Can’t exactly un-roll those dice now, can we?

It should be enough to know that Russia prefers the current situation. I’d happily ditch the pound on that basis - it’s not exactly as if sir Isaac has been running the mint lately.

Since the sanctions are helping, we should oblige Mr Putin and strengthen them

Utterly insane take from him. Based on the strength of a single referendum that was likely influenced by a foreign power and carried out by some of the most determinedly incompetent leaders we’ve seen in a generation, we are to lose free trade, influence abroad, freedom to roam, consumer protections, and countless other benefits, to continue for the lifetime of an as yet unelected PM who has purged his party of anyone to the left of Barack Obama.

I seem to recall a campaign promise of “one term”. Oh well

Shh

Oh shit, I work in insurance and didn’t even know about these*. Thanks, Satan.

*before you ask, I am bad at it; nobody gets into this industry on purpose

Starmer’s Labour is about as left wing as the US Democrats are; by comparison only.

I sometimes wish lefties had that kind of solidarity. Remember what we did to Al Franken?

That’s a finer choice perhaps, but abatement isn’t incorrect here

As a NT parent, one of the hardest things has been the “emotional whiplash” of an ADHD kid. One minute it’s a horrific display of emotional violence that scars me for life, and then five minutes later it’s like it never happened. I’m probably slower to change my feelings than most - there are things that happened years ago I’m still able to access fresh feelings about - but even when I actively recover from a fight I’m still upset by the time the next one occurs. It’s taken a toll on my mental health for sure.

I am not adequately trained or compensated to untangle such a cobweb of bullshit

The civil war was in abatement, but it never did end.

Not even to my face, the coward

The other day a conservative on Lemmy (!) called me a wokeboi blueanon, so I am qualified to help with the definition:

Awareness of structural and systematic inequality and oppression and the need for radical (systematic) reforms for same.

Sure. People who think the GOP isn’t a terrorist organisation are going to be the death of this country though. It’s too late to act like that’s not the case imo

We’ve found whole buildings full of paid online trolls in Russia poisoning the dialogue and it’s like the whole media industry agreed to stop talking about it. Now they don’t even need humans to do that.

Comey really fucked it. I have not forgotten

Same page. Not a very good book though, is it?

What a delight to find oneself among those who still quote scripture