Or, if they’re a foreign agent being paid by another state, they’ll be at the front of the queue of applicants because they don’t mind the uncompetitive pay.

It certainly doesn’t make you a worker.

I think we get a CNN rolling news channel on Freeview but I’ve never heard of anyone watching it.

Is there some kind of parental software that can lock down phones like what happens on corporate phones? Like where you can control which apps are installed etc? That sounds like the best approach: just give them a phone with WhatsApp, phone and SMS. Any refurbished phone from the last 10 years would work for that (lack of Android security updates might be an issue though)

There’s so much in Infinite Jest, but I think my favourite would be “Blood Sister: One Tough Nun”.

And then there was the Quake 2 engine which gave us Deus Ex, American McGee’s Alice and then (through the modified GoldSrc version) Half-Life, Counter Strike and countless others! The family tree of 3D engines is really interesting.

But I thought LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder?!

Actually I never got that. WINE isn’t an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder

eboy:

egirl:

superstar DJ: HERE WE GO!

Vance faced an onslaught of bad press, as many commentators—including Harris’ step-daughter, Taylor Swift fans, Democratic officials, actor Jennifer Aniston, and several conservative women pundits—decried his comment.

My reading comprehension must be pretty bad because for a second it sounded like Taylor Swift was Kamala Harris’ step daughter.

Cool I guess we’ll all just die then.

There’s also a lack of funding for the regulator which means the BBC is the one finding these spills, not the agency that’s responsible for tracking then.

I think part of it is not wanting to be mugged off. Even though it doesn’t materially affect you, having someone come in everyday and nick stuff in front of you would probably wear you down. No excuse for violence of course but I can see how it comes to this.

Instead of phoning 999 you just shout “medic!”

Sometimes foreign policy involves stating a position, even if we can’t unilaterally make it happen. Macron has done this, which paved the way for other leaders to do it as well.

If Starmer wants to be prime minister, he has to realise that he will eventually have to take positions on world events. In my opinion, just following America has been disastrous for us, and I’d like us to change that.

Proper Bart Simpson energy

If you’re a woman working in the media right now, it would be useful to know this so that you can avoid any one-to-one meetings with him. Holding this information back could be putting people in real danger.

I’m not out for blood, but if I was a woman working in the media I’d certainly not take any meetings with Russell Brand. That’s why it’s important to have this information out there even while it’s being investigated.

People are allowed to have opinions about cases that haven’t been fully investigated yet. Jimmy Savile never got convicted but I’m pretty sure he wasn’t innocent.

“As Brown intended, but Cameron implemented” - that was really nice of them to implement their opponent’s policy of austerity, a policy they kept going on about at the time and still try to defend.

“The So-Called Debian State”