The Little Platoon

Let's hunt some Smurf. youtu.be/pMxNJBjsv8k?si…

@Not_b_Rian On the third day the Lord made Pirate Bay, and he saw that it was good.

@PlatoonPod If he can wangle free Adobe Creative Suite for me, I’ll be wearing a scapular by Friday.

The Pope seems to believe that the current operating model of big tech companies is to secure their wealth and success by making their products available to as few people as possible. He also seems to believe that patents are products, rather than the incentive mechanism to create and deliver new products. Patents cannot, by definition, be "goods that are universally intended for everyone" — patents guarantee that you, individually, are rewarded for inventing goods that lots of people want. He seems, finally, to believe that God has decreed, in some broad and ineffable way, that all products are a) miracles, b) spontaneously occurring, c) preternaturally inclined to self-replicate and flow benevolently into the arms of the needy, and d) that the profit motive is an impediment to all this. If you believe in God, then God, in his wisdom, made humans who make markets and carry out free exchange. The Catholic Church, somewhat less wisely, prefers vibe socialism.

@MrEenergy Last I read, less than 5% of households in the UK have aircon of any kind. Everything here is designed to keep heat in, not let it out.

@PlatoonPod Is central air conditioning uncommon in the UK?

My computer is sitting there comfortably, with the expensive cooling system I bought for it, while I gradually melt into my chair. This is not an equal relationship.

Most US style window units won't work over here because - I learned today - Americans and Brits do not build windows the same way. Ours are hinged and open outward like doors, we generally don't have the sliding/vertical-hung/hatch style windows your air con units fit to. (One of the many thousands of ways nothing in the UK is designed for warm weather.)

@PlatoonPod @LeoWaldock You can order a cheap window unit from Amazon for like 100 USD.

@LeoWaldock I bought an aircon unit last year thinking I was being very clever. But I don't think we know how to make Aircon units in this country, because the pipe going to the window radiates so much heat that the room gets warmer.

@PlatoonPod It is horrible having 500W-800W of heat dumped into your room. We Brits deserve air con

It took me about 2 seconds to conclude that this was a bad idea.

I believe the objectively correct answer to this question is Mixtape.

Emblematic of the entire show. There were people on (and behind) The Boys with genuine talent. But they were kneecapped by the guy in charge, the sum total of whose personal and artistic ambition is pissing off some transient chud. The Boys is, in the end, a satire of its creator.

"It was an efficient adventure."

Cynthia Erivo has been cast as Uncle Owen in the upcoming Christopher Nolan Star Wars movie.

@wwarrior_1 We spent tens of billions of pounds arming Ukraine and in return we got one Eurovision vote.

@PlatoonPod its funny that you say this and this fucking pops up on my feed x.com/OliLondonTV/st…

what the fuck is eurovision even about bro

@iamrobothead He's more machine than man now. Twisted and evil.

The headline I've been waiting for 👍

"Israel scores high with the jury because it's rigged" says a guy I quite like. "How do they rig the public vote" I ask, ensuring it is not reciprocal. The guy's a very clever doctor, incidentally. The radicalisation of the upper-middle class is one of the least talked-about phenomena of modern politics.

@PlatoonPod It's quite difficult to be a gay man at a Eurovision party and *not* get laid, but that'll probably do it.

Being at a party in London where Eurovision is on, and trying to explain to people why the Israel vote is so high (while finding this very, very funny), is a 100% guaranteed way to ensure you do not get laid.

Finally, to clarify the point: Israel scored highly because the anti-Semitism that characterises so much online discourse is not reflective of most normal, offline people's actual opinions.

Also, if ever there were a justified cause for genocide, Eurovision would be it.

"There was an idea... to bring together a group of retarded people, to see if they could become something more."

He's like a shit Nick Fury, popping up in a post-credit scene to recruit the person who just stabbed herself repeatedly in the face with a broom handle.