James105

Just curious, what political view(s) does Musk hold that you find "disgusting" and do you even know what Zuckerborgs views are?

5th (or first). Exercise. An underrated but very effective tool in the mental health toolbox.

I've heard this story before and it does not have a happy ending unfortunately. A very good friend of my Gf had the same problem. Card/gambling addiction. She had what could be described by many as a good life, a nice 3 bed detached house in a good location, a nice SUV, a terrific 5 year old daughter in private schooling, a fairly wealthy father of said daughter who provided everything for her. In the end the father of daughter became tired of bailing her out and ceased providing funds (which had already ran into about 3 or 4 million, it was hard to keep track). That didn't stop her and she started to use the readily available loan sharks who would happily cover her gambling debts until they had her house, her car and she is still on the hook for 8,000 per day interest payments on whatever she owes them. So she had to leave Thailand and is now working in Korea and her daughter has been shipped abroad to be with her father. The people this person owes money too are obviously not nice people and you may find her problem becomes your problem even more than it is already. Buying her assets that can be used as collateral against a loan from a potential loan shark may just help her hide the problem as you won't know about it until they turn up to take the car/house away. Gambling addiction is about as real a problem as someone can have and it doesn't just affect the person who has the addiction. Since gambling is illegal here it is going to be difficult to get help for her. Having seen this problem first hand (and not from not just this person) I would suggest securing your assets as much as you can to protect them from being used as collateral. I appreciate how negative this sounds but I am not aware of any good outcomes from someone who has this addiction and it doesn't tend to stop until the bottom of the barrel has been well and truly scraped.

Why would I, he isn't releasing a new platform that is a copy of another, he just bought the original one. I don't get why you keep bringing Musk up when I keep not mentioning him.

At no point did I say that Musk invented Twitter. Twitter briefly suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story until just after the closely fought election, which I am sure was just a coincidence. Anyway, there are other topics about Twitter, this topic is about threadspaceagram or whatever it is called.

At no point did I say that Musk invented Twitter. If you are happy to give Mr Zuckerburg more of your data to engage in what will undoubtably be a safe place to engage with same-minded souls who all receive their exact same talking points from their CNN overlords, then I hope you enjoy your time there.

Ok I'll answer your question then. I have a twitter account but this account doesn't have any of my personal info on it and I barely use it. Hope that helps. My original (sarcastic) point was that copying someone else's idea is hardly innovative and is just a cynical ploy to take advantage of the crying leftists who have become upset that Twitter is now a place where dissenting views are allowed, even if they come from the center or the right of center.

If you can find the part in my post where I mentioned Twitter then I will answer your question. If you cannot please report yourself to the moderator for making an off topic post.

Is there any beginning to Mr Zuckerburgs innovation? What an incredibly original idea and I am surprised no-one has thought of this kind of thing before. It's even going to be free and I am sure I can trust Mr Zuckerburg not to use my personal data to make money from as he is such a philanthropist!

Right. So basically you do not have a solution and just want to criticise those who are proposing a solution, which would be the government. I haven't heard of Labour plans to deal with this so I presume they have the same solution you have, which is just to criticise and hope that somehow the NHS and social services survive when it gets even more out of control under their watch than it is now.

Perhaps you can advise the government how you can tell an asylum seeker is bogus or not when they rock up after having disposed of their passports and identification, lie about where they are from and then abuse the legal aid system with endless appeals if they are denied. So what is your solution for this? I presume you have one?

Germany has a worse historical safety record than Rwanda in the last 100 years, so why is it you believe that Rwanda is less safe than Germany then if you are using wars from decades ago as your reasoning for it not being safe there today? I think I can guess the reason.

The tax payers are already picking up the cheque. "Unless action is taken, Braverman said that the cost of housing asylum seekers will rise to 11 billion pounds a year, up from about 3.6 billion pounds currently." https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-says-cost-deporting-each-asylum-seeker-rwanda-be-169000-pounds-2023-06-26/#:~:text=Unless action is taken%2C Braverman,about 3.6 billion pounds currently.

Comparing a governments efforts to control its borders and stop people drowning in the channel making a dangerous crossing to the Nazis and gas chambers is laughable. Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing is not quite the same thing as gas chambers now is it, unless of course you have the racist opinion that being sent to Rwanda is the equivalent of being sent to a gas chamber due to it being so inferior to the UK.

