those genetically modified babies who are all 6'8", jacked, no diseases, never aging past 38, are going to be the biggest dickheads in human history when they grow up.

podcast idea: every episode is a different famous person and they have a conversation with 3 people who have never heard of them, so the celebrity can experience what it is like to not be famous.

NEW VIDEO: 14th April 1912 was quiet Sunday night in the busy North Atlantic shipping lanes, until the world's largest ship began transmitting a distress call. youtu.be/LZ22waX_x0Y

fwiw I think Labour will U-turn on ID cards like they have U-turned on literally everything else so far. That said, I'm interesting in seeing how far I can go while refusing to get a cringe little app that probably won't even work. What are they gonna do? Arrest me? Bring it on!!!!

I received an email from Octopus today saying they're hiking their time-of-use tariff rates, in part, because consumers were too good at shifting their use to cheap periods, so they were losing money. This tells you how powerful price signals are in driving efficient use of the power system.

🤓"heh...bet you didn't know Saint George was actually Turkish!" Saint George WAS English. He DID kill a dragon on St George's Day in 1066, then he wrote the Magna Carta with his blood, sending every European to Brexit jail. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🌹 Don't like it I'll help you pack.

I can tell if you *actually* hate AI or if you just performatively hate it because it's the "correct" socially enforced opinion in your friend circle. I know because I am also in this second group and I can spot you a mile off.

Every fucking time >enquire about renting an apartment >they don't reply for 2 weeks >"yeah you can come see it 2 weeks from now" >wait 2 weeks >morning of viewing >we are cancelling your viewing because somebody already rented it FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They should put one average-looking person on Love Island for comparison, to see if personality does matter

Excellent, now we begin the campaign to let 16 year olds buy tobacco and alcohol and lottery tickets. IF YOU CAN VOTE, YOU CAN SMOKE. 😎🚬

As of today there are now 18 year olds in Britain who don't know a country outside of stagnation and decline...

It's not giving away the islands that bothers me, it's about paying for it. My entire life I've been told "um...we don't have enough money for nice things, sorry" and suddenly there's £30bn for a random African country to abolish their income tax.

Remember to email your Labour MP and ask them to explain why they cut PIP payments "because we can't afford it" but then simultaneously agreed to give £101 million per year to Mauritius in exchange for literally nothing.

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They showed the movie adaptation in the Soviet Union as propaganda, but then had to ban it because Russian audiences were amazed that even the poorest Americans could afford a car

Interesting that the US minimum wage is so low now that it has effectively been abolished, only 0.1% of the workforce are getting paid as little as that. For comparison 5% of the UK workforce is on our minimum wage of £12.21/hr.

It is fascinating the way you can take money from hungry children or disabled people without consequence, but try to limit the amount that goes to rich pensioners and everything implodes.

look at the size of the tumors on this tree! :0

Fish Tank (2009) dir. Andrea Arnold

Argentinian guy's home movie from the time he visited the World Trade Center in June 2001. Except he holds the camera and talks like it's a modern vlog. Time traveller behaviour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckN1...

for real Hearts of Iron looks wank. how do people get addicted and turned into extremists through what is clearly a boring game. get a job.

"Noooo!! We need to stay on permanent summer time so we have lighter evenings!!" "Noooo!! We need to stay on permanent standard time so we have ligher mornings!!" Hmm...What if... we had a system... that ensured we would have appropriate daylight hours for appropriate times of the year....???

mfer talking like she wasn't literally prime minister and didn't have the opportunity to do this instead of passing unfunded tax cuts

if you gave me like a 1000 page binder with a line-item breakdown of literally everything the government spends money on, after a week I could easily find Rachey's required 20 billion in savings. And nobody would notice anything different.

the thing I miss most about university was that there was a lecture hall in the faculty of engineering building where the shape of the seats made it so when you leaned back on them they would crack your spine in the PERFECT spot. I have found no other seats that do it as good.

I have zero regrets about forging my parents' signature every week in school

Poland & Baltics keeping atlanticism alive

fairly certain this ad in the @data.ft.com was generated by AI.

At least Europe has bottle caps and a universal charging cable 🇪🇺 🇪🇺 🇪🇺 🇪🇺

I know witchcraft isn't real because if it was the US Military would have weaponised it by now. They would have astral projected into Bin Laden's compound.

There is nothing stopping Elon Musk becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom btw. Commonwealth citizen (South African/Canadian) so he is entitled to vote in the UK, be elected as an MP, or nominated for a peerage in the Lords. We should really get rid of that loophole.

Rose jumping back onto the Titanic is obviously the irrational choice but that doesn't make it a "plot hole". Humans aren't usually rational, the way characters act in movies is what makes the most sense TO THEM in THAT MOMENT. That's how stories and conflicts unfold!!!

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I want to keep up my purely aesthetic habit of having a 1:5 ratio of reposts:original posts, but there is barely anything worth reposting on this website.

Was Elizabeth II the most looked-at person in human history? If her face was on the coins/banknotes/stamps of like 15+ countries for 70 years, along with all the constant media coverage. Who else comes close? Mao?

Went to the doctor to get something checked and I'm not 100% convinced the doctor believed me, now I know how women feel

I have a Hitler number of 7. I met Polina Borshchevska at a film festival in 2024. She did a documentary on Vitali Klitschko, he met Zelensky, who has met Putin, who has met Elizabeth II, who grew up around Edward VIII, who visited Hitler in 1937.

You see Marge, there's "Doing nothing" and "Doing nothing!"

snowball fight, italy, ca. 1400

why do they call it a u-turn when the sign clearly shows an n-turn

Everyone loves to argue if Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it is). Nobody has the balls to argue that Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) is a Christmas movie.

This is the closest the BBC article gets to offering an alternative viewpoint; that is, the entirely normal view that young adults should be entitled to the same freedoms and privileges that every other adult is allowed. NOBODY is standing up to this.

"Nooo! I don't want to be a libertarian!" I shout. But then politicians do shit like this and it's hard not to get dragged further and further into libertarian territory. We are being governed by a bunch of freedom-hating parochial something-must-be-done-about-this MORONS!!!!!!