FishFace

Meh. I’m fine with having a royal family - sure there’s a bunch of spongers but the fundamental principle of having a bunch of pomp and pageantry for the sake of tradition and jolly flag waving (as opposed to “get rid of the immigrants” flag waving) is fun and worth the price of entry. The price of entry pays rent for a bunch of people who did nothing to deserve it, because that’s kind of how it works.

Because they’re… still… royals? What am I missing

“accused of” because the least extreme of the country’s far right basically called for riots (he said “pure cold rage”).

They’re all frothing at the mouth over a document which was never widely distributed because it said “you can’t just treat everyone the same”. That’s it, that, plus this death, are what they have to go on for riots.

They’d have you believe that British police never racially profiled anyone for stop&search, never failed to investigate crimes against black people, never had any people with dark skin die in custody.

And it makes me despair because the facts just so not fucking matter to the people who riot and vote over this stuff. Yeah, failing to identify a stab wound on someone who’s telling you they’ve been stabbed is pretty fucking shocking but too many people just don’t care about facts and I have no idea what we can do about it. The left wing seems mostly to want to call them racist even harder, which I’m sure will do the trick…

Don’t forget to check for someone hiding in the vault after it’s all over!

Since when did we care about some random unimportant twat getting sick? This isn’t news.

The FIFA peace prize is funny bevause like, I had heard FIFA was corrupt for years, but because I don’t follow football at all, didn’t really know anything about it and to me it could’ve just been exaggeration. Then they come out and do the MOST BLATANTLY corrupt thing ever?

Surely there are millions of people like me who previously didn’t know if FIFA was corrupt, and who now have no doubt… will that not have consequences?! Insane either way.

I know we get desensitised but this seems like an escalation of the corruption, no? Like it seems there’s a difference between suing the media for printing something bad about you and suing an individual for daring to win against you in court?

Maybe I’m forgetting similar instances - remind me if so - but otherwise do you agree?

*rape

Housing should be for living in, not investing in.

But before people go off on one about forcing up prices by controlling supply, that requires investors to actually push that lever, which means they need to leave places empty - and whenever I check there is never evidence of this.

Which is still pretty bad. In the UK that’s illegal anywhere they serve alcohol.

It’s not surprising. When you dehumanise the enemy of the state, when you foment bitter hatred against them and cast every opposition to your terroristic, genocidal regime as a deadly threat to the people under it, it leads inevitably to abuse.

Yoooooo if Israel tortures and abuses European human rights activitists in broad daylight, imagine what they do in the dark to palestinians

I think this is part of the point of activism of this kind. Expose how evil the regime is when they should be on their best behaviour, to expose at least to the imagination what horrors they commit when no-one can see.

I think the primary colours are a bit much for the entire train, but the design is good other than that. The double arrow has always been a great logo. I will miss the muted colours of greater Anglia and GWR trains though, when they go over.

Truly idiotic, and will probably backfire because anyone can see there’s no risk to women. If you just had everyone take part in a single category, parkrun would be absolutely fine.

On a more detailed level, this seems like another body that thinks a ruling which says “organisations may choose to discriminate on the basis of sex in order to provide single-sex spaces for certain purposes” means “organisations must choose to so discriminate” which is unbelievably stupid. However, the media doesn’t seem to have understood that either so it’s no wonder.

If you think of money as a proxy for human effort weighted by two important factors (how much people want that effort, and how easy it would be to get someone else to do the effort) then saving money amounts to saving effort.

His defence is that he’d already shown “proof of funds” for the house before receiving the gift. That’s a pretty thin defence given that it’s possible to know of the gift in advance.

But I think this is a distraction from the main point that his original defence of not declaring the gift is clear and utter bullshit: the rules are that gifts must be registered unless they “could not reasonably be thought by others to be related to membership of the house or to the member’s parliamentary or political activities". Personal security for someone in politics is clearly related to that person’s political activities. The fact that he wasn’t a candidate at the time of the gift is irrelevant to that relationship.

What astounds me is that I don’t really think Reform voters give a shit about piddly little things like dodgy gifts - that’s certainly what we see in the US, where Republicans think it’s great that Trump receives jets and contracts and god knows what because it shows “he’s a good businessman.” They don’t understand or believe or care that corruption impoverishes the country because decisions are taken for the personal interests of the ruler.

I don’t think the media, there or here, realises how big of a threat that is: they’re happy to report on blatant corruption as if the harms of corruption are still obvious to everyone, but they obviously are not.

Do you know that for a fact in this case? It was reported on the Valve/Itch thing last year, but that doesn’t mean it’s them this time.

I still haven’t seen a graph of data centres installed over time (perhaps weighted by max power draw or something) - it’d be interesting because my instinct is that AWS has been installing massive ones for years and years