Ew, Joe Rogan.

Let me introduce you to the concept of a supermarket Christmas savings club. You basically pre-order Christmas groceries with them.

https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/18/supermarket-christmas-saving-schemes-tesco-asda-19514484/

Women are you a good friend or a friend who is a good idea of what a fish is like.

Uh. That went weird fast…

• Ask who let the Taliban out of Afghanistan’s prisons? Trump did a deal with the Taliban and had the American military crack open the prisons, against the wishes of the supposedly sovereign Afghanistan government.

Obama never had a supermajority. He got close but peaked at 59 senators in the senate and one in hospital. One shy of 60 is not enough.

I’d laugh but that sounds like 8 kids had their lives ruined by some idiots.

Talking to hotel staff. About networking. Yeah… uh… Good luck!

Amiga Stunt Car Racer remains the best racing game of all time for me. It even had linkup multiplayer (I think…)

Ah, fair enough then.

They would drop tactical nukes on NATO forces.

Yeah maybe. I was operating under the prevailing idea in this thread that NATO would steamroll through Russia. It’s not something I necessarily agree with.

It’s never going to happen anyways.

Well, quite. This is all just a thought experiment, no one thinks it could happen. NATO is a purely defensive alliance.

If they don’t allow you to reject in two clicks then they’re violating the EU regulation.

I’m not willing to gamble but I don’t think they’d go nuclear. The trick is to offer amnesty and support to everyone but Putin so they have a better option than death for themselves and their families. Loyalty to dictators is always about self preservation.

I heard China had dropped the ball on housing. Apparently home ownership is getting really cheap there. The poor fools. Tsk tsk.

He’s playing Snakes and Ladders (Chutes and Ladders?) in 4D. The man’s a genius, I tells you.

There’s no year zero, it goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE.

I … uh… was talking about Twitter…

Who would buy it now, though? It can’t have much value left. (Edit: Twitter. Not talking about Tesla, that’s a whole different arc.)

Or you can join Deezer and then when you’re driving you can ask for whatever you want.

And you’ll get a Christmas version. Or a “live” version. Or a fucking obscure cover. Every time. And god help you if you ask for an artist rather than a track. Yeesh. One obscure track by the artist followed by random tracks from German rock bands and other total irrelevance.

In summary: I love Deezer.

How long has your number been on the no-call list? We have a similar thing in the UK but it takes ages to have an effect. Months to a year.

I deal with the issue by wasting as much of the scam callers time as I can. It seems to be the best way to get my number removed.

I usually say “I’m Mr Smith’s personal assistant, this sounds like something he should discuss with you. Please hold the line.” And then stick them on mute and forget about it.

With the right words and intonation you can get some of them to stay on the line for AGES.

The tendency of modern mass shooters to aim for the head seems to be the result of video game culture. So it’s quite likely that video games saved Trump’s life!