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  • You could be right. Corbyn in the UK had a HUGE swell of support with record numbers of people joining the Labour Party just before its leadership election just to vote for him. Didn't translate to votes when the general election came around.

  • The dimensions of the pink paper look just very slightly shorter than either A4 or US Letter. Sure, it could have been trimmed, but why would you go to the effort of trimming such a tiny amount on an otherwise low effort poster?

  • Yeah I thought the same, can't pinpoint it exactly (the kerning on the TT is odd but just about plausible), but even if it's not AI it's definitely fake as fuck regardless. "Messages from Management" is one of the easiest laziest forms of bait.

  • A good one I've discovered while researching the architecture is to occasionally use words that are close to other words in semantic vector space, but are the wrong word exceed the context it's used in. Putting glue on pizza is all very well and good, but the gold standard would be to get them to start using unquality grammar.

  • It saddens me how many British classics are now owned by American companies or Nestle.

    "Valeo Foods" who own most of the traditional brands like Barratt's, Fox's mints, Barker & Dobson, Mojo, Poppets, McCowan's and a ton of others, is actually owned by US Republican Mitt Romney's company Bain Capital (which isn't even a publicly traded company).

    Mondelez' acquisition of Cadbury's everyone knows about already, and Mars was American to begin with even though all their best items originated in the UK.

    Terry's also got bought by Kraft/Mondelez but they've since been sold to a French company, which I guess is better than most of the alternatives.

    As far as I can tell, Tunnocks are pretty much the only British chocolate left.

  • What's weird is that recently I only ever see it used inappropriately. The thing being highlighted in this meme wasn't particularly objectionable or weird, so pulling a "Nobody:" on it just makes it look like OP is desperately trying to crowbar their observation into a meme.

  • The horrible thing about it all is that saying you should always punch Nazis was an uncontroversial statement even as recently as three years ago.

    The only reason it's now considered a terroristic threat is because powerful figures have started openly identifying with fascism.

    We need to be saying it more, not less.

  • There's a very large community on the other place absolutely frothing at how much censorship already exists in all the big models and trading tips on how to jailbreak them, and Meta in particular are putting a lot of money and effort and influence into trying to convince everyone to let them run riot. Sadly it looks like these bots are going to get worse before they get better. :(

  • Related but a lot of smaller LARP clubs (European style at least, can't speak for America) end up extremely culty because of a perfect storm of factors:

    • takes up loads of time and resources just to be average; making costumes, learning stats, downtime activities etc before you've even left the house
    • predominantly twenty-somethings who recently moved out of their parents' house and end up house-sharing with other LARPers from the same club
    • the RPG + Am Dram elements mean that it takes years to be able to access a lot of the game, whether it be types of spellcasting or a character in a position of power. This means that if you want to quit your club for another one, you're losing years of progression in a way that doesn't happen with sports or most arts-based hobbies.
    • spending whole weekends in the middle of the woods with no outside influence, where you have to follow instructions given by refs. It's also not unusual to be up until sunrise or even do all-nighters playing through the next day as well
    • success or failure at the game is often at the whims of said refs, MUCH more than in Warhammer
    • ...as a result of which, the club management hierarchy ends up translating into social hierarchy outside of official events. The people at the top are the ones that effectively determine whether a party, day trip or even a wedding is going to be a big event or not, and the regular membership treats them accordingly. So, culty as heck.
  • I think this above all many other things over the last couple decades are where the Democratic Party have gone mask-off about who they really are.

    They've lost the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and both Houses in recent years, and finally the moment they get one small chance of victory they're just... nope, we'd rather lose yet another election than allow a left-of-center candidate to win.