Rant

Flipside, no road tax or MOT.

Just had a fairly heated argument with the mother in law about Israel and Gaza. Her stance of Israel being justified for committing genocide and that I'm believing propaganda and what she's following is true that says the Muslims are trying to wipe Israel off the face of the earth despite 34,000 gazans dead. I was so close to shooting at her. I'm going to get it in the neck from my partner when we go up to bed but fuck that noise. I might put up with her crazy when I'm up at hers but I'm not fucking putting up with it in my own house.

I'm fuming. Almost put on some of the videos of dead babies and hospital death pits.

maybe don't shoot at her?
or at least proof read...

No, do shoot at her...

If I might offer an outside view, in the hopes of sparing you some strife: it doesn’t seem like she’s reached her conclusions on the issue with a rational, fact-based thought process. As such, trying to reason her out of that position likely won’t achieve anything except risking frustrating and angering you further. Sucks but that’s the human mind for you.

Perhaps you can tell her firmly that it’s an issue you feel very strongly about and that you don’t want it discussed in your house?

Good damnit

Made the unsolicited suggestion only to try to help you avoid unpleasantness at home with your partner, no condescension intended. I’m definitely one to take an argument to its final conclusion if someone’s spouting nonsense in my home about something that deeply matters to me; and sometimes it’s worth it, other times it’s just a waste of energy that accomplishes nothing.

Understand, but try and make peace for the sake of harmony as the square root of fuck all is the number for getting someone to change their opinion.

Good luck with surviving

Today I went to watch a YouTube video while eating lunch. Wasn't logged in on Google or Chrome and a fresh install so a brand new YouTube instance, no videos showing up on the Home feed for instance. Clicked through to popular, watched one about F1. Now the home screen is a bit of F1, a bit of football, and a bunch of right wing twats. Nigal Farage is boycotting whatever, Oakshott said something, Tate x Hopkins, Charlie Kirk and Candice Owens shorts, etc etc.
It's still a fascist hell hole.

FB and YouTube are such utterly hideous organisations. It's made even more galling by their supposed ethoses. Like arms dealers saying they work in peacekeeping.

Although I guess YouTube want to "give everyone a voice", so it makes sense do give voice to the worst to drive revenue.

I'm holidaying in Dorset, and fancied an end-of-summer walk back from the Sturminster Cheese Festival to our holiday cottage.

Fuck me, the footpaths are singularly the worst paths I've ever had the displeasure of using. Styles totally overgrown with blackthorn, brambles, and stingers; I was spending 5 or so minutes bashing things back and still got cut to shreds.
At one point the path was a literal 8ft wall of brambles, I had to cut through the woods using deer paths.

Do people not walk in Dorset? If I was the first person this year to use some of those paths it wouldn't surprise me. Some of this was meant to be a national walking route.

I hate how the fucking Guardian doesn't indicate what category/region an article relates to

This article is about Victoria Australia, not Victorian children.

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I feel like there’s probably a context clue there with the AI thing ?

Well yes, I thought it was odd/interesting that AI and Victorians were in the same context.

They do it all the time though, there's loads of articles about "Labour" for example which I click on and turn out to be about Australia or Canada or wherever

This is really fucking annoying. I don't know why they have so many Australian stories on the UK homepage (with no indication they are Australian).