I wonder how Farage feels about mouthy right wing media darlings defecting to his party?
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I wonder how Farage feels about mouthy right wing media darlings defecting to his party?
this is an absolutely deranged thing to write
Obviously this is true. But for him to go Trump would have to admit he'd appointed a dangerous crank, and well, that's most of his appointees.
Plum tomato with Granny Smith apple for scale.
Kennedy is completely addled. How can a democracy with layers of accountability allow such a man to be appointed to such a position?
None of which I have ever worked on :)
We just have a huge problem with professional salaries in non-commercial sectors, don't we? Academia is just as bad, and with pensions that are no longer comparable to civil service ones.
A humbling way to think about this for those of us in the medical research sector is that these are essentially legislation as public health interventions, and they've been far more effective than our fancy drugs and technologies in saving lives and improving outcomes...
Ironically we're going to get something along the lines of the Euro Army thanks to Russia and Trump...
Another work related LLM use case examined, minor improvements in efficiency of human experts in some parts of the process. Not capable of replacing the human experts. Never will be. Expect more and more of this conclusion to appear in the scientific literature.
Which of the people legally here is he planning to deport?
Is it because as bivalves they literally have no brain?
Australia has compulsory voting, the US government would like compulsory non-voting.
And on the subject of high street conveyancers, ours did manage to fuck up their fees earlier this year and undercharge us. They asked for the, minor, correction before the sale was fully concluded so somewhat difficult to say no...
I mean I've been chatting with a structural surveyor somewhat informally about stuff where they'd risk their professional reputation and stuff where they'd be reluctant to offer an opinion.
What is the average refractory period for male journalists?
One of the those tax things where the lawyer fucks up but the client pays?
Beatrix Potter.
Those le creuset mugs are good insulators, takes a while for a brew to cool to drinking temp. You should pour before you start your meeting so they're ready when you need it.
Also, there's no liquid in the cups...
Haha, that's not a real kitchen. Nobody has a complete set of stoneware le creuset cups and pots unless they're a showroom or a shop.
Yes, the valorisation of unions in a society where union membership and sector representation has decreased. Lads, if you think unions are so important do something to increase membership and perhaps reduce their internal power if they won't or can't broaden membership.
Hey, everybody wants the early Christmas present of less money in their pocket in the New Year!
Had an issue with my phone screen that I finally got Samsung to acknowledge was a warranty repair, so would be done for free, then I dropped my phone this morning and managed to chip the screen so no warranty repair for me.
Plenty of Tory men moistening the sheets over Rayner.
America doing extrajudicial killings of foreign citizens is bad, it was bad when Trump did it, it was bad when Biden did it, it was bad when Obama did it, it was bad when Bush did it, it was bad when Clinton did it, it was bad when Bush did it, it was bad when Reagan did it, it was bad when Carter d
Ahh, he's the kind of roofer who sets up a company, doesn't file accounts, has it struck off, rinse, repeat with almost but not quite the same name... find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/FW8...
It is bizarre to have "zero tolerance" for racial abuse in football and cricket from government, media & governing bodies, yet infinite tolerance - simply silence in media, politics & inaction - for unlawful racial hatred online against elected representatives of every party & other civilians.
That looks like a dislocation!
Wait what, has he done it on stage?
The only party leader in the country who can make your wife bigger where it matters.
Selfish cars too. To take the children to school we have to cross two residential roads. They're not busy, but if there are cars only about 1 in 2 will stop to let you cross. Half will just blithely drive straight past groups of children and parents without a care or consideration in the world.
There's a lot more cars than there were, but they now mostly all have crumple zones and automatic braking systems so you are less likely to be hit, and when you are hit it is less likely to result in serious injury. So the problem is too many cars preventing children from playing in the street.
Yeah, you don't need conspiracies of the powerful. The truth is more that predatory men will find gaps in oversight and care and take advantage and often share knowledge of those gaps with like minded others.
Yes, the conspiracy is usually one of the people who could do something collectively turning the other way.
One of those things, isn't it? There are several documented examples of senior, mainstream politicians being child abusers, and yet we're told other allegations are all conspiracy theories. I'm sure most are. But www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Sun are almost certain to be writing it up again for publication tomorrow.
My favourite in this genre is caffeine shampoo. It does nothing. It cannot be claimed to do anything. Yet the advertising does as much as it can to imply it does. And they're so successful they even sponsor a world tour cycling team.
I think this is the first time they've explicitly embraced woo woo crankery in about 40 years? Normally it's not a feature of leadership candidates.
What are you going to do?
The reason why the Greens should be mocked and humiliated is not because electing hypnotits is funny, but because a party made up of people who believe in magic solutions and crank reasoning are a democratic disaster if they become popular. It's how you get people like RFK Jr to destroy healthcare.
I'll say one thing in favour of the grim and grizzly hard left and it's that they're not going to pander to believers in mystic tits.
Or for that matter how the greens make a case for theirs. They should be shunned now. Leant into the absolute cranks.
Greens. Cranks from top to bottom now. The reformers have lost to a guy who thinks he can make breasts get bigger through the power of his mind. If you lose to that you have to conclude you were in the wrong party.
And NI is very different again...
The UK, more than most countries, is unusual in that flags have different connotations in different constituent countries. You're going to be interpreted in very different ways flying a union jack let alone the St George's Cross in much of Scotland than you will be in England if you fly the Saltire.
Somebody needs to tell her she can write rhymes and she can tell stories, but she sucks all that is interesting out of them in the delivery. Somebody else needs to front them. Somebody who doesn't have the world's worst monotone.
