I think it’s too early to tell with Mamdani. He’s saying all the right things but he needs to deliver on them, and for that he needs time to cook.

Karl Marx wouldn’t be able to bring himself to write a post.

…unless some benefactor paid him to do it.

I didn’t.

IT’S A SEAGULL CONSPIRACY. THEY HAVE A PLAN!

They’re saying it can’t be used as a reason for assigning blame in a divorce. Infidelity is a classic example of when someone can be “at fault” and so assigned blame for the marriage ending.

“No-fault” divorce exists for situations where the relationship is no longer tenable but not because anyone did anything damaging.

They did say it would be removed as a reason for “fault-based” divorce, not divorce generally. You won’t be able to say “he’s at fault for not wanting sex” and so get a preferential settlement.

So people are concerned that Chinese cameras pointing at the Magna Carta will be used to… What?.. read the Magna Carta? That doesn’t sound like a bad thing. They could probably do with understanding that laws also apply to those that rule.

If they’re just working out that cheap cameras aren’t reliable enough for security, that’s something different.

As other have said, it’s not cooling. Vacuum is a great insulator. I think it’s about planning permission.

They’re already their own separate war crime. Let’s not cheapen what “genocide” means.

What annoys me with our relationships with both the US and China is that they both result in us selling our R&D to them. We perform well above our size in technology, yet we don’t guard our home-grown companies against the predatory antics of these two much larger “partners” .

People ask where the British (or even European) Google, Meta, Tiktok or Huawei is. The answer is that they are in the belly of some tech giant that gobbled them up. If we incubated our small companies more, we’d be competing on a different level.

The desert is such a great location for data centres

Is the money in your pension “virtual money”?

Microsoft didn’t lose 10%. Investment funds holding Microsoft lost 10%, and they invest other people’s money.

It’s a bird. Big beak, wings, long tail.

At this point, not having AI would be a selling point.

Post WW2 America has dragged us into far more conflict than we should have been part of. I think the only conflict the UK has entered of it’s own accord is the Falklands war. Other than that it’s been UN peacekeeping forces, NATO operations, or (and these are the problem ones) trying to make US operations not look unilateral (e.g. Iraq 1 & 2).

They’ve also made sure all our innovation goes to them first.

Now I’m sure there have been benefits to having the US in our corner, but I think we’ve been exploited in a lot of ways for the sake of the “special relationship”.

Corporate welfare

No. You don’t get to say this is ok because it’s Labour. This is authoritarian power grabs. Nobody voted for this because this was never shared with the public.

Labour, Tories and Reform all need to be cast into the wilderness for decades over what’s going on right now.

Here’s the secret. Revolution shot boards were weak arse shit.

I like the “Simplicité, Sécurité, Souveraineté” theme. Echos of “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”

Pretty sure fascists don’t like other fascists exerting power in their domain.