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Richard K

@rkemb.bsky.social

A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
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Spoiler: it's capitulation to Russia.
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All presumably scrambling to try to build their office-gossip networks now their existing sources are out of power.
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All I can conclude is that he's perfectly content that his readers are low information single-issue voters and sees no reason to try to change this.
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This figure looks bad until you calculate what the total salary bill is for 650 MPs at that rate for the three years covered, and work out that 17 million is just 10% of the total salaries.
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And then you read on and realise that actually _most_ MPs can't possible be in on this, it's a small group making out like bandits. Absolutely get those people.
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She should be put out to pasture.
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Her salad days are behind her.
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You're right I do, but in my defence it was a long time ago and they were very small.
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Yeah, my kids were 1 and 2 at the time. If they'd already been in school it would have been a harder decision.
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My wife and I left the UK because of Brexit.
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(With the kids.) Hopefully on the verge of regaining FoM now.
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She brought her photographer, I see.
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Is this "it takes about six days for a letter to arrive"?
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Thursday, Friday, in the loo
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Surely no-one wants superfluid assholes?
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Are you going to trust any lifeform without an asshole?
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Topologically it's a doughnut.
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Certainly true that we breathe oxygen.
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Of course having a paper map isn't much use if you don't know how to read it, and those skills take more effort to acquire now.
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Protective symbols? Pshaw, I've got _skin_, that shit's amazing.
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I really feel that almost any sufficiently primitive biology is indistinguishable from magic.
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That's diarrhoea. Diaeresis is the non-linear behaviour of a system in which the history and previous states of the system affect current responses to inputs.
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If there's no such thing as diaeresis how do you treat kidney disorders?
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Whereas coördnance is accessorised artillery.
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Clarke was wrong: any sufficiently advanced technology is actually a normal part of everyday life that everyone takes for granted.
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It makes the mistake of assuming that nominal monetary wealth is the same as actual stuff that can be deployed productively, and that's just not true.
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Worth going back to Keynes' dictum that "anything we can do, we can afford" and thinking hard about what each of those words means.
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Left behind again, who'd have thought?