Additionally - That asset stripping and profiteering are “efficient”. It’s a bit of a euphemism at this point I think.

Most companies I’ve worked for have cut their resources to the bone in search of efficiencies which are more accurately described as shareholder profit maximisations, but are pitched as “just in time” operation. Why hire two people when one can do a good enough job at half the pay. Why fabricate something locally when we can get a third party in SE Asia to make the same thing for peanuts and then charge EU pricing in our market.

Neither maximise efficient operations, just the efficient extraction of profit.

In-group suoremacy isn’t restricted to conservatism though, sadly.

The suit is claiming that she has faced loss of employment opportunity as she is white, and discrimination under the basis of the Equality Act.

said she had been “exploring a legal career” and therefore applied to the £14.80-an-hour internship scheme run by the 10,000 Interns Foundation programme and the Bar Council, but was rejected.

She appears to simply be a bile-spewing “journalist” who is clearly not hurting for employment. A cursory Google search has her pegged as a social media and communications graduate too - it doesn’t suggest a keen desire to enter the legal profession, but perhaps someone not telling you you’re special and suggesting you might have a default advantage turns you into a racist, dogwhistling P.O.S.

I’m glad Polanski has made a point of separating anti-zionism and anti-semitism, but there are some actual vocal anti semites in the Greens, which doesn’t do anyone any favours.

I’m sure it’s all in the interest of “balanced reporting” /s

If you have a functioning example of democracy I have a bridge to sell you.

There’s a lot of worse options out there but western democracy on the whole doesn’t really represent the “demos” in any real sense - that’s both good and bad of course, but it’s also not democracy.

I’ve thought about changing mine to a spelling I prefer but honestly the paperwork involved after changing it seems like a total headache.

It doesn’t serve ads if you pay for it - I used it for Reddit and moved over during the API debacle and I haven’t had any issues with it personally.

Could be, but my rotation does include a decent number of tracks with sexually explicit lyrics or anti-government themes.

Go figure.

Only some users though? Very strange setup. I’ve not been asked at all, but maybe my music choices out me as old as fuck?

You’re moving the goalposts.

You made two key points;

1. That suffering can be beneficial and
2. That denying someone the opportunity to experience something beneficial is immoral, somtomhave kids is moral positive.

My primary objections are

1. That suffering is always bad (although we disagree on the definitions of suffering, somits likely to be a moot point)
2. Having children on the basis of it being morally good presents a number of very upsetting and dangerous implications.

Gaza was an example of a point, and of my own views on suffering; that suffering is something you cannot escape and that you do not choose, not something that’s difficult or temporarily painful you can choose to do which will ultimately produce some good. I’d posit that everyone experiences some form of suffering in their lives, to varying degrees, and the minimisation of this can only ever be a net positive.

Personally I don’t want children for a number of reasons, but boiling it down to a moral reason is reductive, unhelpful, and can be dangerous.

I’d put it to you that suffering, in the sense that we’re discussing, would be something more than the pain of exercise - the people of Gaza are suffering, when I go into the ‘pain cave’ on a bike ride I’m enduring something for the benefit of it; I can stop, pause or relent if it becomes overbearing. It’s type 2 fun. It’s not suffering if you can opt out; challenge, and difficulty arent bad; suffering is.

It’s interesting that your anti-theistic approach has led you to what I would see as a very religious adjacent approach to reproduction; my worry with approaches like the outline you gave is that it can end up punishing any sort of reluctance to have kids (and can paint those who aren’t able to as immoral in some way). Not saying that’s you’re intention, just saying.

Could an artist not suffer for their work that brings great joy to themselves and others? Is that suffering not then worthy and good?

This is an awful take. Not suffering is always preferable to suffering.

If something is worthy and good then denying others the opportunity to exist and be worthy and good is itself immoral.

Does this mean that you have a moral imperative to have children because there are “worthy and good” things in the world? Is the logic “I can have children, there is good in the world, therefore it’s immoral to deny a potential life the opportunity to experience life”?

I say this as someone who can, but won’t, have children, and who grew up in an evangelical church - that’s a bizarre logic that feels an awful lot like some fundamentalist Christian quiverfull shit.

Flags: not racist

Using flags to create an atmosphere of exclusion: likely racist, definitely xenophobic

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good flag, and the St George’s cross is a great design (esp. When it doesn’t have “England” written on it) but 90% of the people flying the flags are slow witted flag fuckers who are upset that brown people exist in “their” country.

Define white people.

Well, time to start sending envelopes of cash to Mullvad!

A few well placed commands by a few lowly 2 monitor types are always the kind of things that derail companies on a fundamental level.

What senior management always forget is that they need us vastly more than we need them…

Please! Although I’d hesitate to say I have any “claims” as such - I’m ex religious and flip-flop from agnosticism to some kind of atheistic nihilism depending on the day. “I don’t believe in anything” is as close to a solid statement of belief as I’m likely to get.

Um, this is almost definitely the primary reason:

Local business owners welcome decision to rip out “absolute disaster” cycle lane which led to “lots of customers” getting parking tickets

Heaven forbid you be unable to park on the pavement!

I’d love to hear more about your belief system. This kind of stuff is endlessly fascinating.