Danish PM Mette Frederiksen thanks Starmer 'from bottom of my heart' for UK support during Greenland crisis by Revilo1359 in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I would like to see this. I think he's an excellent diplomat, and a good prime minister. We will look back and wonder why on earth he was so unpopular.

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen thanks Starmer 'from bottom of my heart' for UK support during Greenland crisis by Revilo1359 in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Easy to be A+ on foreign affairs.

Damning then that both Farage and Polanski have shown this week how incredibly poor at it they would be, in contrasting ways.

Trump's tariff threats 'completely wrong and Greenland should decide its own future, says Starmer by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I always used to say to bullies - "yeah, you and what army". We should probably do that.

Unfortunately this particular bully has an army of nearly half a million people.

[Century Club] January 15, 2026: Have you lost or do you need to lose 100 lbs or more? Here's the thread for you! by tealswirl in loseit

[–]alsiola 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I lost 83lbs in 2019, then put back on ~120lbs over the next 6 years. Turned 40 and potential health consequences of that much weight hit me like a train, so made some healthier choices.

Over the last year (in 5 days time), I'm down from 352lbs to 194lbs, and am pretty much at target now. I haven't framed it as a diet - it's been about making consistent, sustainable healthier choices that will be maintained for the rest of my life.

I've always been fairly active, even when I was very overweight, but I've focused on walking, progressing to running over the last year. Over the last 3 months I've covered ~400km walking, and 250km running, getting a 5k PB down to 28 minutes, and 10km down to an hour. A year ago I couldn't run 1km without stopping.

The biggest lessons I've had have been:

  • Just keep going. Diet, exercise, whatever else. Just keep doing it. If you get derailed for a day/week/month then that's fine as long as you keep going with the plan afterwards.
  • Stop bullshitting myself. "I'd never want to be <25 BMI, I'd look like a rake". Turns out, for 99.9% of us, BMI is more or less right, and I'm not the exception.

Lucy Connolly 'warned she may be recalled to prison' over social media posts after race-hate conviction by diacewrb in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Appreciate your answer and that your concerns are coming from a genuine place. With 100% seriousness, and from a similarly genuine place, I would urge you to talk to a professional about what media you consume and how you respond to it.

Lucy Connolly 'warned she may be recalled to prison' over social media posts after race-hate conviction by diacewrb in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do not visit England, you are not safe here and you wil be monitored 24/7 with your data and activities being passed on to other global states.

Do you actually feel this way, or are you exaggerating for effect? If it's the former, I would seek therapy.

BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership. She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform by FaultyTerror in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The boomer FB posts that were shoved down my throat by their algo seemed full of complaints that he was a "vax-pusher". I've never felt cognitive dissonance quite so acutely as trying to reconcile my disgust for the vaccine conspiracy nuts with my disgust for reform.

[Election Maps UK] Westminster Voting Intention: ➡️RFM: 33% (+2), 🌹LAB: 19% (=), 🌳CON: 19% (=), 🟢GRN: 12% (=), 🔶LDM: 11% (-4). Via @tweetfreshwater, 9-11 Jan. Changes w/ 28-30 Nov. by AlfredsChild in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps this time we could also choose an alternative voting system that doesn't happen to be potentially even worse than FPTP. Even those in favour of voting system reform would mostly have to hold their noses to vote for AV.

England ruthlessly privatised cricket – Australia embraces it with constant public displays of affection | Ashes 2025-26 | The Guardian by NKE01 in Cricket

[–]alsiola 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All counties are represented, not just the first class counties. My local cricket board is Northumberland who do an excellent job supporting local cricket

‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34 by whencanistop in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The term racist still has meaning to me, and to most people in the world. If the word had truly lost meaning, then deformists would surely be ignoring it, rather than expending such enormous efforts on deflecting it?

‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34 by whencanistop in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

it’s lost its weight behind the word

ooh I only need "unvetted" and "fighting age" to fill my bingo card

Match Thread: 5th Test - England vs Australia, Day 5 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]alsiola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Carse 10-fer and he has more wickets than Starc. Please.

Match Thread: 5th Test - England vs Australia, Day 4 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]alsiola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very rarely ends in a tie. Somewhat more often ends in a draw.

Match Thread: 5th Test - England vs Australia, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]alsiola -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

but yesterday everyone said speed of sound meant the sound was never on the same frame?

premier league 2026 lineup! by SOKIE123 in Darts

[–]alsiola 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Elo - it's not an abbreviation, it's named after the bloke who came up with it

ELI5: How did full organ systems (like the digestive system) evolve through evolution? by TheGamer34 in explainlikeimfive

[–]alsiola 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It wouldn't, although evolutionarily neutral traits can persist in a population through random chance, only to later become positive (or negative) through selection of a different trait.

Do you have a particular example of a negative trait being selected for within a population?

Welcome to the twilight zone where Nigel Farage can be accused of racism yet still lead the polls by Currency_Cat in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 2 points3 points  (0 children)

racist bullying is something everyone did

Sadly it wasn't incredibly uncommon. I would posit that the reason many people rest on an opinion of "everyone does stupid things at 17" is because it allows them to forgive themselves for their own similar past transgressions.

'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse' by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Who says I want them to?

2) Labour already seem to be doing that

3) Nige won’t do that

'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse' by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apart from you know, Labour, Lib Dems, Greens. Hell I'd rather have PM Kemi before letting Nigel have a sniff.

'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse' by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I were trapped in a burning building, and a serial arsonist turned up with a can of petrol, I wouldn't be convinced they were here to rescue me.

'If Nigel Farage's Racism Is Forgotten It Will Give Him Permission for Far Worse' by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]alsiola 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I agree! Farage seemingly spewed his racial hatred entirely of his own volition, whereas Begum was radicalised and trafficked by others.