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It's not apparent to me how much political experience her four years as Vice-President has brought her. Perhaps I reed the rong papers. Given a say - which of course I haven't - I think she'd make a far better President than President Trump would. I too would like to find out. I'm not sure how to sh...

Given her history I do not see that she has any chance of being elected anyway. I haven't the slightest idea what character flaw would lead her to run in the first place. One would have to think one was the best person for the job - strike 1. One would have to believe running the country well would...

US President Joe Biden endorses Kamala Harris after ending re-election campaign https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e5xpdzkd8o Of all the inept ways to go, that is the most so. If President Biden is not fit to run then surely he can accept he's not fit to finish his term, and allow Kamala Harris to...

Oh yes. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. "I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God." We'll be declaring his mother immaculate before the election is out. Trump promised to lower inflation and “end every single international crisis”, without mentioning anything specifi...

I'm completely baffled by this brain-dead administration in the White House. There's an assassination attempt, President Biden goes out for his first subsequent campaign speech and what idiocy do we get? Confrontational "we need more gun control". How exactly is that supposed to help reset...

There is, it turns out, a photographic record on the occasion of the attempted assassination of President Trump - I have a copy on my screen as I type. Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci's image will, I suspect, be counted among the greatest pieces of photo-journalism in world history, up ther...

President Trump's electoral chance for a second term got a significant boost yesterday. That, I would imagine, is incontestable. “There is no figure in American history at least in the modern era - maybe since Lincoln - who’s been so vilified and really persecuted by media and Hollywood elites, poli...

There is, of course, an alternative future in which President Biden is re-elected, inaugurated, serves a few weeks for the record and then retires through infirmity in favour of his Vice-President. It would allow Kamala Harris eleven years as President and retirement at 71. And while I would very mu...

Nonetheless, he said Harris was qualified to be president as well, although he misnamed her in the endorsement. “I wouldn’t have picked vice-president Trump to be vice-president, if she’s not qualified to be president,” he said. That gaffe was compounded by the fact that he had introduced the Ukrai...

So yes, I'll put my pound coin on Priti Patel. This offer does not in any way constitute a vote of confidence or a disregard for her hard-as-nails Theresa May impression at the Home Office. Where are the rogues of yesteryear though. Where is Cecil Parkinson, David Mellor, Reggie Maudling, Jeffrey Ar...

Here, for anyone who'd like to sort and browse. Handmade, this is. Comparatively at least. Ten minutes anyway.

The two Conservative MPs re-elected who enjoy gloating with vicious aggressive confrontational language are Suella Braverman and Mark Francois. It will be interesting to see whether they have a place in the new Shadow Cabinet, or whether they'll be recognized as unhelpful. So who do you think will ...

The Conservative party is about to return to the Commons as the official opposition party after losing (and here I take a guess) 70% of the seats it had at the start of June when Rishi Sunak bet the farm and went to ask the King for a dissolution. That translates to losing 239 seats and retaining 1...

There are some spectacular phrases in the papers today with this as the stand-out: it’s incredible to think that only a short while ago we thought we’d eradicated measles and Nigel Farage. Both have now been brought back, largely by the same people. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/...

Sunak rejects claim Tory attack on Starmer over wanting to spend Friday night with family disrespectful to Jewish people https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/jul/03/uk-general-election-2024-live-updates-tories-labour-polls-boris-johnson He said what? What? Of course it was! Good lord. For...

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I put it to the panel that in At the heart of the quantum compass – which could be ready for widespread use in a few years – is a device known as an accelerometer that can measure how an object’s velocity changes over time. https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/15/london-underground-q...

Dr Saleyha Ahsan, his co-presenter on Trust Me, I'm A Doctor, told BBC News he was a "national treasure" and a "hugely talented" man. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kk9gvw8l0o That gets the tone right, national treasure. It's distressing news. Extreme heat is not a thing ...

What there is is digraphs for the vowel variations. It means the reader doesn't need to understand the accents and the writer doesn't need to make them, and when the reader is in Year 2 that makes a lot of difference.

Still no news of Dr Mosey. It's difficult to think this could end well. Here's another taster of phonography: awtbrayks uv foodborne ilnusiz , such az ee kowlee , wil inkrees in the yookay unles urjunt akshun iz taykun too takul suvir shortujuz uv inviyrunmentul helth ofusurz , a baudee reprizenting...

So, I have made progress in the matter of designing a phonographic representation of English using no additional sound symbols than the 26 conventional A to Z. Here is today's news item fed through my filter: teevee dauktur miykul mowzlee , nown for popularising the 5 : 2 diyut , haz gon mising wiyl...

I do hope people are still paying attention... China’s uncrewed Chang’e-6 probe is on its way back to Earth carrying the first samples from the far side of the moon, in a major achievement for Beijing’s space programme. The probe landed on the lunar surface on Sunday, within one of the oldest crater...

The Ray-Ban Erika collection offers a range of color options, allowing wearers to express their personal style. In addition to their stylish appearance, these sunglasses provide essential protection against UV rays Ray-Ban Erika , making them a practical accessory for sunny days. The lightweight an...

The BBC news website's sub-editors might as well have jumped off a cliff for all the good they're doing. "There was almost no level of security that could keep Raymond Gurême captive for long"? So there was a level of security that could keep Raymond Gurême captive permanently? And the BBC...

