If you think you could speak like Mamdani (I don’t meet for a scripted ad, I mean in normal interactions with the general public) you are deluded to the point of a sociopath.
It’s like those polls where a third of men think they could take at least one point against Venus Williams.
Able Seaman Simon, for distinguished and meritorious service on HMS Amethyst, you are hereby awarded the Distinguished Amethyst Campaign Ribbon. Be it known that on April 26, 1949, though recovering from wounds, when HMS Amethyst was standing by off Rose Bay you did single-handedly and unarmed stalk down and destroy "Mao Tse Tung", a rat guilty of raiding food supplies which were critically short. Be it further known that from April 22 to August 4 you did rid HMS Amethyst of pestilence and vermin, with unrelenting faithfulness.
On the night of 30th July 1949, Amethyst successfully made a break for the sea.
In the aftermath, the crew insisted Simon deserved an Amethyst Campaign ribbon as much as the crew. Keran agreed and sanctioned it.
As a result, one was unofficially issued to Able Seacat Simon. The citation: 19/25
Missed out a second rolling in that post.
What's funny is you don't even need to point to foreign examples to demonstrate this is the way to save costs anymore, it's proven in Scotland.
Ah the Treasury it's too expensive to commit to rolling electrification until you reduce costs, but the way to reduce costs is electrification doom loop.
I worked on Crossrail 2, we met with many of the team of CR1 constantly and we had lots of design contractors from that scheme on CR2. The engineering director of CR1 was going to transfer over. That’s all in the bin now, if CR2 ever happens we will no doubt repeat mistakes
Screenshot of Big Bird with cartoon horse. Captions read: "If you have seen Ernie stomp your horse one"
Screenshot of Big Bird in front of cartoon backdrop. Captions say: "Nice. Make chicken."
Screenshot of Bert. Subs say: "You did it, Bernice. You're dead"
Screenshot of a pink baby monster muppet, Nataha. Captions simply say: "Help."
So much to process
50 years ago today, a stunning victory for beige heterosexuals was achieved as jim callaghan became prime minister, triumphing over the jenkinsite-croslandite fruity bisexual empire. and denis healey but don’t worry about it. and michael foot but he had white hair and pronouns
This line actually originates from Red Alert 3, but was cut for being "a bit OTT."
Can't wait for the bit where Barron turns into a sandworm.
I see the two major BlueSky debates this weekend are on whether European rail travel is good or not, and on whether MPs are ‘in touch’ with the people they represent. These are both areas on which I have v strong opinions and I would like some kudos for my discipline in getting involved in neither.
Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math
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There's a through-line from trolling culture to the manosphere and government rejoicing in its own cruelty. The common thread is the weaponisation of irony, making it cringe to care, risible to object.
The radical response: reclaim sincerity.
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Okay but, can I get in on the bleach?
I have a judicial review joke but I didn't get permission to tell it.
"Teller would be loving this."
All of FinSky right now, basically
I thought this was depicting Starmer as the God Emperor of Dune
Winter Fuel Allowance, and my use of "abolish" there can also be read as a cut-for-words reduction of abolish as a universal/near-universal benefit i.e. the changes they introduced the first time around.
Another critical thing is it's not like the reduction was the cost of laying the foundations & establishing a mandate for unpopular but neccesary policy changes that would be coming in their govt.
If they'd had that % drop but had e.g. publicly commited to abolishing WFA it'd be a different story.
Ben Shapiro fully Quotemogged.
One interedting thing about TRU is as they're planning ahead for ETCS they are making sure the speed increases get maximised across both mph and kph, the latter where you obviously have slightly more gradual increments to work with.
If you are running a large global hedge fund, I'll happily come and show you this magical thing called "a map" for a 10k daily rate
If Europe had properly built up production for Ukrainian air defence, we'd be in a position now to supply countries being targeted by Iran
Every time, in every context, the evidence is that we would be better off taking the war with Russia seriously rather than coasting along betting on status quo
Hugh Gaitskell: I ran on an anti-ITV manifesto as a cautionary tale.
ITVX: At last, we have created the anti-ITV device from 1959’s Labour manifesto.
the Labour party trying to paint a picture of why you shouldn't vote Green and it's "everyone will take drugs all the time and also engage in fundamentalist Islam"
of course people voted for that, it's Dune. you've invented Dune!
Patch notes: resolved balance issues where Labour has a younger age profile than every other legacy social democratic party in the game.
Noting that as a high achieving IR undergrad I did not nuke anyone in our scenarios, I merely started arming proxy insurgent groups.
So what we've learned is that AI has reached about the intelligence level of an International Relations undergrad.
Have been banging on about PG loans for some time now - saying to people who are currently actually trying to live on a minumum wage job that it's somehow fair for them to pay out more now based on their cohort having on average higher earnings makes no damn sense.