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- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 4 days ago:
Dirty bastard
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 1 week ago:
Carney has been leading the middle nations in the sense that he’s taken a tough public stance against Trump for years. European leaders have finally started to adopt his rhetoric this week after Trump took the Greenland crisis to the brink.
Given that I don’t think he was referring to creating more treaties or supranational bodies, I think by matching Carney’s rhetoric world leaders have answered his call.
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 1 week ago:
I’ve pretty much had the opposite reaction to this news. Starmer’s critics had painted the original decision as being the result of his legalistic tendencies triumphing over common sense. Personally, had totally imbibed that point of view because it fit with my preconceptions. (Possibly I was right and he’s using the recent anti-Trump sentiment as a smoke screen to give a post-hoc impression of competence.)
Hearing he had been acting pragmatically to curry favour with a notoriously transactional US president makes me view the original decision in a better light. If that’s true, he’s actually standing up to Trump by telling him to sort out the legality of the US base for himself. Pretty much every European leader had been taking the same tact of public flattery and private diplomacy before this week had Greenland spillover.
Sometimes I wonder if Starmer would need to put out a press statement saying, “DJT, eat shit” before he got any acknowledgement of representing the UK assertively on the world stage.
- Comment on welp 2 weeks ago:
Source: It came to me in a dream
- Comment on If only 2 weeks ago:
Fitting slogan for a pair of teenage shorts
- Comment on Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old 2 weeks ago:
goatse demons
- Comment on The Traitors Is Fake Scotland at Its Worst 2 weeks ago:
It’s as representative of Scotland as Fort Boyard is of France
- Comment on Farage says 'thanks for the money' after he’s tricked into Ian Watkins tribute 3 weeks ago:
Mega lolz
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on The Traitors Is Fake Scotland at Its Worst 3 weeks ago:
The legacy sequel, bafflingly titled T2 Trainspotting, is a decent commentary on the nature of sequels and being middle aged. There’s also more of actual Edinburgh in in; original movie was primarily filmed in Glasgow.
- Comment on The Traitors Is Fake Scotland at Its Worst 3 weeks ago:
This romanticisation of Scotland has been going on since Sir Walter Scott, it’s not a new phenomenon. It’s actually fairly apposite that the castle was paid for by the proceeds of empire because Scotland was an enthusiastic participant in the empire with much of Edinburgh and Glasgow being financed by the proceeds of “sugar” (read: the triangular slave trade route).
Unfortunately my fellow Scots can sometimes have a hard time grappling with our historical participation in empire and have a tendency to whitewash it. One of the reasons we had the unification of parliaments was that Scotland bankrupted itself by putting all of its money into an overseas colony which ultimately failed. Hard to see participation in empire as an English corruption if we were already trying to establish our own empire.
- Comment on Labour MP ‘baffled’ government still uses X after minister calls Grok’s sexualised images ‘weapons of abuse’ 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 3 weeks ago:
Focusing on the big 4 offices of state. Kemi’s Shadow Cabinet:
- Priti Patel: Shadow Foreign Sec
- Chris Philp: Shadow Home Sec
- Mel Stride: Shadow Chancellor
Rishi’s Cabinet:
- David Cameron: Foreign Sec
- James Cleverly: Home Sec
- Jeremy Hunt: Chancellor
There are like 30 ministerial roles though so not sure how similar the junior ministers are.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Je crois c’est un arrangement temporaire avec GOG et Amazon. Je le disais juste parce que j’ai récupéré gratuitement d’anciens jeux video Civilization, et que beaucoup de gens utilisent Prime.
- Comment on Tories would ban under-16s from social media 3 weeks ago:
To play devil’s advocate, part of being in opposition is to give parties a chance to reassess what’s important to them. Kemi wasn’t particularly senior when they were in government and the shadow cabinet has changed from the actual cabinet when they were in power.
Political parties are extremely top driven in the UK with the PM or LOTO having an outsized role in shaping what their offering will be in the next manifesto. Being in power also changes decision making like Tories can now be all in favour of online privacy and civil liberties in a way they couldn’t when they were running the home office. Similar shift in priority for Starmer being emboldened to further purge the left of his party more blatantly than when they were in opposition.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If you’ve got Amazon prime then the GOG version of Civ 3 and I think 4 is available through prime gaming as a subscription bonus www.amazon.com/prime-gaming
- Comment on Johnathan Ross right now... 3 weeks ago:
I was so confused when I saw #JonathanRossIsAMurderer trending on mastodon the other day
- Comment on My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun. 1 month ago:
Hidden gem in the sense that it sold extremely poorly on release. It’s become a cult classic since then so probably not “hidden” for people interested in retro games.
- Comment on My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun. 1 month ago:
It was definitely quality over quantity vs the PlayStation. One year after I got a bonus I bought the resident evil 2 port for it because I find the fact that it exists to be miraculous; they had to do some wizardry to fit the 2 CDs into one cartridge with 64MB.
- Comment on My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun. 1 month ago:
All killer, no filler - well done OP!
If you ever expand your collection then Conkers Bad Fur Day is a bit of a hidden gem which came at the end of the consoles lifecycle.
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 1 month ago:
Inb4 he says “only God can judge me”, shortly before a human judge casts a sentence
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 month ago:
As in which version to buy? There’s an unreal engine remaster called Reload which is a full remake of the PS2 game and then a PSP port. The former has improved gameplay and the latter is like a VN with the dungeon crawling as the unvarnished original. PSP port does have exclusive content in terms of a female MC alternative story but I’d say that was for real enthusiasts
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 month ago:
UFO50 is good value even when it isn’t on sale imo. So much content crammed into it!
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 month ago:
I had fun with Hellblade 2. Doesn’t overstay its welcome. Not sure how I felt about the ending but it was memorable
- Comment on Great guy 1 month ago:
It’s from /mu/ originally
- Comment on Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One 1 month ago:
I believe it is still a criterion for changing gender to use the bathroom of the gender you are transitioning to for 2 years before the legal process can be satisfied. It sounds like the entire legal framework around changing gender is incompatible with requests like this.
For what it’s worth the supreme court decision simply found that someone’s sex could not be changed legally but that still shouldn’t preclude changing gender. Forbidding people from changing gender is essentially what is being asked for by these groups and society at large does not seem to have an appetite for that.
In the immediate future sex based legal protections do have the legal apparatus to trump gender based rights but it’s going to be implemented on an arbitrary, case-by-case basis. For example in the event that a trans person has a transphobic colleague of the same gender then the employer needs to provide facilities for both parties (as seen in a recent workplace dispute in Fife, Scotland). This is going to get messy where the NHS might have certain hospitals with this arbitrary need for extra facilities depending on people having the misfortune of transphobic colleagues.
- Comment on Great guy 1 month ago:
I saw Keanu Reeves at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
- Comment on China - Hong Kong: Civil society organisations urge UK PM to stand up for Jimmy Lai 1 month ago:
Not much we can do after giving it back
- Comment on Robin Ince forced to quit [BBC] Radio 4 over pro-trans views 1 month ago:
Overton window appears to have shifted from a decade ago
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 2 months ago:
I kind of got caught out by this by attending A&E with severe uveitis. It turns out there are no eye specialist departments or referrals from A&E so it all needs to happen through private opticians. Personally did not realise opticians could do prescriptions beyond prescribing specific lens types.
My eye was so swollen that it ultimately needed atropine to unstick my pupil from the lens, in addition to steroids to fix the underlying condition.
