Do you want to know what’s worse?

Most MPs aren’t from the aristocracy. Most are just middle class or upper middle class.

They’re just that disconnected.

So you admit it. You admit AI isn’t useful.

Oh they are stupid.

The name of the game of 90% of politics in the UK is "Pleasing the Dailies (Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, right wing papers here). Young people on social media and young people accessing porn are big moral panic issues so kneejerk reactions are what are expected and demanded.

Do I believe there is an element of “silencing opposition”? Of course there is! Be it silencing opposition to the government or stopping “woke”, there is an element of that, but a good number of MPs and Lords don’t know shit about fuck about technology and are just going with what Mumsnet are telling them. During the debate on the OSA in the Lords Baroness Fox of Buckley said, and this is a direct quote from Hansard:

My Lords, I would like to say something very quickly on VPN. I had a discussion with some teenagers recently, who were all prepared for this Bill—I was quite surprised that they knew a lot about it. They said, “Don’t worry, we’ve worked out how to get around it. Have you heard of VPN?” It reminded me of a visit to China, where I asked a group of students how they dealt with censorship and not being able to google. They said, “Don’t worry about it”, and showed me VPN.

This is the kind of people we’re up against. The “something must be done” type who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about, get most of their information from people who either actively want to censor the internet or don’t know what they’re talking about themselves and believe “something must be done” regardless of if that thing actually works or the type of person who ends the dumbest rant you’ve ever heard with “it’s just common sense” like that somehow makes them right.

You have no idea how dumb but also insidious UK politicians are and how resistant they are to actual reason.

Banning VPNs for under 18s. Wonder how they’ll get around kid’s using their parents VPN.

Want to know what’s worse?

Farage said he doesn’t want to get rid of the OSA, just “do it right”.

So called “Libertarians” are in reality, corporats.

Donald Trump is America’s Jimmy Savile.

I don’t know why I find it. Absolutely hilarious that Nvidia, a company currently in the AI business, notorious for not giving a shit about copyright, or just straight up going to Anna’s archive.

I mean we all know what he did then.

Gonna call it now, Jimmy Savile levels of child rape and Necrophillia.

These people keep saying “it’s the future” but it just seems like they’re chasing pink elephants and forcing us to partake in the delusion.

Russia’s already had this plan in the works for years. They call it “Sovereign internet”.

yes

They could, however…

Mastodon is made of lots of instances, nobody wants to be the instance with ICE on it. If they make their own instance or the government makes their own, they can be defederated by whatever instances wish to.

That’s the difference, you can kick Ice out of your federated servers. You can’t do that with bsky.

Albertan independence feels like the opposite of the Scottish Independence movement: largely right wing.

Fuck that shit. Switch to Linux.

If those two were flying, any planes, I would write my will on a napkin and put it in my coat pocket or something. But then again, I don’t think I have to say crash the plane that they’ll be anything left.

They very much did not let Germany have Poland. That is generally considered to be the first day of the first second world war.

They let Germany have Czechoslovakia, and Chamberlain only really did that because he knew that if he didn’t, Britain wouldn’t have time to prepare.

Ukraine is standing because of NATO support. If NATO support is stretched or moved elsewhere (like an actual NATO territory), then Russia could just go “fuck it”, leave a token force down there and go for the Baltics.

Nah I’m betting NATO does jack all and continues to be subservient to the USA.

I don’t think that will be the case. Consider:

Trump has demanded another NATO territory (Canada) or perhaps if he doesn’t think he could get away with that he could start to demand Iceland. With Trump, it looks like it will be the case of “give a mouse a cookie”.

And rNATO has made it clear that they do not want America taking Greenland, it’s one of the things they are actually standing up to America on. So the question remains: Appeasement to buy time (The Chamberlain Strategy) or send in the Troops to fight the yanks.