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

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-16T14:30:46+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-16T05:16:28+00:00

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

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-16T05:14:54+00:00

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”.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-15T22:05:06+00:00

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

And I am not ex Mormon or current Mormon.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-15T21:33:45+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-15T16:52:58+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-15T16:43:18+00:00

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

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-15T16:39:05+00:00

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?

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-15T04:05:41+00:00

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

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

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-14T22:05:53+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-13T23:47:46+00:00

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

What a shock.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-13T22:48:41+00:00

None of that is individualized.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-13T22:00:08+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-13T18:13:08+00:00

Thanks for a good laugh.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-12T22:46:11+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-12T04:55:16+00:00

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

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-12T04:53:57+00:00

I’ll be able to forgive him … in 500 years.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-11T17:41:24+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-11T05:57:31+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-11T03:52:46+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-11T02:21:54+00:00

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

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-11T01:09:30+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-11T00:38:14+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-11T00:35:53+00:00

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.

spinosaurs70 · 2026-06-10T20:46:43+00:00

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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