How do you say Karen in Mandarin?

Libertarians are people who turn a blind eye to externalities.

Corruption and abuse of power.

Drive up the cost of energy enough and those suburbs will be abandoned as more people move into cities.

You can easily tell from the propaganda what they want: they want us isolated, fearful and dependent on fossil fuels.

Getting the fossil-fuel monkey off our collective backs will not only improve our health and quality of life, it’ll also drive dictators and despots out in several countries. In particular, it’ll destroy the revenue stream that funds Russia’s imperialism. It’ll also make those AI data centers non-viable, making it harder for our own local oligarchs to oppress us.

He wants to watch more videos of executions.

Since there hasn’t been a vote of no confidence, that is technically true, that’s what it means to be PM.

I’ll tell you what: that they are being defeated, charged and punished, and that they see nowhere they can run. Until then, it’s all bullshit.

A flaming meteorite. What are the odds of that?

Tories trying to co-opt and distort another concept, I see.

Labour Together with Oligarchs and Nonces.

The US people should be building a parallel justice system for Thiel and his ilk.

Trump is trying to save Milei’s failing government.

Those aren’t journalists, they’re courtiers.

Leukemias are also in many cases not only treatable but curable, but in other cases, it’ll kill you fast.

It varies widely depending on the tumor type and other factors. But yeah, one common variant is slow-growing.

Metastasize, you lazy bastard tumor.

Yummy, yummy boot.

Those sound like fairly standard US vacation allowances, though there’s that diabolical US practice of putting vacation and sick leave into one pot.

I’m in the UK. 37-hour work week, flextime, almost entirely remote working, 6.5 weeks vacation, 13 or 14 bank holidays, and essentially unlimited sick leave, though the employer can ask for proof (which, in my 11 years on my job, they never have). Pension provision is also excellent, not the US standard “defined contribution” bullshit where you have no guarantee of the payout. We get a defined monthly payout for life, annually adjusted for cost of living.

BTW, I’ve visited Poland quite a few times and I’m impressed at how much the living standards have improved since my first visit in the mid-1980s. The UK: not nearly as much. 14 years of underinvestment by the Conservatives, plus Brexit, has done a lot of damage, and Labour under Starmer has been too timid about rebuilding.

The other thing that’s damaging Reform is the limit on donations from rich expats (who were most likely laundering foreign money) and crypto donations (which were definitely laundering foreign money).

On the other hand, I wouldn’t put it past the Tories to join a coalition with Reform.

I don’t think Labour’s going to call an early election, they’re too far underwater right now, and even if they find a competent slightly less centrist leader to replace Starmer, it’ll take them a while to restore their credibility.