I do have kind of third worldist sympathies, but wow what a stupid tweet. Aside from anything else, how are you going to do a revolutionary defeatism without organizing first

It’s actually kind of an open secret at this point that he got an actor to do his radio addresses lol. Also interesting to note that the only data we have wrt his popularity at the time is the 1945 election in which he absolutely shat the bed. He’s been subsequently sainted as part of the ‘tiny island, standing alone’ myth making of the post-war era though

RUB IT IN WHY DON’T YOU

I feel like you lose a lot of credibility when your geopolitical analysis hinges on boners. I think very few would disagree with you if you said that Putin were cynically pursuing his and the Russian state’s interests in the region, with complete disregard for civilian life.

The point is not that there are ‘a tiny number of Nazis’ in Ukraine The point is that there are a large number of Nazi paramilitary forces who were committing mass murder in Donbas well before the Russian invasion, and the Ukrainian government was complicit in these crimes, in addition to crimes of their own, such as shelling civilian targets. By all means, let’s talk about ending the conflict, because the suffering of the people of Ukraine has gone on long enough, but a necessary first step is acknowledging that the conflict had already begun long before Russia invaded.

I thought this was a good reply: https://hexbear.net/comment/6454811

state approval to apply for a passport

What does this person think passports are lol

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Ok who told Modi it was fancy dress

Hmm if you plan on using streaming services it’s a massive hassle tbh. You can get away with using web apps with some sort of launcher, but even then you can’t watch things in 4K because the DRM has a hardware component these days.

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Ok that sounds very interesting. Are there any good books or articles about it?

I don’t know if you remember Coupling, but that was a very strong bit of TV writing too, even if not my cup of tea. I’ve never seen his Jekyll and Hyde but I believe you if you say it sucked lol

Moffat has written some truly terrible TV but he was also responsible for many of the best Dr Who episodes, and the Matt Smith era holds up very well imho. Did you ever see Moffat’s Dracula — I think that was the show that best captured his duality as it contained both his best and worst aspects.

Gonna turn out Banter-Box is called Gary Rasputin irl

Fascinating post. Thank you!

Lentils are just beanis by another name

You’re absolutely right, replacing the doors with windows will be a much cleaner design

The difficult thing is knowing when to stop because it never gets any wetter

I think that’s going to change now though, as a result of LLMs. We’re going to be stuck with whatever was the norm when the data was harvested, forever