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Anyway, fuel duty still frozen, domestic flights cheaper .. what climate emergency eh?!

Celebrate with a glass of reduced duty prosseco?

prosseco

oh proper prosseco or the british crap?

beer is cheaper too

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So who was it again who couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery?

Shortly after Sunak announced the “draught relief” policy, he and Johnson visited Fourpure brewery on London’s “beer mile” in Bermondsey, where they were pictured with 30-litre kegs.

But the government’s own proposals state that the reduction, due to come into force in 2023, would only apply to beer sold in containers of 40 litres, prompting claims that the publicity stunt had turned into a “gaffe”.

Daniel Lowe, who founded Fourpure in 2013 before selling it to Australian food and drink corporation Lion in 2018, said: “It’s an interesting choice [for the photocall]. Whether that was an informed decision, who knows.”

“The pictures I’ve seen are 30-litre kegs and wouldn’t qualify under the draught relief announced today, which misses a huge amount of the craft beer industry.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/27/sunak-and-johnsons-beer-draught-relief-photocall-goes-flat

what climate emergency eh?!

You didn’t listen to Rishi. We’re an optimism-fuelled economy now. And we’re very optimistic that the climate will sort itself out without us needing to do anything.

It's become a bit of a sport in Europe to check politicians' PhD theses for plagiarism. Politicians often get doctorates to appear more respectable, and a not inconsiderable number commit plagiarism, not always as extreme as in this case, but still embarrassing enough.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/27/luxembourg-xavier-bettel-university-thesis-was-mostly-plagiarised

It's making the news here quite a lot... almost certainly will be embarrassing for Bettel but not cause him to resign. That said, news here is quite slow so anything like this will get a lot of attention. An example of how little news there actually is this headline...

"Large-scale drug operation in Gare district and Hollerich"

This is the seizure...

proper prosseco or the british crap?

I'll have you know that Lord Ashcroft makes and sells a very nice drop of Great British fizz thank you very much!

Looks like a good Friday night!

It was just a cheeky edit that made me smile. I didn't think anyone would notice TBH.

fuel duty still frozen, domestic flights cheaper

Last tiny shred of hope that we might be able to do something to ameliorate the worst possible climate outcomes evaporated with these announcements. I’m going to become an apocalypse prepper.

Where are you thinking of location wise?

My back garden, mostly?

I didn’t say I was going to be an effective prepper.

You said you’re gonna be an apocalypse type one, that’s next level shit with religious cult following and actual generators.

Do you mean you’ll become a shelves slightly empty prepper?

Another nail in the coffin for freedom of speech ability to criticise the powers that be... 😔
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-59047633.amp

F*cebook holding co. rebrands to "Meta" in transparent attempt to try to run away from all the negative publicity at the moment...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/28/facebook-name-change-rebrand-meta

he outlined his vision for the metaverse – a digital world built over our own, comprising virtual reality headsets and augmented reality. “We believe the metaverse will be the successor of the mobile internet,”

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he outlined his vision for the metaverse – a digital world built over our own, comprising virtual reality headsets and augmented reality

Could call it "Meta Than Life"

Zuckerberg outlined his vision of the metaverse as a digital world in which users will feel they are with one another and have a “sense of presence” despite being far apart.

Much like our dear own forum, minus the date mining.

Ready Player One vibe

If I could live as Fry in the Futurama Universe I think I’d easily take it to be fair.

The jury rejected his claim that he had not been masturbating in his mother's sports car but had been strumming a miniature guitar.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-59094609

George Horn-by