Hyperreality

AI.

Who was clearly inspired by Metropolis:

http://sorayama.jp/hajimesorayama/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/HS_paint_132.jpg

More David Lynch Dune than Denis Villeneuve Dune.

It is.

Given Trump’s remarks about NATO and Putin’s remarks about the Baltics, it’s also genuinely scary.

I have a related degree. Sorry, but no. There’s a high probability it’s within a few percentage points of that number.

This isn’t an ABC poll. It’s a page on ABC’s website which tracks polls published by polling companies.

The 45% is from a polling company with a sufficiently large sample size. This isn’t just one isolated poll. You can keep scrolling, and you’ll see similar figures from multiple polling companies. The chance that a hundred polls are all wrong, is very low.

You may have heard of YouGov, a UK based polling company with a good reputation. As you can see they have a poll they published last week which has Trump at 46% favourable. If you click on yougov it’ll link you to the full poll data, so you can read about their methodology, and how they weighted things so that the sample is as representative as possible.

And yes, the good pollsters weigh the data so it better reflects the population. No, they don’t only phone old people anymore. Those days are largely gone, outside the occasional partisan poll.

45% approval rating according to the latest poll:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/

Remember to vote.

Given the level of political debate that’s coming out of the US of late, I wouldn’t be surprised that a large amount of Americans would think Lafayette is a brand of gay French mayonaise.

French soldiers died in fighting alongside the US in Afghanistan. It was a deeply unpopular war, but after 9/11 the US invoked NATO article 5, so the French along with other European nations sent young men to die alongside American soldiers.

I don’t think the freedom fries and “France surrendered” remarks are the problem.

It’s the “Russians should invade them, and I’ll encourage it.” remarks from the next president.

Europe: USA help me

USA: No problem. Who are we fighting against?

Europe: Russia.

USA: What I’m saying is this: You have a group on one side and you have a group on the other, and they came at each other with bombs-- and it was vicious and it was horrible. And it was a horrible thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on this side. You can call them the good guys-- you just called them the good guys-- that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is. I think there’s blame on both sides. If you look at both sides – I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And if you reported it accurately, you would say.

Oh, sorry. You’re right to clarify, the lack of a comma does make it ambiguous. I’ve added one. Obviously that’s actual Nilsen not Tennant. Just mentioned the show because I remember it being good.

Almost certainly.

You missed I. That’s a picture of Dennis Nilsen, as portrayed by David Tenant in the tv adaption Des. It’s quite good.

B is Dahmer.

Don’t know who G is but he seems familiar.

A lot of this is historians using a euphemism in a time when homosexuality was/is still frowned upon or outright illegal, and contemporary audiences not picking up on it.

Eg. “confirmed bachelor” or “he never married.” Wikipedia:

Rose Wild of The Times observed that even where it was used in an apparently non-coded form in historic obituaries, the phrase could still be revealing of the subject; Wild gave the example of a school master’s obituary from 1923 that stated “he never married”, but continued that he “usually spent his holidays in a little inn frequented by seafaring men at Falmouth”. … A similar phrase, “confirmed bachelor”, was used in the second half of the 20th century…

Ebook reader. Prefer an actual book, but the price of ebooks be much better arrr.

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Fuck not brushing your teeth regularly and having unbrushed teeth from lunch till night time.

I try to brush my teeth three times a day. Used to have regular issues, now I don’t and my teeth are less yellow.

No brainer.

I use it for gmail and related google apps, nothing else.

Honestly works for me. Chrome for emails and stuff. No history, full privacy mode firefox for everything else. That includes youtube and links in emails.

Google thinks all I ever do is check my emails.

Half the population has an IQ of 100 or lower.

It’s entirely unsurprising.

Inevitable, but still better than vox.

Same thing happened a while here in Belgium, with the right wing NVA winning votes from the far-right Vlaams Belang.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I wouldn’t count the far right out. They’re harder to get rid of than cockroaches.

Feel free to scrape your sagging scrotum along the floor, or hell bend over at the worst possible moment and show us all your grey squirrel roadkill anus, but for the love of the gods please put a towel down before you go sit on stuff.

People who don’t put a towel down should be shot.

He wants to split the 50 billion in 4 installments, so they can cause trouble once a year.

All this for the equivalent of €10.6 per European in grants per year for four years, money we will make back ten fold in savings by avoiding the need for increased defense spending if Ukraine loses.

Tiresome.

The EU needs to be reformed ASAP. We need a European military and proper Europe wide defence industry cooperation ASAP.