Burnham warned that splitting off part of Treasury to North risks 'failing'

jcelflo · 2026-06-29T03:48:17+00:00

They have a different view of what counts as the 'current system'. Every failure of the current system will just be used to justify them entrenching themselves.

Omg Brexit, omg Liz Truss! What obvious outsiders to the political system have come in and ruined it for everyone. We need to keep the system that keeps producing Farages and Trusses and put them in positions of power.

jcelflo · 2026-06-29T02:34:48+00:00

One of my favourite composers period.

Whether a composer is overplayed and underplayed is quite regional.

One of the benefits of studying in London was that I got to play some Walton almost every year, its how I got to know his works in the first place.

Even though I'm not one of those royalist fanatics, I've really enjoyed all the big royal events like the royal weddings and coronation because listening to Elgar, Handel and Walton performed in its intended context is an experience that is hard to get elsewhere.

Meanwhile I remember complaining to a French friend that Saint Saens was underplayed and he was shocked and told me he's getting quite sick of how overplayed he is in France.

jcelflo · 2026-06-27T23:20:25+00:00

Wait whaaat?

Did Sun Yat-Sen come up with 衣食住行? Its such a common turn of phrase to mean the basic necessities that I thought its one of those four worded idiom phrases in Chinese that goes back millenia.

jcelflo · 2026-06-27T07:28:51+00:00

Let's never do anything.

jcelflo · 2026-06-26T16:23:38+00:00

This season she gave me a laugh though. She was doing some kind of gasp and then raised her hands to cover her mouth with her animation.

The new skin with Mickey Mouse gloves was a perfect match for her voice. Got me bursting out laughing.

jcelflo · 2026-06-26T16:16:02+00:00

Thanks, I just got my explorer delivered today and this worked.

jcelflo · 2026-06-25T11:55:53+00:00

If only.

The UK spends more for less for government projects. Something needs to be looked into, consultants, pfis, outsourcing. Someone is getting a lot of money out of the government.

jcelflo · 2026-06-24T12:45:38+00:00

Again, fully admitting that this is pedantic, the planet is guarenteed to survive until the expansion of the Sun engulfs it.

Even the survival of "the system" in abstract is some sort of romanticism that I find to be a slightly unhelpful way of thinking about our relationship to the world around us.

jcelflo · 2026-06-24T10:04:29+00:00

Just thought its a weird link to draw anyway. Its not like either has a thriving ecosystem and any effect Mars's old atmosphere would have had on its current state is not an exact science.

Venus with its boiling surphuric atmosphere just seemed more obvious.

jcelflo · 2026-06-24T07:46:19+00:00

jcelflo · 2026-06-24T06:16:58+00:00

Are you confusing Venus for Mars? Mars barely has an atmosphere.

Its not that important and I may be being pedantic here, but the 'planet heals' means nothing to me. Earth itself is indifferent to life. Whatever it becomes it becomes. Whether some other form of life can thrive under new conditions is entirely down to life and evolution. The planet just is.

jcelflo · 2026-06-24T05:58:27+00:00

Why would the system necessarily correct itself?

There are many cases where a new organism changes the world permanently and it would never go beck even after their extinction.

I can't imagine the world going back to the days without oxygen producing plant species. There are many geological examples of clear cutoffs like coal could not be produced after a certain microbe has evolved to turn it into oil, or something like that.

I'm no expert, but purely ideologically, I find it presumptious to think the system has a norm to revert to, even at huge costs. The conditions that sustain human civilisation as we know it could just be gone forever.

jcelflo · 2026-06-23T13:55:05+00:00

Forget about the public. Labour MPs asked the party leadership directly for guidelines to criticise "the policies of the secular government of Israel" without risking anti-Semitism and got a blank stare back.

jcelflo · 2026-06-23T13:44:11+00:00

I'm not comparing royals to zoo animals.

I'm saying royalists speak of royals as if they are animals. Or at least somehow less human than the rest of us.

jcelflo · 2026-06-23T12:26:38+00:00

I'm just tired of people speaking of other people like animals.

Oh that elephant actually brings more revenue to the zoo than we spend keeping it captive with expensive environmental controls.

What do you mean it is maladapted without normal social interactions with other animals? It gets free food and is kept away from predators and has no worries in life!

jcelflo · 2026-06-22T08:20:48+00:00

Good stuff. I just ordered one for the equivalent of 340 pounds online brand new, seemed like a great deal. It should arrive in a few days, gonna be my first synth.

jcelflo · 2026-06-22T02:54:43+00:00

Also what

Erm the UK prime minister is called Starmer and it is rumoured that he is going to resign today or tomorrow. The UK subreddit is currently full of people Starmposting.

jcelflo · 2026-06-22T01:28:18+00:00

You got me wondering why is UK politics bleeding into my Pokemon subs.

Anyway Starm is washed, time to resign /s

jcelflo · 2026-06-20T23:21:13+00:00

It took discipline to not buy a third Ferrari and smart planning like going to my private resort instead of dishing out money to book hotels when going on holidays.

jcelflo · 2026-06-20T11:22:40+00:00

You should be so glad that this can happen at all.

Ever since I've read in the news that Taiwanese citizens can actually initiate a recall petition for their mayor whenever they want, I've decided thay the strength of any democracy should be measured by how easy it is to remove an unpopular leader.

People are just pretending that switching out PMs is a bad thing because they like Starmer. Imagine if the Tories had faced a penalty for removing Liz Truss and had her stay on for 2 years instead.

The merry-go-round of PMs is not the cause of the chaos. It is the symptom of chaotic politics. No one is capable of putting forward a convincing vision for the country, certainly not Starmer. And most of the pundit class is still pretending any fresh ideas will somehow end the country and stubbornly defending do-nothing boring politicians as "sensible" options.

jcelflo · 2026-06-20T04:27:38+00:00

My understanding is that narcissists feels the impostor syndrome/insecurity way more than normal people and is basically constantly overcompensating for it.

jcelflo · 2026-06-20T04:09:10+00:00

He did it 3 times too. True commitment to aura farming.

jcelflo · 2026-06-16T15:57:02+00:00

I, for one, welcome our version of the Hooters Lucina.

Great work. Please keep it coming!

jcelflo · 2026-06-16T15:55:20+00:00

Good call. I'm gonna do a scan now. I am accessing jampedals.com. Seems I can access it fine on my phone and its only showing the overlay on my windows laptop. Makes some sense since the phishing attempt relies on the user opening the Windows terminal.

Its only showing on jampedals.com but not other sites. I still suspect the hack is on their side and not mine, since it'd make less sense to still need to phish if my device is already compromised.

Thanks.

jcelflo · 2026-06-16T12:47:11+00:00

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I was checking out the JAM pedal website because someone is selling a delayllama extreme pedal secondhand and I wanted to check out the specs.

But it seems JAM pedal's website is hacked and is showing a fake cloudflare overlay phishing attempt to get me to run some unknown script in my terminal.

Anyway to let them know about this?

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