I love the notion implicit in the screenshot that association football players are rarely if ever openly gay. Ok. Sure Jan.

This is not actually true in the UK. Here you still have to apologise for being white to me, personally.

I honestly find people like JJ incredibly offputting, from any culture and any country. My instinctual bias is to despise this sort of squirrelly, whiny scraping and bowing before a larger neighbour just because they're larger.

Civ5

the vice president is a klansman

Since I posted the Spiced Peaches to go with my Christmas ham earlier, I thought I may as well do the decent thing and alert you to this Slow-Cooked Black Treacle/Molasses ham recipe which I’m planning to do this year. It’s just so very good, and so very easy. www.nigella.com/recipes/slow...

What do you think /happens/ in universities exactly

One of the things I dislike most about how LLM tools are actually being applied irl is quite simply that they are being slotted into the thing that chatbots were already slotted into - first point of contact customer service stuff

why is it always “I’m against nuclear war so I think Ukraine should surrender” and never “I’m against nuclear war so I think states shouldn’t threaten nuclear war”

Thomas is completely correct here but I will go one further. This is also true for basically all forms of pop music

speaking of which, this is a cold take but: i /really/ hate every time that the idea that electric cars are as good a substitute for fossil fuel cars as modal shift to public transit turns up, and i need all of you to stop saying it just because you've given up on the latter without really trying

In reality, it's the complete opposite. Western leaders were incredibly indulgent of Putin, his aggression, and increasing authoritarian rule all through the 2000s and 2010s. He turned Grozny into a moonscape, and we shrugged. He started fixing elections and killing dissidents, and we ignored it.

"bluesky is 38" thought is actually just elder millennial myopia given form send tweet

random observation but that thought is mostly defeated by statistics (the average age of the membership is far closer to twenty than that)

flights in general are a tricky thing because /unlike cars in urban areas/ they /are necessary/ a lot of the time for a lot of people but i also basically think that the environmental cost is severe enough that policymakers /have/ to be conservative in how many of them they allow

Boys and girls I'm wildly sorry but the notion that DA2 is better than TW2 is just stupid and I /love/ DA2

one of my favourite (derogatory) posters on here is someone who is an avid left-urbanist (more bikes, less cars, more housing, etc) on absolutely everything except airports, where they treat opposition to airport expansion with unmitigated disdain (presumably because /they/ like cheap flights)

Basically the entire time since 2014 people have repeatedly told me I'm being irrational and paranoid for basically just literally quoting things Vladimir Putin says he plans to do and going "he clearly plans to do them" after I last witnessed him doing them

Well no let's be fair here. These are not Russian talking points, because Russia has never said anything remotely as conciliatory as she alleges, in its entire existence.

live response from poor benighted small business owners whose children go to shawlands academy and who go on holiday to bali three times a year

on the bright side GCC's response to this rubbish is *chef's kiss*

It's so frustrating that, even within the disability community, the real problems non-driving disabled people experience now are largely ignored in favour of the hypothetical problems associated with an intervention that nobody with the power to effect it is proposing or supports (banning cars).

Southside cafés complaining about proposed parking restrictions cracks me up so much because I'm sorry but in the real world people do not travel to Govanhill and Shawlands for their cafés by car.

Calgacus, Vercingetorix, Hannibal - early advocates of walkable cities

increasingly polarising myself in my hatred of roads to the point where i'm convinced the romans building any was already bad

Mortal Engines (2018)

The reason why Western powers have to help protect Ukraine, the Baltics and Poland is among other things because you literally promised to and signed treaties to that effect. You can of course tear up those but if you think people are going to take that neutrally and without offence you are a moron!

This is so good, it's actually just plain racism.

I knew immediately the full name of the only Guy in politics who could provoke such loathing

I want to say something very important. Dear allies, please bear in mind that the newest Ukrainian intercepter drone P1-SUN reads as "dick" in Ukrainian. Thank you for your attention. #UaView #UkrainianView #NAFO

i am reminded of a belarusian saying: "one of the problems with russians saying that we are one people is that they can't say it in our language"

These are not the same.

Jeevun seems like a nice guy but he keeps making references to Scottish culture that are just embarrassingly bad and show he doesn't know, like, much of anything about it.

Okay, fine. In that case, pay up for every cent that European countries spent helping you with Iraq and Afghanistan.

if not for the grimness of it this would be quite a nice print

if we're being completely honest here i personally wouldn't even say "it's ok to be bad at first" to a person who says "i use generative AI because i want to be an artist but can't spend time getting good at it", i would say "you are 36 fucking years old"

I'm not being funny but how does a normal person share a society with these people

Yeah I mean it's TW3. I have such a difficult relationship with that game but at the end of the day it is TW3

Fuck you, Karol, you are a traitor to Poland and Polishness, neither of which could exist as we know them without Judaism.

A broadcast from every single European on this website

Vijay Prashad to be found on suicide watch when the new Nepali Communist Party governs as not even particularly radical socdems

you know i'm just saying, new yorkers, subway fare dodging is not remotely as universal to subways as some of you seem to think. i have never seen a glaswegian "hop a turnstile" (a bizarre image to imagine to be frank)

*free speech guy painting* i think it's stupid to oppose increasing electricity capacity to your home

Tbh i think it's that Americans have literally never seen a sidewalk that is /actually/ any of those things

I start typing something about this, and each time I delete it because it's probably going to get me banned here. Thanks for murdering my fellow citizens in camps, I guess.

I in general despise all commentary on all forms of art that consciously chooses to be surface level and judge it before understanding what it's trying to do. Like no, you're just being a child. Stop doing that.

Anyway there is one actual true living embodiment of "monumental" architecture that reflects social democratic values and you absolute children hate it for some reason

it's transparently easy to answer btw: because projecting force, threat and power is ethically bad from a normal, democratic perspective, whether liberal, socialist or moderate conservative

Down with the traitors! Up with the stars! And we'll rally round the flag, yes we'll rally once again! Shouting the battle cry of FREEDOM!