From the guy who literally wrote the book On Tyranny

Is there anything @microsoft.com won't do for a KPI?

A silver lining for the cesspit, I like it

Interest in EVs surges in Europe as fuel prices jump after Iran war Demand at online marketplaces could settle at a new, higher normal, with the crisis leaving consumers ‘scarred’

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is doing something a decade of subsidies and mandates struggled to achieve:

making millions of people want an EV who previously discounted them.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yeah it cuts both ways for sure. A good thought. I just want to see a bit more aspiration instead of this "spend 3 years undoing everything the last lot did" cycle after cycle

Not wanting to destroy the planet is virtue signalling now?

Sound the virtue klaxon team, that's something we can all get behind

Heh that comment wasn't necessarily targeted at TOP. I haven't read their policies since Gareth was at the helm. Point I'm making remains: worrying about wasting your vote often means you don't truly vote for what you believe in.

My pocket idea is to rework it so you vote for policies, not people

Why do you think only "the left" will vote for them? Surely that useful idiot thing plays both ways

Yes it would! But with this mentality we'll never get another party into government. The spectre of a wasted vote is such a deathblow to fresh thinking and new blood in what is a stale incrementalist democracy

Zach gets it exactly right. Orban was an authoritarian who built a rigged election system for his own gain. But Peter Magyar cracked the code - realizing that every vote in the countryside was worth two to three votes in the cities and so racked up countryside support, winning 2/3rds of the seats.

Preparing to be cancelled for this but meh? If that dumbass fascist wants to give them money who cares, as long as they don't serve his interests later.

Up to you to decide if you trust they won't, but my position is to put pragmatism over purity. Getting those flipped is why the left loses

go fash get smasht

What's wrong with TOP?

a close up of a dog 's face with a fire behind it ALT: a close up of a dog 's face with a fire behind it

It's fearmongering right up until my garage personally floods, then it's just a freak weather event

imagine arguing with your devout catholic grandma and shouting "the pope is WEAK on crime"

Can't believe that the Coalition of Chaos caused this inflation through their record borrowing

It's got to sting. You base your whole strategy on blaming last Govt for inflation caused by a global price shock, and then another one pops up as you head into the election!
Now, can you invest in lessening the impact? Well, yes, but you can't because you've made fiscal constraint your thing! Lol.

The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?

How the fuck is the president and Secretary of State at a UFC fight in Miami while war negotiations affecting the world economy are falling apart.

And I know that MFer isn’t going to try to play golf tomorrow too.

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

Drill, baby, drill!

(Holes to attach solar panels on your roof).

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, CBS, and CNN all have Trump-aligned owners. Here’s why US media has a liberal bias problem.

Vance probably asked them why they weren't grateful, and also why they weren't wearing suits

What a very strange advert

My fellow man is a dumbass

3.4MWh of battery. 4 CCS ports. 640KW of solar!

The top part of the Moon is illuminated. The gray cratered surface stands out against the blackness of space. The Earth appears in the far distance as an upside-down crescent moon shape. There is some lens flare in the top part and center of the image. Credit: NASA

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

Ghouls are ramping up the rhetoric - pressing for the ritual sacrifice of lanyards. Worth a look at the actual numbers.
It is true that the coalition have not cut numbers much, but redistribution is the story. Corrections have recruited a load of people, tax enforcement pays for itself etc. [🧵 1/3]

The perfect G&T tree