crow lands

Then I have to ask, how was "Brexit" (whatever the fuck that is) seen through this prism, whilst party politics cannot be? (the answer, I am afraid, is that the UK's political class, incl many on the left, tend to be both anodyne and facile on intl political questions)

@GarethDennis more 1997 but with a shite economy

really hoping this isn't a UK Labour 2024 situation though

Thanks Vance. Thance.

@prstskrzkrk as an ideological project it was empty ... embarrassing

Just realised there probably won't be antisemitic posters all over Budapest next time I have to pass through, that'll be nice

@maddeneszkusz @philippilk he's an absolute fucking mug. funny

@philippilk Your most honest post in the past few months. Now tell me, was it worth it to twerk for them all this time? You made a fucking clown out of yourself for them. For nothing Phil. From now on you will always be remembered for this.

Tisza now ahead with 40-50% of the vote counted. 🇭🇺🗳️

Aaron Bastani! Your boys took a took a hell of a beating! #Pilkington #sos #byebyeviktor #pillockbastano

@tothcsabatibor these 3/4 speak volumes i'd suggest

Not sure about this turnout map . Buda will be heavily Tisza, but Pest outskirts had a sizeable right wing vote share in the past years.

@tothcsabatibor old ppl waking up at 5am factor

Top of the hour: 37,98% (!!!!) turnout by 11 AM, patterns remain the same. Budapest, Szeged underperforming. All maximum turnout places are very rural.

@dai_alectic @aakashgupta the answer is no but i found a shift system (eg 1 week on, 1 off, but can be less ofc) helps see the light at the end of many tunnels

@aakashgupta Let’s say you do 2-5 years of 4 hrs sleep with a baby-toddler (like a lot of people). Can you make up this deficit?

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening. UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm. The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6. Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it. The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in. About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters. "I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

@tothcsabatibor ah yes, that. Trying to get a slice of that sweet, sweet Vidam Vasarnap pie.

They also thought this was a banger, while everyone else looked on, puzzled youtube.com/watch?v=AO_dxn…

I mean I am roughly the same age as Magyar, and their subcultre was an alien planet. I had friends who were coming from dyed-in-the-wool Fidesz families, they were always nice, but as somebody coming from an MSZP-SZDSZ background (effectively Hungary's Labour Party from 1994 onwards), I never quite understood how you can idolize a party leader. We mostly ridiculed our politicians while voting for them. We thought Fidesz-world is living in the past, little did we know that they were living in the future too.

i'm actually glad Neil's got his Orban-apologism out of his system

@tothcsabatibor @roddreher i really liked the 3rd Republic's constitution 😭

@roddreher oh boo-hoo! 1949 "Communist constitution"? this is such a tired trope. almost every pararaph of that constitution has been rewritten in 1989-1990, partially by Viktor Orbán. primarily "in Hungary all power is practiced by the working people" was erased among first things.

@tothcsabatibor in 2010 - with a few exceptions - it was pretty much 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss' tho. I mean we know there are a few wealthy individuals now on the opposite side, hence various things emerging, it's tricky though - Gyurcsany got somewhat rich, but not an oligarch

@crow_lands most of the MSZP ones withered away slowly and silently, the article's point was that the only alternative would have been crackdown, which would have barred Hungary from EU development funds.

Couldn't have expressed it better myself

@tothcsabatibor yeah i'd agree it's not soviet style but 'christian democracy' has a meaning too.. also, i'd ask the author to give names of which post-89 oligarchs got hit. Széles? Csanyi? Like, I don't see it

@crow_lands As far as I recall, the series La Piovrs as well as the Years of Lead all took place in a Christian Democratic system. "Soviet style party state" is not our closest parallel, it's just the most orientalist available.

@barneyfarmer as big as a wall, wall, wall

In all honesty I had completely given up on my childhood dream of world domination until I found out how small it is.

The problem with this theory is that while the Earth might indeed be a dot, I am almost six feet tall.

Introducing Stella Creasy - the lABouR Jo Swinson but with an additional, ear-splitting, crybully personal alarm system

@flying_rodent an interesting thing is that it is the media and PMC who are really defining this; ofc soldiers doing target practice on Jeremy's picture (and it being leaked!) was significant, but the MI* aren't doing it (and some of them liked JC's response to the Manchester bombing)

Like, there really is no “It would’ve been better if only Labour had won in 2017 or 2019”. Nope, and it might even be worse than our already abysmal situation, because there are IMO no circumstances in which that would’ve been tolerated for as much as three months.

The only person I saw try to work out what happens in this timeline was Chaminda Jayanetti, and he - IMO correctly - concluded that much of the PLP and the Tories would’ve united over the Coronavirus crisis and exploited it to collapse the government.

@HiddenYorkshire one of the nice teachers started reading it to us at school (we were approx 10 years old) and then did a screeching u-turn and abandoned ship once she'd got to the last bits herself, lol.

Goodbye Mr Tom. What was all that about, ey? You watch it as a kid thinking it's a nice friendly family film but it's actually a heartbreaking story about growing up abused and losing your best friend but finding a surrogate father in the kind old man who took you in as an evacuee. Scarred me for life, it did

@tothcsabatibor wrote sthing which alludes to similar points (and is partly a result of the chat here) medium.com/p/790e52cad0d6…

@crow_lands Posh accent seems to be a better explanation for his love of Orbán anyway, Irish or otherwise

Two Brits are arguing over the distribution of Hungarian state funds, appropriated from Hungarian workers. Must be Easter Sunday.

@tothcsabatibor i don't want to know too much but he has an extremely posh Irish accent, so that sort of gives an idea

@crow_lands Dont tell me he is a Republican Conor McGregor type, or I'll lose my shit :D

@tothcsabatibor he's certainly er, a very interesting character

@crow_lands Never took him for an Orange Order type