Renton

This needed a new thread. Topical, only 116 years old.

You live in a relatively free prosperous country and enjoy a high standard of living alongside millions of others. I'd say "winning" the cold war is quite important in that. Like it or not, we live in a world of nation states and I want the interests of mine protected.

You're That was going to be the Trump "wrong" gif but when I pressed the gif button this came up and I thought you'd appreciate it. You're wrong because there is a moral difference between serving your country and being a hired gun. You're acting in the national interest, not your own. Mrs MF can thank me later. Christ, that came out wrong.

Oy. My Dad, Murgatroid, named my brother that.

HMHM been out on the lash down San Francisco?

I'm in NW corner, was one of the best goals I've ever seen. An absolute rocket.

The most epic story of the year so far.

Aye, and you have know way of knowing if Google has done the calculation correctly or just plucked the result from its digital arse. I think Google is a lot worse now than it was a few years ago. The AI modules doesn't help, there's no transparency on how it find and orders results, and it is often just plain wrong. The problem with Google was it became to successful and became a virtual monopoly. Then the owners changed from being genuine innovators and motivated by this to only interested in the coin.

It's the way things are going in many sectors. I don't think people are being honest with themselves about the impact AI is going to have, we're looking at a complete revolution in how we work and the early evidence is its not going to be good. Me personally, I feel like I'm surfing a wave and just trying to get to the retirement finish line before it breaks. Nowt else you can do.

If you've now paid for a year up front, can't you just cancel it now? This is what I do with streaming subscriptions, it still lets you watch until the end of the period but no more "D'Oh!" experiences.

I'll save myself the time later by doing it now. Who's gannin tonight?

I shouldn't, but The image above is actually photoshopped, it was originally another famous Harvey.

Coconut fucking basmati rice? Fucking animals.

Where do you get that from? Might be true, but I haven't seen that take elsewhere.

Ooooh, I love a good rant.

Oh great, that's all we fucking need. Is there anywhere in the World that's normal right now?

Hmmm, or we can just pre-emptively lock the little shits up? Hey, what?

Maybe this has been going on longer than I thought then! Seems nepotism and cronyism (the latter in this case) are an indelible part of the US political system. Banana republic stuff this.

No, you're missing the point. What he's done is used the judiciary for nepotistic reasons. It's corruption, simple as that. Hunter Biden was convicted by 12 jurors the same as Trump was in New York. He's been pardoned before he was even sentenced and is now also immune form any other wrongdoings in the last 10 years. And Biden repeatedly lied about it*. If you can't be honest enough to see the problem with that, then fair enough. Time and time again what we are seeing recently is that is things aren't properly codified people like Trump wil corrupt the system, and that corruption then acts as a contagion. The democrats are now also infected. * As I said, I entirely understand his personal motives and probably would have done the same thing myself. Still wrong though.

The principle is the same, even if it is much less egregious and is well-intentioned. So, both parties stop playing by the rules then. Games without rules are great, I can see that ending well. At least with the Dems playing by the rules there was an anchor to normality, normative politics. If that is removed, the ship is well and truly out of control (to continue the nautical analogies). Or if you prefer another even more nerdy example, it's like Galadriel using the one ring. You've given up on fighting the side of good. The whole system will be corrupt.

Not really the point though, we now, with some justification, have proof of "theyre all the same" narrative. What makes it worse is that you could make an argument Trump never hides his intentions, however awful they are. Biden has lied repeatedly on this matter. I'd probably do the same in his shoes at this stage, because family comes first. But there is something wrong structurally in the US that this can happen at all. Now both parties are complicit in abusing the system, I can't see it ending well. Maybe that ship has already sailed but both parties are now full speed on the tiller.

Finally the brown paper bags are working.

FUCK OFF YOU CUNTS. That is all. I mean, I'm chronologically 3 or so years older than Gemmill but follicularly and groovily easily a decade younger.

FFS. Just fucked up on my IT awareness by clicking on an obviously fake link from a phishing e-mail sent by my own company to catch us out. I'll probably be sent in shame to do another fraud awareness course now. No excuse really except their filtering is normally soo good I just accept the stuff that does get through is legit.

It does seem like it. Appointing a bunch of grifting lunatics into positions of highest power and getting them to implement introducing near suicidal economic policies. We're going to see how far "common sense" gets you compared with using experts. As scaramucci says, it's like getting one of us arm chair pundits from toontastic to manage NUFC. I mean, fair enough if it was me, we'd be dead certs for the PL again, but imagine if one of you fucking no hopers was given the gig? We'd be beneath the mackems in 2 seasons.