NOOT NOOT Motherfucker!

Sorry, best thing to do is follow the old advice:

“Hope and fight for the best, plan and prepare for the worst.”

The piece missing is that unless exposed to critical thinking in education religious organisations will fill the void with blind faith. I’d bet a 1000 in whatever currency you’d prefer that these chuckle-fucks are praying for god to save them from the rising water levels.

The current most likely path is 2.5 degrees Celsius global temperature increase which will lead to water shortages, crop failure, and at least a billion dead globally from food collapse, and possibly millions will be killed from regional wars and the massacre of climate migrants; eco-fascist authoritarianism is now likely to be the political reality for the next 100 years.

From the moment I understood the weaknesses of my flesh, it disgusted me!

We’ve got a lot of them, if there’s one thing the Victorians loved more than industrialisation and traditions from the history of England, it was importing architecture and decoration from ancient history of Greece and Rome.

I would also like to know as well.

And the media pouring petrol on the situation because fear and anger generates the most engagement so that advertisers of the products the general public is panic buying continue to pay just enough to the corporate “journalists” to keep the publishing machine running whilst they convince themselves that 3 years of university education to write editor mandated barely-above-AI-slop articles is fulfilling the noble duty of “keeping people informed”.

Hopefully before maga picks up a history book and learns about the private fire services that used to exist before.

“The only reason they don’t give this job to the service droids is because they’ve got a better union than us!” - Dave Lister

This is simply incorrect, the guidelines approved and enforced since Victorian times is the man kneels before the woman sat on the bed, they hold hands, the lights go out for a minute, then come back on and she is now with child.

Anyone found breaching said guidelines are roundly shunned through heavy tutting.

Since 2012 we’ve had better gins, my aunt drinks Bombay sapphire in her G&Ts but only if there’s not a better gin in the house.

Everyone has different preferences, straight man here and I always want cuddles. It depends on what your “love language” is i.e. how you prefer to give/receive affection.

For me cuddles and other forms of non-sexual touch (not that I’m asexual, far from it) are my preference for giving and receiving. Acts of service, like cooking a meal etc. I’m fine with giving but it makes me feel awkward to receive. And gift giving (random flowers, chocolate, trinkets, etc.) I prefer not to do because trying to come up with a good gift stresses me out and I don’t like random gifts, I really appreciate the thought but if I don’t find a use for it, including being a decoration I like, I don’t want it.

But like you said, you find a middle ground with your partner and I do the same as well.

As much as I don’t like that anyone would be going and therefore supporting the US whilst the orange is alive… I can’t wait to see Americans interacting with pissed English fans because:

1. They will not be able to handle the chants therefore,

2. Large fights will break out in the street and therefore,

3. A good portion of the type of English fans who’d travel to the US now, will get beaten, locked up, and possibly shot by the American police. Oh and hopefully have a pleasant stay in an ICE facility.

These types of fans are aligned politically with trump and farage so it’d give me great satisfaction to watch them suffer the treatment they’d happily wish on others.

And if less comes back than went out that’d be a net positive for our country: a slight reduction in racist attacks and domestic violence.

UK here, NHS is constantly being underfunded and gutted by contracting out to private companies, it still works but just barely.

For example, ambulance target response time for a cardiac arrest, not a simple heart attack but full on unconscious not beating not breathing, used to be 8 minutes or less. Now they aim for 20 minutes and only achieve that 60% of the time.

I’d much prefer a Norwegian style model where you pay say £30 per doctors/non-emergency hospital visit up to a cap of £150 per year with those who can’t afford that getting those fees paid for by the government.

Some additional things I would add would be a slowly increasing VAT on private healthcare until it reaches double the normal VAT, paying student nurses/doctors a full wage and full living cost loan for the duration of their studies, whilst working they do not pay the interest on those loans, then if they move abroad before the university loans are paid back they have to pay the interest back as well.

This would massively increase funding for the NHS by taxing those who can definitely afford the burden because at double VAT the only ones who’d still opt for private healthcare are those who employ workers and therefore no matter how much they try to wriggle out of paying tax they can’t avoid this one.

The second would increase the number of medical students and stop the current drain of young medical professionals leaving for other countries.

That sounds familiar, I take it that was in Neuromancer? It’s been a while since I read that book and The Difference Engine.

Who do?

Eh can one really copyright the idea of an emergent machine spirit when engineers from the industrial revolution were already ascribing personalities to machines and Assimov had already wrote about machine ghosts?

I have seen machines develop ghosts and I believe all electronic devices could develop said ghosts but only if built with quality components that have large tolerance between normal operation values (voltage, current, etc) and fail values. If not then they fully fail to function before they start operating outside of normal parameters.

With the rise of bio computing currently by using rat neurons which I think will collide with LLMs with their hallucinations to produce full on machine spirits within the next 20 years.

I say this has no foundation as the only “evidence” I have is my own anecdotes and the rest is merely a hypothesis.

Man: Yes my child… This… Is… Art.

Baby: …bah.

Well yeah, even here in the UK the police or anyone won’t bother if you’re just sitting somewhere in public and not causing a breach of the peace… I mean when the sun eventually comes out, you’ll see people laid out on every available bit of green space to soak it up.

Your legal system seems very… antisocial?