That we should renationalise all public services here in the UK. I genuinely believe that. I’m essentially a left of centre capitalist, but I believe private companies using shared national infrastructure for shareholder profit under the lie of ‘competition’ is bullshit.

I like the idea that we’re interconnected ‘nodes’ collectively experiencing life from our own viewpoint, but part of a larger consciousness. But fucks knows.

Would the curvature not get in the way at a certain distance?

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I was thinking if the moon was somehow ‘resting’ on the earth’s surface. If you head West, to around the Boston area, it would be eventually be obscured by the curvature of the earth.

Never tried it in my life. Pretty sure you can get it here in the UK, but most of those style drinks (monster etc) look so artificial that my own innate cowardice keeps me away.

That said, I barely drink soda since the sugar tax, as all the soft drinks now have sweeteners that I taste as bitter - even my national drink (Irn-Bru) has been ruined.

So, with that in mind I’d probably be keen to try US Gatorade, as I’m guessing it’s loaded with sugary goodness

I think so. Humour was needed growing up in a Scottish school. I approach most things with a sort of ‘Gallows Humour’. A kind of pleasantly self-soothing mindset that accepts that we’re all pretty much fucked, so we might as well have a laugh while we’re at it.

Wholesome, traditional. Just casually rolling like the guy Dick Jones had killed in RoboCop.

Alcohol and, very occasionally, cocaine.

It’s actually pretty decent on Limmy, I’ve found…

The only topic I’ve struggled with is the trans stuff. It goes without saying that there’s a depressing level of intolerance and hate out there, invariably ramped up by the media (distraction?), but also so much treading on eggshells, obfuscation and, frankly, attention given to a subject that the vast majority of folk may privately find a little confusing, but ultimately don’t have any great interest in.

Bots

Billionaires

Billionaire-bootlickers

Excessively talkative people who tell you everything about their life - but take zero interest in yours.

Companies that make you jump through hoops when you call them and force you listen to recorded messages about how you can get what you need on-line, before they finally put you through to a call-centre in India.

My lack of discipline when it comes to drinking and eating

The fact that my body has taken to waking me up at 4am

That’s interesting - I wasn’t aware of how fundamentally we’ve moved on in the last 10 years. Presumably you went to uni, so that’s 4 years, so you’ll have the theory I guess? I did my Degree in ‘computing’ in 2003. Did some Java and Web design using Dreamweaver and a whole module on Lotus Notes. Yeah, not super useful!

Yikes. I’ve moved from IT tech support to MGMT. I don’t really write with a pen, and largely rely on emails/teams. I think if we went back any further than the late 80s I’d be totally screwed.

You’re unhinged.

I do no such thing. I have nothing against trans people whatsoever. Where are you getting that from?

Fair enough, perhaps I overreacted. I’m not particularly concerned that mentioning the gender or number of sprogs I have as part of a broader conversation poses a risk as such, but I take your point.

Or not done at all because they’re silly.

Interesting, yet wildly off the mark take. I’m Scottish and have been a socialist my whole life, but I’ve mostly zero interest in tedious labeling. People like you with their skewed outrage and impossibly narrow definitions of how we should live are as complicit as the MAGA nut jobs in the decline of political conversation.

Hardly. And why not? Why do you seek to repress what I chose to mention online? Like it or otherwise, the vast majority majority of folk don’t have to go far to ‘discover’ their gender.

I have no interest in the relentless naval gazing regarding gender that disproportionately dominates online conversations, likely perpetuated by bad actors trying to push a niche issue into the mainstream to further splinter the left, but to my mind pushing a collective that removes gender from people until they decide at some arbitrary age what they want to be is not the change most people want.

I would. My boys are my boys and a collective decreeing I should wait until they decide they’re boys is fucking mental, and illustrates the kind of warped thinking that goes a long way to explaining how ‘the left’ has handed power to that psycho in the White House on a plate.

In a trashy book from the 50s called Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger includes a short section about the then Nancy Davis during her early acting days at MGM.

He claims she had a reputation for being very friendly with studio executives, and that she was “popular” among them. Anger frames it as part of the Hollywood casting-couch culture of the era.

Probably BS, but who knows.

But sleep is amazing. To me it’s a partially interactive movie where you disassociate and live out different lives with other characters who are often an amalgamation of different folk you know, in weird semi-familiar settings both past and present. It’s wild.