Had to switch to the gyms watt bike rather than run while my ligament and muscles recover. Forgot how exquisitely you can regulate effort on a static bike to keep you in a state of pain just out of the red so you can prolong it.
Kaye Tempest with your delivery like dry bran flakes, no water.
Note that the actual announcement does not specify the name of the president
Not victory or bust so much as victory and bust.
Are you familiar with the literary oeuvre of noted Kiwi short form novelist, Lynley Dodd, featuring Hairy Maclary, his canine chums, and their escapades in suburban New Zealand?
I agree entirely with what you say, but I've spent 3 months trying to get my MP, Kemi Badenoch, to say something about people in her party and in general who argue that immigrants who have taken citizenship, my own partner and children, are not truly British. She won't.
I'm not seeing how they could know she had high test scores. Nor would they have any interest in Nigeria. This is 90s Stanford. They're not scouting Commonwealth countries in far off continents for talent, the talent comes to them. They don't go to it.
There is only one little person in the whole world available for TV. Well two, but Peter Dinklage wouldn't do it.
chat tools are often essential at work along with video, but everybody knows video is more formal and slower whereas chat is quick and spontaneous. They serve different functions and I think it's a mistake to suggest one loses out to the other. I think this is more about why you consume or produce.
On the other hand, you will have reduced expenses (and reduced time).
An actual colonialist writes. Britain long ago granted freedom to (most of) its colonies. When did the colonists in the USA ever return freedoms to those whose land they stole?
This is why documentation is so important (in life and in work)! A bedrock of civilisation is the signed, witnessed and issued official document, whether that's exam results, offers of acceptance/rejection or birth and death certificates. Everything else is arguable.
And Shelob something you tip out of your shoes in the morning?
The Opposition have also abrogated their responsibilities to hold government to account here too.
He blocked me ages ago for reasons I have no idea.
The breast crank is going to be the next leader of the Greens and I hope that's really bad for them.
This one was largely reasonable and largely active before she appeared. Now it's completely moribund and they've lost most of their councillors at all levels.
She ignores us. Not great, but could be worse.
Ahh, well, I keep a ledger and why my children are naughty I threaten them with demanding the early repayment of my investment.
Yeah, well, those of us who have her as an MP have long been aware of who she is. We've been very surprised there seemed to be no feedback from her constituency party to higher levels of the conservative party before she became a minister.
Yeah, not sure what ages you're paying for, but the cost saving when they move from nursery to school is extraordinary. Easily £500 per child per month. Even accounting for uniforms, clubs, trips and so on.
This is why businesses spend money on admin and software devs to integrate systems. This aspect of school management needs funding. It's like the obsession with paying healthcare professionals but not managers in the NHS.
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Yeah, which leads to schools changing platforms every few years as providers change the pricing structures.
This is what gets me, you can take the Colombian exchange vegetables and fruit, give identical ingredients to a Portuguese chef, an Indian chef and a Mexican chef and you will get three extremely different and equally tasty dishes. Pass it through American culture and you get one note sweet slop.
Lads at the gym setting themselves up as PTs after doing a couple of rounds of oral peds...
Yeah, I'm going with this is genuine radicalisation and a Prevent issue.
You're ignoring the Wubbo in the room.
It's mystifying.
She's back to claiming it's an engineering degree? It's solder and software engineering, not bridges and cranes.
Nothing is her fault.
Pretty much every single issue in the democratic world today is caused by political parties not doing due diligence and not removing unsuitable candidates as soon as it becomes clear they are unsuitable. Internally police your parties, or this happens.
Of course Kemi is a fantasist, but the point at which the Tories should have dealt with these implausible claims is before she was a minister let alone the leader. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Too tomatoey.
Made a tomato sauce from the garden tomatoes that was too intense for my northern European taste buds. So I've had to dilute it.
But you can get ac and heating via an air to air heat pump for significantly less than air to water heat pumps.
That would make pharma very happy!
Is he the one with close male bodybuilder friends?
Is she planning on nationalising an oil company then? Because the economics suggest the private sector won't be doing it.
Well, perhaps we should enforce the law for companies offering things online then?
Bet it was an undersized pint too. Big head, small body.
That's ok. I'm body positive.
Nothing like paying extra to post something to Nairn to make you a Scottish Nationalist. There is no way on this earth any English MP would allow a government to permit a surcharge on post for their constituents.
Is this thing on? *bbzt*
Had an odd dream last night. Tried a stand up routine at an open mic night. First joke went well. Second died. Then I gave up, apologised and walked off. Just completely bizarre I have no intention of doing stand up routines at open mic nights.
Buy a sandwich from a coffee shop if you want to feel mugged
I don't know. Probably like everyone else they are hoping somebody does something to restore sanity, but that somebody not being them.
People talk about the legacy of Diana. But what is it? Some tat, a couple of memorials and some incredibly fucked up children. Not much of a legacy. Nobody really remembers the detail of the charitable stuff, probably because it was shallow and inconsequential.
Tbh, the greatest current threat to pharma profits and new drugs is the destruction of the FDA, NIH and CDC by cranks*. I wonder if this is compensatory stuff. *This is also the greatest threat to global public health.
We've seriously thought of fundraising so the local school can train staff to use a single, unified portal for comms rather than pdf newsletter, emails, messages in one app, messages in another app and, occasionally, notes in bags.
America now at the point where regime officials lie, everybody knows they are lying but the media will report it as fact and cut out dissenting views because of the consequences. It's done as a liberal democracy. Now much further to becoming Russia than either Turkey or Hungary.
I'm going to be doing a lot of preserving this year.... And I've got kilos and kilos of fruit already in the chest freezer ready for jam...