Its probably that its only just coming to being believed, the extent to which we’ve been conned, to be conned beyond comprehension if the digital matrix comes in…fwiw its worth its even more fkcd up now, they just got more wily at massaging the narratives.
To think the likely people that did that to Turing, some were probably also gay.
Being gay now is not a big deal. All the heavy lifting, with regards to acceptance, was done several decades ago. Transgender, same, women’s right to vote, same, women’s rights towards equality, light years ahead, racial equality for voting, where to live, where to work, where to go to school, where to eat, etc, light years ahead.
What we are seeing today is the lingering effects from inequality. The people whining today don’t understand what was built on the backs of people that pioneered the struggle.
I sound like a WW2 veteran complaining about my generation. It is the hard truth though.
I don’t think it’s fair on the hopeless romantic, Charles, tbh. He went after the older woman anyway, so i would not read anything into that, other than yes, historically high society was fucked up and lots of such things were covered up.
It looks like one of those “let’s laugh at the village idiot” things, except that is 90% of political programming these days. The latest rantings of Shit-for-brains from Buffoonville…
I actually like satire, but the problem for modern satirists is that the public figures that they are supposed to be lampooning are beyond parody.
Yeah. I once had to remind people of who and what he is, after they’d met him at certain events and spoke of his “charm”.
“Barton shows a substantial amount of insight into his behaviour and has also shown contrition - learning from this experience and “the damage words can do””
6 months suspended and 200 hours of community service.
Question is, whether he, or anyone else, would be put off re-offending. I expect Elon Musk will come out with something crass. At least with the community service, there is no chance of him paying that off.
The below is interesting for me - albeit superficially. The sinical part of my mind (maybe 90%..) immediately wondered about how the marketing strategy fits in with the projected sales, how they are targeting their future customers and ultimately what their development pipeline is. Is the key market the US or China? What are they banking on in terms of electric or combustion…