honestly I think the best metaphor for this debacle is the Russo-Japanese war:
-idiot ruler with delusions of grandeur
-empire wants to show a middle power whos in charge
-negotiators are idiots
-imperial logistics are all fucked up
-empire surrenders to middle power after defeat
Liveleak in the pokemon world would go insane. Chinese factory voltorb explosion, man gets eaten by 30-50 feral mamoswine. Its rotomphone reels dawg its lit
You know the other day i was thinking "i wonder why i was so neurotic about hating pop music as a tween" and seeing this im realizing 11 year old me was entirely correct
Labour handing the NHS over to Palantir, outlawing teen transitions and banning social media seems to put to bed any 'lesser of two evils' position forever. This is all as evil as it gets.
I'll never forget going to a poor village in the Lesser Caucasus and seeing the multilingual children of an illegal logger and an unemployed teacher playing Mozart and Strauss on their piano.
Perhaps a social media curfew for over-65s, or at least mental faculty tests for access? Do our pensioners not deserve similar protections to our teenagers?
I used to play Xbox 360 late into the morning when I was in school. My parents found out and started turning the router off at night.
Amazingly they didn’t require a parliamentary majority and royal assent.