Betty Boop wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 3:48 pm ugggh my favourite didn't win

Clearly your support for Olly Alexander was built on sand.

I confess I have so far heard none of it. I'll keep my eye open.

Umm.

Amazon's algorithm?

Frequently bought together
Holy Bible: King James Version (KJV)
+
The Quran

I think not, Amazon. Really.

The Guardian's sub-headline for an opinion piece: The mistakes made at one point in time have an eerie way of re-emerging as memories fade So, what does it mean? "at one point in time"? Garbage. Drop it and there's no change to the meaning: Mistakes made have an eerie way of re-emerging as...

By the time Trump's up for re-election there will be three operating Chinese aircraft carrier battle groups, one in the East China Sea and two in the South China Sea. Let's see if he's still accepting phone calls from Taiwan by then. This is China's third aircraft carrier, Fujian, possibly a year b...

One of my not so beautiful toughts is that I can do 4 times worth of my job if it paid me enough, now I just sit in the office for 6 hours when I finished my workload in 2 hours, is this what life is about? And yet the world is so much a better place thanks to the uplifting history of Aleksei Grigo...

car meets, which are defined as the gathering of two or more cars Really! So if I drove to Stevenage to meet a friend who also drove in (which I’ve done often, I used to work there) the we constitute an illegal car meet? Ludicrous! For is it not said, those who wantonly waste fossil fuels shall nev...

Another new member that finally decided to make his/her first post, THAT'S ME! So, to make a painfully long introduction short, I'm hiding behind the username Zenin000, inspired by an anime my kid likes to watch, he said that this is a cool family in that anime. I love gardening and I picked it up ...

Are there any good TV series besides this? Gerry and Sylvia Anderson made several series which remain watchable exciting stories, all of them can be found with a torrent search. Or Callan. The British one. I don't think it's ever been bettered. Wonderful acting. Life on Mars, again the British one....

car meets, which are defined as the gathering of two or more cars Really! So if I drove to Stevenage to meet a friend who also drove in (which I’ve done often, I used to work there) the we constitute an illegal car meet? Ludicrous! For is it not said, those who wantonly waste fossil fuels shall nev...

Twelve months it's taken them to get round to bringing these two prats into court. Perhaps someone retired and a replacement officer knew how to use the computer. And the selfish antisocial gits are out in force this weekend again. Same place, same people, same disruption. All the council says is o...

I shall quote from George Galloway's contribution to yesterday's debate on the new extremism measures. You will recall he was re-elected to the House on February 29th, a day which will now be forever known as Galloway Day. I remind the Secretary of State that a former Speaker of this House was weari...

So, here's how it's done, see. We need a starting point. Let's find a thing we can match to modern test conditions. Here's what you do innit. You say "If this thing was about Jews you'd call it racist, wouldn't you? And it's a level playing field because otherwise your own test would be inheren...

I note the publication of a "New definition of extremism" by the UK government, under the direction of Michael Gove. Here, for the record, is the content, which with extended commentary can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-definition-of-extremism-2024/new-definiti...

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I appear to be having an odd moment. My mind has turned to the 1970s I believe. I have a distinct recollection that I would choose, when shopping for cheese, to select a plastic-wrapped rectangular parallelepiped carrying the brand name "Cracker Barrel", and probably the words "extra ...

As far as vocabulary goes, Open Office is equivalent to Microsoft 365 (which is a recent online annual-payment equivalent to a Microsoft Office except it lives on the Internet instead of your own hard drive). The only available Microsoft currently updated operating system is called either Windows 10...

Brunei's Prince's royal wedding reaches climax
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I don't have a chrome book Spot. I don't even know what that is. I have a HP laptop. It's my mistake, I was guessing at what "I chose Chrome for my main server" meant. On Windows there's a utility SquirrelDisk I've used before and it showed where disk space was predominantly used - https:...

I occasionally think the 1982 version is the best, probably because of the video.

As far as my computer goes ...I don't really know. I received it a few years ago and I've just been loading crap onto it and it's not liking it anymore. I don't pretend to know what to do. I was thinking of taking it to a shop. It began when I got sick of giving money once a year to microsoft just ...

Theological extremism does tend to encourage its adherents to torturing those who don't conform, it keeps cropping up repeatedly regardless of the religion involved. The Mormons may well have a reputation that way on account of being so far out on the lunatic fringe but the core danger sign is just ...

It could be that the government's overriding of the court verdicts and reversing this entire category of convictions is the best way forward. It is axiomatic that the unjust verdicts and sentences delivered in each case were the fault of the court process itself, since the courts are surely designed...

The management would like to apologize for a 20 minute outage without warning over the last hour, following two heavy system resource overloads by Hong Kong and Indian web harvesters. Matters are now stabilized, but please note next week may bring further brief disruptions. There may be trouble ahea...

That would put these convictions into the same category as the pardons issued to "anyone convicted or cautioned for consensual homosexual activity, under now-abolished laws" who "can apply to have them disregarded. The convictions would be wiped from record and an automatic pardon giv...

Somewhere between 500 and 2000 post office branch managers were deprived of their good name, forced into either prosecution or paying money claimed by the Post Office as fraudulently stolen, followed by the loss of their skilled professional livelihood. The government is currently talking in public ...

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