‘Own goal’ doesn’t even begin to describe it.

It’s like he got so pissed off with his own party trying to stab him in the back that he’s now doing the political equivalent of running it down.

Now I really hope the Liberals or Reform UK become the opposition party.

The same place that regularly bullies and bear-baits ‘lulcows’ for entertainment? The same people who bullied an autistic adult over a shitty Sonic fan character webcomic?

Isn’t Java known for spitting out random errors?

Public opinion is definitely skewing more towards Palestine, at least here in Britain. Where I live, I genuinely saw a pro-Palestine march back in October attended by thousands, along with Palestinian flags waved everywhere around town. Haven’t seen any Israeli flags or marchers by comparison, and I don’t think that’s out of fear.

The only people I’ve seen genuinely throw support towards Israel have been Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.

Norway has absolute Chadwicks in the form of Finland and. Sweden as buffers.

Finland has experience in kicking Soviet ass.

The moth transformation occurs when the cocoon is near a lamp.

Wasn’t expecting to see Hit The Lights in this thread.

That song is cool, but I’m more of a fan of These Backs Are Made For Stabbing and Save Your Breath.

Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger

Just execute him if he’s going to basically be in solitary for the rest of his life. It’d be more humane.

The European Convention on Human Rights forbids the death penalty.

That’s kinda accurate actually.

One of the biggest problems with Britain is that everything is centralized around London while other cities and towns are an afterthought to the government.

London is the only city with an underground railway network. It is also one of only three cities (Newcastle and Glasgow being the others) with any kind of metro transit network. Public transport outside of these three cities is heavily overpriced and monopolized at a local level by a handful of big bus operators, i e. First, Stagecoach, Arriva, Go Ahead.

Another massive problem is that we simply aren’t building new homes because doing so would harm landlord profits. Londoners are moving further out because London is so overpriced.

Things are so bad here that Bristol (the city I live in) is now the second-most expensive city to live in behind the capital. Before that, the idea of us overtaking SE England or even Bath was unthinkable.

I need a girlfriend. As for how, even I haven’t figured that out.

I mean Lemmy World was at one point really unstable but this was due to an influx of Reddit refugees, malicious DDOS attacks and at one point malicious actors flooding the instance with CSAM - a reason why the Lemmy Shitpost community temporarily shut its doors.

I’ve not noticed glitching recently. Reddit’s official app is the unstable crock of shit if anything.

I abandoned Beehaw and went to Lemmy World because you made the decision to defederate after Reddit shat the bed.

So it wouldn’t make much of a difference to me. I only left my Beehaw account dormant because that instance gave me the impression of being like yet another Tildes, and I kinda wanted to be with the main Reddit exodus crowd.

Better than Reddit. The community is a lot more welcoming, much more friendly and lacks the open hostility of Reddit. Frankly I hope Lemmy doesn’t become mainstream, as much as I want Spez’s empire to fall.

At what point does this go from being a counter terrorist operation to a genocide?

In theory it does work, and it has historically worked in the past. A lot of wealthy people in the last few centuries were philanthropists that built schools, hospitals and other public works.

The main deterrent these days is that your typical billionaire is greedy and entitled.

Plus as we saw with some merchants and colonial figures, your name could be scrubbed from the history books and statues of you torn down if your past actions are incompatible with modern day morals. Edward Colston is a good example because despite him pumping a lot of money into philanthropic projects, he made his fortune from the transatlantic slave trade.

I can almost guarantee that people would have much more favourable views of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, etc if they pumped tonnes of money into building new homes and actual public transport infrastructure.

Starting a private space company doesn’t count as philanthropy. As for Bill Gates, years of medical disinformation have built up this narrative that he’s pumping money into medical research and vaccination programmes for nefarious reasons, like planting microchips into people.

It has a lengthy, almost month-long inoculation period where you can be vaccinated. Should you show symptoms after that, you’re fucked

As much as I loathe the civil disobedience tactics of movements like Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion; I feel like attacking our freedom to protest like this is going to backfire.

This may push such groups into radicalism because “we’re going to prison anyway, may as well go all the way.”

Sites owned by Reach PLC (i.e. the Mirror, London Evening Standard and a lot of local news sites in the UK) are worse. Like… giving your phone digital cancer levels of bad.

I would bring Wednesday 6th January 1999’s winning lottery numbers, five books chronicling the last 25 years of British history, history of businesses, history of the tech industry between 1998 and 2023, modern military history, and the history of Blackrock. Also I would choose a healthy 21-year-old body.

The plan is… win the lottery for some immediate starting capital, make well-informed investments, effectively become the Warren Buffet of Britain and weasel my way into the world elite, befriending figures like David Cameron, Tony Blair, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, etc. I would make timely investments into new startups like Facebook, Twitter, etc, jump on the Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum bandwagons early and make it my aim to become the richest man in the world. With that wealth I’d then buy more shares in Blackrock, Blackwater and Lockheed Martin, seemingly be at the top of my game as head of a PMC. I would assist in conflicts that maintain the status quo as best as I could.

I would also do a tonne of work with African military forces, make loads of private investments in African firms and , and beat China to the punch.

With the exception of Blackwater, I would not aim to be a majority shareholder in any of these companies. I’d keep maybe… 5 to 10 percent of shares in the really successful companies, lose a bit of money in falls to not arouse too much suspicion, but I would otherwise climb to the top of the PMC ladder and put my fingers in as many NATO pies as possible.

That’s what I’d do if my aim as a time traveller was to take over the world. In actuality, I’d rather just win the lottery, diversify my investments and retire comfortably. I don’t desire world domination.