Chomper Higgot

I don’t agree with your myopic views on the Pandemic response and your revisionism that comes with it.

The UK economy is suffering from: Inflation, already out of control before Russia invaded Ukraine. Low productivity, a decades long problem. Low growth, heading into recession, twelve years of mismanagement. Mass poverty, after decades of decline in living standards of ordinary people millions have got to the point where they can’t afford to eat regularly meals. Restricted market access - oops. These are all problems that have been built up over years and decades. Over forty years of neoliberalism and the failed dogma of ‘trickle down economics’ has stripped wealth from the working and middle classes while handing it to the hyper wealthy. Public services stripped out and privatized, the NHS in crisis, the Government promising ‘two weeks to see a Doctor’ (it was 2 days under the last Labour Government). And what is this idiot PM promising? More of the neoliberal ‘trickle down economics’ that have driven millions into poverty.

More revisionism.

Make two lists. 1. All the things that we use daily that didn’t even exist 50 years ago. 2. All the countries Britain no longer gets to plunder.

Give it up already, you had enough chances in the COVID threads. The lockdowns did what they were designed to do, protected health services against collapse while saving lives. Let’s get back on topic.

The Government has a couple of more pressing hurdles to deal with. Very many Tory MPs are not supportive of unfounded tax cuts for the already wealthy, Labour certainly aren’t. The PM does not have strong support across her own MP’s and has gone out of her way to antagonize those that did not support her candidacy. So the first hurdle is will Tory MP’s support a Labour challenge to items in the finance bill? The second hurdle is, the PM is enacting policies which were not in the Tory manifesto at the last election, this opens the door for legitimate challenges in the Lords. It is also reported that Tory MPs have already submitted ‘no confidence’ letters to the 1922 committee. Truss is as big a mess as predicted. Pandering to the ERG and gift to the opposition.

Now let’s get really nerdy. The spacecraft imparted all of its kinetic energy into the asteroid in the time it took the spacecraft to ‘flatten’ as it hit the surface. A velocity of 24,000 km per hour is 6,667 meters per second. And if we assume the spacecraft was 3 meters long then at the moment of collision it imparted all of its energy to the asteroid in (1/6,667) * 3 = 450 micro seconds. Which is the amount of time it takes sound to travel just over half a meter at sea level. Put another way. if you were swimming in one of those 16 Olympic size pools with your favorite Aseannow protagonist and he was more than half a meter away (or I was wisely standing on the pool side) when he shouted ‘get out of the water’, you’d be boiled alive before you heard his warning.

We shouldn’t dismiss the desperate situation (all of his own making) Putin is in. As a Russian citizen, Snowden is presumably eligible for conscription. Putin needs all the dead bodies he can find for his illegal war against Ukraine.

There are two people currently being sought by the US DOJ who claim to be ‘whistle blowers’. In alphabetical order Assange and Snowden. I very much hope to see Assange tried, convicted and locked away for decades. I believe Snowden is a genuine whistle blower acting out of good conscious and should be free from prosecution .…… The question needs to be asked, why when he has so much else on his plate is Putin making this particular announcement now. Perhaps he feels he needs to pass a message to someone.

For the nerds amongst us. The space craft weighed 570kg and immediately before impact was traveling at a velocity of 24,000km/hr. KE=(mass x velocity^2)/2 It therefore had a kinetic energy of 12,700 MJ. To put this in perspective. An Olympic swimming pool contains 2500 cubic meters of water at a standard 25DegC. 12,700 MJ is enough to raise the temperature in 16 Olympic sized swimming pools from 25C to boiling point.

UK inflation was already out of control well before Russia invaded Ukraine.

Perhaps he was there for the free a/c.

Your last suggestion alone would provide the funding fix many of the UK’s problems. It was the basis behind the CCCTB being introduced by the EU (including UK), and was the reason why billionaires and hedgefund managers backed Brexit.

It’s not ambiguous at all, I met a friend here (Thailand) who has been retired here (Thailand) for over 15 years. Your personal notes on what I did over a decade ago confused you. It seems I must update you more often.

It’s not me who introduced the number of rapes into the discussion. Nothing at all in this subject is the subject of laughter.

The third option is provide relief to the people who need (those suffering poverty) and not to the already wealthy. Pay for that with a windfall tax on Oil and Gas companies (who are not going to dig up their oil fields and move to Singapore). Advantage, does not require injecting more money into the economy than is necessary, doesn’t involve massive public borrowing, generates growth from the bottom up, and it can even be justifiably claimed as ‘leveling up’. It’s even the right ‘humanitarian’ thing to do. (Or is that a disadvantage?). Disadvantage, it doesn’t fit with already debunked rightwing dogma. ….. As an aside. Let’s deal with this particular piece of rightwing dogma ‘the people who create jobs’. It’s the economy and society that creates jobs, not some individual or company. If you start a company you won’t employ anyone unless you have customers, you don’t employ people and in doing so create customers. If individuals or companies were job creators, the economic woes of sub Sahara Africa could be solved by opening branches of Starbucks, or Dyson outlets. No, companies need an established level of economy, laws and regulations, transport and utility infrastructure, and educated/skilled employees. All provided by society and government. Jobs and wealth are created by economies and societies. (Oh and market access, remember that?!) Feel free to open up shop in Sub Sahara Africa to prove me wrong.

The law is also often misused, frequently as a tool of control and oppression. I’m not sure you can claim what the ‘people of Arizona’ like/don’t like.

It goes right back to Ronald Regan making a pact with the Christian Right. Illiberalism is on the March. Next up banning same sex marriage and after that contraception. The message is already out: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/clarence-thomas-roe-gay-marriage-contraception-lgbtq Oh, did I mention book burning?: https://lithub.com/a-right-wing-pastor-held-a-literal-book-burning-in-tennessee-last-night/

The party that claims to stand for freedom and liberty makes every effort to take control of women’s bodies.

Over 32,000 rape related pregnancies per year is not rare. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8765248/

I doubt you can find a survey from anywhere on the planet that says a majority believe individuals should not hold dominion over their own bodies

Put a number on that, not a percentage.

Are you sure rape/incest related pregnancies are rare? Do you live in the real world?

There is nothing radical about holding dominion over ones own body.

I’m rather keen on the idea of what I do with my body being a private matter between me and the health professionals I consult with for medical advice, and not being determined by ‘public opinion’. So leave it between the individual and the medical professionals they consult with.