Is the moon just a billionaire trailer park littered with trash?

Pullman should reimagine His Dark Materials with the daemons being smartphones accessing AI.

A criminal record seems to be a minimum requirement for politicians these days.

Hmm, do voters have a preference when it comes to pedophilia? www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...

Voters prefer Democrats over Republicans on economy for first time in a decade, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

Democrats lead Republicans 37% to 36% on the economy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.

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Is the aim to have a certain %age pass/fail? If students get smarter and everyone passes how do you maintain a benchmark? Exams are a tricky metric. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scottish exam pass rates rise as students find out results

More than 148,000 learners across the country received their results as details of this year's pass rates were published.

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I reckon I can tell who's a wrong 'un just by looking at their face. It's like phrenology but with more science behind it.

The MSM is obsessing about early release. This is like obsessing about the quantity of mop buckets as the bathroom floods. Why does no one ask, where is the tap? Most crime originates in areas with most inequality. But of course, that would focus on inequality - the curse that cannot be discussed.

Small boats or a climate catastrophe (which will cause mass migrations) - which to discuss?

I see posts claiming the fossil fuel industry gets subsidies, then I see posts telling me fossil fuel companies are making record profits. Someone please explain to me like I'm a child why Big Oil gets subsidies.

"CO2 [remains] in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse"

‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis

In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?

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Can I celebrate Yorkshire Day or is it too closely related to accursed nationalism?

With crop failures inevitable eating the rich might be the only option.

Football before water.

Always call them 'pervert glasses' never 'smart glasses.'

If only the water privatisation scheme had met with the same outrage that the FIFA scheme has.

Be a firefighter. That's a job AI is actually going to help create.

Is there a natural limit to the size of SUVs or will they continue to bloat until they develop into HGVs?

Drought is often the main cause for civilisations to collapse. Crops fail etc.

'Conspiracy theorists finally reveal what happens to...' is not a headline you ever see. It's scientists. It's always scientists.

In Tokyo, so many air conditioners now pump their waste heat into the air that the exhaust alone generates heat that's measured at close to a thousand watts of warming on every square metre - as much energy as falls from the sky at midday. "It's another sun," he adds with emphasis, "another sun."

I find practically every news story upsetting. They can do away with the warnings now.

To feel rich you need poor people to compare yourself with. It cannot be any other way, therefore the poor are a design choice of the wealthy. It doesn't matter how rich (GDP) a society is, the rich always need someone to be poor.

The legacy media focuses on an apology while ignoring the systemic hypocrisy of all the main actors including themselves.

Quoted pledges from politicians should have a BP* suffix so we know exactly what they're going to do when they finally get into power.** *Before Power **the exact opposite

A different simile is needed: David won the fight unfairly using a deadly weapon.

But...but...Making Plans for Nigel is a song by XTC. Wait, is that song about Farage?

Never mind affordable houses what about affordable prisons?

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Nationalism is like religion - it requires belief in absurd, unprovable concepts.

Most of us experience more luxury, pleasure and variety than any emperor from the past and yet we do not appreciate this fact. It's because what we lack is power over others - the one unchanging metric of wealth.