Oh boy…

I do use it as a thought terminating statement usually when friends have asked me to help. I ask for them to tell me what has happened and then I suggest a forward plan of action. It is very common for people at this point to feel guilty about having to ask for help and also to go down a spiral of putting all the blame on themselves. Neither of these things are useful as I need their active help and participation in putting the problem right and that’s where their energy needs to be focussed.

So it this point I will very often say to them something like, “Well, it is what it is and we are where we are and there’s no sense in blaming yourself, let’s see what we can do about getting into a better position.”

I did encounter a proper thought terminating cliche in the form of, “I hear what you’re saying…” from bosses in various places. Means “I hear what you’re saying but I couldn’t give less of a shit about it even if I were prepared to put in the slightest effort, which I am not.”

KeePassXC can do this as well. I had no idea until I saw a post on here where someone mentioned it. Here’s the documentation.

Tory MPs could lose their seats on the gravy train says hapless, feckless prole. I imagine I am more right than he is.

The threat applies to Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge browsers but not Apple’s Safari or Mozilla’s Firefox

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

You want to really help respiratory health you actually go after industrial polluters with a regulatory body with teeth and bite strength of several Rottweilers… but that’s none of my business. Sips tea

A site-blocking law would let copyright owners “request, in court, that Internet service providers block access to websites dedicated to sharing illegal, stolen content,” he said. Rivkin claimed that in the US, piracy “steals hundreds of thousands of jobs from workers and tens of billions of dollars from our economy rich people’s yacht money, including more than one billion in theatrical ticket sales.”

‘Make it illegal’ is always a cheaper option ‘than spend money to implement a solution that will actually work.’

I think she’s going to continue to be an annoying talking head wheeled out to put the ‘libertarian’ case for decades to come. The grift never sleeps.

Give Liz Truss the spanking of her stupid submissive fantasies.

Downvotes?! There’s Liz Truss supporters here?

I predict that the UK will not, in fact, leave the ECHR.

Rishi is just saying this shit to stir up the Tory faithful.

My Incognito Mode: launch TOR Browser…

Tin foil hat time, all of the Reform candidates have these skeletons in their closets but Reform have told the Tories that they can pay to have candidates investigated in the seats where the Tories still think they can get in.

I’d like to believe that but if my 14+ on reddit taught me anything it is that the general population are petty, hateful and conformist and so philosophically it’s the ‘One Nation’ Conservatives that they naturally align with.

There’s always been a strong dose of authoritarianism about the red team, they might purport to represent the working classes but they also seem to want to ‘improve’ them too. And as someone on the Alexei Sayle podcast pointed out, their Foreign Policy is always quite imperialistic.

Yeah, there’s plenty of ‘shy’ Tories. By rights, after all they’ve done, they should be reduced to double figures but I am braced for them to only lose a hundred odd seats.

See, you’re exactly who we’re worried about kids meeting.

Suppressing my initial urge towards sarcasm, the calculation seems to be based on a simplistic calculation of number of total years served. If we look at one example, Bill Cash, mentioned in the article he has forty years of experience. Unfortunately, that forty years was spent as a backbencher, which if you don’t have a handle on it after three years probably indicates that you have been promoted by the voters beyond your level of incompetence.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, who despite having a moral deficit, is a much more effective tool for the Conservative Party having a clear grasp of Parliamentary procedure and has only 14 years as an MP.

So in terms of experience longevity is not indicative of the loss of expertise to the Conservative Party.

So in a sense the calculation is too simplistic but in another perhaps it’s unnecessarily complex. British Parliamentary democracy is a pure numbers game where quantity of MPs, rather than quality, is the be all and end all. It is my hope that it’s this simple total will be reduced by at least a couple of hundred.

What even am i?

Donor Frank Hester apologised after reportedly saying the ex-Labour MP made him want to “hate all black women”.

I kinda suspect that he already hates all black women… just a hunch.