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[bengraham @bengraham]

@PeterMcCormack I agree. However this is also the argument used for net zero.

[bengraham @bengraham]

@ggreenwald @zackbeauchamp Just like fart jokes and toilet humour. As a male farts were funny at 4, still funny at 40 and I hope to still find humor in it at 80.

[bengraham @bengraham]

@investingidiocy “Food” in America stays fresh longer…. All Europoors need to do to solve this problem is add a few more chemicals to the bread and milk.

[Bronwyn Millar @gingerhaderach]

Our child got a phone age 11, in 2020 when she was SO lonely and isolated. We'd just moved countries and the local kids were being shits. Within 10 days she "came out" trans. We didn't know WTF was going on but when the school found out they sent us for mandatory "counselling". The 2 psychs (wearing masks on zoom) spoke with such thick Cork accents we didn't understand most of it. They then asked to speak to her alone. I listened at the door. They didn't even ask about the horrible bullying the local kids had put her through, and she spent 15 mins saying "pardon" because she couldn't understand them. Then they told us she was trans and we had to affirm or she would khs. Sent us breastbinding info and sent our GP a letter telling him to refer us to the gender clinic. They put our name down for some bizarre "Big brother" type programme where an adult trans person, a total stranger, with no clinical training, was going to pick her up and take her for an ice cream so she could talk about her feelings. We of course refused, but as the Irish CPS has a horrific reputation for removing kids whose parents don't toe the line, we were deeply uneasy about all of it. We left Ireland shortly after that, returning to South Africa, where the govt does NOT trans your kids.

We found out that she had been groomed online, on her phone on tiktok and other social media, lovebombed by ADULT groomers like Fuzzz99, Jacob Tobia and Jeffrey Marsh (If you think you might be trans, YOU ARE TRANS! Cut off any family that doesn't affirm the REAL you... etc). She begged for blockers and T, which we refused. We did the pronouns and the name change but were very firm that hormones etc were NOT on the table. Natural puberty hit like a freight train. She started wearing push up bras for the breasts she used to tell us she wanted amputated, nails, hair, make up became super NB. Noticing boys, falling in love with her body.

She's now the MOST FEMME creature imaginable, has a long term boyfriend, is fantasising about the names she wants to call the children she told us she was never going to want.

Of the 14 trans kids in the support group we joined in 2022, only ONE is still "trans" and he's a super femme, super autistic "aromantic" and "asexual" gay boy. One of the other girls now has a deep voice and facial hair and is furious at her parents for puttin her on the T she begged for - that she had said she would khs without.

We have been through absolute hell. But thank the Goddess I trusted my instincts and KNEW MY CHILD. It was a trend, a gaslighting cult, an inhuman attack on the family. We were told we were bigots for daring to question any of it. Affirm, affirm, affirm was the only avenue allowed. The mothers have their voices back now and we are NOT GOING TO SHUT UP ANY LONGER.

[bengraham @bengraham]

@nic_carter @steepdawn974 The Hellacopters for example?

Anyway. If you consider Sweden as well as Balchunas point then it is clearly a depressingly large amount of rain which is the main driver.

[bengraham @bengraham]

@SimonDuke Perplexity personal computer is already there.

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@breadcrumbsre Power then becomes the issue.

[bengraham @bengraham]

@PeterMcCormack Have you had the same ah hah moment you had with bitcoin? I certainly have.

[bengraham @bengraham]

The skinny pedal.

[Marcellus Wiley @marcelluswiley]

What do you call the gas pedal in an electric car? 😳

In our Tesla and the kids just asked me…
Yo, I’m stuck?!? 🤯🤣

[bengraham @bengraham]

Coz of the 60 day thing in the US I think Trump can’t have a pop at Iran without Iran having a pop first? So send warships through Suez to entice them to have a pop. If they do then the US can start up again. If they don’t then more ships will go escorted.

[bengraham @bengraham]

@elonmusk I use grok to talk to my Pakistani gardener in Urdu using real time translation. It has been a game changer. Only one step away from Babel Fish.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Lmaooooo, I’m crying

[bengraham @bengraham]

@investingidiocy @YaotlIribar Still here actually.

[bengraham @bengraham]

Brilliant.

[Sergey Alexashenko @SAlexashenko]

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz.

https://t.co/mxaa226GUu

[bengraham @bengraham]

@Phantom3712 @FCDOGovUK Why. You have to pay for the flight. It isn't free.

[Tom Jones @93vintagejones]

This line is being peddled almost entirely by journalists who believe they are the cultural and intellectual superiors of the caricature of Dubai expats they have created in their heads, and who are barely veiling their resentment at their comparatively modest finances.

[bengraham @bengraham]

@Mike_kim714 come on mate. Cracking start through 12

[bengraham @bengraham]

@Mike_kim714 Nice. Does this get you into Dubai?