Better vote Lib Dem if you want to rejoin the EU, although rejoining is a long way down the road, according to their manifesto. I enjoyed reading the section on Asylum & Immigration. I needed a good laugh.
Next time, someone says that the House of Lords should be abolished because it is filled with rich people with nothing better to do; tell them they're idiots and have no idea what they're talking about. They are a valuable safety net for the British people, successfully blocking the Government (Conservative) 496 times since 2010 https://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-lords-faqs/lords-govtdefeats/
Glad to see not a lot has changed with #ArchLinux in terms of needing a certain level of ability. Spun up my VM this morning with 437 updates available but of course pacman refused because mutter43 and mutter are in conflict. The fix for me was: sudo pacman --remove --nosave --cascade mutter sudo pacman -Syyu
Oh, and I had to: sudo mv /usr/bin/WebKitWebDriver beacuse pacman moaned about that too!
𝗡𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 I do a weekly Newsletter for a customer who seems to be obsessed with "Centre-aligned" The email has a main offer that, IMO always looks a mess and four smaller offers that look fine. Today she sent the brief over with the main offer, as usual, centre-aligned with a section containing bullet points. 🤢 I tidied it up and put the bullet points in a single cell, left-aligned and sent the now tidy results off for approval. "𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦-𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘴" 😭 😭 😭
I'm going to ask Nicola Sturgeon to do my Lotto numbers for me because fook is that woman lucky! Total shock! Resigns as the leader of her country on 15 February 2023 Forty-nine days later, the rozzers come to arrest her old man. Ten minutes before Constable Cameron turns up at the former First Ministers' home, Nikki manages to leave the house with a couple of bags. #snp
No sympathy for her but still surprising for a politician, most of them get caught red handed , don't admit it and much less stand down unless they're really forced,in some cases almost with guns.
I was never a fan of the woman. While I agree perhaps Scotland should be given even more independence, I'm not in favour of them leaving the union, so for me, her going was a blessing, but I was shocked and mystified when she announced her resignation.
If I'm right and this is why she resigned, then it's definitely fishy because she's had about four or five weeks to clean up any loose ends before his arrest today.
At least once a week, I buy a poached egg on toast sandwich from the local cafe come sandwich bar. It's convenient as I phone halfway to work and place my order. The sandwich cost £2.30; however, this morning, there's a price increase: £2.70! Looks like they'll be losing a customer. 😞
Earlier today, more than 1,100 artificial intelligence experts, industry leaders and researchers signed a petition calling on AI developers to stop training models more powerful than OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 for at least six months.
I take it that it's just me that finds it hysterical that folk are venting their spleen on Twitter about @elonmusk's latest announcement regarding verified accounts and eligibility, and yet rather than leave and find another platform they can be happy on, they just want to stay to bitch and moan. Humans are such weirdos.
There are far too many political ignorants on social media who seem to think that the current cost of living pressures are down to the Tories. The fact of the matter is this is a global problem felt more acutely by Europe.
It's a good thing you are here to educate the world. I'm sure a knighthood will come along when Sunak gets kicked out. These things never have a single cause, but I think Tory efforts contributed to rising costs. That's called an opinion. Yours may differ.
You're dreaming. The Tories are set to win the next GE, mark my words.
My predictions are: 2024 Trump gets back in and pardons himself. 2025 Conservative win with Rishi as PM and it would be hysterical if Boris was deputy.
Biden is a complete joke, even though it doesn't affect them. Americans don't like the fact Putin is doing whatever the hell he likes, and their current president appears to be doing nothing, and so they will want someone willing to do something, even if it is insane, like starting a war but let's not forget. Putin and trump are supposed to be mates.
If Labour wants to win the next GE, they need to start getting in front of the cameras more I mean, we haven't seen anything of Angela Rayner for months. Has she been sacked? Keir Starmer only appears now and again too.
It never ceases to amaze me how much help people for when they are cancelling a service with you. They don't even have the common decency to offer you a small fee for your assistance either; they just expect you to help them leave with no impact on them and have no regard to what you are losing.
𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼. Donald Trump wins a second term, gets Putin to agree to a peace deal and becomes the darling of the free world. 🤣 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j1MxIHSPys
Donald Trump has opened up his campaign to win back the US presidency by railing against the “dark forces” which he says are lined up against him.At the airf...
Ah, but you have to show you're a strong leader. I can't see Biden pushing Putin around and, in the current game of chess, putting tactical nukes in Belarus doesn't look good for Europe. I suspect Putin is waiting to see if Biden remembers he's running a country. 🤣
Well, I have no idea what they were watching, but I watched pretty much all of it on Parliament TV, and I thought Boris gave a strong performance to an overly polite and shamelessly amicable panel. #PartyGate #Boris
Nobody "Grilled" him as such, from what I saw. There were two or three questions which got him flustered but sticking to the "This is what I was advised" defence seemed to let him slip through the cracks.
