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Not sure if the future tense ‘will’ is appropriate here

𝕴𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖊𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖙!

There’s a bit of a difference in sentencing between premeditated murder and manslaughter

They’ve still got a good reputation for news. So good that after a few combative interviews with Tory MPs (back when they were in power a few years ago) the Culture Secretary wanted to sell the channel off.

Don’t get me wrong they can still produce the occasional good comedy or documentary but they used to do so consistently.

You won’t get any disagreement from me on the corrosive effects of advertising.

I do think that Channel 4 used to regularly produce greater content than it can now. But that probably is more to do with advertising revenue being leeched away to online platforms and the growth of its direct competitors.

Well the distinction here is that TV license paying citizens of the UK don’t get the ads.

In the UK the BBC only has advertisements for its own content, nothing else. As bad as its got since Tony Blair and David Cameron both undermined its independence and quality, at least there are no ad breaks in its shows.

Microfilms used to be sold as having a life expectancy of up 500 years. But in my experience they were a pain to use and the machines costly to maintain. The films would tear regularly too. Also the quality of the recorded image could be very poor sometimes.

The usual cycle of tech-bro capitalism would put them currently on the early acquire market saturation stage. So it’s unlikely that they are currently charging what they will when they are established and have displaced lots of necessary occupations.

Rad

It’s a photo from a disused quarry that my granddad used to work in

It still works. Most of the apps are borked. Windows Explorer hasn’t been updated in 5+ years so doesn’t work with most sites. Baconit escaped reddit’s 3rd party app purge and still works. Imgur still works well but with all the genX on it reminds me of icanhazcheezeburger.

On my Windows Phone silly

List of Distributist parties in the UK:

• National Distributist Party
• British National Party
• National Front

Hmmm, maybe the Catholic part isn’t the only part worth reviewing.

Also worth noting that the Conservative Party’s ‘Big Society’ schtick in 2010 was wrapped in the trappings of distributism.

Not that all this diminishes it entirely but it does seem to be an entry drug for exploitation by the right.

I gotta hold my hand up and state that I am not read up on it at all, so happy to be corrected. But my impression is that Pope Leo XIII’s conception was to reduce secular power so as to leave a void for the church to fill. And it’s the potential exploitation of that void that attracts the far right too.

Oooh, I did not know that!

Same. Gonna have to find some way of pirating the shows I ‘purchased’ on prime so that I can still go back to them.

In your own article…

“As president of Mind, Stephen Fry has done a huge amount to raise awareness and understanding about bipolar disorder and other mental health problems. He has supported Mind in our campaigning activities over the last decade and has helped enormously to change public attitudes in the UK about mental health for the better.”

Does that sound like sound like someone that needs to be ‘fucked’, or is it someone you can appreciate for their efforts relative to the society they grew up in but hasn’t quite followed the leading edge in understanding in their later years. This whole judging people by today’s standards can get a bit out of hand especially if you don’t know their context. They are people that pushed things in the right direction in their zenith, they aren’t perfect, no one is, but in their time, when they had a platform and used it more responsibly than most. Now they’re just a bit out of date.

You should be able to respect people’s background conditions (especially if you are purportedly standing up for a fairer understanding of various mental health conditions), you don’t have to agree with or respect everything they say now but you should respect them as humans beings especially given the positive pressure they exerted in their prime against way worse attitudes than we experience now.

Fry’s point isn’t terrible, it just lacks some qualifications. Cleese, on the otherhand, is a bit older and has much more dated notions. They shouldn’t be amped, but that’s what GB News is all about. Platforming regressive shite. GB news and all it’s founders should be ‘fucked’. They are darkly cynical cunts.

The pair of them’s blether should be judiciously ignored. Pat them on the back, put a blanket on their knees. But don’t fuck them.

Pray you can make a positive influence now as they did back in their prime.