Stupid World

[pritch]

It is looking more and more like the Israeli government is taking it's cues from methods developed in a "european country in the mid 1930s and 40s"

I posted something to that effect on Twitter a year or so back and got some angry responses. "None so blind" as they say.

[pritch]

Whoops, maga fuckup

Yeah, that made me smile when I heard it. The truly joyous touch was when Gaetz had the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist party entered into the US Congressional record.

[pritch]

In Arkansas, that bastion of enlightened thinking, there is a bill enabling children to enter the workforce from nine years old on the Governor's desk.
Normally you might be forgiven for thinking it will never get signed. Considering who the governor is though, that isn't the foregone conclusion you might expect.
We'll see.

[Al Bundy 4eva!]

Average number of sexual partners men have around the world

🇹🇷 Turkey 14.5
🇦🇺 Australia 13.3
🇳🇿 NZ 13.2
🇮🇸 Iceland 13
🇮🇹 Italy 11.8
🇸🇪 Sweden 11.8
🇨🇦 Canada 10.7
🇺🇸 US 10.7
🇬🇧 UK 9.8
🇷🇺 Russia 9
🇫🇷 France 8.1
🇳🇱 Netherlands 7.1
🇪🇸 Spain 6.1
🇩🇪 Germany 5.8
🇨🇳 China 3.1
🇮🇳 India 3

This sounds about right although I don't know my exact body count, however some questions.

Why is NZ/OZ so high in the list?

What's up with The conservative Muslim country of Turkey?

Why is India so low?

[pritch]

An example of the Elon Musk management style?

A Twitter employee, one of 200 that day, found that he could not log into the Twitter system. That's often the first notification that their employment has been terminated.

Halli, that's his Twitter handle, had sold his business to Twitter. He suffers from muscular dystrophy and couldn't run the business himself any more. As part of the sales agreement he was employed at Twitter in a position described as a middle management tech (although his job title was "Senior Director." )

Not receiving any replies as to his employment state from HR he tweeted Musk in public. This started a back and forth between himself and Musk, the latter his normal graceless self.

"The reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm.

Can’t say I have a lot of respect for that."

Which according to former Twitter employees is far from accurate.

Musk eventually confirmed or at least implied that Halli was terminated, whereupon Halli requested Musk pay him what he was owed. The sales agreement from when Twitter bought his business included a clause stating that if he was ever fired Twitter would pay him out one hundred million dollars (S100,000,000).

It seems Halli has received an apology from Musk and may be back on the staff. It's hard to tell 'cause Musk has deleted all relevant tweets (he does that when it dawns on him that he looks bad) but some remain on the timelines of other users.

If interested check out the account of @iamharaldur.

[pritch]

Interesting goings on in Britain. Suella Braverman and Priti Patel are both daughters of immigrants to Britain from India, are both Tory Cabinet ministers, and both are anti immigrant extremists. Both are utterly deplorable people.

Gary Lineker, former famous footballer and for many years BBC football commentator, used Twitter to describe Braverman's recent comments as like something out of 1930s Germany. The BBC has stood Lineker down from coverage of The Match Of The Day . One by one the other sports broadcasters have all withdrawn their services from TMOTD. This weeks match will be broadcast wthout commentary.

https://www.theguardian.com/football...he-day-comment

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64920557

[TheDemonLord]

Interesting goings on in Britain. Suella Braverman and Priti Patel are both daughters of immigrants to Britain from India, are both Tory Cabinet ministers, and both are anti immigrant extremists. Both are utterly deplorable people.

There's a word you are missing - the word is 'Illegal'.

They are anti Illegal Immigrants.

Bit of a difference.

The funny thing is - there precedent for their attitude - in other places with strict immigration policy - Legal Migrants tend to be those most vocal about Illegal Migrants.

Almost like getting annoyed at queue jumpers when you've waited in line.

Gary Lineker, former famous footballer and for many years BBC football commentator, used Twitter to describe Braverman's recent comments as like something out of 1930s Germany. The BBC has stood Lineker down from coverage of The Match Of The Day . One by one the other sports broadcasters have all withdrawn their services from TMOTD. This weeks match will be broadcast wthout commentary.

https://www.theguardian.com/football...he-day-comment

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64920557

Yes, Gary Lineker is the very definition of a Champagne socialist.

How many illegal Immigrants do you think he's homed in his house?

[pritch]

There's a word you are missing - the word is 'Illegal'.

They are anti Illegal Immigrants.

Wrong. Asssylum seekers are legal. Britains response to them is illegal.

Don't bother replying I won't see it.

[TheDemonLord]

Wrong. Asssylum seekers are legal. Britains response to them is illegal.

Is France not a safe country? In which case, they are obliged to apply for Asylum in the first safe country. That they leave France (I mean, I know it's full of French people...) to get to the UK shows: They are not Asylum seekers.

They are all young men on an adventure who know in the UK they'll be put up in a Hotel and given spending money.

Back in the day when boats used to try and invade Britain, the Royal Navy used to stop it. Oh how far we've fallen.

Don't bother replying I won't see it.

Oh, but you will.

[sugilite:Me]

They are all young men on an adventure who know in the UK they'll be put up in a Hotel and given spending money

'All' you say.
Imagine a World where tdl blanket statements were actual blankets, then they would be relevant and purposeful.

[TheDemonLord]

'All' you say.
Imagine a World where tdl blanket statements were actual blankets, then they would be relevant and purposeful.

Okay, "The overwhelming majority are young men, to the point that any other group is statistically irrelevant and meaningless to the discussion"

Point still stands though, not Asylum Seekers. Not declaring Asylum in the first safe country. Chancers and Economic Migrants the lot of them.

[sugilite:Me]

Okay, "The overwhelming majority are young men, to the point that any other group is statistically irrelevant and meaningless to the discussion"

Point still stands though, not Asylum Seekers. Not declaring Asylum in the first safe country. Chancers and Economic Migrants the lot of them.

'overwhelming' you say? Got the stats on that?

[TheDemonLord]

'overwhelming' you say? Got the stats on that?

Sure

Nearly 90% are Men.

75% are between 18 and 40

I suspect if one was to include teenagers who would be 'Of fighting age' - 15, 16, 17 - I'm picking they would make up the majority of the 16% of those under 18.

Now, just for the sake of clarity, let's compare with Asylum seekers from a country that is actually at war:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...187-8/fulltext

Do you notice anything about the size of the graphs? Like in an actual war, all the Men are back at home fighting and all the Women and children leave?

[FJRider]

Wrong. Asssylum seekers are legal. Britains response to them is illegal.

An asylum seeker is a person looking for protection because they fear persecution, or they have experienced violence or human rights violations.

A refugee is a person who asked for protection and was given refugee status. They may have been resettled in another country and/or be waiting for resettlement.

Those crossing the English Channel in small boats ... have (at NO stage) asked for asylum ANYWHERE in their travels. Nor have they applied for (let alone granted) refugee status.

Illegal immigrants (Pro-immigrant liberals often prefer the term “undocumented immigrant”) are also called illegal aliens, and are foreign-born people who do not possess a valid entry visa, or any other immigration/travel documentation.

[Berries]

Burn them.