Absolving Russian society of any of this is indeed ridiculous. The meme about America or the West and colonialist mindsets, the actual correct example of this is the entire Russian society mindset. It's rotten down to the very base, never had a post WW2 reckoning, it's 19th century brain in amber

It is pretty reasonable for Taylor not to use it. It's one of those cases where it could actively inject weird things to your output. Personally speaking if I was her I would use it for general web searches, because Google is really bad now. But otherwise a completely reasonable position.

One of my strongest beliefs is that we should pay politicians insanely well. Ban stock trading, ban them doing other shit, then pay them a salary of a million euro/dollars a year! It's such boring cynicism pretending to be wisdom, whining about somebody in politics daring being rewarded.

Yes. Be plain spoken about it, be blunt. The don't be prick graph, the stop being a gobshite meter, the my god this guy is a fucking asshole alarm.

So much to love about this chart. I know it's a little thing, but Its great how human extinction is not a straight line down for GDP, no lads will take a year or 2 to get to zero, don't ask why!

Why try and destroy the blob when you can seize the blobs means of production!

God this part is so true! The terminal insecurity. Cool dude your number is bigger on paper. I'm happy though, but thanks for checking in, perhaps you should go relax or something.

So a typical type of bonus a mid level person at a tech or fintech company gets every year. Jesus talk about pathetic attempts at ragebait.

Excellent choice. Me I would go with business business business guy from that season 1 episode.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

I'm certain the lad that built that app, when the time comes and Saint Peter sees his name, he will need to call in a sick day to God on account of brain trauma.

What an amazing goat. Takes no shit!

Amazing stuff. I can picture the lad writing it dying of a massive brain hemorrhage just as he finishes, the level of bile causing all his forehead blood vessels to explode.

Ok so the UK green Party position here is actually fine. Huzzah! (back i go to rooting for them to do well)

My god, I'm begging, begging! For lefty parties that don't do this. All the other party positions from green parties are pretty solid, modern, parse the benefits/trade offs. But the moment you mention the word NATO, the ghost of Michael Foot slams thru the wall like the Kool aid man.

Not pepper spray, but it's kinda crazy how Michael schumacher made his F1 debut, because the lad he replaced was jailed for using CS gas to defend himself in an altercation in London. So heed Alex advice, otherwise you may endanger your F1 career!

I would actually disagree with hannan not being always extreme. Pure raw colonialist mindset was always his game, I would actually consider him the most rancid of the brexit figures the last 10 years. The brazen lying somehow went down easier for awhile because he did it with a posh accent.

Some seriously grim shit.

Not the highest bar! But it still has its brain pudding moments. Was using deep research recently for work, the chatbot confidently was telling me about the current leader of Vietnam. I go validate and the guy died in 2024! Bot is brazen when it bullshits.

Uh oh, the last bulwark of trump skewed polling, the RealClearPolitics average is losing its most hack weights!

the only appropriate rebuttal to fascism is violence

youtu.be/9Ii1ROzeSwU it's rather insane how badly this scourge appears to be affecting Americans. Perhaps years of casual exposure to paddy power bookmakers helps with irish vaccination from the more insane affliction

Of course pretty bad stuff. Podhoretz though, can I not feel bad for him? the guy is one of the most aggressive bigots online you are ever likely to find, like clown levels of bile emanating from him daily.

thinking about potato house this halloween

Love the Genghis Khan one. I'm imagining him pillaging China while also checking his stock portfolio.

Someone huffing paint and saying Ireland should have a FPTP system and dictators. Oh wait it's the Irish times, ok shock removed. The Collisons can be a tad naive ok, but I'll take them over this cynicism pretending it's wisdom nonsense. archive.is/2M0ql

This is a real lack of understanding issue the vast majority of people show, not just for the US government but large entities in general. But I will admit, I can never figure out why most people are bad at it. Like is it just a really niche quirk if you have this understanding ability?

it's weird we've gone from "taking bribes is bad" to "it would be insane NOT to take this bribe" -- but i trust that a society run on principles like this can function!

I hate allowing my doomer side to break thru here, but the polling would need to drop into the mid 20s before the spineless ghouls in the American Congress/Senate do anything. So more distruction is baked in for another year no matter what.

Absolutely amazing stuff. It's like an alpha build of the division but it also took a bad batch of salvia.

Interesting insight trading. Man though it just gives me anxiety thinking about it, also the whole balancing and grading risk I have no idea how the hell somebody goes that in that environment, it's gotta be a lot of experience and feeling.

one unexpected aspect of this: i feel good about that. im glad this shit is unacceptable to me. im glad shame and social behavior and adherence to rules were drilled into me. i feel bad for those coming up in this wilderness. i hope for my kids' sakes that there's a pathway out to something better

as this goes on while i grow older, i am very much feeling like a creature of another time. obviously things have always been more or less this way my entire life but as the last vestiges of truth, shared obligations, a loose moral framework get sheared away, i feel increasingly out of place

It really is ridiculous nonsense. I'm just waiting for someone to escalate and have them sleeping beside 19th century industrial machinery, with some lad pretending he lost an arm. Hustle!

Best way to describe it is it's the podcast version of an inert gas. Like aural radon.

The sportification of politics where you support candidates like your local football team really has not been a good trend!

Oh goody, my favourite type of scumbag, the gatekeeping who is an Irish person!

Absolutely amazing stuff. Lads my resale value is going down the toilet, the surveyors are saying all my columns have rot and are blocking sunlight.

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Amazing. Just sneering nihilism all the way down. Don't be projecting your own lack of a moral code on the rest of us you ghoul.

I remember the 3rd one was really bizarre, it had Sean Connery's son as a creepy sex pest character, and the second half was a reimagining of scenes from Terminator!

The thing is it also operates under the delusion the Ukrainians would basically fold ala Afghanistan if the West withdrew support. The Ukrainians need support of course, but they are also so self-sufficient in many areas at this point, they can continue to resist regardless.

Once again I am reminded the Irish state really needs to plan for an openly hostile, destabilising government sitting directly on its land border. I'm just waiting for one these Chuds to hit upon ripping up the common travel area agreements as a cheap dopamine hit for the base.

on.ft.com/46XzY9w man it's a rare event, but I also feel sorry for trump having to listen to Putin ranting about 17th century grievance nonsense. You cannot make a deal with a guy who's brain is that level of pudding.

The spineless weasels at FIFA do doubt shitting bricks. Couldn't happen to a better group of slime.

Me crying at our 50% rate kicking in before 50k But Rob is right about both points. The thing is, it's likely much harder to swallow if you cannot point to great public services. Goes down easier if you can point to all your amazing hover trains flying around!

youtu.be/5fTv9ThJg6U One aspect of the rank corruption of the trump regime, is the sheer numbers just break the brain. This single instance alone is likely more money than all previous corruption instances in US politics for the last 50 years, it's just crackers.

You gotta love Armstrong saying "traders" asked for this No you shiny headed moron, degenerate gamblers asked for this.

Outside observer, but it looks like another case of the RW morons screeds on how the US government is too big, running into the reality that it's actually likely too small for the size of the country. It's a ruddy miracle things run anyway efficiently with how low the numbers are.