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I'm not sure who is referring to them as the British FBI - it seems to be an unattributed quote.

I think this is less to do with emulating the US and more to do with dealing with crime that crosses county lines without having to involve London.

If you have ever read the "thought" process on some of the reasoning models you can catch them going into loops of circular reasoning just slowly burning tokens. I'm not even sure this isn't by design.

I'm on the fence about SFA. The third episode was quite funny but I get the feeling the trials and tribulations of horny zoomer students at Star Fleet 90210 might not be aimed at my demographic.

There are plenty of deep cut references to the lore though and production values are much higher than when I started watching Trek.

Evidently the whole population didn't move left because he won his second term with a popular majority.

I can understand parties triangulate because the center are where most of the reliable voters are. As you go further out both left and right it gets harder to maintain an electoral c coalition.

The Oculus is too tied into being part of Meta's data collection enterprise. I think VR will survive as a niche gamer feature and I suspect companies like Valve/Sony will be the ones iterating the designs.

Back in the days before streaming I had a large folder of Weird Al stuff including stuff that was mistagged because it was a funny song that sounded like it could be him.

I thought they were also blood relations?

It means I don't subscribe to abolishing capitalism or unfettered libertarian free market at the solution to our problems. At the same time I think we can be more radical in reshaping public policy. For example in the UK context I would abolish NI and instead of banding taxes with it's cliff edge effects apply a progressively incrementing tax rate so it becomes a simple percentage based on how much you earn.

Anyway this thread isn't about my views so maybe we should save radical policy discussions for another post 😀

I believe the stated reason was to avoid the possibility of the court ruling against the UK owning the islands leading to the base needing to be shut down. The agreement with Mauritius includes a 99 year lease to secure the base at Diego Garcia.

I didn't realise my choice of Lemmy server dictated my political views. I only chose it because I'm a FLOSS developer and joining the main development server meant I might be able to help in the future.

I'm not pro-nuke but I'm certainly pro deterrent when others have nukes. NATO has successfully kept the peace in Europe for 80 years. I'm certainly not far left - I would describe myself as a radical centrist.

None of the major parties advocate it. Jeremy Corbyn wasn't a fan but I suspect he's less relevant now.