime soon though
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But the UK didn't *invade* Czechoslovakia as part of the Munich agreement. Which is a bit different from Stalin's agreement with the Nazis to carve up Poland.
(Obviously there's a lot of other invasions the British empire *did* do, and should be condemned for.)