Harry

Matilda's!!! 2-0 up!

First option. Unfortunately. By that doesn't mean it will happen super quickly or that we'll all be running around caught on fire. That's laughable exaggeration. But it will reduce the planets capacity to support 8 billion humans and that means, famine, negative population growth and extreme economic hardship. And fewer people alive in 2100 than there are now.

I need to do the numbers on the cost of charging an EV vs the use of petrol. Because my household electricity rate went up 37% this year, and petrol has stayed the same.

Their per capita emissions are lower than countries like the US and Australia. Honestly starting to think the worst thing that ever happened to the cause of climate change was the Chernobyl incident, and the 30 year death of nuclear power... If developed economies had committed to a massive new nuclear program in the early 00's we'd have gone so much further than we have waiting for energy storage technologies to mature

All 112 million of them.

True but I just see that same head in the sand mentality as Instagram. I.e. "only put out good vibes" which is akin to the conversation you have with the last at the supermarket checkout rather than one you have with someone you know well

Fwiw I liked Post.news the best of the Twitter clones. It had an authenticity and seemed like a place of high intellect discussion

Twitter was awesome before Musk bought it and chose to make himself a case study of how to torch your reputation and your investment at the same time... $44 billion he paid. For that he could have bought every single club in the premier league. And he has made only bad decisions since then, so obviously bad that have to evaluate: A) is Elon actually smart? If so I guess these bad decisions are deliberate and part of a plan. B) is he really that dim and that shit of a businessmen that he genuinely thinks these are good ideas Threads seems afflicted by that same fake happiness and vanity of Instagram imo. You can't be anonymous, and you can't post anything explicit, and the head of the platform says they don't really want politics or breaking news on it.

very strange 24 hours. Seems like he overestimated how many key players would take his side, and then cut a shitty deal to save himself. But Putin looks bad from this... He announced publically there was no coming back from this for Prigozhin, then 6 hours later Lukashenko brokers a deal with all charges dropped and Putin is nowhere near it...

Some big developments in the last 12 hours. It seems the head of Wagner Group has turned his forces on the Russian Ministry of Defence and has advanced back into Russia into Rostov on Don and taken control of the Southern Military District headquarters. Fighting is now reported between Wagner and Russian troops in Voronezh indicating they may have pressed on beyond Rostov towards Moscow. Best guess from pundits seem to be that he's trying to oust the Minister of Defence and military command, rather than against Putin.

Must be hard to be sold for English next big thing prices. It rarely helps a player

Yeah, he'll never be able to make a compelling case of anti Trump. He's still too scared to take him on. His attacks on Disney are part of what wins him support. Tbf a lot of people do hate the wokeism that DeSantis is pretending to tackle head on. His press spin his tokenistic legislation or policy as a success, regardless of the fact it will not get through the courts. The rival press spin it as a loss, and spin his book bans as Hitler 2.0. He needs the mainstream press against him to have a chance against Trump. Most well educated conservative voters would likely consider him a neocon in disguise and vote for him knowing he'd do the usual thing of make noise about culture wars to satiate the mouth breathers whilst implementing tax cuts and deregulation.

Unfortunately not enough Republican voters care enough about the issue to change their votes

What you're describing is roughly what happened in Australia after our right wing party lost the election last year. Despite all the seats lost belonging to moderate MPs, and being lost to left wing candidates the remaining MPs and Rupert Murdoch's media empire settled on the root cause being that the party wasn't conservative enough.

His voice sounded pretty "it's a me! Mario!" to me.

Saw the Super Mario movie. 10/10. Made me feel like a kid again. Absolutely loved it

I've just been busy so haven't posted much. Need to rebuild the habit of checking the forum webpage, which I stopped doing when we moved to discord. I don't think I ever figured discord out tbh. In mafia wars I did, because I could wrap my head around the size of that section and number of topics, but for me discord left me constantly feeling lousy and confused. Imo it doesn't suit someone who has less time to post, and is constantly coming in late to a topic, or trying to figure out what topics I want to engage with. It's more "in the moment" and bring in a very different timezone I felt like the guy rocking up just after the party finished. Either way I'll roll with whatever solution we land with because I like the community.

Awesome to be back on here

Yeah I'd prefer that

Working my way through Cunk on Earth, and finding it thoroughly amusing.

Such a costly error.

I don't know if any others, but if there are any I'll definitely need to watch them with the kids. They loved this Encanto one and have watched it a bunch so far

It might be easier to get 5 sane Republican votes for Hakeem Jeffries rather than 16 insane Republican votes for McCarthy.... Possibly if the dems swapped Jeffries with John Kasich or a Cheney type Republican.

I had no idea that was allowed. What a terrible law. I'm sure it would be stamped out in most other countries but will have no hope in America

Ages 7 and 4. The 7 year old is keen to watch it, but the 4 year old is playing the veto card at this point.