Rayvin

We didn't have Johnson before Trump though. I think Trump lowered the bar in terms of competence and also opened the door for the Tories to disregard the truth, rules, common decency even more flagrantly than they have in the past. Not the sole reason maybe, but a contributing one at the very least.

He's also sort of responsible for the rise of right wing fuckwits the world over. Would we have Boris if the US hadn't had Trump?

Is that because of his principles, or lack of opportunity though?

I don't waste time thinking about what society considers acceptable or not these days - Trump dying from COVID might send a message to the dumbfucks who still don't believe it's a thing and may in fact mean that he did some good in his life (or death).

Her head genuinely looks like someone has photoshopped the top half of one person's face with the bottom half of another person, when they were both looking slightly different directions.

You could also buy refurbished and get some good value. I got a 16GB RAM, i7, 750 (combined) HDD for £500 with an NVIDEA 1050. £300 Would probably get you an 8GB RAM with a basic card on an i5.

It's a lasting regret of mine that I didn't put £10k into dollars before the actual Brexit vote which would have seen me make about £2k in a week Just wasn't quite brave enough at the time.

Dollars maybe? The Euro will take a hit too whereas the dollar should be totally unaffected by Brexit.

It's the same 40% over and over. 40% of this country are unmitigated cunts who would welcome the next Hitler with open arms if they thought he represented the "silent majority".

No I do understand that, now at least. Apparently not then though. My worldview has changed hugely in the past 4 years, I'm basically just waiting for the species to kill itself now. We're beyond saving, it's never going to happen.

So, not right about all that much in this post I think my view back then was that if Trump won it would demonstrate to people that the right had nothing to offer and maybe speed the US towards the left. Wrong as it turns out - I feel that the left was given a pretty fair hearing this time out (less so in the Clinton run) and lost fair and square. The appetite just isn't there, in the US or the UK. Tough lesson to learn, but then also a freeing one - I have simply given up on politics now, the world is doomed and it's all hopeless.

I don't recall having much to say at all about Hillary from an interventionist perspective. My view, hugely informed by Brexit, was that a right wing backlash was coming as the 'culture war' grew (a phrase I was mocked for at the time, and yet here we all are dying in it now ) and that Trump was such a hopelessly inept leader that even if he was an out and out fascist - which I think he is at this point - that it was better to have someone like this without a brain take control of the US compared to someone holding the same politics but with a brain, which we might have had this time around if Hillary had won. As it is, I expect Trump to lose and the far right to be a busted electoral flush for a while as a consequence. So my view was more about 4D chess I think Trump is toast. I don't think Biden would get a look in under the normal run of things, he's a hopelessly uninspiring man, but he should be able to put Trump away.

I rely on it quite a bit as a consultant but I can't disagree with most of the stuff mentioned about it. There are some people who use it to 'remain visible' which is honestly probably something I should do more of. Oddly enough, am in the exact same position Am currently trying to get the one I'm involved with to pivot to a sustainability model before the funds dry up entirely. Challenging stuff..

I'm not remotely interested in anything he has to say at this point. I'll wait until I read it second hand. I don't think I could possibly have less respect for the man.

Sorry to hear that @wykikitoon Fucking dismal state of affairs that you're been pushing since January. No words, frankly. Condolences.

Sorry to hear that MF. Fwiw, I can't think of a much better way to go out than to spend the evening before having a curry with my son. Sorry also to Renton for the news of his sister too. I remember you mentioning the situation a while back. Difficult months ahead to be sure. Condolences to you both.

Aye, sorry to hear that MF, hope you're able to see him without any fuss.

Why would she have any more of an insight into this than other scientists? It's not like she's claiming to have escaped the lab with this information, she's claiming she can identify it from the genome sequence. If thats true, why has every other scientist in the world missed it? If she gets her work past peer review I'll treat it seriously. The idea that she's intending to release the information so that laymen can understand it is concerning - means she can just create a narrative that vaguely looks like it fits, release it to the public and it'll be swallowed whole without any scrutiny.

Cummings won't be able to control or predict anything 30 years into the future so if that is his philosophy, he's a fucking idiot. We'll be back inside the EU within 20 anyway.

Some mackem knacker posted the last tweet there about Danny Graham scoring more goals than ASM, and ASM has responded with the one starting "That's true" It confused me too but I think that's the right of it I don't know what the first image in the post is about though, or why Tom posted them in reverse order

They arrested him and he "died in their care". Honestly I wouldn't have put it past them to have watched him get infected and then simply observe him die from it without intervention. Speaking out against the CCP is bad for your health in China - this is a country and harvests the organs of political dissidents after all. I do note that after this death they decided to brand him a brave hero rather than a dissident. I broadly suspect that he was probably at best "allowed to die" by local Chinese officials seeking to protect themselves from criticism. We'll never know of course but China hasn't done much to warrant a great deal of faith.

China almost certainly either ended or allowed that doctor to be ended. No question there, entirely within the scope of their usual operating policy. But that doesn't mean they inflicted this themselves. My understanding is that they're hugely embarrassed about this - their universities have had a 25% budget cut across the board to all -active- R&D which, had this been something they were going to use to gain ground on everyone else, isn't the sort of response you'd expect. I think they stopped reporting numbers because they were the runaway leaders in the whole issue at the time and were looking incredibly incompetent. And in fairness, the CCP is indeed incredibly incompetent. Corrupt governments always are. But I don't think they did this with the intent of spreading it around the world just to fuck over everyone else. It's been nowhere near effective enough for that, it's harming China in a number of ways anyway, and I just don't think they're actually that fucking evil. Imagine if they were exposed ffs. The entire world versus China. They'd fucking brick it.

Perhaps Ashley has decided that the only way that the club gets sold is if he manages to break into the top 6 in order to finally hold some manner of influence over the PL.

Nah we talked it through with that Arsenal fan and we've decided not to sell for now as they're not willing to pay £40m.

I'm not really sure any of this counts tbh, depends how far back in time you want to go as to the cause of why we're here. I could say that we've furloughed people so that capitalist enterprises don't go under because we've told people to stay home to protect the socialist NHS which is in need of protection because it has been stripped bare over many years as a consequence of capitalist/neoliberal austerity. I just don't think we can call this socialism if there's not an overall strategy aimed at bringing in socialism behind it. It's just 'desperately spending money to prop up as much of the economy as possible' in my eyes. The risk if we start calling it socialism is that we're going to have to spend the next 20 years trying to tell people that actually, if socialist components to society had been implemented properly we wouldn't have lengthy periods of austerity following it. And we'll fail at explaining that. All the public are going to see from this is "The Tories are doing socialism" and then 5 years later "holy fuck, socialism sucks - it's ruined the country". It feeds into that whole complete oversimplification of the matters at hand that landed us austerity in the first place.