I know I'll get hate for this, because his Premiership was very far from a success, but i'm sad Starmer is going. I really believe theres a good and moral person there. Its sad he wasn't able to translate that into a successful leadership.

I hope the next person can be more of a success, but the problems are so overwhelmingly numerous for the UK that maybe a good leader can only be effective when the fascists have exposed their bare bums in the wind enough to be completely discredited.

I don't discount the media's/influencer's exceptionally destructive role in creating and pushing these issues... Brexit... to name one.

Oh, that whole farmer business. I won't say I understood the policy enough to say if it was good policy or not, but from afar the vibes were 'don't do anything that annoys Car-guy Clarkson'.

His time in office was exemplified by piss poor public relations, and various policies that didn't seem like they've been thoroughly thought out.

Hmm, yes. That worries me though. Like will a drop in, like Andy Burnham, have good policy ready to go? Hopefully so.

Even if he does have good policy coming in, and with Starmer falling on his sword, any new PM won't have a great deal of political cache. Institutions like Treasury might well find it easier to push back against a new direction from No.10.

Anyway, its done, the wheels are in motion. Can only hope for better things to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vore

Do you mean the second definition?

Vorarephilia, a typically erotic desire or sexual fantasy to be consumed or to consume another

Thats a fucked term. I kinda hope your wrong. But I see how you get there. With the 'ate' hearts, hands around the stomach, text of course.

Regardless, thats enough internet for me tonight!

Okay heres the thing, its an obvious choice the Couture has a far higher proportion of bling than the Western. Look at all those hangers. Gotta go with the bling man. And yes.. pink on pink on pink is the colour for me.

Sorry, nothing about what you said, thats why i commented to let you know. I just re-read my comment and felt it didn't come across in the same way I thought it did last night.

Because learning for kids/young adults isn't really the point anymore. The point of doing the learning is to "pass test" or, "get job" or, "move on to the next link in the education chain". So young people often feel faced with a choice, engage with the process to accomplish the tasks, or dissociate from the process entirely.

This systemic issue is likely why steiner schools and the like are seeing increased interest from parents.

Thats 8000 people with experience running social media that could use their knowledge and wealth to build the Fediverse and competitively reduce Meta's monopoly.

If even a small group of them realise the agency they have, it could be damaging to Meta, and an acceptable form of growth for the Fediverse as a whole.

I'm assuming anybody that works at Meta still now must be so signed up to their horrible practices, so i don't expect much from former Meta employees. I'd be happy to be surprised though.

Tried the smart ways for decades, soooo..

I don't want a fucken culture war between the generations like what happened with baby boomers. Gen X forward are all fine by me, live your life, be conscientious of other people and where they're at in life, and for shits sakes lets be open to changing our societies based on different generational challenges. The generational wars were always stoked by cynical conservative bread and circuses propaganda, fuck em, stop paying them attention.

What does he think this is? A lucky dip election? State the plan!

That is horrible situation to placed in. Helping save someone who is actively trying to ruin your life and hurt you. They did the right thing, but there must be little satisfaction in helping these oppressors.

Someone call Mr Squiggle, that red line ain't very straight!

Mate if you've been holding back helping the Ukrainians more until something like this has happened, theres something wrong with the your perception of this conflict.

Also that Melbourne School Teachers a true aussie hero.

So, I heard Shortens been using his speaking time, in parliament, to read into hansard 'impacted persons/victims' testimonies. So there is a permanent record of the disruptions to their lives.

Its a pretty champion move. Because it means future pollies will have a harder time minimising these events for political purposes.

Copyright, PBS, Australian film and television, lets take the opportunity to fix some of these long standing problems.

I really hope its a jury trial, and they prove to be very useful. Interesting strategy Google went for.

Hmm, thats about what I think about the AFL. Every. damn. game. half the cities blocked up tighter than a bees bum... won't someone think of muzza's* third court appearance.

Living alongside other peoples a bitch ain't it.

^*no shade on the muzza's out there, love ya!^

Okay media your cue to be the fourth estate... 'crickets'.

He's fucken lining up that up for ya. You're either against criminality or you aid and abet. Pretty simples, or do we need a Meercat to spell it out?

An acquaintance once landed a contract to clear up a gold mine site after shut down. He bid super low for it, the only condition he stipulated was it be left in the condition in which he had inspected it, something like that.

The operator immediately gave him the contract, and he immediately gathered up all the dust from conveyor belts etc sifted through it, separated all the left over gold inside and sold it.

Set him up in a big way, the idiot operator tried to take him to court to claim the gold as theirs, with no success.

So yeah, sometimes there truly is gold in that there dust.

The ultrasound creates a phenomenon called acoustic cavitation, which is a rapid formation and collapse of microscopic bubbles in the liquid. When these tiny bubbles collapse near the coffee particles, they act like microscopic scrubbing brushes or jets of liquid, pitting and fracturing the coffee grounds and accelerating the bewing process.

Cavitation Wikipedia

That is such a cool use of an observed phenomenon.