Sampson

Connections Puzzle #1020 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟦 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Wordle 1 741 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Almost failed. Got it by just continuously plugging in all the combinations I had left. Never would’ve got it otherwise

One of the toughest I ever remember. Only got 1 category Connections Puzzle #1019 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟪🟩🟩

Interesting read. Reminds me of the classic pc game Deus Ex - humans have biological need to be judged by others or else society and working together - which evolutionary helped us survive would not be possible- first that was fulfilled by God, then in the 20th century it got fulfilled by fame and mass media - then in the games dystopian future (and thus game was from 1999) it got fulfilled by AI and mass surveillance through data mining algorithms “The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.”

Like most things - the social internet has ruined its original purpose. You see MPs sitting there on their phones after they said something scrolling twitter to see if they’re trending. It’s all about getting the social media 15 second “zinger” out of context clip nowadays and nothing else. Still think it’s utterly absurd that smart phones are even allowed in parliament, let alone that mps are allowed to sit there looking at them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg547ljepvzo You can see all the bets come in just before he makes his announcements - which you’d assume only very high ups in the government would have knowledge of his pending announcements. This war, the announcements, the chaos, the scapegoating, it’s all just a rigged gambling game where they know the outcome beforehand and it’s all just designed to make him and his mates richer while everyone else suffers the consequences. It’s what Putin does too, it’s all out in the open too, they don’t exen try and hide it.

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This was ended my 8 day streak but was probably the most American centric one yet. No chance with a couple of those categories Connections Puzzle #1018 🟪🟩🟦🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟪🟩🟨 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟩🟩🟪

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I think there are specialist websites for that

Impressed you got purple first. There’s way too many “ow” words for me to have spotted it first

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Connections Puzzle #1017 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Today I learnt the Anglo-Portuguese treaty of 1386 between England and Portugal is technically still binding and the oldest still active treaty in the world. Portugal helped us in WW1 because of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance

I googled it tbf and it’s an Italian dish. It’s also pronounced “Rab” so I don’t think it’s Americanised, it’s just obscure.

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First 2 categories were ok. Took me ages to find a category in those final 8. Connections Puzzle #1016 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟦🟪🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

I don’t think it was a lie. Not fully, although there were other reasons too. I think it’s more that because Trump’s advisors are all yes men too scared to challenge him, that they all believed that that first attack that killed the leaders would just guarantee the regime would fall. They hadn’t made any back up plans at all because of this and Trump and the rest of his crew won’t do anything to lose face so carried on trying to find an off ramp.

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Connections Puzzle #1015 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Just did it on my final guess again Connections Puzzle #1014 🟪🟦🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟪🟨🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪

I never said you did - that’s what framing means, it means you say things in a clever way and leave things out so that you can say “what? Do you think that means x?” to give yourself plausible deniability despite the fact it’s quite obvious the extreme difference in the language you’re using around Polanski and Johnson when discussing very similar contexts. One was someone who your overwhelming first point was attacking them for scamming and you won’t even read further on any replies by people saying it wasn’t relevant, the other was first about their intelligence and eruditeness with anything underhand as an after thought. I also don’t think you’re stupid, you’re clearly an intelligent person, and I don’t think you’re this naive either to not understand what framing means or how you’re framing things differently. Your claimed political leanings are extremely relevant because of the way you clearly misrepresent them - if it was a one off maybe, but it’s in all of your posts. If you were just honest about being clearly right wing then it wouldn’t be relevant. But when you’re keeping up with this bizarre rhetoric claiming you’re left of the Lib Dems then it when the way you constantly frame right of centre policy with dog whistling type praise first designed as criticism but then do scathing rants against anything remotely left of centre, then it obviously is sn issue. It’s you who’ve created those relevances for yourself by using the very disingenuous “I’m actually left of the mainstream British centrist party” rhetoric. It’s the slippery slope onto what that Bond villain Elon Musk does - claims he’s actually a centrist who offers “nuanced debate” while supporting the AfD and Viktor Orban and ranting about racial purity and calling whatever the latest right wing bogeyman is a “cancer” or “mind virus” 12 times a day. I say it because I think you’re an intelligent person and I genuinely think you’re better than stooping to that.

Noticeable in the very different framing for Polanski being a scammer yet Johnson being an intelligent man who puts on an act for great success to him. Especially from a poster supposedly “left of the Lib Dems” I have to say.

Saw that the other day. How is that not just straight up illegal? It’s basically bribing voters.