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by pjc50 3mo ago
The facts of the £5m are not entirely clear, but he's trying to pre-empt the actual investigation which if he wasn't guilty might clear him. Either way, there is no way to become PM without (approx) three hundred MPs. There's
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The answer is high effort: find a group of people who share your taste.
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> The biggest thing (for me) was when games stopped with local co-op. Having two controllers and being able to play together was a good way to spend time doing casual gaming. Lego star wars did it well. The Switch with its detachable two
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by pjc50 3mo ago
A number of things were both: the railway bubble was pretty bad for investors even if railways were a genuinely transformative technology that remains in use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania : for "rai
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by pjc50 3mo ago
The remarkable one is Kemi Badenoch, who would be in more trouble if anyone was actually paying attention to the unhinged things she's saying as leader of the Conservative party. If Farage survives the crypto donation scandal (and is t
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by pjc50 3mo ago
There's slightly more controversy about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Manivannan , who is perfectly calibrated to annoy the maximum number of rightwingers: nonbinary immigrant on a temporary visa with a one-lett
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by pjc50 3mo ago
This is gradually getting tightened by the database state for all the usual reasons (hostility to immigrants and trans people); you can get away without ID as long as you don't want to work, claim benefits, rent a house, buy one, or ha
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> ceremonial roles designed to ‘shelve’ MPs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stewards_of_the_Chilte... It's hardly unprecedented for an MP to resign. What is almost unprecedented is immediately standing fo
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Why is the life expectancy for Mississippi significantly lower than the UK? https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/compare/mississippi-usa/unit...
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> Does this mean that Farage's party also can't win in the next general election (and make him PM)? Firstly, that election is three years away; it's a separate political event. Secondly, that depends on the outcome of at l
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by pjc50 3mo ago
I think the special case of the totally unnecessary by-election is important here. I would not expect the other parties not to contest the general election. I don't like the "X is an attempt to distract from Y" framing, but t
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Note that the ability to conjugate Latin does not correlate with good character, despite what the English public school system would have you think. Most famous example of that is of course Enoch Powell. It is however true that you're
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by pjc50 3mo ago
> chose to use the explicitly evil AI > look inside > it does evil things to you too (meme format aside, this is one for "when people tell you who they are, believe them", along with a demonstration of why "only hurt
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by pjc50 4mo ago
LPG and CNG had a consistent niche, but they weren't transformative and ended up not being significantly cheaper either. And recently we saw the problem with natural gas supply availability. With EVs, all of this goes away and you can
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This is a very stale set of talking points.
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> annual taxes stretch into the six figure range as a young healthy person At that point you're in the, what, top 2% of salaries? Especially for your age band.
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Possibly reasonable point about labour supply ruined by an absurd analogy with slavery.
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We should go further with this and require troops to pay for their own medevac. /s
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There seems to be a Lisp .. handedness? Certain people seem to find it mentally appealing. I would liken it to one of the really niche music genres. Only a small number of people like it, but they do so very intensely. The Stockhausen of pr
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by pjc50 4mo ago
You're correct for train driving sims, but they hit a very particular niche of people who really like trains.
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Pretty much (see Docklands Light Railway), with the caveat of most trains still needing a safety driver to watch for humans.
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The insurer is being forced to act as an insurer, by paying the $1000 they're supposed to cover.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Comparable UK costs: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/data-and-c... Estimate for an ambulance call is about £450. I suspect the main reason the US costs more is wages.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
What do you mean by "not like that"?
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I don't think that's a reasonable description of Syria, which is more of a failed state. But yes, generally westernizing works out better for all concerned.
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President threatened (emptily) to cut off all trade from Spain the other day.
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> It is fascinating that there are so many movies revolving around the US president, as if he has some ability that no one has and you can’t simply elect a new one if the enemy gets him. One of the few exceptions was the Battlestar Galac
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Nobody made Russia decide to invade Ukraine, without which there would be no burning refineries.
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Yes, but it's not necessarily more horrific than the unseen effect of the 155mm shells. It's just that those don't come with killcams. (The killcam is a WW2 invention, starting with linking cine cameras to the machine guns of
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I believe the assessment is based on the desire of the US to offer concessions (such as sanctions withdrawal) in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Which will be painful in the medium term, but less so in the long run as oil is diverted

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