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How much wealth was stolen from the poor to afford such an ugly cup.

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Eco-fascism ain’t it chief.

The most effective measures, is actually holding the big polluters (a handful of international companies) accountable.

Furthermore capitalism needs to be ditched in any form.

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They don’t want Mexicans, or any other peoples, they want to stay in their little racist bubble.

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You’ve never used one of these at the playground as a kid? It’s just a variation of these but with a handle to power it instead of feet.

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Oh man, childhood classic of mine. Controls are a bit shithouse these days, but still enjoyable.

There’s an Xbox 360? remaster as well from memory that might be a bit more accessible.

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Oh yeah the MP was what made the game for me, Teddiez vs Squirrels on that Omaha beach level and running going “Oooriyaaah hyaaah” as you slice them up with a samurai sword, so good.

Dunno if I could even find people to play MP with these days even if the remasters had it.

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Calling it now, he’s just a massive bigot.

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That’s the authentic Indian takeaway food garnish.

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Or what?

Even if they give them and break them, so what?

The US has time and time gone to bat for Israel, there’s no way anyone would believe they would stop doing so because they broke a promise.

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Biden next week: We’re close to reaching a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia by Thursday. Ukraine will give up all its claims to its lands held by Russia and Russia pinky promises not to attack for 3 weeks.

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This looks like the last panel of the last issue of a comic book series I want to read.

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NiGHTS into Nightmares

Olympic with Returned Soldiers - Arthur Lismer (1919) ( upload.wikimedia.org )

War artist Arthur Lismer captured the return of the troopship SS Olympic (centre) to Halifax harbour following the First World War. Olympic's multi-coloured dazzle camouflage, added in 1917 at the height of the German U-Boat threat, was intended to make the ship more difficult to identify and target. The painting also provides a...

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Is that ship coming or going? I can’t even tell.

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying ( www.wired.com )

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

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I apparently must be as I got one as well.

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doing something violent to the communal spaces in their community

That seems counterproductive, let’s do something violent to the fash spaces in our community.

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Yet it still ends up as:

Left-wing groups: Beaten and arrested by police for peacefully protesting.

Right-wing groups: Attempt to overthrow democracy, get off scot-free.

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We all know the direction is left! No, no my left, not your left.

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Commission data show that the D.C. court’s sentences for Jan. 6 defendants who assaulted police is below the national average.

Since Jan. 6 cases began, the average sentence imposed by D.C. federal judges in the Capitol attack under guidelines for serious assaults climbed to 46 months from 41 months but is still below the nationwide average of 51 months in 2022.

As of last month

Even directly assaulting cops got these fuckers below average sentences, let alone the literal act of trying to overthrow democracy.

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That’s a valid point and one I hadn’t considered. I’ll certainly keep that in mind for future, as I do like statistical data.

Although I do find it reasonable in this instance to debunk the claim they received long prison sentences, as a handful of years is pretty short considering the severity of their attempted action.

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The article has no mention of criminalising AI generated porn, only deepfakes?

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Where does it mention AI generated porn in that? AI generated deeepfakes, sure but not catch-all AI porn.

For example if someone made some AI hentai porn, what part of that sentence would imply that's going to be criminalised, because I can't see it in there.

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I’m gonna agree with the UK on this one, you wanna fuck off and join ISIS you can live with the decision elsewhere.

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No, fuck her.

Shamima Begum 'was member of feared Isis morality police' in Syria

Begum asked for the UK's forgiveness and claimed that she still supported "some British values". She said she had been partly inspired to join IS by videos of fighters beheading hostages and also of "the good life" under the group.
When asked about the Manchester Arena bombing, she said she was shocked and didn't "know about the kids", then said it was wrong to kill innocent people, but that IS considered it justified as retaliation for the coalition bombing of IS-held areas. When questioned about rape, enslavement and murder of Yazidi women, she claimed, "Shia do the same in Iraq".*

on February 2019, her father Ahmed Ali said, "If she at least admitted she made a mistake then I would feel sorry for her and other people would feel sorry for her, but she does not accept her wrong." Begum reacted by stating that she regretted speaking to the media and said the UK is making an example out of her.

I suppose you're of the belief that Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe shouldn't be gaoled for the murder of Brianna Ghey as well because they were only 16 and what could they possibly know about right or wrong being little children, unable to make decisions on their own.

