My mother in law has been turned from being a nicely liberal, balanced person into a raving Farageriots fangirl. It's no coincidence that she spends a LOT of the day on Farcebook.

I don't like the phrase "100%"- unless it's ascribed to a genuine percentage value- but... "100%" (in newspeak).
A full, deep look at the harm social media does to people- not JUST young people- is needed.

That's great, but the manufacturers will simply keep releasing software/firmware updates that make the phone damn near unusable within 2 years of you taking ownership of it.

Utter tripe. Everyone knows that the best track of modern times is "Golden" by the KPop Demon Hunters.

And simply because they get a few complaints about Ian Hislop giving facts on HIGNFY they can claim that their programmes are "balanced".

Given that the headline on the Today program this morning was, "Refugees... Sexual discrimination... Accelerated application" (etc)- i.e., one designed to portray Labour less favourable to Deform- I'm going to keep banging on about the BBC being biased.

If a docile black Labrador can be a guard dog, then yes. But why my crop of corn and runner beans needs a guard dog, I don't know 😉

Probably in Bitcoin, which is of course the criminals' "currency" of choice.

And they achieve it by keeping the world hooked on oil.
"Just Stop Oil" couldn't be allowed to continue, because oil is such a central tenet of capitalism.

When I retire, I'm going to have a proper mancave. And a greenhouse.

Currently watching the #louistheroux documentary about US Nazi Tom Metzinger. Makes me think: this guy probably voted for Trump. Wonder what these far right nutjobs think about Trump & the war criminal Netenyahu being in bed together?!

Look in the manual, Manuel.

Good and appropriate use of RT language there sir.

Or you can use standard radiotelephony language for the V or UHF bands, in which it's not necessary.
I also use HF pretty frequently and never heard it used there either.
So anyone using this just sounds like a tit.

Oh, and while I'm at it- minimum pricing for alcohol isn't working.

For fuck's sake- can't you see what happened to the energy price cap after that came in?
I'm a SNP voter but this is fucking ludicrous. It's the government taking away what little competition remains and effectively telling the supermarkets the max price they can- and will- charge.

I love the NHS. But my local GP surgery? Well, they claim to be NHS (and they look like they are), but do a little digging and you find that they're not.
I dislike my local GP surgery, like everyone in my village. And that's most peoples' first experience with "The NHS".

Jon Stewart's podcast this week deals with crypto and how it's massively benefitting... Wronguns, basically. It's well worth a listen if you're into it.

Snap! I'm terrible at it too. I'm actually terrible at all board games (except Monopoly, which is just boring because I always win).
My 9 year old kid beats me at chess... Easily.
But the Queen's Gambit, I'm agree with you- is a fantastic series.

Normally I don't click on DM links, but in this case- I made an exception.

Really? That's what this is about? Reform Islam and then the Jewish people are redeemed?!
Redeemed from what?
This is really interesting.

Enlighten me? I'm no bible scholar.

But aren't they effectively forcing Palestinians into ghettos?

Why aren't more Jewish people around the world speaking out against the war criminal and corrupt Zionist Netenyahu?
If you commit war crimes, you lose the "right to defend yourself" IMO.

What do you have to do to win Reform PLC's "energy prize"? Uninstall the solar panels from the house you just bought? Install a coal fired boiler and generator?

Yep, been there, done that. I sometimes wonder what happened to that postgrad biomedical science student who I dated all those years ago.
And then, via the magic of the internet I realise she's now a highly respected professor of pharmacology while I'm basically still a bus driver.

Despite carrying the weight of public opinion, the Dems in the USA seem utterly incapable of choosing a leader that can hold up against even the worst that the Reps can throw at them.

Says that the man that boasted, in public, that he won the election for Trump. And was basically his best mate until people started torching Tesla stores.

She will still vote for him.

I spend a lot of my working day with millennials. When talking about how much stuff costs, they usually refer to it as a cost per month. It's sad.