Carlo M. Cipolla's first law of stupidity says "Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation"
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Carlo M. Cipolla's first law of stupidity says "Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation"
I was gonna say isn't it more like $18,000 then I realised he's talking about weekdays only, but even that is more like $13,000. Still who's affording a $5 latte every day?
I volunteered at a charity shop and even I don't really get women's fashion
I'm still trying to comprehend how much wrong one can pack in a sentence. The assumption of euphoria, the assumption that's why you won't bone them, Or how about the biggest problem of all- needing a justification for a no
I'm guessing cis gender and not asexual I guess. Idk
Here here! 🫡🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇧
Thank you all for supporting my journalism. More to come. Here's one I wrote earlier. northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
Sex Matters at the heart of government messaging...
Thank you to the good folks of Iceland
Found the link of an interview with someone with Tourette's www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8gO...
I hear in my home country, the UK, the word "biscuit" is a common tic. which is kind of charming
And Ben-Gvir and Smotrich
I think Lammy said a few things, while selling arms
Sadly she won't speak up for British trans women who are being failed by her party. It should be possible to do both
Yup
The UK trying to leave the European Convention on Human Rights is way, way more difficult than any politician is telling us…
I have bad news. The rich will do just fine. Sure, not all of them, but some www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB0...
THIS! Is the plain spoken truth telling I was posting about the other day here, the sort that everyone from White House press corps reporters to the person on the street needs to see, here and say. Quite an excellent op-ed. Coudn't have written it better myself! @velshimsnbc.bsky.social
That's too blatant. They've got to have an excuse at the ready or something
Stunned that more anti-trans hate groups have been permitted to intervene and make submissions in the Peggie ET case closing submissions. We applied early on, for protecting trans witnesses from in-court harassment and to evidence that Naomi Cunningham runs the hate-group ‘Sex Matters’ and was
He's been unwell for a while, I think people are only noticing now because a rumor got their hopes up
I recall hearing somewhere that when Rome sacked Carthage, the traditionalists were extatic, but more forward facing thinkers were more somber because they all but knew Rome would suffer the same fate one day
Where, when? What did they do?
Didn't another one suggest what RFKjr actually saw was kids being creeped out by a weird old man staring at them?
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
I'm English, and I understand your point perfectly. Then again, Ireland is about 10% more democratic than the UK, so of course Ireland makes more sense
That's what I've been trying to say
Much like how the LGB alliance is mostly straight men
Did you listen to the Deadringers episode where Nigel Farage cloned himself to appear on question time many times at once?
They are women, hence why they are called trans women
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Should the UK bring back rent controls? youtu.be/MabpFYU4GmY?...
If you're interested, ChubbyEmu details a case in which a man actually eats the silica packets. He gets hospitalised, but fares better than most of his stories www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChgI...
Not really, it's not toxic just abrasive, as explained my other comment. It's genuinely quite hard to be poisoned by silica
They certainly have been delaying for for longer than I'd like. Almost as if they don't want to admit their hearts aren't in it
I was gonna say, I saw this too
They weren't. The problem with the packets is that the beads are abrasive. And constructed for absorbtion of water, so they dry your insides, while injuring them. This is usually not fatal. Silica in a non abrasive form is just sand. Kids eat sand all the time without complaint. I know I did
I know. that's another reason to ask for a statement. They aren't going to do it unless you hold them to account. And if they continue to refuse, that makes it all the more to hold against them
Is there really anything to investigate? I'd say he breached the code
If defacing the sidewalk is prohibited, then why did the government do it by painting over the rainbow?
There are Muslim LGBTQ+ people, and they need our support, both anti racist and anti LGBTB+phobic
I hope I can live up to that
I really don't think he is, but even I'm checking
Since war was peace
Agreed. Much like the "gay agenda", which turned out to be to get people to stop judging us for who we love. "Trans ideology" is little more than, "let people live authentically, with appropriate healthcare"
I'm open to suggestions
You don't even need someone as intelligent as Sanders to see it
What else should they do? Give up? Cry like babies?
