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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, it's a fair point. I think the downside of caps is that it feels like the article is screaming at you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The Greens very much do run on nimby platforms, including their co-leader, mentioned in the article. And it is just deeply aggravating when they oppose green infrastructure for nimby reasons, whether it wins them votes or not.

Also, lots of words start off as acronyms and then lose that status. 'Laser' is a good example: originally 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation', but now always written in lowercase.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rough sleeping is a specific category of homelessness, meaning people who are sleeping actually outside, on the street. Homelessness can refer more generally to people who are shuttling between different temporary accommodation or couch surfing. Obviously there's some overlap and people often go from one to the other.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Next they'll realise giving people food stops them being hungry!

 

Notable points here:

Trump and his surrogates will blame [Harris] for the economic policies of the Biden administration, as well as the border crisis. Based on my experience, however, a vice president truly has little to no influence on economic policy. A vice president may provide input, but it is the president who is the ultimate decision-maker. That is part of the job of being the president. Further, Congress has as much, if not more, power to affect our economy through legislation. It is as much their failure as Biden’s that child care, housing, gasoline and groceries cost too much. And as for the border, Trump and his supporters in Congress assumed partial responsibility for the tough border situation when they killed bipartisan legislation in order to help Trump’s election chances.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Definitely the right decision. I criticise the Greens a lot for letting their nimbyism trump their environmentalism, so it's only fair that I praise them embracing their yimby side!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Keep the picture but turn it sideways, then everyone's happy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I thought: 8 billion people in the world. Someone's gonna be into it.

 

This was published a while ago by a zine that's now shut down, so I just republished it on my blog.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Makes official what we already strongly suspected, I think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All 72 deaths were due to decades of negligence and in some cases active deception.

 

Obviously there is some distressing material in there, so please be aware of that before you read on.

 

This is the full statement Starmer made in the House today, for those interested. I have no idea why they always format political speeches like this, now, but I thought the content was very good.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Whether or not George Mallory summitted Everest.

Mallory was a great climber. People who knew him think he had the ability. Another member of his expedition saw Mallory and his partner, Andrew Irvine, close to the summit, but not close enough to be certain whether or not they made it.

Neither man returned from the mountain. Mallory's body was later found, many decades after he died. but Irvine was never seen again, dead or alive.

There are various other bits of circumstantial evidence, but the fact is we'll simply never know for sure. I like to think they made it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Technically, yes, as long as the dog's not a papist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Does the position of Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office transfer to the heir apparent instantaneously or does it require a meeting of the Accession Council? It's important to get these things right.

 

I haven't seen anyone mention this, but Harris' framing of 'prosecutor vs. criminal' is pretty similar to Starmer's pitch, particularly when he was still up against Johnson. So, I'd hope the exchange of ideas could go both ways!

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