I’ve not tried this, but I’ve heard that once they realise they’re two AIs talking to each other, they switch to some R2D2-style language which is quicker and more efficient than English…

People do occasionally forgive murderers.

Not the victims, admittedly, but their families sometimes.

Find Nigel Farage in the field after he survived his 2014 plane crash and… change that.

Possibly saving the country from Brexit even getting to referendum status, and if it did, possibly changing the result. And then maybe preventing the revolving door Tory governments that fucked up the initial Covid response, since most of what they’ve done over the last decade has been to try and swing voters away from UKIP/Reform rather then actually do things that are good fit the country as a whole.

Prediction: the next amendment they try is getting rid of the term limits amendment…

No, just a shitty kettle.

Funny, I’d have said we’re closer to the new Star Wars cinematic trilogy than the EU.

You think you’ve won, then a few years later, oh look, fascism is back and it’s killing people in job lots again.

Bloody shoppers!

Do it. We’ll adjust and hopefully take it as a kick up the arse to increase speed on the transition from gas.

Whereas they’ve just stood up in front of the world and said “we can only operate by violating human rights, which we are absolutely doing”

To adapt the Mitchell and Webb sketch… yes, you’re the baddies.

Honestly, vapes are so new, disposable ones should never have been legalised.

What’s the long term plan there?

Buy for cash, rent until the next natural disaster destroys the building and… then what?

Doesn’t the landbastard have to pay for the tenants to be in alternate accommodation until the original one is returned to a liveable state?

I can’t see how that’s profitable either…

There are many reasons why renting is better for some people and buying is better for others.

Renting gives you the flexibility to just up sticks and leave at a known notice period. You don’t have to worry about the boiler breaking, or mould/damp, or the roof coming off (or like I’m about to have to deal with, a fence panel getting blown away in a storm) because your contact with the landlord says they’ll fix that for you.

There should absolutely be that choice available.

The problem, at least in the UK and probably elsewhere, is that renting is just SO expensive that it’s not possible to rent and save money, meaning that if your goal is to buy, you can’t because you can’t raise the deposit, even if paying a mortgage on a similar sized property would actually be cheaper on a monthly basis.

Sure, you read stories about people who are wonderful landlords, they don’t raise rents, or at least, by less than market rates, they’re quick to fix any problems the tenants have, all that good stuff.

Equally, you read stories about people who are basically renting from Satan and all the things I mentioned above take months or years to get fixed, if ever. (Slumlords are definitely people who should be put up against the wall and shot come the revolution)

I’m assuming the vast majority are somewhere in the middle.

But the fact that you’ll probably rent for at least some of your life shouldn’t drain all your money into someone else’s mortgage. As I said in that other post, housing of some form should be a basic human right. And the fact that individuals or companies can buy many houses and leave them empty because they can afford to have rents set so high that most people can’t afford them? That’s just wrong.

Yes. The ability to have a place to live should be a basic human right and therefore be affordable.

If that means the government* subsidises it for the low income families (as in owns them and rents them at below market value), so be it.

We used to have “council houses” in the UK for exactly this purpose, but in the 70s, Thatcher came up with a “right to buy” (at a decent discount) and then made two mistakes - there were no restrictions after buying to stop you selling to anyone else, and there was no building of replacement stock after they were sold. So the result 50 years later is that there are nowhere near enough council houses any more, and a lot of the old ones are privately owned and being rented out at market rates, which are (depending on the area) very expensive.

*local or national, I don’t really care which

I’m not bringing him back and I’m sure as shit not going with him…

I send Elon Musk to Mars.

Tyrell, because Paypalpatine wants his sex robots, ands that means replicants.

I’ve always liked the idea that Kevin from Home Alone grew up to be the Jigsaw killer…

The funniest thing about watching Snowpiercer in 2023 with people who’d never seen it before was after the big reveal about what the protein bars are made of, and how horrified the characters were, all my friends were like “oh, is that it? That makes sense actually. We thought it was going to be the missing children or something terrible”

3P0: it uses a very peculiar dialect

Falcon: please… let me die…

It depends. If you own a second home just as an AirBnB, you’re part of the problem and should be eaten after the millionaires…

Apparently it’s literally in the standardised tests… that’s what’s causing the problems! 😉