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You can’t bring me down

Trump and co. are merely impatient oligarchs that feel that they now have the technological and propaganda controls fine tuned enough to reduce the chances of blowback ever reaching them as they ramp up the extraction of value from the rest of us.

For the other lot were doing this apace too but most of the worst of their efforts were hidden in the global south.

This is it: low income folks that graduated in '94 were the last to get full student grants and no fees to pay + renting was relatively way cheaper too.

Liberals don’t want truth or justice, they want a self serving narrative that disguises their contempt for people they feel are beneath them.

At least

I’ve been subscribed to Private Eye for about 22 years now. I don’t think it has changed all that much in that time. It’s not as apolitical as it would claim I think because it suffers from a little bit of Capitalist Realism. It doesn’t pull its punches regardless of who it sets its sights on however I feel it fails to tie together overarching themes.

Which gives superficial comfort as it gives scant protection from how aggregate data is used to upend democracy.

“Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese companies,” she added.

And that’s different to American companies how? None of this climate of data harvesting is currently good for us.

I’ll never forget DRE now

I had my first DRE a few months ago. It felt like the Dr thought my butthole was a dog’s mouth with a piece of chocolate in it.

A general strike is your only hand. So start prepping for that.

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Oh look, here comes FlyingSquid.

I could swear I heard that whole ACER laptop angle a couple of months ago on someone else’s podcast. I don’t want to say verbatim but I was having severe dejayvu. It wasn’t a Doctorow podcast that much I’m sure.

Me too.

it’s beyond the pale!

Private Eye

Not everyone’s cup of tea. Actually becoming aware of the amount of corruption and injustice in the UK can be accutely depressing.

Their online offering is a tiny fraction of what is covered in the hardcopy.

Yhe lack of traffic in London was amazing

Thank Christ we finally get away from the endless skinny jeans -> baggy jeans cycle.