Uncle Stinky

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• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  We do have some buildings with shared heating and hot water. I lived in a Lewisham council flat that had central hot air and water. I suspect the place was originally purpose built for pensioners and I just got lucky...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  Anyone who has occasion to occasionally want to read something in the WSJ, the bypass paywalls browser extension does the job for me....
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  FWIW, I've never used any sort of mousemat with any type of mouse. Never felt the lack either. Seems like a nonsense product....
• Commented on Omicron
  I dutifully looked up The Phenomenon of Money. It's Routledge and hence phenominally expensive at £39 for paperback, so it will have to remain unread by me. Pity....
• Commented on Omicron
  On Covid, the army may be on to something....
• Commented on Omicron
  Looks like no warp bubble....
• Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
  To introduce something new, what if Xi Jinping isn't really that competent - https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/what-if-xi-jinping-just-isnt-that Interesting speculation....
• Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
  I don't know what to make of this Twitter thread that shows a surprising number of American right wing horror-people being linked to a talent search agency- https://twitter.com/nicolechenelle/status/1422449854224031745?refsrc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1422449854224031745%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1&refurl=https%3A%2F%2F247sports.com%2Fcollege%2Fkansas%2FBoard%2F103734%2FContents%2FRight-wing-superstars-literally-failed-crisis-actors-168666524%2F I doubt Alex Jones will be going on about crisis actors though....
• Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
  And more fun from the fromt line of the American culture war- "A Florida Anarchist Will Spend Years in Prison for Online Posts Prompted by Jan. 6 Riot Daniel Baker’s calls for armed defense against possible far-right attacks led to...
• Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
  On the upcoming American civil war, an audience member for the odious Charlie Kirk wanting to know when they start shooting Democrats. https://god.dailydot.com/charlie-kirk-kill-people/ More people than I'd be comfortable sharing a country with seem to be entertaining ideas like that....
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  Look at the ages of the dead antivaxxers - https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/ Too late to get them out of the gene pool; they've mostly done their breeding and then irresponsibly killed themselves....
• Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
  Anyone interested in how the sharp end of COVID feels in America should read some of the posts on the nursing subreddit. I've dropped this one in but was spoiled for choice - https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/ps8gjf/amitalkingtoadeadperson/ Poor sods....
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  If anyone's in the mood for some fairly dark-toned schadenfreude, the nominees are simply piling up over at https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  Re #812 and onrushing Brexit shortages, this from Chris Grey, who is usually fairly good- "Thus, again, the question will be whether the government pushes on, in the name of ‘true independence’, or whether it decides to again postpone import...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  THe pharmacist, assuming this is the one, is far stupider than you might be imagining- https://gizmodo.com/chicago-pharmacist-faces-120-years-in-prison-for-allege-1847502991 E-bayed them....
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  The Trot to Neocon pipeleine is not that well supported as a claim- https://indefenseoftoucans.gitlab.io/2021/02/01/trotneocon.html In Britain we do have those Wankers over at Spiked, I'll have to concede....
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  You made me look at askhistorians. It looks as if Bullock's book is slightly out of date. You know what historians are like. Key quote that touches on why- "[W]hat has changed in Soviet historiography would be how we understand...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  No serious historians believe Stalin killed more people than Hitler any more. There was a vested interest in inflating his kill count during the cold war, and the Soviet archives only became (briefly) available in, I think, 1991 to revise...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  201 Smallpox case fatality is 30%, not 3% https://ourworldindata.org/smallpox...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  Don't want to derail the thread below 300 so I'll be brief, but it was good old Alexander Shulgin who first synthesized 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine, aka STP. Credit where it's due and fuck the CIA....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  Just to comple'tely derail things, if anyone is interested in how the Meinpillow guys US election fraud 3 day cyber symposium is going, the answer is hilariously badly. Some noble soul has been screencapping the true believers disillusionment and it's...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  Apropos of nothing at all, robot sandworms are now a thing- https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/sand-worm-robot-tremors/...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  Eco extremists are already among us. You'll find that the arsehole who shot all those people to death in the NZ mosques was a self-described "eco-fascist", amongst other things....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  @744- Are you sure Netflix doesn't have the subbed version hidden? They default to annoyingly dubbed because they've a/b tested and get higher viewer retention with the dubbed versions, but the original is usually there somewhere. More detail in this...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  Here's some unhappy news- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/14/amazon-rainforest-now-emitting-more-co2-than-it-absorbs...
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  It looks like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWH2w-LUVc0...
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  In the unlikely event that I ever re-read Starship Troopers, my visual for the powered armour is going to look a lot like the splendid stuff from Edge of Tomorrow. Powered armour, Tom Cruise getting repeatedly killed and Emily Blunt....
• Commented on Because I am bored ...
  Unrelated to anything, the NATO golfball near Kinross is on the market if anyone wants a unique residence. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-89864398.html...
• Commented on Because I am bored ...
  Just because nobody else has brought it up and I need to express my utter rage, Dido Harding, who made such a success of our £37 billion test, track and trace, is in the frame for Simon Stevens job as...
• Commented on Because I am bored ...
  The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings,...