If only Labour or the Conservatives weren't exactly as dependant on American corporations and lobbyists (including the Christian Right). What do you do when the three 'main' choices are all MAGA tribute acts, with much the same attitude to truth and honesty?

Instinctively, if Streeting is in favour of something, it's a trap.

You maniac.

Can we repeat the shipwreck thing a few more times? I have a list...

What can we do to elevate voices like his, and yours?

This isn't just a problem in America.

How else are we going to build our clone army?

I'm on a couple of lists like that. Apparently, being pragmatic about the technology you're working with is not enough for some people.

Perhaps the saddest thing is so many people still wanting to publicly indulge him, because he's stupid enough to say the things out loud that they secretly want to say.

I've used Epson printers since the days of the FX-80 (remember the noise of a dot-matrix eating your paper?), when they were built like tanks. They've got progressively flimsier and nastier. The move to ink tanks seemed like a good idea, but the printer expires instead. Not impressed at all.

But insurance middlemen are so fluffy and nice and... oh sorry, I was thinking of cats. Insurance middlemen are assh...<transmission ends>

I feel like I'm loosing braincells every time they speak.

It says a lot about "the Patriarchy" that within minutes someone had found a penis font, but none of us are about to share the other one... 😂😂

Humans are weird.

It's an interesting social experiment - unfortunately I suspect that there will be no serious attempts (in any place of authority) to measure and analyse the outcome. Statistics are the enemy of the policy you were going to do anyway.

But this is the debate about any thing-with-a-risk - alcohol, cigarettes, gambling - we've got two user groups we're thinking about. The casual users (larger numbers) who can be put off with mild friction, and the committed ones who are potentially more problematic.

I'd be more concerned about substitute behaviours. PH is relatively benign since it's dependent on credit card companies for payment. If users are moving to other less regulated sources, (a) we don't know what they're watching and (b) it's probably not very healthy.

So far, every single success he has had, has been from buying in a set of founding engineers who already had a plan to reach market.

The moment he starts to direct things... we get Cybertrucks and Twitter.

The thing is, even if Optimus wasn't vapourware, it has exactly the same problem as the cars - he has absolutely no defence against China eating his lunch.

He's demonstrated very clearly he has no manufacturing 'secret sauce' that protects him from competition. Nothing. Nil.

That opens up the idea of boutique or bespoke experiences, platforms that can survive with smaller audiences, and perhaps most importantly, better financial reward for devs that can deliver straight to the player.

There is perhaps too much "machinery" around a console - many moving parts, all of which need servicing and paying for - that has built up over the years.

New entrants are now possible, especially when hardware dev is dramatically cheaper than it used to be at that level.