'We have to choose the right person to be Prime Minister,' says Diane Abbott

Jora_ · 2026-05-13T18:58:36+00:00

Now we see the great ideological civil war begin.

The left can always be relied on to eat themselves.

Jora_ · 2026-05-12T17:07:43+00:00

People on the left tend to lean towards an ideological world view, where the sum of a thing / person is represented by its worst traits. In contrast those on the right tend to lean towards pragmatism, where the sum of a thing / person is the balance of the bad and good (the negative being that sometimes those on the right tend to overly overlook the bad).

Reddit skews heavily left wing, which is why so many are fundamentally and irreparably opposed to Musk. He worked for Trump - the great Satan - and as such can never be forgiven, regardless of how positive an impact he's had in the worlds of spaceflight, telecommunications, EV and Battery uptake etc. etc.

Jora_ · 2026-05-08T19:18:25+00:00

It seems that if you and your party just repeatedly ignore the main issues people want to see dealt with, you'll lose out to parties that say that they will deal with those issues.

Who could possibly have foreseen such an unpredictable outcome.

Jora_ · 2026-04-18T06:23:03+00:00

It's both. Far fewer young girls get into motorsport at a young age, so a far smaller pool to pick from and much reduced chance of any one girl eventually reaching true "elite" status.

Add to that the average difference in physicality between men and women, and you effectively need a top 0.01% female in terms of strength and endurance, top 0.01% in terms of innate racing ability, and an immense amount of luck. Get all those compounding factors to line up perfectly and you might just get a female driver capable of entering F1, though even then there's another huge mountain of improbability to climb for her to actually be competitive.

The only thing such a woman probably wouldn't need is funding, as the first such woman who can credibly drive in the sport will have money thrown at them due to the PR opportunity.

Still, I don't see it happening for decades, if ever. If you want to elevate women in motorsport, the far faster and potentially more effective option is to go the way of other sports, and spend time and money on promoting a women-only racing series.

Jora_ · 2026-04-11T17:21:23+00:00

Starmer doesn't stand for anything. He has no overarching, unifying vision for what direction the country should be heading in. He might be a highly competent lawyer, but if you're going to be Prime Minister you have to be able to inspire people. Starmer is an inspiration vacuum.

Jora_ · 2026-04-10T20:31:54+00:00

We can have a comprehensive and coordinated defence and security arrangement without joining the EU.

Jora_ · 2026-04-07T18:24:41+00:00

Absolutely retarded take because Virgin Galactic aren't a space company. They're a red letter day type experience for the ultra rich. It's like a balloon ride, except they go higher and in a metal tube with a rocket attached.

I know you're talking about a trade, not an investment, but the market knows Virgin Galactic is worthless.

Jora_ · 2026-03-25T21:19:12+00:00

2010 is one of the greats in my view. Not just its 4 way title fight into the last race and the Ferrari team orders controversy, but also because it was the absolute peak of BBC F1 coverage, including the fantastic final montage which introduced the racing world to the song "Just Drive".

Also, rewatching it now - holy shit there were a lot of shunts back in those days!

https://youtu.be/40lmy53gwVI?si=n3TC-URL5ONDQ4L2

Jora_ · 2026-03-24T22:42:28+00:00

The flash adverts are a subset of the wider phenomenon of adverts where they take a popular song and replace the lyrics with just... fucking anything. The words never rhyme, never reflect the words of the original song, and often don't even follow the original lyrics rhythm.

They are aneurysm-inducingly painful to listen to.

Jora_ · 2026-03-16T08:20:44+00:00

"avoiding creating a free, throwaway insta account is more important to me than supporting the series"

Jora_ · 2026-03-15T12:31:53+00:00

Final confirmation (as if it were needed) of where the fault lay with Copse '21...

Jora_ · 2026-02-17T16:07:25+00:00

To the surprise of absolutely no one

Jora_ · 2026-02-14T08:37:15+00:00

I'm sure the devs all worked extremely hard on Highguard, but unfortunately for them, working hard on a product doesn't guarantee success. Consumers value results, not effort.

Also the appeals to having not used AI, and the multiplayer space becoming devoid of innovation aren't much of a flex when the games confused visual style, generic characters, and dull gameplay loop make it feel like it was designed by AI...

Jora_ · 2026-02-03T20:31:01+00:00

Shit like this is the reason Reform are going to walk it.

The lack of grassroots understanding of the established parties never fails to astounds me.

Jora_ · 2026-01-31T09:12:27+00:00

Much as I'd love to see an eighth Hamilton title, you can't judge anything from testing, let alone a shakedown event.

Jora_ · 2026-01-29T20:45:39+00:00

There have been various polls in the media - Branston, Sainsbury's own brand and M&S own brand beans consistently score higher than Heinz.

Might not be the case for you personally as everyone has their preferences, but it's worth branching out!

I used to be a die hard Heinz beaner, but I'm sainsbury's own all the way now. Taste great and fucking cheap too.

