The screen reads “Bluetooth Init…” which is short for “Bluetooth Initialising” i.e. starting up, turning on, setting up.
“Innit” is a common UK slang term usually associated with chav/roadmen which means “isn’t it”. This is used at the end of a sentence or as an affirmation.
Example A
Brit 1: Lovely weather today, innit?
Brit 2: Yeah mate!
Example B
Brit 1: Lovely weather today.
Brit 2: Innit tho. (Meaning: “Yes, it is.”)
What a terrible day to be able to read…
I searched that wiki page for “horse” and found nothing, please can someone explain what that reference is because from the sounds of it I really don’t want to search it…
Also I don’t see how the neoliberals can’t see that within a few years of implementation, productivity would jump massively as more people would be able to participate in the economy and therefore generate so much more value.
I should stress, that shouldn’t be the reason for implementation, you know the usual ones about why decent healthcare should be available for free/at subsidiesed cost (depending on which style of universal healthcare implemented): it’s the morally right thing to do under the hypocratic oath, every other developed country does this, etc.
But it’s a cold economic reason that makes sense.
It’s how I talk to everyone when I’m not masking or following social scripts. It’s the most fun I get out of social interactions.
I’ve already adopted the transparent frame: nothing to hide, only my undivided attention if they’d like to geek out about their special interests or just want someone to listen.
Not so much a hero but I admired his work the projects he is associated with: Elon regarding Tesla & Space X.
I had heard that he was a bit of a nightmare to work with but I just chalked that up to the usual tech CEO being a bit of an arsehole but still delivering the vision. So admired the projects but wouldn’t personally work for him.
The first time I came across something that gave me the impression something was off with him was when he called one of the Thai cave divers a pedo after the diver rejected using an unproven single person extraction canister Elon proposed.
It was just so uncalled for. Then the more I read and saw stories about him my opinion of him wained further down to a spoilt nepo-baby cosplaying as a design engineer who’d do best to get out of the way of the actual engineers trying to do the work.
Now I think the world would be better off without him and I hope the talented engineers currently work for him leave to find fulfilling employment elsewhere in the space and electrification industries as soon as possible.
They have the national railway museum there too, and once a year there’s Yorvik, a Viking festival. York’s a cool place.
Pilot: Mate I sure love these supersonic transatlantic flights, getting paid for two legs in one day, and I’m we’re the fastest commercial pilots in the sky right now. This is a sweet job.
Copilot: Sure is captain, sure is… Hey flight, how are you doing back there?
Flight Engineer: All g-good mate (frantically checking guages and screaming internally in engineer)
A sock doesn’t need a brain to be a puppet, just a hand shoved inside it.
Though that’s not a fair comparison; a sock has more functioning braincells.
Dozens!
If you’re just after sex and can’t get any via casual hook ups from bars / dating apps / fetish groups then just pay a consenting adult for sex.
If you’re after genuine human connection and a relationship then you should work on yourself to be someone you’d like to be in a relationship with.
There’s no reason Canada can’t make its own cars. Or computer chips.
Sure if you’re talking at least a 10x on the price of equivalent consumer goods, which isn’t going to drive prices down whatsoever. China both subsidises manufacturing AND devalues their currency to keep manufacturing costs low and exports high. There’s no way to do that in the Canadian economy or any single western economy without either tanking it (huge deflation) or saddling the country with so much debt to invest into the industries and then subsidise long enough to be cost competitive that it would never be able to make the credit repayments.
I think there is value to a culture, we don’t want Japan to disappear, we don’t want Italy as a culture to disappear, we don’t want France as a culture to disappear, I think we have to have to maintain the sort of reasonable cultural identity of the various countries or they simply will not be those countries. You know, Italy is the people of Italy. The buildings are there, but really what is Italy? Italy is the people of Italy.
That’s what he actually said in the video.
So I have two issues with this:
Aside from the fact this is clearly trying to give credence to the “great replacement” bullshit, trying to hold a culture from changing and evolving overtime is impossible.
No matter how much someone like Meloni might harp on about it, Italy isn’t the Roman Empire anymore, nor is it Mussolini Italy anymore; those eras shaped today’s Italy and it’s every generations job to add new chapters to the country’s story.
The people of France choose to partake in café and restaurant culture, they choose to enjoy wine regularly, they choose to buy fresh bread from a local bakery, and they choose to make their voices heard very loudly when discontent with the government.
They are French because they choose to partake in the culture of the place they live, they buy into the shared story that is France.
Let’s give an example:
Person A is born and raised in France until they are 16 and then go on a foreign exchange program to the UK. After coming back, finishing their “high-school”, they decided they liked the UK enough to go to university there and meet a romantic partner on campus. After finishing their university degree, they get a job, rent a place with their university sweetheart, and socialise with British friends regularly.
