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DavidT

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Most people are decent and it's just a few arseholes ruining it for everyone else. One day we'll learn how to marginalise them into obscurity.

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  1. Hear hear.

    And none - quite literally none - of their forecasts why this would be so bad for the economy are anywhere near coming true.

    The Times are the worst at giving them space. It's relentless. My best guess is that the ISC have done a 3-year deal with them which now has to be honoured.

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  2. Would it kill the BBC to remind us that the Conservatives Rwanda scheme cost £700 million and only four people were sent - all of them volunteers?

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  3. The Tesla Diner is a perfect metaphor for the whole Tesla brand: a bad facsimile of something that already exists, made by people who don't understand what they're recreating, with a thin veneer of superficial futurism on top, for people with no taste or self-respect

    www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/d...

    Tesla engineers built a proprietary tool to flatten patties for the smash burgers with crisp browned edges, held together with caramelized onions and cheese, which seemed to be on most tables. It lent the dish a superficial whiff of innovation, but the burger didn’t stand out in any meaningful way.
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  4. By ever closer alignment with the EU.

    We are going to rejoin one day. If Labour are going to break a pre-election pledge it might as well be that one because all we're doing now is losing billions by staying out - for no good reason other than it's apparently politically expedient.

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