There really should be some laws around how much funding parties can accept as donations and it should be zero from non citizens. Why is it ok for non voters to have any influence over elections and policies?

I used to be really keen on Teslas but a combination of Elon and stories of poor quality and after sales support have killed the brand for me.

Eventually, Koru was towed away without her masts, which were later assembled.

It’s bonkers that this was an option but they still intended to dismantle the bridge instead.

Rwanda are probably open to discussions about this as they’re not receiving them from the UK now.

I think that in this context it means that they acknowledge that they are not the ones who decide whether it is or isn’t genocide but in their opinion it does meet the necessary criteria.

President Zelenskyy could have ended the war many months ago if he’d just agreed to all of Putin’s demands. Who knew?

wherever possible

That seems like a massive loophole to me.

I imagine that trying to avoid military service is illegal and that he carelessly told people why he was eating a lot.

I always assumed that it means that if you talk to them and don’t mention the thing that you might rely on later then it could harm your defence but if you just say that you need to speak to a lawyer and say nothing else then that can’t harm your defence.

I’m not a lawyer though.

I ordered a laptop the other week. It was a rush job because the previous one was unusable so I selected a model that had next day delivery.

I got an email at about 8.30pm that day saying that they’d dispatched it early! They’d have struggled to have got it to me next day if you’d dispatched it any later.

I think that most western politicians probably are privately but they can’t say it out loud because of politics.

Sorry, I guess that I needed a “/s” judging by the downvotes.

I was referring to how anti-vaccers all “do their own research” which generally involves no actual research at all.

They’re not going to stop people doing their own research into infectious diseases and vaccines though so it’ll be fine.

I think that you need to reread the comment that you replied to because you got the wrong end of the stick on that one.

They were talking about barring kids and vulnerable people from accessing the internet so that the bad guys can’t get to them.

No racism involved at all.

She’s an amazing woman. It must be so hard to go through this in private let alone with all this news coverage.

Some people expect prices to go down when inflation is “fixed” but that doesn’t happen.

It didn’t take long but they have fixed that now. You can’t do a dot as you have to draw a circle around the dot they have.

I don’t get that mindset. Why is it ok to shoot through people to get to the bad guys?

If the police did that when criminals took hostages it wouldn’t be acceptable so why is it acceptable for Israel?

They are responsible for their own votes but if the politicians aren’t able to sell their ideas then the blame is also on them.

I blame Brexit on those that voted leave but I also blame the remain campaign for sleepwalking into the Brexit referendum and not doing enough to counter the leave campaign’s lies.

We would definitely pronounce our as “are” in some cases., usually when referring to a person. “Our kid” or “Our Jack” would have been pronounced “are”.