He basically disappeared because there was video of him abusing his wife who then divorced him. He is obviously a piece of shit from all of his “work”, but in case anyone thought it was all an act for the grift… He’s also a piece of shit irl.

I guess adding lead to it would change it.

You just successfully described 95% of modern office jobs

I think it’s a case of them thinking what the title says, but knowing it makes them look shitty, so trying to couch it in a way that makes it open to interpretation, or at the very least gives them plausible deniability.

Like a lot of right wing commentators/popular people. Talk bullshit around the point everyone knows you’re making, so when people call you out on it you can go “I specifically say that, so that’s not true, and you’re actually the ass hole for acusing me of it”

I’m summarising, but I bet it went along the lines of

• “be nice to people”
• “everyone deserves to live and enjoy some modern comforts”
• “maybe we shouldn’t destroy the planet we live on”

You know… Real sick shit

True. I did know about them so shouldn’t really have said exclusively, but as you said, they’re the only one and it’s basically on the equator

In the North?.. Pretty sure penguins are exclusively Southern hemisphere?

If you know cricket, and the Pakistani cricket team… This meme is very on point.

Perhaps one of sports most “potential that was never achieved” teams.

At times they have some of the best players, and on paper team, in the world… And then they’ll just play like muppets at important events and you get this meme.

They need them for a lot of reasons.

Except for stopping tyranny or having a justified revolution

Because things haven’t progressed linearly with the universes evolution, and, as the op stipulates, we are part of one second vs countless billions of years (relatively) till it’s theoretical demise, it is possible/probable that we don’t know what will happen down the line.

Certain things might change to make it possible that we simply can’t predict due to lack of information (the future) and technological difficulties.

The reason you cannot ban weapons is because anything could be a weapon. A rock, pencil, barb wire, glass, car, etc.

I know what you mean, but there’s always nuance, a limit, when it comes to things like this. Just because you can use anything as a weapon, doesn’t mean everyone should have access to everything. Rocket launchers? Bio weapons? Nukes?

Banning weapons wouldn’t make crime vanish. Also the whole point of crime is that you break the rules to do it. Your strict rules would just be broken by certain people hence creating the “crime”.

Similarly, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. If there’s no need to ban things because criminals will do it anyway, why have laws at all? Murder, rape, assault etc.

Ultimately, societally, we attempt to come to a collective idea of what we think is “right”, and then attempt to enforce that.

Initially most are very straight forward, like “don’t kill people”… But then the deeper you drill into it, the more complicated it gets. What if you accidentally kill someone? You give them something they’re allergic to without knowing it? Should you get life in prison?

It looks like the one from travellers. I remember trying to find it after seeing that

I mean, that title sounds like it’s in the same ball park as WAP. As long as they’re not getting exploited, more power to em.

And then they’re was surprisingly (or, in hindsight, not so surprising) little reporting on the carbombed journalist

Mistakes as well as “mistakes”.

Yes it is flawed, but it was basically “give the 5 largest powers veto power, or they don’t participate”. If they don’t participate, it would be even more ornamental than it currently is.

Ideally they would have more power to stop shit like this, but the UN as it stands is better than nothing. They do bring countries together to talk things through that otherwise might not have and have successfully de-escilated issues in the past.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t expect, or push for, better, and I’m not saying this is your view point, but I do see the sentiment that they’re useless/do nothing quite often.

Walking out won’t ultimately achieve much… But it’s at least better than sitting their and letting him feel validated in his psychopathic plans.

One set of my dice have very hard/straight/flat edges… The fucking 4 sided has stabbed me many times, but once it went right under my finger nail and drew blood 😫

Actually it has some factual basis. He’s wealthy, it would be bad for him, he thinks he’s the economy. He just has a big, selfish, ego.

I haven’t followed UK politics much lately, but sounds similar to Labour in NZ. Take over from conservatives trying to sell off the country and fuck over the poor, win a mandate super majority election, do nothing or worse, back track on your progressive campaign promises… Get railed in the next election.

And the government that took over is the worst we’ve had in decades.

It’s better to think of it more like a virtue signalling club. It’s the epitome of in vs out group.

It doesn’t matter what your group beleives/say, but when someone in your group beleives or say something you’ve gotta do it +1. So they’re all trying to one up each other to be like “see I’m not one of them, I’m one of you… No actually, I’m more like you than you”

It’s actually, unfortunately, a very common/normal social group interaction. Like, everyone does it, but normally in small amounts, or about harmless topics.

E.g a bunch of metal heads talking about metal bands (which coincidentally all have death in the name) "I really like ‘mega death’ ", “yeah but they’re not as heavy as ‘death’”, “well they’ve got nothing on ‘napalm death’” etc.

It’s the actual terrifying result of online echo chambers. More extreme people egg each other on and get more extreme. And it’s ironically what they always accuse “the left/libs” of doing