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Private spaceflight should be banned. It’s incredibly polluting, a waste of natural and economic resources, and gives the human race zero positive benefit – no human will ever set foot on Mars, let alone be able to ever live there. Space travel and colonisation is essentially impossible.

Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic are going to idolise this man and hold him up as role model as he trashes his country, as they used to with Pinochet.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-b2450548.html I mean, I assumed that they talked like this behind closed doors during the pandemic…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/16/antisemitism-uk-universities-jewish-students Urgh, reminds me of the a/s I saw at university during the Bush 43 Invasion of Iraq, except far worse.

I didn’t say all the far-left are a/s. However, antisemitism is unfortunately a deeply embedded trope on the far-left, particularly the Marxist far-left. It’s less based on notions of outright biological racism than far-right antisemitism, but just as deep in the conspiratorial, “cunning global...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-boosts-1234880165/ Approaching openly armband-wearing Nazi, now.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rwanda-supreme-court-decision-braverman-b2447652.html The Supreme Court has rejected the government’s batshit scheme to mass deport immigrants to Rwanda.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/david-cameron-appointed-foreign-secretary-in-shock-cabinet-reshuffle-move-13007124 Pigfucker Cameron’s back. Shows how low the Tory government has sunk.

Regular reminder that the far-left, despite defining themselves as antiracists, are as racist as the far-right; they just just target their racism at different groups, and use different justifications.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67401753 Cruella’s out after an inflammatory newspaper article accusing the London Met Police of being “woke”.

Japan’s a mass of contradictions from a Western European and North American perspective. Advanced and developed on many levels (and they have universal healthcare!), awful on gender, LGBTQ and racial equality, among other sensibilities. Although, to be honest they’re more developed on some of...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/03/record-number-hate-incidents-british-jews-reported-hamas-attacks Unfortunately, I’m not entirely surprised by this news. (I’ve seen elsewhere online a common claim that there isn’t actually any rise in anti-Jewish racism, just “the Zios” have forced...

https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-asked-scientists-if-covid-could-be-killed-by-hairdryer-up-nose-ex-aide-claims/ The government’s Covid inquiry is going well.

Well, they don’t over here either, but it’s a lot of social media and forum traffic as far as I see that is influenced by that form of thinking. I saw that side of things as fringe, relatively harmless cranks until the emergence of Corbyn and his personality cult just complacent and naive I was...

That might explain in part actions on the American centre-left, but speaking as a British person, I’ve become incredibly aware in the last 7-8 years how much deep antisemitism there is baked into the more radical left. It’s just there, but unspoken about on the surface, utterly taboo to even...

Not as such. Smer, the party of returning Slovakian PM Robert Fico is openly pro-Russia, and promised to end aid to Ukraine if re-elected. Smer is officially a social-democratic party and was founded as a centre-left movement, but has gradually become nationalistic, socially conservative and...

Done some more research. The colour difference doesn’t show up as well on screen as it does in real life, even using photos taken on my “good” camera. The older Retrax definitely has discoloured over time, unfortunately, but seems to have been more yellow-tinged on its yellow parts to begin with...

That’s it, yes. Sorry it got compressed a lot posting here. Original figure (right) looks more yellow-tinged to the naked eye.

Hmm, doesn’t really seem visible in this quickly-taken photo, but in real life it’s quite a contrast. Brilliant white versus stained dentures off-white.

Ah, that’s helpful! Thanks. Definitely seems off-white there, which is a good clue. Particularly if it’s a fairly old photo.