I said they are travelling to the UK from France. You may consider that to be a "far right" talking point but that does not make it incorrect. It is factually accurate. Another factually correct statement I made is that a significant proportion of illegal immigrants are economic migrants and are not fleeing war at all. They might well be fleeing poverty but that is not a valid claim for asylum and makes them economic migrants. To enter the UK for economic reasons they need to apply for the correct visa just like every other legal migrant to the UK, not jump on a dinghy and enter illegally.

Well Parliament just needs to change the law so that the policy is lawful and make it watertight enough so that even the leftist judges of the appeal court cannot overrule it. I believe the democratically elected parliament is still able to make laws to enact their policies. I was responding to your baseless comment that the policy would not work. Evidence from Australia suggests that this policy does work as they already used similar to solve the problem over there.

They are travelling from France to get to the UK and a significant number are economic migrants. It is not punishing them to send them to Rwanda unless you have the somewhat racist view that Rwanda is inferior to the UK. It will only need a month or two of enacting this policy and once word gets out that making a dangerous crossing is just a more complex route to get to Rwanda then they will not make that dangerous crossing that has already taken so many lives.

When it is actually implemented it will. No illegal immigrants will make the risky journey across the channel if it is just a longer, more expensive, more dangerous and more complex way of getting to Kigali. Of course if you are happy for these people to continue to drown in the channel making this dangerous crossing then you would of course be against measures taken to remove the incentive to make such a dangerous journey.

I thought the way the system worked now is that you are obliged to call people what they prefer to be called out of "politeness" if nothing else. If someone identifies as "not" cis, but happens to be a heterosexual male or female you seem to want to continue to call them cis even if that is not how they "identify"? This is what Elon musk was referring to as the word is used as a slur by trans activists continuing to harass people on Twitter calling them "cis" or "cissy" even after they had been asked to not use that word as that is not how they want to be referred to. Anyway, following your language rules I presume you are okay with this going the other way too? So people referring to trans women as "men", "he" or "mr" is also fine as these are also not slurs, are in the dictionary and trans folk are "free to cover their ears in denial when others use it", nor are they free to dictate to others not to use these terms.

Should you actually wish to take your head out of the sand and see the data you can get it here. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/africa-population/ The predictions are based on historical percentage increases, so unless something fundamentally changes then by 2050 Africa will have added the equivalent of the population of Europe and the USA to its numbers. An impossible number to feed and provide a good quality of life for in a region that has historically suffered from droughts and poverty before climate change became a thing.

It's not just a "population of any size" though is it and I am not sure you appreciate the scale of the increase. That is the equivalent of every single human currently living in the whole of Europe plus the entire population of the USA added to the 1.4 billion already living there. There is a crisis coming, but that would be due to the unsustainable population increase if nothing is done to address it. Considering the impact that each human is said to have on the climate I'm surprised Greta hasn't mentioned it.

The population in Africa currently is 1.4 billion and is expected to increase to 2.5 billion by 2050. Considering the problems that Africa currently has with poverty, adding an extra 1.1 billion people into the mix is going to cause a lot more poverty and drive human migration. So unless climate change is responsible for such a population increase I really don't think that will be the major cause of increased illegal migration.

Sure, but if I walked onto an airplane and discovered the only method of controlling the plane the pilot had was a wireless Logitech gaming controller (rather than the established tried and tested controls) I guarantee you that I am walking straight back off again.

"Fried" is just a term used to describe any kind of chip malfunction and if your controller malfunctions whilst sitting on your sofa then the consequences for you are quite minimal. The controller wasn't the cause of this but it was just a very visible pointer to the overall shoddy and hacky design of the sub. The bigger issue was the hubris of the owner who deemed getting the sub certified to operate at those depths as not important and would just delay getting to launch.

Actually, they have spent millions already getting the very specialised equipment to the search area. Sending them home now isn't going to save much money and they might as well spend the time practicing/testing to see if they could actually retrieve the craft using existing tech which is currently an unanswered question should the craft have been found intact. Besides, if they don't retrieve the craft then maybe some enterprising company will start selling tours in future so that wealthy tourists can gawp at the wreckage of the OceanGate Titan.