Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.org

@kevinrns

Well, there is the fact that solar only produces power during the hours of daylight which can be pretty short in the far north in winter. Likewise with wind power - no wind no power!

@danwentzel

It wasn't just America's security that the worthless traitor Trump betrayed, he informed Putin that the Dutch Secret Services had hacked into the surveillance camera that was trained on the entrance to the FSB's headquarters in Moscow. Invaluable intelligence was being gained that way - who was coming and going the identities of almost all the FSB's agents and a host of other vital data until Trump betrayed a close ally and NATO member; the Netherlands, to Putin himself!

@omartwotone

The only sort of religion that would actually be correct would be no religion at all!

@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social

Yeah - the Dems in the USA are the equivalent of the the tory party in the UK. Having said that, the tories are doing everything they can to ape the GOP and they are succeeding!

In the USA, I don't think you have an equivalent to the Labour/Socialist parties in Europe.

Americans who come to work in the EU are always surprised how far to the left and liberal most EU nations are. What most of Europe has, is quality of life - good universal healthcare (at low or no cost to the patient), decent social security and benefits provision, 20 days of paid holiday every year plus public holidays like Easter etc (by law, to take when you like), sick pay (by law, where I live, in Luxembourg, sick pay is your normal salary in full!), an excellent life/work balance (the working hours directive says that you cannot be required to work more than 48 hours per week (the employee can waive that right but must do so in writing and can withdraw that waiver at any time) and, by and large, freedom from religious nutters (most people in most EU countries now regard themselves as non-religious).

It has always seemed most peculiar to me that some people devote their lives to companies; neglecting their wives and children to work ludicrous hours. It doesn't seem to occur to them that "companies" don't really exist - they are a virtual concept invented by mankind to allow people to invest in businesses without taking part in the management of the business and without taking any responsibility for the financial well-being, or not, of the company except to the extent of possibly losing the money they invested. Nevertheless the world is now dominated by global multinational companies; particularly banks. This is a form of collective insanity!

Of course the biggest form of collective insanity is actually money itself - another virtual concept and one for which man is often prepared to kill or be killed.

I think this is an extremely dangerous thing to suggest!

Many Republicans are stupid enough to take this seriously and do so!

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/06/ann-coulter-calls-every-republican-commit

@weldeiry

I wonder how many colonoscopies they think they will refuse under the new regime?

What a day: Boris de piffle Blojob announces his resignation as an MP (I'll believe it when I see it) and that total fückin arsehole Trump is finally going to be charged with some serious offences!

@elduvelle

It's all semantics!

When I first lived in France back in the 70s, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was President of the Republic. He introduced several 'radical' reforms including giving the vote to anyone over 18 and permitting unmarried women to be prescribed the birth control pill or other forms of birth control (something that was formerly banned).

Back in that era the soviet aligned French communist party used to receive 25+% of the vote in general elections so they were a force to be reckoned with.

The leader of the French communist party at the time was a guy called George Marchais who when asked what he thought of the radical reforms put in place by Giscard d'Estaing replied
"Yeah - he's given the whores the pill and the kids the vote!"

@freemo @turboquokka @ariaflame @trinsec @pattykimura

Yes, I am aware of Thailand's acceptance of transgender & transvestite people, as I used to live there.

The clerk who looked after my account at the Bangkok Bank was a "tomboy"; a woman who dressed as a man; when at work (s)he wore an impeccable business suit, man's shirt, tie and mens' shoes. According to mutual friends, her partner was a "ladyboy" - a transvestite male.

I have never visited America - never wanted to, so I have little idea what life is like for transvestites and transsexuals over there, but I have lived and worked in the Netherlands where being transvestite or transsexual is considered totally normal; probably more so than in Thailand actually!

I had a transvestite colleague in Amsterdam who came to work dressed as a woman and, as this was Amsterdam, nobody batted an eyelid. She was a bit unfortunate in that she was well over 6 feet tall and massively built with a deep booming voice and a 'street' Glasgow accent that made her difficult to understand even to another native English speaker. Her height was not too much of a disadvantage in the Netherlands as they are the world's tallest people and women well over 6 feet tall are fairly common there.

I was raised in the UK where attitudes to transvestites and transsexuals are extremely unhealthy, as are attitudes to sex in general!

I have also lived in France, Belgium and Luxembourg where I have never met any transvestites or transexuals. However, Luxembourg does merit a special mention as it is one of the few countries that has an openly gay Prime Minister (the Republic of Ireland is another country that had a openly gay PM). The PM of Luxembourg married his partner whilst he was PM and so had a form of state wedding! That must be some sort of 'first'!

@cloudguy@mastodon.terabyte-computing.com

This why I wonder and occasionally explode at people giving it the "our wonderful NHS" bit!

The NHS these days is a 3rd rate service worthy of the 3rd rate economy that Britain has become under the the tory scum!

I live in Luxembourg, and over here, I have never waited more than 48 hours for a GP appointment. Hell, there are still GPs here offering the "come to the surgery and wait"; without an appointment service here just like when I was a kid in the 1950s!

@elduvelle

I have never heard the far left making radical proposals; quite the reverse - the far left tend to be more conservative than the conservatives!

@tristansnell

If they actually tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

The security services in the USA (the FBI, CIA and Secret Service) have an absolutely MASSIVE right-wing bias which could perhaps induce them to 'swing' the evidence in Trumps favour.