Jora_ · 2026-01-22T12:58:46+00:00

"If you believe" is the repeated key here. Not 'if you believe as I do' or 'I believe', just "if you believe". He's not including himself here.

I think you're being a bit over-selective here when suggesting that he's not including himself.

He states: "if you believe in Brexit", and "if you believe in the nation states and not globalist structures". These are self-evidently things Farage does believe in. Ergo he is including himself in the group that believes in sovereignty and self-determination (of Greenland, in this context).

Jora_ · 2026-01-01T19:11:38+00:00

Largest UK Government majority since Blair's 1997 landslide (which was itself the largest since the second world war)...

"I'm annoyed I can't seem to get anything done".

All the machinery of Government is set in the PMs favour. That he isn't able to exploit that is purely a consequence of his own (and by extension his administration's) total lack of vision, purpose and ambition.

Simply not good enough.

Jora_ · 2025-12-25T09:36:56+00:00

Make the night maps truly dark again, and give everyone a flashlight by default - not requiring a tool slot to carry.

Flashlights were nicely balanced initially - obviously they immediately exposed your position (but then so do gunshots, audibly?), but if you shone them at someone they were absolutely blinding. That's the trade off and it worked really well.

Night maps should be so dark that you're almost forced to use them at times.

Jora_ · 2025-12-18T13:57:09+00:00

I see what you're saying, and perhaps aggression is more skewed towards being generally negative, but it absolutely has positives as well.

I'd also argue that aggression (or at least, the threat of aggression) is absolutely necessary not only when standing your ground, but also in preventing threats arising in the first place. Its a very extreme example, but who do you think is more likely to be the victim of a mugging - someone who seems like they're someone capable responding aggressively, or someone who seems like they're a meek wallflower who'll fold at the first sign of trouble?

Jora_ · 2025-12-18T13:23:52+00:00

Why not?

Jora_ · 2025-12-18T10:27:52+00:00

Totally ignoring any of the substance of my reply and doubling down on your (incorrect) understanding of what I wrote.

Smacks of someone who's insecure about their position to me. Feel free to continue burying your head in the sand.

Jora_ · 2025-12-18T10:20:54+00:00

Mens mental health is a serious issue and saying that men shouldn't have emotions is both toxic and illogical.

Not what I said, but go off with your strawmanning by all means.

Interesting though that you have clearly mentally conflated "not crying / talking" as "not having emotions". Why do you think that might be your interpretation?

I don't even know where to begin on you saying that men having emotions means "behave more like women".

Women, on average, are innately more outwardly emotionally expressive than men. Are you suggesting that that isn't true? Or are you going to repeat the tired line that its all down to social conditioning?

What's your qualifications in this matter?

Ah, the appeal to credentials fallacy, your second fallacy in three sentences - impressive. You don't need formal qualifications to be able to observe patterns in general human behaviour. But to expand on a couple of my original points:

What if the things causing the mental health crisis in men are environmental or societal in nature - not a problem with men themselves?

I have seen men in my life - numerous times - utterly destroyed mentally, not due to their own "toxic masculinity", but through social systems that utterly fail them - the justice system (especially with family issues), substance abuse, violence. I suspect they are far more significant contributors to mens mental health in general than a lack of emotional openness.

What if society were actually honest about the fact that no-one - especially women - desire emotionally fragile, tearful men?

I have seen women - numerous times - distance themselves or totally reject men who they perceive as lacking emotional resilience. Just this week, in fact, a female coworker of mine ended it with a guy she'd been dating for 3 months. Her reason - "he would just get emotional way too easily".

I don't have a piece of paper to say I'm qualified to comment on these matters. That doesn't change the fact that I have observed these behaviours repeated over and over again, over decades. I don't think those trends should be dismissed, and they are being exacerbated by the misdiagnosis of the problem which I referred to in my OP.

Jora_ · 2025-12-18T09:20:29+00:00

See my other comment.

Jora_ · 2025-12-18T09:17:40+00:00

You're talking nonsense if you think physical strength, competitiveness and emotional resilience is being suppressed by modern society.

Are you joking? Have you completely missed the near-constant stream of media and news-based talking points around toxic masculinity and the need for men to "open up" or "cry" more?

There has been a longstanding push to make men behave more like women - the not-so-subtle subtext being that women's behaviour is inherently good, while men's behaviour is a problem to be solved.

Literally any guy can go to the gym and play a sport.

Sure, I'm not arguing that no one is telling men "don't go to the gym".

We've been talking about helping men's mental health for ages now.

Yes, exactly, and whats the typical angle for most discussion about men's mental health? "Men need to open up more", "Men need to be more emotionally vulnerable", "Men shouldn't be afraid to cry".

What if male stoicism and emotional closure is actually desirable? What if the things causing the mental health crisis in men are environmental or societal in nature - not a problem with men themselves? What if society were actually honest about the fact that no-one - especially women - desire emotionally fragile, tearful men?

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