mindlesscrollyparrot

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But if the UK can't read everyone's communications, how will they stop 80-year-olds from sitting down in public places holding cardboard signs?

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Given that the alternative was "authoritarian rule under certain, unspecified circumstances", what does "democracy" even mean here? Was it presented as a binary choice? That is misleading.

Neither gender nor sexuality is defined by appearance in general, but the straight white men do present themselves in a specific way.

You are right to say that this might not be the straight white men's club, but you would be wrong to say that the straight white men's club does not look like this.

Trump would love it if Congress declared war. He would be able to invoke all wartime powers.

This feels like an attempt to justify their already pro-reform stance.

Since they speak multiple languages, they probably spend quite a lot of time thinking about the subtle differences in meaning between words, so the precise meaning of the word "polyglot" no doubt matters quite a lot to them.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Horse deserves serious praise! How is 'e even gripping that pencil?

Promoting American industry by ~~buying American~~ getting airplanes as gifts from other countries.

And the taxpayer should subsidize the construction, no doubt.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They also said that they were cancelling lifetime contracts that hadn't been used in 6 months. Hard to see how those could be sinking the company.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the BBC editorial team at work. The letter was signed by 400 artists.

The bicycles are another thing they're ignoring. If someone wanted to leave the area, why wouldn't they go on their bicycle? It would be faster. Those people didn't want to be in the road, and they wanted to get out of the road in enough of a hurry that they didn't wheel their bicycles to the side.

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