AllNewTypeFace

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are there four tiny Africas around l’hexagone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is the banana for scale?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The banana would be a modern art reference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaze upon the inevitability of death and despair.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If your favourite band from college was The Cure, it was always inevitable. Robert Smith was born for moaning about the miseries of a lifetime’s losses and regrets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How cocaine conquered the UK: in pubs, festivals and workplaces the drug has become an everyday habit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like cocaine: it makes people into worse versions of themselves, and isn’t even an interesting experience in the way that psychedelics can be. You get no insights on coke other than perhaps “cause I’m worth it, bitch”.

  Having said that, if it’s so common and prohibition has been unsuccessful, it’s probably time to legalise and regulate it. Set up supply chains that are ethical (or at least more ethical than organised crime) and subject to legally enforceable standards on ingredients in the way that food, alcohol and pharmaceuticals are, so the lines of coke people are doing aren’t cut with whatever random chemicals were available (for the sake of future healthcare budgets as much as anything). Of course, restrict sales to over-18s only, tax it as one does alcohol (another harmful drug, albeit with a lot of social acceptability) and tobacco, and have notices on each package about the effects and side-effects of cocaine and where to seek help if you have a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's set the record straight⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Genesis from the point where Adam already exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GB News is allowed to promote Reform, so I’m setting up Woke TV⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t someone try left-wing/liberal talk radio in the US, only discovering that, not only did it lose money (which was not unexpected) but got a negligible audience, because upwards punching at billionaires and preaching about how urgently broken the world is is a poor substitute for a two-minute-hate against scapegoats and permission to be a worse version of oneself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's set the record straight⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, Genesis, only with extra misogyny?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Australia considered sharing a firefighting aircraft fleet with a country in the northern Hemisphere such as Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How long does a cargo ship take to get between Australia and Europe or the North American west coast? I imagine it’d be a few weeks at least to LA, and longer to, say, Piraeus or Marseille via the Suez Canal, during which you hope neither side needs those helicopters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You all know someone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Daiso is the S-tier of these. I wish they had them in Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andy Burnham launches campaign against ‘headphone dodgers’ on public transport⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, universal basic income, 100% wealth tax on everything above a million, confiscate and redistribute all second homes, outlaw landlords and turn Buckingham Palace into a skate park.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andy Burnham launches campaign against ‘headphone dodgers’ on public transport⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A “flying car” would be just an aircraft that can fit in a traffic lane. For good reasons, aircraft are regulated much more strictly than cars, requiring regular inspections which are checked, as well as having requirements for flight plans, pre-flight checks and more. Mass-market “flying cars”, if they gained adoption on the same scale as their earthbound precursors, would have to be deregulated much like cars, to the point where Joe Sixpack can drive/fly to the shops on a whim without going through the kinds of pre-flight procedures private-jet-owning multimillionaires pay good money to employ people to take care of for them. Which would mean skies full of poorly maintained rustbuckets piloted by people living paycheck to paycheck who need them to get to their job on time. From time to time, these would fall out of the sky and crush or incinerate people in their homes. If this came to pass, society would have to accept this as the price of progress, in the way it accepts road deaths and mass shootings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨laughs in 12 hours, while still driving through texas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Europe, 200km is a long distance

  In the US, 200 years is a long time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pfft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a jazz musician once said, you’ve gotta know the rules to break them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First world problems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ( looks at harried, sleep-deprived parent wrangling four squawling children into a minivan) “This person fucks.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense. Once nuclear is built, using it is a no-brainer: you’ve already paid for it, so saying no to energy produced at the costs of a few truckloads of fuel a year is purity politics at its most asinine. Building new nuclear plants, with their high capital costs and long lead times, is another question altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He sounds like a useful idiot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wuppertal Schwebebahn Is Real And It Is My Friend⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Here I will confess that I was anticipating the Schwebebahn to be a novelty, more of a gimmick than a real transit route, like Los Angeles’s Angels Flight funicular or San Francisco’s cable cars… I was immediately proven incorrect”

  Tell me you’re American without saying you’re American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes we can!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But can you lick lycanthropy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You haven't followed the plan I gave you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Soon after this, you start seeing more ads for alcohol, gambling sites and religious cults, as the algorithm flags you as a potentially lucrative prospect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Tough Out Here⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing a true Melburnian would use instant coffee for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any dude with hair plugs or a loud, powerful car would confirm that it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The government is keeping a list of people who question their policies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the ORG is designated a terrorist group like Palestine Action, how much of a grace period will existing members have before they get disappeared to Azkaban-in-the-Falklands or wherever all those designated terrorists will need to be contained? Is not renewing your membership enough, does one have to renounce it within 24 hours of the designation, or will the ruling be retroactive, condemning anyone who was a member years ago even if they let it lapse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guidelines for dancing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if at some point in the night you unexpectedly find yourself filled with the Holy Spirit, there is emergency medication you can get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goes right over some people's heads, I tell ya⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine that, if you’re a 10-year-old boy, fascism can look pretty awesome. Lots of action, badass uniforms and weapons, skulls and stuff, and no icky girls bringing their cooties into your top-sekrit treehouse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Royalty be like⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The final boss in “what’s trashy if you’re poor but classy if you’re rich?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's class fails expectations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that actually running such an experiment properly and bringing home the conclusion of the horrors of fascism would be grossly unethical and impossible to do. (Some university psychology/sociology courses did similar things in the 1960s, though experimental ethics rules back then were flimsy.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other (non-American?) superhero movie franchises besides Marvel and DC?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Superheroes are an inherently American concept, and this comes through when authors from other countries do them.

  Case in point: Britain. They had a few superhero cartoons like Bananaman and Supergran, but they were inherently parodic, stretching the bombast inherent in the concept to breaking point and deriving humour from the juxtaposition between that and the small, shabby details of everyday life in the UK. Though one could argue that the actual British equivalents of American costumed crimefighters would be James Bond and/or Doctor Who, though these don’t fall neatly into the category.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a dungeon master⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the tankie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to decline a meeting invite⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “as per my last email…”