The way I see it, is that it's good how he's trolling Trump, but his views are still deeply flawed. If I were American, I'd see him as the dickhead to take on the arsehole, but preferably not in government
So do I, if for no other reason, that the next one could be worse and we need to be better prepared. I don't want more time wasting on another mask debate
I don't think they realised all the consequences before proceeding. That being said, there is still malevolence behind this, you're right
I mean, he did get away with it though. That's what's so damning
Just like how Trump merch is made in China
Who wants to?
True, but that's even less likely than his death
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I get it, a lot of us wish he'd just leave public life, by death if necesary, but honestly, I think it's just wishful thinking on your part
I mean, I'm pretty sure he was asked about it
He looks fine to me. As for his coherency, he's been incoherent since his first term. He's not gonna die just because of 1 unflattering photo
No, he isn't
He's still alive
Facial recognition is a technology that should be scrapped until sufficient safeguards are put in place
I literally said the word "despite", that word has meaning
This sounds like panic over rare earths. The truth is more often, that China is nowhere near as powerful as people like to think Also, despite Trump's policies, America too is on track to get a majority renewable grid at least by the 2040 🤞
The right-wing assaults on the rights of children and all people who have autism, ADHD, AuDHD and other special needs keep growing, and that's especially worrying for all those who know, care, teach and value such people for who they are and what they can do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
You mean the country only just started doing this? Better late than never I guess, but still embarrassing 🤦
Damn! This is darker than I realised. But also it is a textbook case in government incompetence, so I shouldn't be too surprised
Why is Trump turning the US into a militarised state?
But we're talking about heat storage, not building things
Found on Mastodon... fediscience.org/@kaiarzheime...
I must admit I've not heard this story
Similar to concrete then, just greener I guess
35% is still high
What if we turned empty retail spaces, into creative hubs? A Sydney City Councillor came up with a "lazy place tax"; if you would keep retail space empty there would be a penalty, but if you choose to lease it to a creative at a discounted rate, you’d receive land tax credits/concessions. 👏👏👏
Israel is committing war crimes every day why isn't that headline news every day ...
Watching America shrug at the deaths of children from shootings, SUVs, Israel bombs, RFK ending vaccines, or Chat-fucking-GPT this week really has me wanting to punch the next transphobe who insists we must PROTECT THE CHILDREN 😡
There are various protest ideas going around. One in particular that caught my attention is to line his routes with people literally facing away from him. I wonder if you have any thoughts on this
Rebrand of the week?
Hearing the History of how Native peoples were coerced into living European lifestyles is quite sad. Quite a lot of it was based off patriarchy, and limited diversity
Nearly a third of my country are apparently deeply ignorant or racist
I thought that was obvious
I just realised I'm right in the middle of the argument
You can set priorities in research though
Because Communists are a threat to the rich and powerful? I mean, even the BBC documentary said as much
I know that. That's why Niemöller said "First they came for the communists"
Not entirely. I do seek out knowledge from other sources
Can I ask you if you know who Joseph Hartinger was?
I thought they had been bombing hospitals for years if not decades now
My point as I've tried to make clear before, is that while I agree that the founding of, and a lot of the actions of Isreal are unquestionably evil. I do hold hope that the country can be transformed into something better. That is all
If you say so
I mean, it was a BBC documentary, so yeah. I think it's reliable. If you're interested, the relevant story is about a man named Joseph Hartinger. He tried to expose the Nazi murders in the early days of Dachau, but too many people around him enabled such crimes
I didn't say that ordinary German people didn't know. Just that the Nazis did try to lie, which they did (presumably allowing people to pretend they didn't know)
The series is called Rise of the Nazis. In particular the first three episodes. I must admit though, that there may be a miscommunication. I don't doubt that Hitler admitted to killing Jews when he had total power, but in the early days before his complete takeover, he did try to hide it
Thank you. Appreciate it. However, y'all haven't been clear what I've actually gotten wrong
Well I have watched several documentaries on the topic, where they talked about how the first camps were sold to the people, and how the Nazis tried to destroy evidence of murder. But I admit there may be gaps in my knowledge
It doesn't make any sense to think any of those things help
What history do you think I've rewritten?
I would ask for more information, but I have a feeling this is going to devolve into an unproductive conversation