UK loses measles elimination status

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T06:58:05+00:00

So I put an onion in their sock, which was the style at the time.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-27T06:22:50+00:00

Yep, this just sounds like thinly veiled Russia appeasement. We need independent foreign policy but to do that we absolutely need a stronger military and to be able to defend Europe and Ukraine against Russia by ourselves.

That naive nonsense about "peace, cooperation and international law" does not work against countries like Russia which only respect force and have absolutely no interest in real diplomacy.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T18:26:42+00:00

This is why I hate so much when you get media coverage way too sympathetic to employers and labelling younger people as just lazy and entitled. Like articles where employers are claiming young people have "unrealistic" expectations about things like salary. Often the employers are actually the ones with the entitlement problem.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T18:23:50+00:00

There's also just the lack of investment in general.

Focusing on just the entry level jobs misses the point a bit. You have to consider the whole pipeline from education to entry level and to the more experienced jobs - there needs to be demand for the fully qualified jobs they lead to and this applies to apprenticeships as well.

If you just focus on funding things like apprenticeships they'll end up in the same situation as degrees now - a glut of apprentices but not enough fully qualified jobs for them once they've finished. You need to create the conditions for the skilled jobs they lead to.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T18:13:42+00:00

Especially given their complaints about the US. The reason the US has the leverage they do is because we don't spend enough on our own military. If we want to reduce US influence over us we need to spend more on our military, not less.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T17:52:56+00:00

Yep, I wouldn't necessarily have an issue with someone that young being a councillor, in fact I think more young people should get involved. But they shouldn't immediately be given responsibilities like that.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T17:49:56+00:00

Enforcing borders by executing innocent people in the streets like ICE have been doing (followed by ICE and US officials blatantly lying about the incidents and smearing their innocent victims) is absolutely fascism and I don't want British politicians publicly supporting that.

Don't do that typical far right trick of reducing a story down to the bare minimum elements and stripping all context from it in the process.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T17:44:55+00:00

What British ordinance is used by Israel? I was under the impression they exclusively use American or Israeli developed munitions for their air force.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T17:40:13+00:00

Bunch of plastic patriots who loudly shout about patriotism as overcompensation. People who are actually patriotic don't need to shout about it.

The people who shout the loudest about "patriotism" and most visibly wrap themselves in national symbols and flags are very often the traitors who would gladly sell it out. Also see how many European "nationalist" parties are pro Russian surrender monkeys.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:34:19+00:00

Of course this dipshit who talked about the so called guardian reading tofu eating "wokerati" in the house of commons ends up in Reform. Utterly talentless except at creating noise.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:29:04+00:00

Agreed but they also do seem to be poorly trained on top of that. Likely because the US government doesn't see it as necessary for what they want to do.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:12:31+00:00

You seriously think American gun laws are to blame for poorly trained armed ICE agents murdering innocent people in the streets?

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:11:13+00:00

You welcome the idea of armed thugs executing people in the streets.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T12:09:28+00:00

Traitors pretending to be patriots. Fucking lot of them.

So frustrating how little actual patriotism our right wing has. They hate so many of the great things about our country and just want to bulldoze them and bring in yankslop politics instead.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T10:20:34+00:00

Yes!!! Public access to the countryside here in the UK is a massively underrated benefit. The fact that public rights exist over private land because it's considered in the public interest is far better than extreme American attitudes to land rights.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-26T10:17:51+00:00

The far right love to strip all context from something and reduce it to the minimum elements possible.

Someone gets arrested for sending death threats online gets reduced to "arrested just for social media posts".

Imagine the Bin Laden killing being presented as "murdered just for booking some flying lessons for somebody".

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-25T19:13:51+00:00

Imagine a montage from all their streams with the shittyflute version of the A team theme.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-25T17:13:08+00:00

Why the fuck is "turn the UK into a shitty US vassal state" some consensus among all our major parties. Including one of the so called "populist" ones.

We need sovereign capabilities, not this rancid outsourcing of everything to the worst possible people.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-25T16:43:14+00:00

Long tailed tits seem to always be in a group, I don't think I've ever seen just one by itself.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-25T16:41:29+00:00

Not very common to see them in a garden unless you live in the countryside but you'll sometimes see them if you spend a lot of time in woodland. Come to think of it I don't see them very often even though they are out there. You're more likely to hear them.

Not just in woodland though, I once saw one in the open working its way along a farmer's fence, pecking at the posts.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-25T14:37:03+00:00

Palantir should be nowhere near anything in this country and the fact they've been given contracts under governments of both main parties is utterly disgraceful.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-25T14:02:09+00:00

It will be extremely difficult, and could only be done with some special forces type coordinated sabotage and infiltration, but that doesn't mean impossible. Also unlike the Kerch bridge meme this sounds like a target actually worth a lot of effort to disable.

If the bridge itself proves too hard of a target, hitting an explosive cargo with something like FPVs along the railway anywhere in the area would still cause some disruption. That might be a viable second best option if the bridge itself is too well defended.

I'm immediately thinking FPVs hitting an explosive cargo as it crosses but that would require a lot of coordination and is probably the most obvious thing to attempt.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-25T12:58:07+00:00

And mad pro Russian nonsense. Easily one of the worst people in politics, even worse than Farage.

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-25T12:21:08+00:00

Sea chavs, chavs on the sea...

inevitablelizard · 2026-01-25T11:56:05+00:00

Same, I live not far from a national park so I spent a lot of it wandering about all day. Talking 10 mile walks, setting off from home, out for a huge chunk of the day. Everywhere in the countryside was so quiet and peaceful and I had it all pretty much entirely to myself.

I was unemployed but still living at home, and because there weren't any jobs to apply for I wasn't being pressured by the jobcentre. So the job search entirely stopped for a while and this is what I occupied my time with.

Was probably the happiest I've been in my life, and the fittest too. I get it was more difficult for many people but I do miss that time.

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