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Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's Daughters Are Still Receiving Rent-Free Royal Accommodation

They didn't rape any teenagers. This is just how royalty worka, obviously their uncle the king will still look out for them.

One of you say they're spongers because they're married; the royal family has multiple properties and plots of land, so it's basically like providing your nieces with one of your spare homes for when they're visiting the country (one of them is married to an italian man i think?).

It's Logical.

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Starmer says UK will not join ‘regime change from the skies’ on Iran

Timeline of Starmer's stances throughout this war/military action:

  • USA can't use UK Air bases such as the chagos one
  • Okay the USA can use our air bases
  • (our bases in cyprus get shot at because we allow USA to use it)
  • We don't believe in regime change from the skies

Yeah should have lead with that, mate. We're about 3 days in and that's 3 distinct stances he's had on the war already.

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'One of The Scariest Things I Have Seen': Alarms Sound Over 'Technofascist' Palantir Manifesto

"You will own nothing and feel nothing"

Edit: link to palantirs manifesto ::: spoiler My thoughts point by point (1-4)

  1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation

Sure.

  1. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible

What? The iPhone is fucking NOTHING. What are you, a 13 year old from 6 years ten years ago? Who even thinks like this?

Also, iPhones have apps. They just have apple apps.

My brain hurts from how unprofound this is juet 2 points in. Can we get to the fascism yet?

  1. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public

Yeah so that's fascist. In a very lame capitalist way, too. Nobody has ever said or believed these things before, it's like fascist mythologising to justify extracting even more out of the workforce at the end of history.

  1. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Translation: We will use warfare to crush non AI empowered societies.

You might say that they're proposing this because it's the only thing their AI has proven to be good at, but i'm pretty sure the AI fucked up when it decided to target primary schools in Iran over and over again. The alternative case - that Palantir staff/ the mikitary chose to target little girls, is much worse. ::: Don't know if i can be bothered to give annotations to each point but i'll put all the other points in my next comment (nested under this) for readers convenience.

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Kemi Badenoch says the Tories will vote for Labour’s immigration reforms “in the national interest” if Labour MPs try to vote them down

Every party in this country bears responsibility for the high immigration numbers

Does she not kmow how many parties there are in the country?

Was The Atomist Party, for instance, culpable for immigration getting out of control?

I'm being pedantic, however. Just think "every party sitting in westminster" would make more sense.

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Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned

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::: spoiler I think incest / 'stepcest' stuff is largely popular because:

  • it can sprout innumerous plotlines, whereas most visual porn lacks story
  • the "domestic" nature of it means they don't have to shell out for multiple sets or fancy sets.
  • The idea of other people breaking laws and putting themselves in danger seems to add to the dopamine hit of porn. Which is mabe why some people consume violent stuff. ::: In my op it's popular with viewers largely because it is favoured by the studios.

I have to say though, from back in my porn watching days, i couldn't stand the weird production quality in all the step-incest stuff. And the compulsion to pair up performers who have a big age gap, or to make performers look like teenagers, is disturbing. I doubt these things have changed.

It's funny to imagine that the government might have a porn-Tsar who is just banning all the stuff they personally consider shite. Should have been me.