Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Yes, the general public thinks child rapists and murderers are bad people. So are Nazis and racists.

News at 11

Saying Kimchi and Saurkraut are the same thing is heresy in some parts. Salt water, cabbage, spices, time. Same damn thing the way I cook.

I am not a chef.

He’s lived a life of people protecting him. Employees listening and nodding along, while being paid to be quiet. He’s been groomed to believe himself, and to not be questioned.

Sadly it seems many political figures still live in this world and don’t know how to handle actually being questioned on their actions. Modern Media, cameras, information spread (and the speed of spread) have made the lives of those being protected difficult. Many of those being protected haven’t caught up with it.

“think”

They are untouchable until something massive changes in the US

Normally I’d roll my eyes and move on…

But in this instance I’m going to call service provider protection. It’s not the bus companies fault if you take the bus into town to rob the bank. It shouldn’t be on my ISP to check if I torrent or not. And it’s not on Microsoft what people do with the Azure platform.

They’ve provided a service, which people have used to do bad. That doesn’t mean the service is bad.

… though it is the fediverse and this is Microsoft … so shit away on it

Yep,

I’ve got a part of the house which needs new render and new capping on a pallisade wall. Cannot for the life of me find anyone that wants to do it. Whole house render, no problem. Turn up and just render every wall in site, no problem.

I had a long discussion with a builder who suggested I remove any lead flashing from the pallisade wall so he could render that. After going and investigating what I could, the lead is what’s keeping water out of the house. No, no thankyou do I want to remove that.

As it goes, I might just have to learn how to render myself as it might be easier than learning how to find a reasonable handyman.

At this point … what stops the CVE foundation moving on as a foundation and working to find an alternative funding model?

Yep… And damn I put so much effort into working that out and still got it wrong

Mid-day should be the middle of the day. Mid-night should be the middle of the night.

If you like more light in the evening morning go to bed late and wake up late. If you like light in the morning evening, go to bed early and wake up early.

Stop fucking with the clocks and making nonsensible decisions

So… Let me check I get this right on the timeline.

America Europe Ukraine meet, agree to a 30 day ceasefire. Agree this tests if Russia is serious about ending the war. Putin gobbs off, surrender or die.

Categorical that Russia is not serious about ending the war.

Next steps boys

Something I noticed recently

The same people who quickly bemoan “everyone wants a label now” seen to be the same people who say “all kids do this like that”.

That was my initial thought.

But also, he was resisting the coup. You can’t have Marshall law with military leaders willing to resist you.

This could well be the point that we (globally) lose the “nobody would be insane enough to allow him to push the button” mindset

Who’s to bet a load of shares get bought up, then suddenly this announcement is rescinded?

The party that wants to ban abortion to “save the children” has just condemned, quite literally millions of, children around the world to slow and agonising deaths from entirely treatable illnesses.

When America gets sick, the whole world coughs.

Sadly we’re all in the inside of this one

They want an efficient government not wasting time and resources on unnecessary things …

They get a government crying over the name of a body of water.

If self-assisted euthanasia (SAE) has risen from 0% to 20% of all deaths. Then “other” methods of death must have dropped equal to 20%. If that collection of “other”, is drawn-out cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s etc. then I see this as working. If those conditions have not seen a comparative reduction, and all we’ve done is replace suicide with SAE then I think this hasn’t worked as intended.

Unless it’s circumcision for religious reasons … then chopping off body parts is A’OK.

I don’t see the flow as a problem. But if you do see the flow as a problem I can see reasons a right leaning government would be the way you’d vote.

I also see why “cheap brown Labour” is a reason to allow immigration. So that one swings both ways enough I didn’t include it.