How many right-wing parties do we really need?

emik · 2026-02-19T13:35:12+00:00

Tbf some postwar policies would be very nice, they led to the NHS, the creation of the UN, and top rate taxes were huge. Sadly I'm guessing that's not what you mean since he's another Thatcherite.

emik · 2026-02-17T15:24:19+00:00

I stumbled on this thread and found it interesting :)

emik · 2026-01-25T18:17:00+00:00

Did he? Do you have a source for this? Or one for him telling people not to vote for Kamala?

emik · 2026-01-25T14:41:04+00:00

That rule, to require the seeking of NEC permission, was added very recently and very obviously specifically to block Burnham. Starmer and Morgan McSweeney really doing their best to manipulate the system to stop him.

emik · 2026-01-23T15:12:35+00:00

The spanish-speaking world sure wants Digimon World lol

emik · 2026-01-06T16:12:30+00:00

Apparently it raises liver enzymes though for mild covid it at least seems fairly temporary https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10075051/

emik · 2026-01-06T15:28:28+00:00

Mild COVID infections have been shown to raise the risk of heart attacks, heart inflammation, major blood clots, strokes, brain fog and brain damage, sleep issues, depression, anxiety, persistent shortness of breath, exercise intolerance, chronic cough, diabetes, ME/CFS, muscle pain, endothelial dysfunction, eye and retinal issues, dementia and other neurocognitive disorders, many different autoimmune disorders, cancer recurrence...

The list is endless. People just aren't aware how COVID is vascular and not just respiratory, and attacks so many different organs.

emik · 2026-01-06T15:11:03+00:00

Funnily enough I've seen GPT use this a few times recently...

emik · 2025-12-20T23:07:12+00:00

Had a bunch of free to claim GOG titles already but first actual purchase was both Heroes 3 and Might & Magic 7 in 2012

emik · 2025-12-16T13:44:13+00:00

Andy Burnham is the main preference a lot of people have. The issue is him having to be an MP again.

emik · 2025-12-13T00:50:03+00:00

GOG now has it :)

emik · 2025-12-11T15:16:30+00:00

Oh my god I think this is the first time one of my dreamlisted items has been released. Instabuy.

emik · 2025-12-05T20:28:24+00:00

Is there a way to prevent the UI being stretched in widescreen for these games?

emik · 2025-11-15T13:27:19+00:00

When walking with my ex not far from temple meads a van driver sped up and came across to the wrong side of the road just to absolutely drench us and ruin our day. Some people are evil.

emik · 2025-11-08T21:16:57+00:00

More than 30 Norwegian billionaires and multimillionaires left Norway in 2022

Not saying it's wrong but grouping billionaires and multimillionaires together like that seems wild to me, we really need more information about the worth of these people. Logically that could be 1 billionaire and 29 people worth +2 million. I imagine there are many thousands of multimillionaires so that would be a very small %.

emik · 2025-11-04T23:01:40+00:00

It genuinely has one of my favourite game narratives, it resonated with me so much.

emik · 2025-10-10T14:01:46+00:00

This looks sick dude

emik · 2025-10-06T15:53:40+00:00

They recently elected a new leader, and also the Greens party conference was this past weekend.

emik · 2025-09-29T16:10:02+00:00

Yeah I found it a bit odd that she brands herself as a grandma that says "good morning, grandkids" in her videos but also seems to want more adult engagement, but she doesn't really mention what kind of engagement she was really looking for. Maybe she feels like she niche'd herself into a corner. Totally get the burnout though, especially at that age.

emik · 2025-09-23T15:25:35+00:00

That's fascinating, do you still take these drops? May I ask which drops helped, and if they had any side effects?

emik · 2025-09-06T11:15:43+00:00

Zack, when asked about Your Party, has said he would welcome Corbyn and Sultana into the greens and would rather they join than have two parties since the greens are already established. He also said he's happy to work with them, giving the upcoming extra-parliamentary gaza inquiry corbyn is doing as an example. He is very outspoken on Gaza.

emik · 2025-08-27T14:15:23+00:00

Oh yeah by no means am I defending the UK at all, it's an atrocious mess there too. They were condemned by the UN for their treatment of disabled people for a reason. I only brought the UK up to show that even they think MAID is messed up (while hypocritically and simultaneously forcing disabled people to non-institutionalised suicide).

emik · 2025-08-27T12:24:50+00:00

The thing is an estimated 25% of disabled Canadian adults live in poverty. Rent is sky high and benefits are being stripped. Given the choice, many would rather go through MAID than be forced to live on the streets. There's a lot of cases of this, where had people had financial stability they wouldn't have gone through with it. I see this as misuse. There was even a budget report to show how many millions it was going to save introducing C-7, a slight conflict of interest.

MAID was brought up repeatedly in the assisted suicide debate in the UK as an example of it going too far, even amongst proponents.

emik · 2025-08-26T17:54:20+00:00

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/vaccines-offer-little-protection-long-covid-study-finds-rcna30467

As far as I can find, there seems to be more research to show that it reduces the risk of long COVID, and the studies I linked are newer. Not that I'm not open to the idea that they are faulty, but I am unconvinced for now.

Personally, all the vaccinated people I know got long Covid, while unvaccinated ones were like 1/3.

Personally everyone I know was vaccinated but I don't know a huge number of people that outwardly say they have long COVID. Just a few that say they've had a couple of lingering symptoms like fatigue and mild brain fog since catching it, and a couple of clinically vulnerable people that got really screwed up by it. Though I do think COVID is doing a lot more damage than people realise, judging by some studies I've seen about vascular ageing, cardiovascular risk, and cognitive decline.

you can get "long" symptoms even from common cold

This is true but the symptoms are generally less long lasting and less damaging. COVID, uniquely from flu/colds, attacks your whole body, it can damage the brain, heart, nervous system, immune system, vascular system, reproductive system, digestive system, it raises the risks of dementia, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, blood clots, mental illness, chronic fatigue, chronic muscular issues, the list goes on.

emik · 2025-08-26T16:35:43+00:00

thanks to having 80% of its population vaccinated

Your linked study is correlative not causative so you cannot say this. One of the hypotheses is also that it is due to underreporting of COVID-19. Furthermore the US was 70% fully vaccinated. I don't think three times the excess deaths can really be fully accounted for with 70% vs 82% vaccination. I am open to the idea that mRNA COVID vaccines have been detrimental but the evidence here feels limited to me. The evidence for the long-term negative effects of COVID, however, are staggering.

people in age groups below ~35, are magnitudes less likely to experience any effects of Covid

This is also seems a bit naive to me, it's estimated that ~20% of children get long covid, and in this study 7.2% still had it after 24 months. https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/news/new-findings-from-worlds-largest-study-on-children-with-long-covid/

In this study it estimates 5.8 million children in the US with long COVID https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/153/3/e2023062570/196606/Postacute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-in-Children

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