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>yeah, I was an bullshit of an person

Coal

No actually you can’t sample this “flavor” because it’s not an ice cream flavor but rather it is a mammal known colloquially as a “cat”. Pathetic attempt at a “joke”. Fuck off.

Guy just asked for a charger and handed me this phone

@sbaroncohen Ridiculous nonsense. The vitality of academic and society is achieved by shuffling out the old. Why on earth should we concede even more of our elite institutions to the gerontocracy?

Delighted to see Oxford and Cambridge launching this campaign called Academics Against Ageism to end the illegal practice of compulsory retirement based on age. No other university in England does this and it breaches the Equality Act as it’s not justified academicsagainstageism.co.uk

Even in the most efficient, deregulated energy market, it would be impossible to predict demand perfectly ahead of time. In things like a heatwave or major sporting events, I would expect collectivist solutions - whether that's local govt messaging to use less, or the power company creating micro incentives and messaging to lower demand (as they often do).

@stemgingercook @LethalAidMan @JeremiahDJohns The question though is whether this would be an "extraordinary time" if government policies were more pro-energy. You can't demand a collectivist solution when it was misguided collectivism thay drove the problem in the first place.

This is fascinating to me, because beyond the surface level it illuminates why conservatives are often so full of shit. The baseline here is that there's a heatwave, and Mamdani asked New Yorkers to adjust their thermostats to help the grid. This is regular practice in red and blue areas of the country. Daniel posts a defiant "I'm not gonna do what mommy tells me!" style post. He surely thinks he's a very clever boy here. Now if the message is "This is a free country, and I love my AC, and by god it's my house and no government bureaucrat can force me to change", then fine. Sure. But there is no law being proposed here. No police are bursting down your door demanding to check your thermostat. It's a request from a community leader, a polite ask that you engage in a very small pro-social sacrifice. You would think conservatives would understand the idea that local communities should pull together in times of need. For the 'common good', perhaps. You'd think. And that they'd be happy if no government force was involved, if they could act merely because they had strong moral character and believed in private charitable action. "Nobody should ever ask anyone to sacrifice for the common good, even if it's just a polite request" is just dipshit nihilism. But I suspect Daniel doesn't actually believe in those conservative ideas. Or if he does, they're a distant second to the true guiding star of conservative thought: owning the libs. Given the chance to help people or own the libs, conservatives will always own the libs. Given the chance to demonstrate strong principles or own the libs, they'll always abandon the principle to own the libs. The actual philosophy of the right is merely "We hate the left". And it's sad.

@LethalAidMan @JeremiahDJohns Whether a market based or interventionist based energy policy, the need to mitigate demand in extraordinary times is always going to be present.

@JeremiahDJohns It’s a power shortage created by the scarcity inducing policies of the same left wing electeds asking for a “small pro-social sacrifice.” They just want help mitigating the costs of their own anti-producer, in this case energy producer, agenda. Why help them?

@Raelthy It was like a meet cute and felt lovely

Is it exciting when you're edating and you meet your ebf/egf at the airport. Do you get a little enauseous and maybe have a panic epoot

Egypt won.

"Sir Harry Kane" is an absurdly cold name for a striker

And to top it all off - we've lost stakeholder consultant.

"We didn't consult the stakeholders enough" is the absolute incorrect conclusion to take out of the HS2 fiasco. How cursed.

Old Hustler cartoons had an unmistakably evil energy I dont think exists in modern comics

How it feels being a skinny fat 5'2 Bangladeshi bus driver in Chișinău, Moldova.

Pray for Cabo Verde

People from dysfunctional countries aura farming their ancient past is so cringe. Ok great you were an empire, can you stop littering trash everywhere?

@CommonSentiment Wittgenstein - excellent choice. I would have gone for the PI, but nothing wrong with the TLP of course...

Sitting outside today at the cafe sipping an espresso and enjoying an aristocratic cigarette. Bene. I heard a commotion and glanced up from my copy of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to see a homeless “nigger” babbling and making his way toward me. He approached and we locked eyes, he looked manic and dangerous. Casually, I took a drag from my cigarette, lowered my gaze, and said “basta” then shoo’d him away absentmindedly as if he were a hired hand who I had no more use for. He was thunderstruck. He stood there stupidly in silence for a moment, then shambled off in a daze, only finally snapping out of it to harass a woman pushing a baby in a stroller. No matter to me. I turned my attention back to my book and espresso. My cravat looked exquisite.

imagine saying “nothing from my end” here