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Well, every nation has its fifth columnists, apparently Canada has plenty in Alberta and of course express any interest in the matter on social media and the algorithm will happily shove these self interested traitors in your face, bots or otherwise.

The UK and the rest of the Commonwealth should be giving him as much diplomatic support as possible. It's long past time for the UK, and Burnham, to stop sitting on the fence so much.

And now, thanks in part to social media and some folks in power thinking they can use them as convenient tools to do nasty things to groups they don't like, those young men are making that nihilism everyone's problem. Edit: of course, places like Imperial Japan dealt with that issue by drafting practically all of the nihilistic and disaffected young men into the armed forces. Which, of course, ended grandly.

... as fellow members of the Commonwealth, the UK couldn't lend Mr Carney the use of a Vanguard-class submarine with all armaments for a few months, could it? Might be helpful.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o The world's oceans are hotter than ever recorded, new data suggests, as they suffer from human-caused climate change and the growing El Niño weather phenomenon. The average surface temperature of the planet's seas outside the polar regions hit 21.1C (70F) on Saturday, according to figures from the European Copernicus climate change service. That edges past the 21.09C recorded on three separate days in March 2024, and is far above average for the time of year. Warmer oceans can have wide-reaching consequences, including supercharging extreme weather, raising sea levels and harming marine life. "This record is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress," said Dr Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus. "El Niño is adding heat to the system, but it is doing so on top of decades of human-driven warming," she added. Isn't it nice to be record breakers?

Clearly we don't have the right to bare arms in the UK then, as well as bear arms.

Think that's a bit more of a tenuous link tbh. Video games have been blamed for a lot of "diminished sense of reality" since they became even vaguely popular 40 years ago. Do think SM is the much bigger factor.

I've said this before here, but imo social media acts as a force multiplier, for both good and bad. It's just unfortunate that currently holding up the mirror to the souls of far too many humans is showing exactly how bad they are.

A counterpart to this line of thought: Adults monetised and therefore thrive on the clickbait cesspit that social media has become, for children and otherwise.

In theory, at least.

Yep. But then you have luminaries on social media telling you that you should do it anyway. Which leads to an age-old dilemma about accountability when such horrible things occur.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3040pn8lmmo Elbows up, Canucks. Perhaps Burnham and Albanese, among others, could offer some on record support for their Commonwealth companion. Edit: just watch out for any double-dealing Albertans.

It does, and that is a big topic that goes to the very heart of what the vote franchise means itself.

While the point about social media and U18's is a valid one, that age group is far from the only one that such media influences in a highly negative fashion, with highly negative results. And those groups vote too.

A few years ago, this viewpoint would have been rejected out of hand by a lot of folks, or at least gotten a fair few pelters. How the times are changing.

Right, but counterpoint: at least 10% of the electorate.

Well, apparently a free social media is essential for a free society with all the benefits it apparently confers. Apparently.

Why waste expensive delta-v doing that when a trip to Venus would work just as well?

You should be proud. That's a very accurate summation all round tbh.

And in other news, Carney having to deal with another hissy fit from Felon#47, then. Hope the man shows the considerable patience and statesmanship he has so far.

Do agree with this. While the idea of someone having power through simply being born into it rather than working for it is obviously shite, as the last paragraph shows, it's not exactly going well in many places when the executive head of state is elected by popular vote either, is it?

Only because current evidence makes it so absurd to ignore even the Telegraph can't really do it seriously now. Of course, as you say, their method of dealing with the matter that basically amounts to make money now and let future generations burn still remains.

A thumping in the end.

Not sure they'd have lost this under Boyd Rankin tbh

Yeah, this is a proper potato mashing now.