frankPodmore @ frankPodmore @slrpnk.net

London-based writer. Often climbing.

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He's great, the two tries he was involved in were magic.

That match both gave England a mathematical chance of winning and showed we have no actual chance of winning.

Dammit, France.

Okay, let's keep the scoreline there, lads. Sincerely, an Englishman.

I know, right? Turns out cutting the cause of pollution cuts pollution!

I don't see how this is political news. I take a light touch to modding, so I'm going to leave it up, but I do request that you try and keep posts here to UK politics, please.

Good. Honestly, play him at 10 and get a real full back.

Oh, 100%. The America-brained fools and dupes have all too much influence, but most of the MPs, members and voters of the Tories also hate Trump. Bear in mind they elected Badenoch out of sheer stupidity rather than conviction, and when they forced the invidious choice of Badenoch v. Jenrick on themselves, they picked the less Trumpy of the two.

I hate on the Tories a lot but I'm glad they're not the Republicans.

EDIT: To be very clear: you don't gotta hand it to them.

I would think it mostly uses their infrastructure.

Yes. Again, I did start my comment with 'You're right'. But it's also the case that what you - and I - are advocating for would, in the short term, be a boon to terrorism and organised crime, and may well have knock on effects for the economy, too.

My point is not that we shouldn't do it, but that it would have massive, unpredictable consequences!

No, it isn't, because the first thing I said was:

You’re right

And the rest of my comment simply pointed out that it would be complex and risky - which is true.

I'm afraid there is, because Trump's vindictiveness won't stop with intelligence! Tariffs would be just the start.

You're right but it would be enormously complex. We'd actually have to set up a new, separate system, first, then leave, and do that without upsetting a notoriously thin-skinned sociopath, who would still, during the process, have all our secrets.

I watched a few of the clips and it's honestly just surreal, the whole thing is so fucking weird. Lammy looks like he's going to vom, Trump looks like he genuinely doesn't remember calling Zelensky a dictator, Starmer looks like he's been in a different meeting - with a sane president, possibly? - it's mental.

Your arse prediction's starting to come good.

Praying for a miracle: Wales beating Ireland, derailing the latter's apparently unstoppable march to a Grand Slam.

EDIT: Ah, well, nevertheless

You may already have seen it, but I've found Lemmy Explorer to be much more useful for this kind of search than the native Lemmy search function.

/s indeed, but you did remind me of a cool image, above: the Earth (and the Moon) not only from space, but from the orbit of Mars!

And, below, the Earth as seen from Mars' surface:

It's the the tiny white dot, just left and up from centre.

Build houses on the mountain peaks and treehouses in the forests, all linked together with a series of zip wires. I see no downsides to my plan.