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Javi

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  • Whoever didn't renew their cellphone license won't ever see this

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  • I'm not sure if this is unique to the UK or not, but if you don't have a full licence, you can apply for a provisional; the pre-requisites being the following:

    • be at least 15 years and 9 months old.
    • be able to read a number plate from 20 metres away (which isn't checked or enforced until the driving test anyway).
    • have been given permission to live in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) for at least 185 days.
    • £34

    So most people have a licence in the UK, regardless of whether they can drive. Usually so we don't have to carry our passports to the pub when we turn 18. (Which also isn't unheard of here).

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  • Can confirm we don't have an official identification card, let alone electronic ones.

    We use driving licences for that purpose. And kids in my area get child identification cards, but I'm not sure if that's a national thing or not. (The name of the card has the county in it, hence why I'm not sure).

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  • The TV licence has been around since 1946. Are you able to name one "increasingly mundane thing that now requires a licence" which didn't previously?

  • Aspergers officinalis

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  • Somewhat related story; my middle name is Peter, and I had seemingly misheard it, as for the first 6 years of my life I thought my middle name was pizza.

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  • nothing spells tolerable quite like concentration camps.

  • THIS is true wisdom

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  • oh my science

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  • Imagine how boring the gaming world would be, if the IRL existence of an item is a pre-requisite for creating it in game.

    No minecraft, PUBG, palworld, Zelda, lotr, mass effect etc... hell we would lose so much content that you could argue the reverse is actually true (for an item to exist in a game, it must not exist in real life) and it would probably be more accurate. Train and flight Sims would undoubtedly be king in this otherwise bleak hypothetical though, surely.

  • wypipo

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  • I questioned it a few years back on reddit and was told it's an old American saying for white people, and its apparently from the sound a whip makes rather than the biscuit.

  • Respect fire guy

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  • " ...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the wood burn "

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  • if purity is the reason you do nothing, instead of doing something, then you're part of the problem.

    I'm always happy to talk about routes of how we get to a better place, but if you're just wanting to argue then I'll pass.

    So long as it fits your world view you mean; else it's inflammatory language like I'm 'doing nothing' or I'm 'Virtue signalling' and being 'part of the problem', but of course, I'm the one looking to argue.

    I already established a very obvious talking point for a route to get to a better place, and it starts with the tribunal kier and his cronies refuse to have, but that talking point was brushed over rather than addressed so whilst your words fit the bill, your actions certainly do not.

    The one thing we can agree on is that this conversation is pointless. Our priorities clearly differ greatly, to the point where a separate party just makes sense. You can call it pissing in the wind, or a waste of a vote, doing nothing etc... but that's exactly how I view voting for labour in the next election; they're going to bleed votes to reform and SNP, and then you've got the left wing voters who want to see actual change, rather than this Tory lite approach to politics jumping ship too. The only people left will be the centrists; and that's never going to win an election.

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  • actually doing something that has an impact is not virtue signalling. We fed over 8k people last year, and that's much more helpful to the working class than failing to get elected.

    Nobody is suggesting feeding people is virtue signalling, stop with the strawman already. I'm suggesting that pointing to your work at a food bank and then banging on about "being morally better" and "virtue signalling" in the very next breath is laughable.

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  • There will always be tension between where ideology, and hopes of a better world, meet with what is currently achievable.

    So an independent investigation into our current involvement in Gaza isn't currently achievable for what reason? What part of a better world are we missing, where a supposedly democratic nation, can't carry out an independent check on it's public offices?

    This is just pure virtue signaling.

    As the trustee of a food bank

    Pot. Kettle.

    The idea that by purposefully throwing away your vote is somehow morally better than voting once every 5 years for the lesser of two evils is asinine in the extreme.

    Call it whatever you like, but what's asinine is to keep voting for the same party, and expecting different results.

  • Gen Z men voted for Trump to drain 'the swamp.' After Epstein, they feel duped.

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  • Ah so you're suggesting the numbers are falsified?I Definitely wouldn't put that past the maga lot, they haven't said a single truth since they took the whitehouse; but this was as soon as the results were announced (Nov 6 from what I can tell), so i was just banking on their laziness, in the sense that they would just pull the graph from AP or somewhere like that.

    Are you able to link us to the figures that show gen x voted for predominantly Harris? All the ones I find seems to corroborate this trend of predominantly trump supporters.

    IE the BBC, which aren't exactly trumps biggest supporters:

    I also found the source of the image used by whoever that maga loon I originally linked is, it seems to be from NBS news. I know little of their integrity as a news outlet, but here is the source nonetheless:

    NBS 2024 exit polls

  • I can't believe we left him behind like that.

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  • I wonder if they'd still be around had they pivoted to the internet's true purpose.

  • Gen Z men voted for Trump to drain 'the swamp.' After Epstein, they feel duped.

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  • I'm not American so I can only go based off statistics, but from what I can find, the opposite is true?

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    But y'know, shakes fistthose darn kids are at it again.

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  • Do you truly believe kier beat the Tories on his own merit, rather than the Tories self imploding? Even after winning, he had around 1m less on the popular vote than Corbyns loss in 2019... Why? Because voter apathy and a general disdain for the tories handed labour the last election, rather than them winning on their own merit.

    The only reason I and many other people voted for Kiers labour was exactly as you said, 14 year of tory regime has decimated the countries welfare, and intentionally so.... But the countries complicit nature In the bombing of children in Gaza continues, if it wasn't for good ol' Jeremy there wouldn't even be an inquiry as labour have rejected the bill to hold an independently run tribunal to investigate the governments complicit nature in the Gaza genocide and that is just too big of a pain point for me. I refuse to have the blood of innocent children on my hands, even if it means life at home gets easier.

    This is ultimately how democracy works right. Labour pretending to be the left wing option of the UK has left many voters disenfranchised... Now, labour can own up to being the centrist party they've become, and those who want the lesser of two evils can continue to vote for them... The rest of us who want to see real societal change, can try a new approach.

    labour is not a left wing party, the sooner people accept that, the better

  • One Angry Man

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  • it's called speedrunning, my dudes

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  • "When life gives you a frog go through the anus" - Aristotle, probably.

  • Congratulations to Linux on recent victories!

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  • Ah yeah that fits the description, thanks.