Person B is born in France, but moves to the UK with their parents when they’re young (5 years old or under), they grow up in a duel language household learning both French and English, go to primary school in the UK, make childhood friends, and halfway through secondary school (high-school) the parents move back to France, they finish high-school level education, then go onto university in France, and go to the UK to do a year abroad during their degree.
Now which person identifies as French and which person identifies as British?
The answer is, you don’t know until you ASK THEM which culture they choose to identify with.
Person A could have utterly hated growing up in France so much that when they experienced a different culture they liked that they felt compelled to make living that culture the one they wanted to participate in for the rest of their lives and reject their place of birth.
Equally, Person A could still strongly identify as being French but chooses to live in the UK for a multitude of other reasons: it’s better for their career, they chose to stay in the UK as a compromise with their partner, they prefer the lower income taxes, etc. They also choose to practice their culture in a foreign land such as going to a café for a long lunch during the work week, booking off most of August for their annual holiday, and having a keen fashion sense making sure they look good in public.
Person B could identify as both because they’ve lived a good portion of their lives in both countries OR could prefer the country of their birth OR the one where they had a happy childhood in an idyllic setting.
You never know, maybe overtime Person A convinces their co-workers to come with them to a café for lunch instead of just quickly eating sandwiches at their desks, so they can unwind for a little while before getting back to work. Maybe the whole small company starts doing it because they start to appreciate that way of living, and voilà the (company) culture has evolved to take long lunches at a café because their co-workers appreciate the midday reprieve and find they work better in the afternoon because of it. Though they’re still not willing to book off the whole of August for a holiday.
Culture is not meant to stagnate and people, wherever they go, will bring different culture with them. Overtime cultures change and grow as they adopt new ideas and ways they like leaving out those they don’t like and discarding old and tired traditions they’d rather leave in the past.
Also write to your government representatives about removing copyright anti-circumvention laws saying that they hurt the local economy and only benefit big tech companies from the US.
This is important because US big-tech backed Trump into taking office and Trump is beholden to these companies who have the US economy purse strings.
Individual countries removing these laws will make the money holders VERY nervous and they in turn will pull the strings the US government officials dance with.
As an alternative to drugs or performing at work?
It’s both. I often wish that a lobotomy was available as an elective surgery so I could become dumb, ignorant, and blissfully unaware of (gestures broadly around) all this.
I would turn to different drugs to do this but they would affect my ability to have a job to afford a roof over my head and food in my belly.
Genuinely, what you’re seeing right now is individuals in an entire group go through their own individual chapel perilous moments: confronted with the reality of what their beliefs have brought to the world some will be horrified and reject those beliefs, yet some will double down and be sucked further into them.
For those that reject the beliefs it will be highly traumatic and isolating for them and, as hard as it will be because it feels like a misjustice, those who have always seen the orange cunt for what he is should bring them into our community to support them during this process of genuine repentance as there’s now an avenue for these people to be deprogrammed from the cult of personality, gently educated to make them more politically aware, and help them find an active supportive role in the community so they feel some positive empowerment and hope that will act as a stalwart against the fear that MAGA had been poisoning their minds with.
For those who double down and reject what their own eyes and ears tell them are going to become even more dangerous as these ideas, thoughts, and beliefs they’ll now guard even more closely as a part of their identity which could swallow things like self-preservation, which coupled with the sheer amount of anger and fear is a violent cocktail that Trump, the Billionaires, and foreign powers seek to put into destructive actions.
Yeah the only reason they didn’t want to remain a colony was because they thought they could become more wealthy personally breaking off from the British empire, seizing more land from the natives, and taking more land from Britain’s other colony of Canada.
Then bind all the states and their settlers and natives by saddling them with national debt to lock them into a unfettered capitalist experiment on an unexploited resource rich land with the moral framework of civilising and subsuming the native population.
Sorry to be pedantic but strictly speaking “shareholder profit” isn’t the issue with capitalism because that would include worker-owned cooperatives which are not causing the same problems.
The issue is the legal obligation of a private or public company to make an increase in returns for shareholders year on year.
This is why decisions like downgrading quality, design by committee to appeal to focus groups, everything becoming a subscription service, and firing staff to reduce wage overheads in the last financial quarter exist.
Because it’s easier for the company directors / C-level executives to make these decisions which make line go up, rather than try to justify to shareholders why a steady or small dip in returns is necessary for longer term investment and growth.
This is compounded by the shortsightedness of companies only planning quarter to quarter then governments + central banks basing all economic decisions on GDP figures.
Because the easiest thing to make national line go up is to give tax cuts to the owning elites for them to shuffle even more money around in the stock and commodity markets, they buy up all the assets of the working class, the middle class, and the governments selling them off.
But funnily enough, centralising all the apparent wealth in the hands of a few silver-spooned arseholes is not a basis for a functioning society.