For all those Lineaker fans “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels
You do love a quote, but they are not always true. Everyone knows Johnson is a liar. Opinions on whether he makes a good leader are divided. Up to the Tories to choose their path. I'm no particular fan of Lineker, but we may agree on a few things, like treating people decently.
You know, Richard Nixon was a liar and a crook, and yet he was still one of America's best presidents. Tony Bair lied to Parliament and the country about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, thus causing the deaths of British soldiers and countless innocent civilians.
While I understand the pain of people not being able to attend loved ones' funerals and then finding out Boris and his gang had a few sherberts for me, we have far more important stuff to worry about than whether people in the lobby of number 10 stood 2M or 1M apart and what distance rules were in effect at that time or whether a woman who lives there, namely Boris's wife, should have been at a gathering. Fooking pathetic if you ask me.
@steevc But Boris is really awful at being able to answer the questions; he can't give a straight answer even when it's obviously in his best interest. For example in one of them he was asked about a meeting with ~17 people and the questioner said 'well we know that at least 2 of them shouldn't have been there' - I'd have come back and said with 'so almost eveyrone had a reason to be there'.
I believe he has been told to use a similar defence to:
WASHINGTON -- President Reagan 'absolutely' has no recollection of being told by Lt. Col. Oliver North of a proposed large private donation to the Contras by an Iranian posing as a Saudi prince, a spokesman said Friday.
I bet you can find that every PM throughout history has told a lie to The House and the British public. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the requirements on the job application, so you could argue where Boris went wrong was being found out. 🤷♂️
Boris Johnson is "looking forward" to his four hour partygate grilling in front of the Privileges Committee on Wednesday, an ally of the former prime minister has claimed.
I was thinking The A Team, or The Six Million Dollar Man, maybe MacIver or all of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (they always get their man). But you will probably need all of them
Asked OpenAI's GPT-4 to write me a blog post. I checked the output against Grammarly's plagiarism checker, and it found one similar usage of six words in a sentence from a totally unrelated (Subject matter) Website, so I reckon it would be possible to auto-generate blog posts for, say, #hive and nobody would be any the wiser. 🤣 😈 👹
Detection will not be easy and may well get harder, but if you get caught out then expect your account to get trashed. We can still choose to vote on what we think has value. #Hive
The point I was making was that it's extremely hard to detect. I suspect the only way to raise suspicions is if someone suddenly starts to be very productive.
I have to agree Richard Sharp should be replaced for having no backbone. If I'd been Chairman, I would have grabbed someone from the canteen if necessary to present Match of the day. Can you believe the mob is behind someone who earns £1.35m for talking about football?
𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁. When the UK joined the EEC, the precursor to the EU @govuk had to introduce VAT as a prerequisite to joining. Given we are no longer in the EU, in theory, this additional tax is redundant. Wouldn't now, with the price crises, be an excellent time to abolish VAT and put money in people's pockets?
Watching Merkel on #Netflix. Can I just point out Eva Weber, The Berlin wall was officially built to keep the West out, although, in reality, it was built to keep the East in. Comparing it to Trump's wall, which I might add Joe Biden is still building, is misleading and inaccurate in the context used in the program. #TwoPenneth #Netflix #Merekel https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81662140
my article cite is later than that economist article and is a push back on the notion the wall “was still being built” - a talking point of the GOP at the time.
The US and Mexico announced a new “border enforcement” policy on Thursday, January 5, 2023, which blocks Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans from accessing asylum by immediately expelling them to Mexico under the Trump-era Title 42 rule.
The whole point of the Illegal Migration Bill is not about stopping illegals coming today, although maybe they might think twice. It is about speeding up the process of expulsion on their 2nd, 3rd or even 4th attempt. https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3429
I'm surrounded by nutjobs! For years, I truly thought: "It must be me?" but as I get older, I realise that was the plan all along; make him believe he's the problem. (08:15 𝘞𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘵 09:00) 𝗠𝗲: "Hi, just to let you know I'm in the office. 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘀: "Ha, ha, ha. What's all that about?"
Why do nobheads who clearly are not regular drivers think it is a good idea to attempt to drive in poor conditions? If you're scared of [very light] snow or even rain. 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗘! #uksnow #delays #gridlock
They are when there are no cars in front of them, and they are driving at 11 mph on a road with just a light dusting of snow. Christ knows how people manage in Norway, Sweden etc.
A real honour to meet president elect @Tsihanouskaya of Belarus and to reaffirm my support for a free and independent Belarus, and also to recognise the heroic contribution of Belarusian volunteers to the fight for freedom in Ukraine
All of my Social Media accounts (FB, Twitter and even LinkedIN) are filled with him here, there, and everywhere meeting and greeting people, and yet I hardly see anything other than 'in the house' of Rishi Sunak. It's like Rishi's doing all the work, and Boris is enjoying all the jollies. 🤣 🇬🇧
"Pirating is theft, you swine," Matt tells us about an interesting survey that maintains that for 10% of pirated material, there is a 300% increase in legitimate purchases. #tdtrs EP52 Seven thousand elephants Uploaded to https://cast.garden/c/tdtrs/videos #hive
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