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Alex Karp and Peter Thiel. For not only sullying the legacy of Tolkien by naming the most shitty products imaginable after his works, but also for blatantly inferring that warfare and killing- sorry, "national service" is something that everyone should be made to do.

Hopefully soon, and the sooner the better.

And digital data in this age can last virtually forever. So yes, it certainly isn't easy, or perhaps ever feasible. But the attempt certainly should be made.

Additionally, the concept of "Damnatio memoriae" (do look it up) is something interesting that would be most fitting for the current White House incumbent when the day comes that he finally falls from power. The man is obsessed with ego and legacy. Deliberately take away the latter in whatever way possible.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4g43y5g93yo Well said, Mr Carney.

And in the spirit of this thread. People saying that "... it can't get any worse" with respect to the state of the UK and the world. Wrong. It can. You apparently have precious little idea of just how much worse it can get.

Which goes to show that there's rather a lot of need to get back on track

Yep. Hypocrisy appears to be another such trend among the commentariat, too.

Politics bleeding out into it, unfortunately. It doesn't help that a lot of cvnts have a lot of political power in a few places right now, too.

Here. And here.

That's about the size of it, yes. People always tend to think that the outcome of exercising free choice is a universal positive, because, you know "freedom" and all that. It is not. I've no idea how you square the particular circle we're talking about and I think neither does anyone else, not really, but someone had better come up with an idea, because the Earth isn't going to wait around for us to get ourselves together as a species. Covid was just a light warning shot. The next shot may well be bigger, and somewhere much more vital.

Or some other form of authoritarianism, yes. The Chinese and their way of dealing with it comes to mind. And you know what the really scary thing is (that I've mentioned here often and at length and am going to repeat, sorry)? Such issues directly interfering with policymaking in various fields, scientific primarily, will cause damage that will certainly be nasty and might, just might, end up being absolute. It's awful, but the idea of long term civilisational survival and everyone having an equal voice on the complex scientific methods used to guarantee the continuity of that civilisation may well be utterly incompatible. But people simply don't want to think about how terrible that outcome would be. Denial is the first stage of grief, after all.

And the thing is that this is neither a new nor unexamined problem. Both Plato and Socrates over two thousand years ago wrote reams on how such issues (though obviously without the mass communication part) could plague any attempt at a truly democratic process, right up to disaster. Unfortunately, as smart as they were, they didn't really have a palatable solution, either.

An unfortunate example of both Hanlons Razor and Greys Law, imo.

We're still three years away from a GE in any case. And if anything has been shown recently, it's that a lot can change in three years. Or less.

Katie Miller, going full Wife-in-Handmaids-Tale. Here's an idea: let women be free to make these often difficult choices with autonomy? Edit: also with added racially bigoted dog-whistle in the last few words there.

As far as those owners are concerned, people like the ones mentioned in the article are the proper position of a pound sign in a spreadsheet, nothing more. Division means engagement. Engagement means clicks. Clicks mean ad revenue. They view other people as things. Which, if anyone has read Discworld, is the original sin. It's up to anyone decent with the power and ability to disabuse them of those notions. By whatever means necessary.

It should never have been in fashion in the first place. The consequences were obvious from the moment the man won re-election. It's just a shame it's taken all the horrible stuff since for far too many people to get wise.

"But, but, it was only 62 million visits, not 62 million men..."

You're right. Let's get things back on track. https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html Every single person who has participated in this. And those who know someone who did but didn't do the right thing, too.

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I know what you mean, mate. The transition has to happen, but you can't leave people by the wayside in a democracy otherwise it likely won't happen. Image in that way is very important. If people need helping with cost of living (and they do), then both parts need to be addressed at the same time.

No apology needed and I'll happily refresh your memory then. Goodness knows how many of us are busy. Also, you're under no real obligation to answer and feel free to keep it to yourself, but I am genuinely curious to know more about worldviews on this matter because I believe, and can prove, that more lives than anything other than an all-out nuclear war depend on the right path being taken on it.

These are fair arguments too. I would also repeat that IMO while what's happened here is a pretty damn serious failure of government oversight, there really doesn't seem to be any other valid candidates besides Burnham.