She is an unremorseful piece of utter shit who directly caused suffering onto others, after being inspired by watching innocent people being murdered. A teenager is not some completely helpless thing, they are capable of making horrific decisions of their own will and sometimes they must live with the consequences of those choices as I'm sure you no doubt agree should happen such as with the Ghey case. If it was something minor, you could probably argue that it was just a stupid childhood mistake, this goes far above and beyond that.

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It's not a view I think you hold, it's an example of how I think you don't adhere to your 'she wasn’t capable of consenting' argument because I hope you agree that Jenkinson and Ratcliffe were able to 'consent' to their own actions at a similar age.

And if you don't think she can consent, and is actually a victim in all this, why do you want her gaoled?

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She voluntarily chose to go join ISIS after watching videos of people being beheaded, you make it sound like she was kidnapped off of the street and shipped to the middle east against her will.

Biden planning to hit food ‘shrinkflation,’ corporate greed in SOTU ( www.politico.com )

President Joe Biden is weighing how hard to hammer big food companies over painfully high grocery prices in his upcoming State of the Union Address. But some some aides remain wary of focusing too much on food inflation, given how little power the president has to singlehandedly force down prices....

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Here's a hint Joe, shrinkflation is not the problem.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/60d82776-316e-49f0-9b44-16e327fd733c.png

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That money comes from workers pockets, and the economy going up only benefits the already rich.

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It's performative, designed to lull voters into a sense that he is addressing their concerns and fighting for them when in reality he's picked the lowest hanging, least effort fruit to tackle when he could be addressing the actual issue.

It's dangerous, because people go "Oh look he's trying to fix things" yet things continue to get worse because those root causes are not being looked at, leading to disillusionment with the Democrats and that only benefits Republicans.

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Good life advice is to not take random medication from people in pubs.

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Don’t forget to drink lots of water!

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Thailand is in the middle of banning it as they elected a conservative government not long after legalising it.

Also for recreational use it’s legal in one of eight states/territories in Australia. Medicinal in every state but that’s not really the same even if it’s dead easy to get.

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You do realise your aversion to communism is just the same as Americans, right? Like the USSR has more in common with the Nazis than any actual implementation of a classless, hierarchical less, stateless system.

Shit, like the name is literally the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

To quote Stalin himself from a 1936 interview with Roy Howard

Our Soviet society is socialist society, because the private ownership of the factories, works, the land, the banks and the transport system has been abolished and public ownership put in its place.

[…]

Yes , you are right, we have not yet built communist society. It is not so easy to build such a society.

Re-think your fear of the word communism and wonder why you’re fine with socialism despite it literally being what the country you rightfully dislike called and viewed itself as.

tl;dr: Communism good. USSR bad.

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I’d quite happily argue that the USSR never tried to implement it in the slightest.

Can you imagine the politburo actually fighting to give up their privileged position? I can’t.

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There’s no way for people to work together without someone at top benefiting?

X.

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What’s your point exactly? I’m not reading some poorly written 10,000 word essay to try to figure out what you’re wanting to say.

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Netherlands is at 4.2% solar to 14% in Australia.

15% of all Netherlands power is renewable/sustainable compared to 32% in Australia.

Netherlands Source

Australia Source

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They’re going to only release direct to VHS content.

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How would that affect the airflow and pressure behind the ball?

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You'd probably need to keep the heart shaped bullets in a heart shaped box.

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I wonder how they go about licensing content people have shared from others without their consent?

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If I went and reposted someone else’s work there, me making an account doesn’t give them permission to that persons work.

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Mate, that’s literally what they’re saying. Make it government run as a public utility.

Privatisation is a neolib cancer on the world.

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I think Americans boil their water in the microwave.

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They don’t even know about diet water.

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Because there's no temperature control and it can explode.

My kettle will heat water consistently to boiling point every time without going over.

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It takes leaving it in a bit too long and either moving or adding something to your water, it's not that difficult.

Third-degree burns aren't something I'd really want to risk just for some coffee.

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1: I'm Australian.

2: Go take your victim complex and shove it.

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There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment.

It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet. I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury.

Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace. We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground."
Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios.

Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground."
And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn.
Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground."

I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money."

For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one." It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast. For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there.

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