People really do not like seeing opposing viewpoints, eh? There’s disagreeing, and then there’s downvoting to oblivion without even engaging in a discussion, haha.

Even if they’re probably right, in such murky uncertain waters where we’re not experts, one should have at least a little open mind, or live and let live.

The Mirror is a shit rag, fuck that newspaper.

But ya.

Didn’t… forward it? I’m obviously wrong I just can’t figure out what they meant xD

I’d eat that!

And giving them sweeping ability to track everybody via their identity papers, to see what websites and services they’re using, what all their online identities are, etc.

They claim the info isn’t being saved or passed on to the government to form a big surveillance database to one day use against people - sure, it’s legal to, say, be gay or a socialist or of a particular religion today, but societies and regimes change, and the info they collect on you today may become ammunition against you in 10, 20, 40 years time.

But I don’t for a moment believe their obvious lies.

This is nothing but authoritarian police state monitoring and control. It’s extremely obvious. Yet, who are we to vote for in the next election? Not Labour, thanks to this (and a few other big reasons perhaps), not the Tories because, well, you’ve seen what they’re like.

It’s not impossible for a third party to be elected of course, not as impossible as places like the USA that have a very worryingly solidified two party system, it’s just very unlikely.

Knowing the British people and their seeming apathy and poor judgement at scale these days I wouldn’t be surprised if they elect the racist bigots at Reform - who ironically would be even more authoritarian and evil than what we have now.

As usual, there’s no hope for the future and no possibility of good outcomes.

Humanity is doomed to repeat it’s failures for all of history again and again, and we’re just along for the miserable ride.

What does any of this even mean?

Aahhhh, that makes more sense. I wondered how such a seemingly respectable, proper journalistic platform could be owned by that tosser, haha.

Well, small victories I suppose! Thank you for clarifying that.

Alas no, brain aneurysms don’t have to have any outward symptoms at all until they strike, and then you’re dead within minutes.

You can spot some issues before they kill you if you have a brain scan, but as you’ve got no symptoms, why would you be having a brain MRI once a month?

So, alas, it’s a silent, deadly killer. One day you just drop dead for seemingly no reason.

RIP Grant, you were fuckin rad.

It’s a shame, I had no idea he owned Sky News. I usually found them to be an excellent professional news source when one doesn’t want the Governmental bias of the BBC.

I wouldn’t trust Comedy Central though, joke or not, they’re American, and the Americans can’t be trusted these days either.

I suppose the lesson here, sadly, is that we can’t believe anything from any source at all. Assume everything is half-truths, half-reported, and what we’re being shown is the distraction from the thing they don’t want us to look at.

I wish I knew how to find the hidden “real news”, but the sorts of people that purport to provide it are loonies in their basements in tinfoil hats, alas. Though, perhaps that’s just the image of them that the media wants us to see…

:-(

Now now, don’t give them any ideas.

The way things are going over there it won’t be long before the “good old traditional great American ways” like this return.

If Andy Capp actually had his own line of pub crisps like this mock up it would be hilarious, I’d have to try them 😂

I still read Andy Capp from time to time, used to see him in the Mirror but now I get him online!

Feck you too, I guess. If that’s how you want to behave.

I could understand you being unhappy with our government, but just blanket swearing at all 68 million of us is a dick move.

omg u didn’t censor the bad word enough and now my mum is mad

Now, when you (whoever wrote the title) say settlers, do you mean occupiers, or actual settlers? It seems people forget basic facts when talking about these particular nations.

You can’t force people from their homes, move in, and call yourself a settler. You’re an occupier from a hostile nation, or an annexer, if you like that term better.

If you find some unclaimed land or are invited in by the locals, then you’re a settler.

One can make the argument that you’re just being literal, but at that point - as a journalist who should be using the most clear and communicative language, you’re just trying to frame something bad under a different light, which speaks volumes about you and your agenda.

But the timestamp says 2012, how can it be 13 y…

For years I’ve heard parties during elections and such claim they’ll abolish the exploitative evil zero hour contracts too, something that weighs heavily in my decision on what party to vote for, and then sod all happens.

This seems like it’ll have less capitalist ruling class pushback though, so it has a fair chance of happening.

Wild, we all got vaccinated against measles as kids here, crazy that Alberta doesn’t have they kind of free healthcare yet.

Living in the dark ages.

Google does try to feed me news from “The Times of Israel”, quite often, which is really odd. Usually I only get shown valid local news, occasionally stuff from America too.

And… The Times of Israel, I guess?

While I generally support the proper usage of my Nation’s language, as well as making linguistic education available and fun for all, pedantry on the wording surrounding the horrific deaths of hundreds of innocent men, women, and children is uncouth.

There is a time and a place for everything, and this wasn’t it. I’m sorry to be blunt.

A woman? On the internet?!

…A hyuwmon feemayle?! [Clutches strips of latinum to my chest in surprise]

So, so many poorly informed people in here jumping to conclusions, many of which were already ruled out in the preliminary report.

I don’t know any more than what’s in that document myself.

Perhaps some of the armchair aircraft safety investigators in here might want to at least skim the details before coming up with wild theories? Or at least provide reasoning and evidence to support them.

May those who lost their lives, and their loved ones, find peace and closure as best they can once we have all the details. Until then, it would be crass to speculate, especially as non-experts not privvy to the details of the investigation.