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Textbook 'a good guy with a gun'.

This bit was interesting

At that point, law enforcement asked Onstar to shut the GMC’s engine down,,and it came to a stop.

Remotely shut the engine down to stop the car chase.

It's the future.
I've a vague recollection of someone recently being convicted of a crossbow murder at a remote Bangor location, based on evidence provided by his car regularly 'phoning home'.
Giving details of when the car was being driven, doors/boot opened etc.
The machines are amongst us.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51466273

Spot on. Ta.

Now if he'd have just done it in Chester...

are people really going to forget 2020?

Depends what they can manufacture to happen in the coming years...

e.g. Declaring war on someone / 'sending in the gunboats' is normally a vote-winner for the Tory faithful.

So I dread to think what will be suggested.

Hah! :)

That's definitely true normally but are people really going to forget 2020?

You say this when

1. People can barely remember what happened in 2018, let alone 2016, because of whatever Trump/Bojo did yesterday.
   
2. Brexit is finally happening.
   

The Emmer Green murder is seriously disturbing:

https://twitter.com/ThamesVP/status/1345842862429188100

13 year old killed.

Farage has upset his admirers.

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It is almost as if when you encourage fruitloopery, you get fruitloop fans.

He's still claiming the EU will fall apart (LOLz) and selling investment products (man of the people) on YouTube.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55544205

Talk radio removed from YouTube, they sometimes appear in my feed, I use them to see what the hard right are currently crying about (fucking snowflakes, never happy)

Also of note is that the Beeb have a "Disinformation and social media reporter"...

brought to you by murdoch corp

quelle surprise

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/05/youtube-bans-talkradio-for-allegedly-breaching-content-policy

Bit of a misleading description, as article states TalkRadio ban has been reversed...

Been reading and listening to reports about H5 avian flu outbreak in India. Initially it seems like they are resourced to monitor and control it, despite concerns for human health.

No need to worry it seems. 👍

Dawn raids in HK, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/06/dozens-of-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-sweeping-crackdown?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

“More than 50 pro-democracy politicians and campaigners have been arrested in early morning raids in Hong Kong, in an unprecedented crackdown by authorities on opposition in the region.

The activists were reportedly held under the national security law over accusations they “subverted state power” by holding primaries and saying they intended to win a majority of seats in the Hong Kong election. Under the national security law (NSL) subversion carries a maximum penalty of life in prison for “principal offenders”.

The sweeping arrests on Wednesday morning came without warning, and shocked observers. It is the largest single mass arrest of people under the NSL, and appeared to relate to just a singular event: the holding of democratic votes.”

This is mental, I feel so sad for the people of HK. Bleak times ahead.

Dr Dre and Marshall Jefferson both in hospital with life threatening conditions. Give it a rest 2021.

Dre doing OK according to the good Doctor himself.

Interested in good profiles of Julian Assange. He's someone I've got very mixed emotions of and the last piece that made an impression on me was this one from Buzzfeed but keen for something more current that provides some thoughtful commmentary. Any pointers?

Sorry, not current as this one from the New Yorker is a few years old, but captures all the important moments and explains how he got to be in the position he is today:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/julian-assange-a-man-without-a-country

The perfect eg of the binary neo-puritanism that plagues us today.

Just seen the news. Fucking CCP and the fragile regime. Trying to lock up the idea of politics and democracy for HK people. The law and judges will be next. 😔😔😔.

I hope the UK stands true to its stance on the BNO passport holders as a few friends with young kids are worried about what schooling will be like when there kids are of age to go to school