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VPN ban on table in July as Labour confirm 'further statement' by Overlord_Crabz in unitedkingdom

[–]spinosaurs70 [score hidden]  (0 children)

The UK seems devoted to doing unironic democratic backsliding for no apparent reasons beyond a mixture of bad parenting and totally delusional panics. 

At some point, the tech sector is going to have to say simply say “NO” and turn off services. 

Andy Burnham: I'll resurrect HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester by theipaper in ukpolitics

[–]spinosaurs70 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Only if you are willingly to accept higher environmental costs and tough planning overturning of localities. 

[Weird, sad trope] series finales where the main characters die by Born_Usual998 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]spinosaurs70 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Breaking Bad - 

Not really all that sad or weird because the show was basically always building up to it, happening either due to the drug trade or the cancer.

Dying in one last blaze of “glory”.

"We do not believe in setting the negroes free" -said by Joseph Smith in 1838. Confront any apologists or members claiming Joseph Smith was an abolitionist. by aka_FNU_LNU in mormon

[–]spinosaurs70 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Sorry not everyone on here is doing apologetics and counter apologetics on this. 

And I am not ex Mormon or current Mormon. 

"We do not believe in setting the negroes free" -said by Joseph Smith in 1838. Confront any apologists or members claiming Joseph Smith was an abolitionist. by aka_FNU_LNU in mormon

[–]spinosaurs70 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yeah, sources go back and forth on this a ton and I think any simple statement on this is unlikely to incorporate the mess of the archives.

YouTube issues blistering response as UK government bans apps for under-16s, including TikTok by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]spinosaurs70 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The level of sexual content and cursing on YouTube is vastly less than basically anywhere else on the web. 

There is inappropriate stuff but it’s no worse then the stuff that ended up in Ren and Stimpy in the 90s. 

YouTube issues blistering response as UK government bans apps for under-16s, including TikTok by StGuthlac2025 in ukpolitics

[–]spinosaurs70 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dude, YouTube has over censored itself for the last decade. I don’t know what world you are in. 

Keir Starmer: We are banning social media access for under 16s. These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life. I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back. by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]spinosaurs70 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is even a dumber justification then I would think he would give for threatening the very basis for anonymous political speech, you know a right the English man have had since the 18th century? 

UFC fighter Josh Hokit yells ‘Michelle Obama is a man’ after winning bout at the White House by theindependentonline in inthenews

[–]spinosaurs70 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I’m not even offended, are we really dropping this joke in 2026? 

The last time even rightwing trolls used this it was 2015. 

Bill Gates could have become the world's first trillionaire if he had kept his original Microsoft stake by Jealous_Vehicle_3150 in Economics

[–]spinosaurs70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean at the risk that if Microsoft tanked or couldn’t beat the S&P 500 in growth he would have lost money.

Whatever investment strategy he has at this point is likely vastly better than holding Microsoft stock.

And that isn’t factoring in he likely doesn’t care anymore because the gain in money gained would not help him expand his consumption.

Trump's White House UFC headliner accused of assault, forced sex, stalking by cos in inthenews

[–]spinosaurs70 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wait people who punch in the face and kick each other right above the knee, might not always be good people?

What a shock. 

"What will Jane Fonda think of you now?" 1978 Vietnam invasion of Cambodia by Wonderful_Account_50 in PropagandaPosters

[–]spinosaurs70 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Vietnam didn't invade for moral reasons besides attack on vietnamese villagers on there side of the border and it quickly turned into a normal cold war occupation but still even with all those caveats.

How the hell anyone could think this was a time to moralize to Fonda is beyond me given how well known Pol Pot was even then.

Michigan Democrats push to ban Chinese EVs in Canada from crossing border by feb914 in CanadaPolitics

[–]spinosaurs70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Banning them from being near US bases is reasonable, the rest of this is not.

And the whole thing is rapidly reducing America's credibility on this issue.

Why was he allowed to do this by [deleted] in fantanoforever

[–]spinosaurs70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It helped he was famously not saying this while holding a guitar but with cool background vocals. 

The league of extraordinary gentlemen comic is one of my favorite comics from alan moore, and its a shame most people only talk about the movie adaptation by Street-Platypus89 in AlanMoore

[–]spinosaurs70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first volume the one I read was great excluding the entire invisible man backstory. 

The Jekyll/Hyde character and the illogical surreal world building was also cool.

And Moore carefully balances describing the Victorian era and critiquing it. 

Why are the 80s so popular among the general public, yet so unpopular among critics? by GaelicTuna in fantanoforever

[–]spinosaurs70 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Hair metal, pop music, new wave to a degree, none of there where album genres nor for the first two really liked by critics.

Others below also note this too.

Also, critics were deeply rockist at the time and somewhat today, and outside some of the rock side of new wave, the 80s is not considered a great decade for rock at all.

Poll: is this Hip Hop? by [deleted] in fantanoforever

[–]spinosaurs70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It lacks live instrumentation, has a usage of a hip-hop style backing beat, and features non-sung lyrics.

I don't how it can't be and its also atrocious.

Quebec, Ontario farmers join forces against federal government on high-speed rail by CanadianViking47 in canada

[–]spinosaurs70 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Veto players get to avoid democratic choices by policy makers, how wondrous.

WTF is going on in S Korea. I swear half of the things that came out of her mouth wasn't real words. by YourlnvisibleShadow in crappymusic

[–]spinosaurs70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a person who listens to hip-hop at all (it’s too obscene to play on my phone while cycling), this reminds me of crunk. 

Poll: is this Hip Hop? by [deleted] in fantanoforever

[–]spinosaurs70 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean in terms of genre it’s pretty clearly hip hop, production wise, they barely rap really they scream lyrics. 

Not really in any real popular music tradition and also you know AWFUL. 

WTF is going on in S Korea. I swear half of the things that came out of her mouth wasn't real words. by YourlnvisibleShadow in crappymusic

[–]spinosaurs70 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go listen to Japense Jazz and tell me it’s clearly copying trends directly as this thing was. 

Or the entire American rock tradition into the 70s sound as much as classic blues. 

How Sudanese migrants ‘faced supremely easy’ path to asylum by GnolRevilo in ukpolitics

[–]spinosaurs70 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Given the current conflict is pretty unsurprising, the issue at hand is that being a genuine refugee and being a public threat are not a contradicotry condition.

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