Devils advocate moment… If people keep listening (or sort of listening) and they are OK with music that seems to lack any soul, is it not just giving the audience what they want and deserve?

Devils concierge moment… What a bunch of shitbags.

I can’t even imagine how powerful I would be if I could be ignored in every language.

It seems not everyone can work that out

Here’s the thing. You have twice insinuated I don’t understand the news, or how it works. , it demeans us both.

I feel insulted and you come across as a smug prick.

I was just saying that different papers spin the news differently. There are no papers in the UK that lack bias.

There is no such thing as “just reporting the news”. The very selection of what you report onis the news.

We could get into an academic debate, if you want. We could wheel out Sontag and Marshall McLuhan. We could go over all the basic first year undergraduate lessons in journalistic practice, or we could just drop this and move on.

I suspect you won’t be able to restrain yourself though. You’ll have to point out for a third time that you think some people are incapable of being able to understand things that you, yourself, seem to be the one struggling with.

Any seat you want

Provided that someone doesn’t have a specific seat booked.

Yes, you are very smart.

No, they are spinning the news. A headline like that when the report goes into detail how damaging it was is deliberately misleading.

They are focussing on the fact that larger companies seem more resilient. That’s the one positive in the research. The rest is pretty brutal.

That’s like reporting a headline “Child escapes school shooting” and then mentioning the fact that five others died in the body of the text.

They are not “just reporting the news”.

Nah.

That… Is the feeblest looking breakfast I’ve seen in a long time.

Underdone toast. Technically just bread.

Cherry tomatoes, a whole one and a half of them.

Something brown that may or may not be sausage but has clearly been pre-cut as if you are feeding it to a toddler.

And why does it all look as if it is sliding off the plate like it has been hung on a wall?

I don’t mean to kink shame, but if this is your food porn you need to seek counselling.

The only US spice is “ranch”.

Just seen a post where someone was dipping sushi in it.

Dunno, seems pretty good to me.

Son is 18.

Ask for more rent.

I just sighed so hard I put my back out.

Just because you don’t know something doesn’t mean it is untrue.

See also, “this is new to me therefore I have discovered it”

This is like reverse appropriation and is just as bad.

Mate, the thing about gen x is that they dont care. This is boomer energy being projected.

Which is cool, I guess, whatever.

Web in the search, AI in the search, personal assistant in your files, things in your things that you don’t want, didn’t ask for and are struggling to extract.