Reminds me of the time that Disney had to send round a memo ordering their staff to stop referring to the studio as 'Mauschwitz' on social media. The staff complied, changing the name to 'Duckau'.

This guy is a liar himself, look how he distorts the evidence. For example: Trump is an awful human being and a terrible leader and I'd go as far as to say that his January 6th shenanigans were treasonous but to pin the rise in the murder rate on him and him alone seems to be a wilful neglect of the other circumstances. Covid isolated people within their own houses and there are a lot of guns in those houses as is outlined in one of the links in the article.

File under: more Conservative hypocrisy.

Edit: Almost complete list here.

I didn't know the difference so I looked it up: https://www.spinny.com/blog/index.php/awd-vs-4wd-the-difference-explained/

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"I'd like to give them some fucking stimulus."

If you want to insure yourself against capital flight go for a Land Value Tax. Let 'em shove a hectare of land in their luggage.

OK so it's time to say the quiet part out loud: the reason that governments have so far held off on taxing billionaires at 1% or 2% is the fear that they might spend 2% or 3% against those governments in revenge.

General Zod: I like the globe...

Monty, you terrible cunt!

What ever happened to him?

Well, he pulled it on Rorschach, and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft.

the ability of professional journalists to locate these specimens.

Heave half a brick out of window and you'll hit one.

Even worse than that, the far right, as represented by Reform, did better than they have previously done and could yet cause us more problems come the next general election. It's possible that the centrist government that's just been elected will manage effectively enough to kill a lot of the sense of grievance that is currently being harnessed by Reform and directed against immigrants but it's equally possible that another global recession could tank that entire programme.

Still and all I appreciate you coming in here to talk with me about how your thinking has changed. I agree that the French very much did what you say they did. I don't know if there are still people alive who remember the Vichy government but it could be that amongst the traditionally conservative people in their seventies and eighties there's still a horror about what the Nazis wrought.

Well that was more entertaining than I thought it would be.

What happens when a Tory learns about empathy?

Cognitive dissonance.

Only way I can imagine Suella chasing a trans voter is with a cricket bat.

The butter won't make him fat but the pasta will.

It's pure maths. The Tory votes plus the Reform votes is a bigger sum than the Labour vote. Listen. I have to live here with these fucks so I don't like it any more than you do. But without the collapse in the Tory vote it wouldn't have mattered what Keir Starmer or Ed Davey did.

That's not what happened. The right wing vote got split by dummies wanting to vote for a party further to the right than their normal brand and the centre voted for the party that was still in the centre. I mean it was a good result in that the Normal Dummy Party got kicked out but if you look at the history they have been in control for most of the past two centuries because the electorate of this country are mainly right-leaning dummies.

Letter from Charles Darwin to Asa Gray (22nd May 1860)

With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.— I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I shd wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.

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Definitely. He emboldened Bush with his Christian bullshit.

Yeah, on the other hand he's never going to face up to what he's done so you're right, he probably shouldn't have brought up the single most authoritarian policy New Labour ever proposed.

Blair needs to stop sticking his oar in and give the new government time and space to crack on with fixing the mess left by the Tories. I’m sure ministers have better things to do than shoot down his bad ideas. be dragged off to prison for war crimes.

Tomatyo, Tomahto.

Escalators definitely can cause anxiety and a surprising number of adults don't know how to use them safely. I always stand at least four steps behind people on the up escalator because the number of people that will step off the escalator and just stop while they decide which direction to pick next is shocking.

I think that if you pick a fun place to visit and then do escalator drills, the same way that we teach kids to cross roads safely, then it might help with the anxiety. Also it's something that will hopefully pass on generationally.

That sucks. Sounds like your kid is around four?

I know damn well. Someone who knew police told me that when they do these type of stunts they invite the press and local councillors and hand out beer and then they all stand around waiting for the wind to "unpredictably" blow all the smoke all over the audience. Everyone winds up wrecked. Your tax at work in the great war against drugs.

Lasagne - I got layers.

Why do cops always burn weed to destroy it rather than dunking it in bleach or seawater or any of the thousand things you can do to it to render it unusable?

If you're browsing Lemmy, on your phone, in work then really you should be curating your feed a bit better.

Off topic, can we just take a moment to appreciate the art of the photographer that took this pic.

I was hoping for IDS to be beaten, mainly for his part in the design of Universal Credit but it looks as if his constituency is, to quote The Thick Of It, built on a solid bed of cunts.

I think shame is her kink. Have you heard the one about her slave collar necklace?

The Monster Mash

The last decade has seen a particularly significant increase in depression in the United States, with prevalence rates increasing by 33% between 2013 and 2016, with the largest increase among youth and young adults

Back in the day we used to try to address depression with various talk therapies and group therapies. This wasn't perfect and was also relatively expensive but at least it offered a sense of connection and tried to tie people back into society.

Now it's all about pills, which are a huge money-spinner and are cheaper than talk therapy. When things make money you tend to see an increase in them.

It's a scam and we shouldn't be encouraging it. The thieves put the spikes up every day and then the crow distracts people while the thieves pick their pockets. The crows only get 15% of the proceeds.

With all the nonsense that there is in the world why this particular nonsense? Lemme tell ya: friend of mine showed me a graph showing that we had historically low levels of CO~2~. Took me a while to catch on but it didn't have the Holocene individually marked, it was mostly concerning the epochs before mankind arrived. So the argument is totally irrelevant to the discussion of greenhouse gasses. Unless... unless you could convince yourself that there were lost civilisations that existed in distant pre-history. Of course there's absolutely zero evidence for these... must be a cover-up.

In the UK it's always time to nationalise the losses, it's the profits that are privatised.

It's a funny thing, I used to a werewolf but I'm alright noo^ooo^ooow.

Fuckin' A.

Indeed.