He is telling people to eat more meat, which sounds absolutely insane to me.

Green planet, veganism, healthy … all woke lefty communist snowflake bullshit. Eat meat, must be more gooderer. Eat more meat must be most gooderest!

What qualifies him to give health advice ? Why are americans trusting him ?

For those that are listening to him. It’s because he’s pandering to what they want to hear. Not because what he’s saying is right.

He’s lived a life of people protecting him. Employees listening and nodding along, while being paid to be quiet. He’s been groomed to believe himself, and to not be questioned.

Sadly it seems many political figures still live in this world and don’t know how to handle actually being questioned on their actions. Modern Media, cameras, information spread (and the speed of spread) have made the lives of those being protected difficult. Many of those being protected haven’t caught up with it.

Normally I’d roll my eyes and move on…

But in this instance I’m going to call service provider protection. It’s not the bus companies fault if you take the bus into town to rob the bank. It shouldn’t be on my ISP to check if I torrent or not. And it’s not on Microsoft what people do with the Azure platform.

They’ve provided a service, which people have used to do bad. That doesn’t mean the service is bad.

… though it is the fediverse and this is Microsoft … so shit away on it

Phone right front. Wallet right back.

Keys left front. You can’t keep a phone and keys in the same pocket. Especially not with the size of modern phones.

Consistency means I always know if I’ve forgotten my phone keys/wallet. There’s never searching or wondering where they’ve gone.

Yep,

I’ve got a part of the house which needs new render and new capping on a pallisade wall. Cannot for the life of me find anyone that wants to do it. Whole house render, no problem. Turn up and just render every wall in site, no problem.

I had a long discussion with a builder who suggested I remove any lead flashing from the pallisade wall so he could render that. After going and investigating what I could, the lead is what’s keeping water out of the house. No, no thankyou do I want to remove that.

As it goes, I might just have to learn how to render myself as it might be easier than learning how to find a reasonable handyman.

Yep… And damn I put so much effort into working that out and still got it wrong

Mid-day should be the middle of the day. Mid-night should be the middle of the night.

If you like more light in the evening morning go to bed late and wake up late. If you like light in the morning evening, go to bed early and wake up early.

Stop fucking with the clocks and making nonsensible decisions

So… Let me check I get this right on the timeline.

America Europe Ukraine meet, agree to a 30 day ceasefire. Agree this tests if Russia is serious about ending the war. Putin gobbs off, surrender or die.

Categorical that Russia is not serious about ending the war.

Next steps boys

That was my initial thought.

But also, he was resisting the coup. You can’t have Marshall law with military leaders willing to resist you.

This could well be the point that we (globally) lose the “nobody would be insane enough to allow him to push the button” mindset

The party that wants to ban abortion to “save the children” has just condemned, quite literally millions of, children around the world to slow and agonising deaths from entirely treatable illnesses.

When America gets sick, the whole world coughs.

Sadly we’re all in the inside of this one

Unless it’s circumcision for religious reasons … then chopping off body parts is A’OK.

I don’t see the flow as a problem. But if you do see the flow as a problem I can see reasons a right leaning government would be the way you’d vote.

I also see why “cheap brown Labour” is a reason to allow immigration. So that one swings both ways enough I didn’t include it.

Young people were especially worried about:

• inflation (65%),
• expensive housing (54%),
• poverty in old age (48%),
• the division of society (49%)

Aaah yes, that classical list of things that a fiscally right party would solve …

I live in the valleys of south Wales. Walk through old coal mining areas and you’ll occasionally find lumps of it on the ground.

Lots of people are talking about this in terms of money… And we do live in a strongly capitalist society.

UBI or similar could be useful.

But… Money was created to find a way to compare one workers “value” to real world goods. When the worker doesn’t need goods (no AI needs 4 chickens and a bushel of grain a week) the workers value doesn’t need to be compared. There is less foundational value in money.

We could move away from net worth measured in hoarding money, and start taking about attending currencies such as social worth. Someones worth could be earned in being useful/helpful to society and we as a society could choose to give more resource to that person. Just an example, but a line of thought to go down

A totally separate area for discussion. I believe (most) people have a general need for purpose. Without “work” as we know it, lots of people could find themselves devoid of purpose. I have a feeling some of the ills of today’s world are because people are not finding social purpose in the work we do. Who really deeply cares about being the middle manager of a packaging company? I believe some of today’s mental health plagues are linked to this.

Remove even more “work” and do people find purpose in other things? Does that help or hinder?

Lots of people think with UBI we’ll all turn to art and culture. But frankly there’s only so much art each one of us can look at in a lifetime. What happens when too many people are sitting making boobs in clay? Do sculptures loose their artistic and cultural value? Is art and culture alone, enough to provide the whole of society with purpose?

Which is the greater of two evils? People being required to slog through monotonous work, or people having nothing to do at all?

Brother

So much chocolate weighed through the scales as “fresh veg potatoes”

These are hookers… just expensive ones

Blast freezer. It’s about as close as we’ll get any time soon. Not an affiliate or anything, just googled and found this bugger (about microwave sized).

https://www.nisbets.co.uk/polar-countertop-blast-chiller/ck640