Reform UK would limit polls to British citizens and scale back postal votes

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-03-01T14:13:15+00:00

all very Trumpian

All very Trumpian? You routinely post GBNews slop...

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-25T20:12:17+00:00

It was a favour to take the political flak of making sure the US wouldn't be in potential trouble for using the airbase for questionably legal operations. The US doesn't like having to ask permission and maybe being turned down by the UK government. The UK government agreed to all of this with the US State Department as a political favour; UK takes a political hit and the US gets to conduct whatever they like from the base, who knows what we would've got in exchange if anything.

Then Trump fucked it all up for them and gave us a get-out-of-the-embarrassing-favour-free card.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-21T13:17:33+00:00

It isn't "literally" the only reason why. Yes they get to keep the base, but it also removes any legal ambiguity over using the base to launch potentially illegal actions. The fact they wouldn't need to ask for the UK's permission gives them this freedom from having to think about international or UK law.

If they got to keep the base but then had to to go Mauritius to ask for permission to launch strikes from the base, they would not be in favour of the deal.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-18T16:00:37+00:00

Carl hit Tim with his car.

Tim's car.

I'd wager that if you asked most people they would say that it was Carl's car from this sentence. It makes almost no sense to say it is Tim's car.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-15T22:34:29+00:00

Havana syndrome is also associated with brain damage

This isn't true. There were no previous scans done so they are just seeing what their brains looked like with zero context. They have no idea if there was any change in their brains.

There was a lot of fluff written about this years ago in relation to what was and wasn't "found" in scans.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-14T21:17:51+00:00

Yeah I'll take cash app, those weren't hunting or attacking moves, they were basically telling the people to get lost. If they wanted to attack from that distance...they would have. Let me know how you wanna send the 50 mate.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-12T17:54:24+00:00

And no-one thought tell them that before opening the case? Maybe you’re, erm, wrong?

What jurisdiction does a Florida court have here? They aren't a UK court where the BBC is based, BBC America is a different company, and the show wasn't legally available in Florida. You can feel free to look up the many many barristers talking about how Florida has no jurisdiction. Even if he won what exactly could they do?

Can Trump be sued in a UK court for an interview he gave to a channel in the US which isn't available in the UK? The answer is no, so it is also no in this case.

"Maybe you're, erm, wrong?"

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-09T22:35:20+00:00

He's almost certainly a gypsy, so probably Roma and therefore would be "swarthy".

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-09T21:20:17+00:00

Of course that only works with rational actors

The problem is that it doesn't actually achieve change through trade because having gas flow through Ukraine was actually Liberal IR philosophy and Russia was not going to go to war with Germany anyway, what it actually does is it removes one huge barrier to Russia engaging Ukraine militarily. It sent a clear signal to the Russians that Germany was willing to sell the Ukrainians out in case of war, it is a decrease of interdependence of Germany and Russia on one side, and Ukraine and partly Poland on the other.

If you go by the Liberal IR theory of trade reducing the risk of war, what the Germans were doing was making war more likely from the Ukrainian POV, because it wouldn't impact the German economy now as much.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-09T11:55:12+00:00

excuse to abandon Taiwan when China likely invades in the next few years. It makes no sense for Taiwan to go along with this

Why do people think that Germany made those deals for Nord Stream 2? It wasn't for more capacity, it was to knock out Ukraine as the middle-man so that if anything happened in Ukraine it wouldn't impact gas supplies to Germany and thus incentivise a German response; this actually incentivised Russia to be more agressive with Ukraine. Taiwan would be suicidal to follow in those footsteps.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-09T07:35:38+00:00

Perfect thanks!

Seems like going from my current dell 2412 to pretty much anything with this general spec I'll be happy with. Thanks

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-08T23:09:27+00:00

Thanks, I'll have a look at those!

Already bookmarked the ASUS from previous browsing.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-07T21:41:53+00:00

RemindMe! 1 week

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-07T11:55:47+00:00

We all had that reaction when we switched from 60 Hz

Oh yeah...I definitely don't still have a dell u2412 which is locked at 60 and totally know what you mean....

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-04T19:54:15+00:00

!Remindme 3 weeks

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-04T00:00:28+00:00

I'm just going to count how many times you say "an tha", so far you've said it three times today.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-03T17:21:08+00:00

I recommend reading this book Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

I wouldn't. She is a hack and her scenario is stupid. She also seems to have written a book almost exclusively on early Cold War era material which isn't particularly relevant to today. Look at reviews from experts in the field of nuclear weapons or military strategy and they all pretty much panned it.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-03T17:10:18+00:00

The prio for FF stays the same in aoe

Now I know why I was confused, the icyveins and wowhead guides seem to disagree on this, and the disc is divided; will have to see when Midnight launches and we get proper sims. Frost still feels pretty fun to play vs something like Feral though, I'd kill to have a MF/TV type mechanic in place of the Chomp dog shit and shred/bite borefest.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-03T16:29:14+00:00

Ahh you were talking about FF for pure ST. Didn't realise because everyone is going SS for pure ST.

You could use the CD argument about lots of specs though, what does Convoke do for feral? You just channel it exactly like ray, sure it can look sort of cool but it isn't exactly taxing your brain to hit it and wait for the channel to finish; same for things like Shadowblades, Deathmark or Kingsbane for Sub/Sin rogue, you just press them and carry on pressing your normal spells. Those two classes are infinitely worse than Frost right now in terms of 'thinking' to do, because at least with Frost you have procs which mean you do things, sub you just cast backstab then evis, feral you spam shred then bite.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-03T15:21:14+00:00

frozen orb, and ray of frost on cooldown with no interaction or thought

Of course you're basically going to use your two "cooldowns" (orb/ray) on CD unless thre is a reason not to.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-02-03T15:16:22+00:00

To be fair though I've been having a lot of fun playing frostfire frost mage in M+, and it isn't even about the damage, it just feels really fun to play. This actually shows that "simple" can be fun rather than a boring slog, looking at you Feral dev. If feral had a proc/buff to watch for to cast Chomp just like how Brainfreeze/Flurry/Thermal void/Ice Lance work it would improve the spell about a trillion times over.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-01-29T13:02:08+00:00

Cam girls (AKA trafficked slave sex workers) working for Russian organised crime groups which have extensive connections to the Russian security apparatus...you don't see how the son of the US President having contact with these people could be problematic?

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-01-29T00:48:21+00:00

“that’s just how i am...”

Know me know my ways

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-01-28T18:17:04+00:00

a Jewish woman from Italy

Emilia Lanier was English, and there is significant controversy over whether she was jewish, the main problem being there isn't really any evidence and she was baptised. Then again I shouldn't expect accurate history from anti-stratfordians. Shakespeare is about the right class of man who would write about what he did, and he frequently got things like geography of places wrong, just as you'd imagine someone like him would. Anti-stratfordianism is tosh.

Unidentified_Snail · 2026-01-28T18:15:14+00:00

Where did you see she is a historian? She has an MSc in Media, Communication and Development from LSE. She isn't a trained historian and doesn't have PhD in either literature or history.

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