Time to remind Americans yet again; 1. The IMPORTERS ( that’s YOU) pay tariffs. 2. The much- trumpeted repatriation of manufacturing to continental USA has not happened. 3. You are being right royally screwed by your ultra-rich and their lackey government.

The failure of a large attack with massed armour in the Ocheretinsky direction says a lot about the ( lack of a ) future for this kind of assault.

Birthrate < replacement rate? Diminishing/aging workforce? What to do? What NOT to do is to turn women into brood mares. Tokyo has a clue Make workplaces mother-friendly Reduce workplace toxic masculinity Reduce working hours Allowances for kids Make creches easier to set up and run Value women!

Please let’s get it right. Those assholes in Russia are NOT communists. Pure communism dictates that all property is equally owned by the people. The central diktat is “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” No, of course it can never work, but there it is

Perhaps I’m naive, but I’m a little shocked to read reports of the difficulties experienced by Ukraine in getting her own people to go to her defense. If you won’t fight for yourselves…

Why does nobody ask “WHY”? e.g. WHY is the US Government destroying its own leading position in so many areas of research and discovery? Is it a) rampant idiocy? or b) just so a few billionaires pay even less tax? or c) both the above?

Every so often, I am struck with amazement at the depth of general ignorance of quite a lot of my fellow earthlings. When I am Dictator-General ( surely not long now) people will have to take and pass a general knowledge exam before being allowed to use the internet

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VIDEO: The US Walked An 80-Year-Old Dying President Out In Front Of The Whole Planet At The G7 And Hoped Nobody Would Notice. We Noticed. It Won't Be Long Now...

A confused, swollen, busted-handed Trump wandered the G7 stage, got steered around like a lost mall kid, couldn’t describe his own “deal,” closing the G7 with an incoherent rant and a fart.

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The future of warfare is looking to be centred round unmanned systems and AI, including ballistic missiles and their defences. Each side destroys the other’s logistics. Nothing moves. Everyone dies. World population crashes. Being too late to do anything about the climate, cockroaches take over.

It's hard to see how Putin can lay hands on enough horses/donkeys/mules/large dogs to get men and supplies to any new front he opens.

Notice to web advertisers and platforms: If you cause an advert to appear on the web page I’m trying to read, and it covers a lot of text or other content, it’s automatic that I crossly dismiss that ad without even noticing who is advertising what. Waste of money.

I’m deeply intrigued by the apparent ease with which Ukraine can get its drones and missiles thousands of km across Russia without losing them all to the various air defences. I know Ukraine has been targeting radars, SAM sites and launchers, but still… Pootles must be chewing carpets (if he knows)

Years ago, when we moved into our current house, we chose ( or failed not to choose) those damn silly pneumatically-operated toilet flush valves. Never do this. You will condemn yourself to a lifetime of stupidly intricate repair jobs, needing a universal joint in a wrist, and extra finger joints.

Since it’s apparent that a substantial number of Americans are either afraid of, or downright opposed to, democracy ; it behoves the rest of the world to keep the idea and practice of democracy alive and growing. That means it must PERFORM TO BENEFIT PEOPLE - and in too many places it is not.

What’s up, Bluesky, is that England just moved through to the last 16 of the World Cup after a nailbiting match against Democratic Republic of Congo. Harry Kane with 2 goals and Gordon with 2 assists - last gasp stuff!! No diss to DRC - they played superbly, enormous skill on display.

Presumably, Lukabobs managed to resist Pootles’ attempts to get Belarus involved in his failure; and now Lukabobs is asking China for some support. What happens if Russia closes the Belarus border and withdraws all support?

I see that data from USA shows that deporting employed immigrants has a disproportionate effect on local unemployment rates; because native-filled and immigrant-filled jobs are complementary, not mutually exclusive. Reform take note www.rawstory.com/immigration-...

Trump’s big immigration bet backfires spectacularly: ‘The damage is easy to miss’

One of President Donald Trump’s key promises has been that, by deporting millions of migrants, new jobs would become available to American citizens, but according to a recent study, the Trump administ...

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I want to make it quite clear that I still believe America to be a great country. It will be even greater in the future, although there are some problems to solve.

What is the opposite of "smart support"? Whatever is is, HP's printer "support" package should be renamed to it. I have never encountered such a mess of incomprehensible, randomly dysfunctional, utterly useless web pages anywhere else

There are two groups of people I shall forever find it hard to forgive. Americans that voted for Trump The UK politicians that flat-out lied to us about the effects of Brexit Bastards

In a wealthy 1st-world country as America is, there are people going hungry through no fault of their own. Yet our planet harbours many billionaires; and a fucking trillionaire, of all the use he is. Most of whom do little to nothing to address causes or symptoms. There can be no just God.

I just wanna say how depressed and horrified I am about America just now. A senile, malignantly incompetent President; an equally incompetent government, blatant and growing racism, overt and massive corruption at the highest levels, destruction of social safety nets, ruination of science...

For those dinosaurs and stickinthemuds who can't accept the idea that gender fluidity is NOT something evil and unnatural, I recommend this utterly fascinating series of posts - #pridemonth2026 From @ssteingraber1.bsky.social

Which, if any, of the UK political parties has recognised and/or has planned for the effects of widespread adoption of AI on employment? - particularly entry-level employment.

Judging by the number of click-bait ads I see ( but never click on), fungal infections of the toenails must be an absolute epidemic. For general information, the most likely thing to work is a lacquer containing amorolfine. Available OTC, but one must be patient and follow directions. Takes months!

WTF Is In Trump's Taxes That Just Made His US Attorney Say Releasing Them Would 'Destroy' Trump? www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=69997

I imagine that Taiwan is stocking up big- time on all types of drone, and training operators for them. It would be “interesting “ to se what would happen e.g. to a beach full of just-landed troops covered by the latest in autonomous drones.

Fancy flinging tens and hundreds of millions of dollars into the sky, to find out that over 90% of them did no harm at all.

I feel as desperately sad and furious as any decent person at the loss of innocent life and civilian property caused by Russia’s disgusting attacks; but can’t help celebrating the marvellous number of shootings-down of expensive aerial weapons.

If it is true that President Xi Jinping gave the Mango Moron rose seeds, then I respect that as an extremely finely calculated insult in the best Chinese tradition. I suspect the US president feels insulted, but only because of the gift’s paltry monetary value.