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Considering the first couple of holes, proper cojones from Rory, yes. But there's still a long way to go.

Hold it together Rory...

Come on Rory. Please don't give the home boys reason to be any more arrogantly insufferable than they are already.

Bring that Ryder Cup energy, Rory.

I don't think it's nihilist to think that consistent population growth will inevitably result in exactly the kind of outcome that nihilists would enjoy (to say nothing of the challenges to quality of life that lie ahead for children born today), but at the same time, yeah, each to their own, I was probably too harsh yesterday and as long as we get to a place where some kind of equilibrium is reached (which does seem to mostly happen organically in developed nations) then everything may well be fine. Hopefully.

Agreed.

Massive resource scarcity issues driven by a multitude of factors, among them increased consumption at various social levels and lowered biodiversity caused by that overconsumption and other human activity. Increased inequality driven by the above and other factors which will mean a lot of people born at this time will not be able to enjoy the same quality of life as those who came before them. Increased incidents of warfare, disease and the other members of the Four Horsemen as people choose the path of least resistance and go ever more tribal. Increased age disparity and resultant issues there as population growth slows and there's no good way to solve that issue. That's off the top of my head and not an exhaustive list. I really hope we can avoid the above, and I think we can, but personally I wouldn't want to add another human to the highly likely potential shitshow they may have to face. Tbf I had read one too many "go forth and multiply" screeds around the time the second Brighton penalty was awarded, so perhaps my language was a bit harsh. See above, but the usual "I really really hope I'm wrong" disclaimer applies. And given human desires, I know it's a pretty damn unpopular opinion.

Unless you really know what you're doing, bringing a child into the world that our species is heading into in the next few decades, in the UK or anywhere else, is an act of near-criminal irresponsibility. They will have it harder in their lifetimes than any generation in the last century, and possibly harder than before that.

Watched a little bit of the debate on British Steel nationalisation, Iain Duncan Smith really does have a bee in his bonnet regarding the Chinese and gas drilling in the UK. I wonder if someone could calmly explain to him that resorting to Paleolithic forms of energy generation won't lead anywhere good (and why), and that while he might disagree strongly with the Chinese form of government, cooperation with them on at least some matters is a thing of necessity for the continuity of human civilisation.

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-industrial-carbon-contribute-significantly-sea.html https://phys.org/news/2025-04-climate-events-high-mountain-asia.html https://phys.org/news/2025-04-year-storm-tides-bangladesh-decade.html

My deepest sympathies. Rory or Justin please, would be nice to show up the Americans in their own back yard.

That's another possibility.

I think that's about 50/50 tbh.

In the current system that we have, absolutely.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78je27x2v9o A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the Associated Press's access to presidential events after the White House blocked the news agency in a dispute over the term "Gulf of America". District Judge Trevor McFadden on Tuesday said the administration's restriction on AP journalists was "contrary to the First Amendment", which guarantees freedom of speech. A little bit of better news regarding checks and balances.

Isn't that every day on LinkedIn?

Yeah, but the money is but a tool for the overall objective of power over people.

Who enables and then pardons actual physical terrorists.

Is anyone really surprised at the blatant market manipulation? As others have said, it's not about the money, it's about the power and getting off on it.

That doesn't surprise me either.

Yep. That being said, pardon me for thinking that the Fail's outrage on this one is at least somewhat faux. Two captured individuals and a handful of encounters don't add up to a policy position. British volunteer nationals have been captured on the other side, too. Not much of a story unless subsequent analysis reveals dedicated combined arms units given a direct order by the Chinese government imo.

For me, Wilders is the latter and the Labour MP's the former there, but I'd have to read more to be certain of it myself.

I would hope that the two UK MPs were not entering Israel (and were known to be doing so and originally had clearance to do so) simply to view a movie that is anathema to the values that Israel represents. Not all political visitors to a country are equal, though I'll happily admit I should have made that point more explicitly in my original post. The DUP, for instance, said that some Labour candidates have campaigned too not allow Trump to enter the UK, and I'll also admit do find it difficult to entertain the idea of entertaining someone so ideologically opposed to the continuation of human civilisation and so keen to enforce that ideology through policy.

That's a Trump level set of mental gymnastics tbf.

And to add to this, thanks to Chinese tech a lot of the sub-Saharan nations are pretty much 100% non fossil fuel in terms of their energy infrastructure.