Less dramatic than baseball pitchers vaporising birds, but it’ll do for local news I guess…

I’d be amazed if this didn’t end up as a net loss once you account for the uncertainty and health outcomes.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Came to say this exact thing. “Okay, here’s the text verbatim. Take a few seconds and read it. We’ll wait”.

And then silence as the camera focusses on the interviewee reading, so we can see their expression.

Nooo!

“Bro do you even lif… oh, okay…”

We got extra grilling over a pre-sealed pouch of heat-treated pureed fruit for a baby.

We’ve got a bookshelf from IKEA which is now in its fourth house. We’ve got a desk, TV unit and more shelves which are on their third.

It’s only as disposable as people want to make it, and that’s not an inherently IKEA problem.

This is the other thing - IKEA is very hackable. Bits fit together. It’s cheap enough you can buy something to cannibalise. The designs’ simplicity lend themselves well to DIYing parts.

Now we get the flag-shagging ‘patriots’ who will reject anything they personally don’t like as un-British. It used to be the EU and collaborating with our neighbours, now it’s immigrants. If they ‘solve’ migration they’ll move on to trans people, then all ‘the queers’, and it’ll never end.

2012 was pretty good. So many opportunities for jingoism with the Olympics and the Jubilee, but instead mostly a celebration of “Britishness” which did exactly as you say - be comfortable in itself, and in knowing that it was (and could be) a lot of different things to people.

We’ve got an Ioniq 5, and I’ve had a couple of Tesla owners comment on it whilst at chargers going “ooooh, what’s that, it looks awesome”. Not perfect, but it’s hands down the best vehicle I’ve driven for my use case.

Hyundai are smashing it too.

And unfortunately the law doesn’t (yet, though maybe it should) require a basic competency to vote.

I think the trick is finding the at which someone moves from passive stupidity to either active ignorance or active support.

There isn’t a good “reasonable person” test to apply here for eg people who voted for Trump because “well, I always vote Republican”

Not just electoral reform, but better education in civics, tackling social media’s role in spreading disinformation, the whole lot.

In this case it won’t achieve anything to go after the voters though. They’ve been systematically lied to and manipulated, what would do more good is addressing the conditions which allowed them to be convinced Trump was the way.

Some of my most “productive” days have involved a lot of thinking, and then very carefully modifying three lines in a very specific way.