There’s never been any independent corroboration of a single assertion made in Thomas and Dillon’s book (or any other) and it relies entirely on either unnamed sources, hearsay or the testimony of Ari Ben‑Menash who has his own agenda. I’m not declaring any of those as definitive proof that he wasn’t, just that the claims he was an asset themselves haven’t been proven in any way.

And I don’t know about you, but giving my covert intelligence asset a huge state funeral after he flipped and tried to extort money from us doesn’t exactly sound like realistic Mossad behaviour to me.

Complains about the enshittification of search engines, uses an AI chat bot to search things instead. What?

It’s literally called Lemmy.MarxistLeninist get your head out of Stalin’s arsehole.

Claims that Robert Maxwell was a Mossad asset are spurious at best and outright fantasy at worst.

This is literal anti-semitism.

This may even have been the intention of the US DoJ by making sure Mandelson is highlighted the maximum amount of times. It certainly benefits the Trump administration to have the UK as weak as possible, especially when we are looking to renew bonds with Europe and are pivoting away from US hegemony.

Once again, a thoroughly reasonable and measured approach to inclusion for those with both physical and mental/learning disabilities is twisted by the torygraph to enable literal hatespeech from it’s readers.

And it’s a little worrying that so many people, even here, haven’t actually read the article or other press about this before getting their pitchforks out.

No, you baseball bat them.

The lie about Iran isn’t what the current regime is doing to its own people it’s how, in response to the Iranian government nationalised the largely British owned oil industry, and so the UK and US sponsored a coup to topple the government and installed the Shah.

Although the Shah grew the economy and did a lot of other things to improve the country, the rampant corruption and brutal repression of dissent, including the massacre in Jaleh Square in 1978 (in which the army killed 64 people and injured 200+ others) sparked a nationwide revolution to overthrow the regime.

The largest and most powerful revolutionary faction were the islamicists led by Ruhollah Khomeini, the first Ayatollah.

Although you can survive (just about) in the short to medium term on exclusively potatoes (if you have both white and sweet varieties) as they contain all your essential amino acids, you’re going to develop some serious vitamin deficiencies and you’re also considerably more likely to develop diabetes.

You also need quite a lot of potatoes, which needs quite a lot of space, and good storage as you’ll only get a few crops in a season and they deplete the soil quite quickly so without the ability to rotate crops (which takes much, much more land) or some other way to reintroduce nutrients to the soil your yields will collapse after a year or two.

Also, without machinery, farming is incredibly labour intensive so I hope you can get your neighbours on board!

Hell yeah boys

You would never have been able to afford to eat this during rationing, that’s an entire family’s cheese allowance for a week.

That’s not red Leicester. They’re in Leicester, the town.

Step 1 - build an entire economy around cars, at the expense of all other forms of transport

Step 2 - stop spending money on the critical piece of infrastructure that allows cars to work

Step 3 -?

An algorithm is just a defined procedure to apply to a given set of inputs to give a set of outputs. Technically sorting by new is applying an algorithm to the posts, just one with a single step. Something like hot or scaled do take into account number of comments and views.

No I didn’t?

1 it isn’t completely harmless, but the chances of getting a lasting injury are vanishingly small

2 just because the chances of being injured are low, doesn’t mean getting punched in the face doesn’t hurt

3 in a (mostly) consequence free environment, getting punched in the face can be considered a reasonable punishment.

You can say cum

ShockWave was a similar software platform for interactive media that was initially a competitor with Flash until it was acquired by Macromedia.

The only fuel station built near me is a huge electric charging one with a few fuel pumps as an after thought and every bank branch has closed except one

We truly need to hit rock bottom for the faragists to realise the path he’s led us down and change their minds (or die off). Sadly I think by the time we reach that point we’ll be so far down the toilet that the EU won’t want us back.