do gravy boats have to consider cabotage rules or can they take any route around the table?

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

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Okay let me phrase it this way: We all consume housing. The question is simply how we pay for it, and there are a ton of complicated inputs into that for any particular consumer. But unlike almost any other consumption good, housing has gotten moralized in a socially destructive way.

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

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Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

So sorry to hear this. What a sad moment for the BBC, and what a loss for all the listeners. Thank you for the amazing work you have done and for being an example for all of us by living and speaking with integrity and honor.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

I get that the BBC is terrified at the moment over the Panorama/Trump thing and is keen to be performatively "even-handed," but sticking Robin Ince in the ribs for the high crime of believing that maybe kindness and tolerance aren't such bad things is a hell of a line to draw.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

A few doctors striking for a few days will not be what causes the collapse of the NHS. Years of chronic underfunding and mismanagement will do that for you.

$10,000 is NOT a ‘hefty’ fine. FFS. 👇🏼

The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US

“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”

It also works so very badly. It sounds like one track is emerging from a sludge while the other is being drowned in it. On the other hand, it made me realise how skilled human DJs are

A great deal of AI hype is coming from con artists who understand exactly how much easier it’s going to be to use the same cons over and over once they achieve their dream of a world in which nobody understands how anything 1) works or 2) has ever worked.

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

Society loves a naked woman, provided she didn't give herself permission to be seen

Ah. I see people are learning about how the Superhero-Industrial Complex actually works. Might I recommend a book that tells you how we got to this terrible state of affairs? josie.zone/true-believer

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When the ai bubble finally pops, a really stinky fart smell is gonna come out.

Macquarie is purging Arab and Palestinian women from its staff. Two were forced out. One suspended. Three Arab women targeted in one year. This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia. If you’re outraged, hit repost.

Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

Heads up. Aldi has Peace Prizes in the middle aisle today. Grab one while you can

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not to put too fine a point on it but every guy doing the “we need to reboot masculinity!!!” schtick has fewer masculine virtues than I do and I’m nonbinary

Funny, we've never seen a billionaire lose 77 billion while actually doing something good for society, like feeding people or building affordable homes. It's always money burned up doing stupid shit that helps absolutely no one.

The wildest thing about these ludicrous boondoggles is there’s no material penalty for having been a booster and no material advantage to having seen it coming. Probably the reverse.

It’s very funny that the same people who complain about participation trophies are the same that want their very special 79-year old toddler to get lots of them

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I love that people have found this again. 😊⚛️🎢

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my brain has already fallen down these stairs four times

Your seasonal reminder that Quality Street chocolates are a cash-in on a hit play by J M Barrie, and used to feature the characters on the box. So a bit like people in 2100 buying 2.22 A Ghost Story chocolates every Christmas with Lily Allen on the tin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality...

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