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Lib Dems to the left of Labour? I would have thought with the Overton window shifting, they’d still be occupying a position between Labour and the Conservatives like they always have… but I guess it’s possible with some of Labour’s suspiciously Conservative decisions lately.

Well, there was a period in the 90s through to the early 2000s where we had a centre-left party (New Labour) running the show and mostly improving things, but then 9/11 and the Iraq war happened and the country went scurrying back to the Conservatives again.

The conspiracy nut that lives in my brain is convinced Putin’s taking control of Russia in 2000 has everything to do with every single bit of the above after “but then”.

We currently have New Labour (now just “Labour”) in charge again, but politically they smell an awful lot like the pre-Thatcherite Conservatives.

They’ll find a way to launch it. They’ll go back into the old Soviet mindset of throwing blini at a wall until something sticks sending cosmonaut after cosmonaut until they have a success and then pretend the others didn’t exist.

And they’ll fill the minds of young would-be cosmonauts full of propaganda and tell them that there was definitely no-one before them who died up there, especially not in pain or terror. Those were unmanned test missions. Strap yourself in, you’re going to space!

“What would ‘palindrome’ look like if it was a palindrome?”

Two. kbin.social and kbin.run (which was actually an Mbin by the time it vanished).

Interesting to compare and contrast with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe who deliberately wore a toothbrush moustache and referred to himself as “The Hitler of our time”.

Also interesting that now Mugabe is dead, there seem to be quite a few potential candidates for that title.

But, as best as I can tell, Uunona isn’t in the running there.

Will the war end if he dies?

Untrue. There are plenty of people who don’t have the means to break pseudonymity but who would gladly torment, abuse or seek retribution for some real or imagined slight from someone they can easily identify by face and name.

And it’s always worth making the truly scary ones work for it, because they’re far more likely to go for easier marks first.

Note that the same logic applies to locking your doors at home. You don’t leave your doors unlocked, right?

Wrong question. It’s “Who would I need to hide from?”

Well, no, it wouldn’t. The bods that make these decisions still live like it’s 1950 and dream of an authoritarian future of masters and slaves.

What good is The Google or The AI when you’re sipping champagne up an ivory tower or out on the ocean being waited on hand and foot on a gleaming yacht?

So, there was this TV experiment where they served soup to a well-known scientist*, but, with his agreement, they stirred it first with an unused - and I stress unused - toilet brush.

He couldn’t bring himself to eat it.

Metaphorically speaking, our world is full of amazing things but they’re all stirred by clean toilet brushes. Sometimes, it’s worse than that and they’re used.

Do not want.

* Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, he was later cancelled for being old and out of touch on women’s issues among other things, which is kind of an example of this same trope when you think about it. His opinions and reactions on soup and food disgust aren’t linked to any of that but you might be tempted to ignore the result because of it.

But then, that puts him in the same category as Louis CK and that’s what I’m responding to. Food for thought.

Fun fact: “Aluminium” is the international / official spelling. But where Brits have to take the L, or rather the F, is with “Sulphur”, because the international / official spelling of that is “Sulfur”. The others aren’t wrong, but they’re not the standard.

Anyway, I wonder if the international spelling has anything to do with it. Or maybe it just follows better from Chromium.

The tale of the the one that got away.

No really. This must have been early on in schooling, and we were colouring in - with wax crayons - a hen for Easter. We might even have drawn it in pencil beforehand, but I’m not sure about that.

One of my friends was off sick that day and they asked me to colour one in for him and take it to him at home, since he lived near me.

For his, I used a different red-brown crayon colour to the plain brown I’d used for my own and, perhaps because it was a second attempt, it looked ten times better.

I wanted to keep it, but mine had my name on it and his had his. There was no way to switch them, and even at that age I knew it would have been a mean thing to do to give a sick friend the bad one. I don’t even know how much he appreciated it because it was never mentioned afterwards.

Forty-plus years later, I’m still salty about it.

There are places waste is, by law, supposed to end up and places it isn’t.

You might argue that the law and good environmental sense don’t always agree on where waste should go and how it should be treated, but they’re in clear agreement on this particular dump.

And that means someone is in deep … waste.

Looks like DDR6 is due in 2027, so DDR5 prices will start to fall in 2-3 years when all the AI bros move over to DDR6 instead.

It might be sooner, but that would mean the AI bubble popped.

Meanwhile, here I am on a PC that’s less than two years old with DDR4 in it. Works fine for my needs.

When “You look Chinese, why aren’t you Chinese?” turns into an international incident rather than just plain racism.

How do you feel about the doctrine, “I’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me”?

You may already know this, but I’ll say it anyway: It’s possible to follow hashtags on Mastodon, and so basically following topics.

It does rely on people putting relevant hashtags on their posts, but do you want to hear from someone who doesn’t do that?

Never really have. Around 8 or 9, I stopped wanting to get any older and since then I’ve always felt like I was pretending to be my age rather than being it.

I understand that a lot of other adults are also pretending, but I’ve all but ceased to be able to keep up the charade.

For example, I own a house, and even managed to look after things for a while, but that was a struggle and there’s no way current me is up to any of that.

I envy others’ strength and ability.

Duper’s delight. It’s almost like they’re surprised to find they’re revelling in getting caught too. At least maybe the first time. Afterwards they might do something wrong expecting to feel that way again and that’s all kinds of messed up.