Failing that, stroke something else.

The UK mostly doesn't do voter suppression. However, they did for the Referendum. Basically, anyone who might not be racist was not permitted to vote.

Even then, 48% still insisted on staying in the EU.

One of the reasons the UK doesn't do voter suppression the way the US does is because (until very recently) the House of Lords had a lot of people in it who owed no favours at all to the political elite but did have a huge responsibility to making sure that things functioned in the long term. This has since been corrupted, so the HoL is no longer anything like as independent and politically neutral as it once was. Rather, the two main parties have stuffed it full of sycophants, which makes it useless. Which, of course, was the intended effect.

Because those in the HoL were partly hereditary (and therefore not under anyone's thumb and impossible to manipulate) and partly chosen on actual merit (they'd done stuff that was actually impressive and good for the country), the HoL were the true guardians of the Constitution and the nation. The House of Commons has always been corrupt and degenerate, so a parallel system that politicians couldn't control meant their worst excesses would always be curbed. The HoL has defended the common person FAR FAR more often than anyone in the Commons ever has.

This didn't make the HoL perfect, or even advisable to retain in its historic form, but it made it immune to the corruption that we were seeing in the rest of the system. What we needed was a replacement system that retained that immunity and improved on it.

Although there is a right join, no far right join has ever been defined and there's no signs that it would in fact be possible.

Go ask ChatGPT or Claude a question no one has ever written down. How many hamsters would it take to chew through Africa like a locust swarm? If London Bridge were built out of paper, where would it first structurally fail? The LLM will probably be able to either answer correctly or take a damn good shot at it. This is evidence that LLMs can at least approach engineering problems. Same for asking them for a circuit layout for basic arbitrary tasks, as long as the answer is within context window.

Am I supposed to see the word "risk" and ask the government to come save me? Give me liberty or give me death.

Yeeees and no. It matters in terms of loans he can get from banks. A trillionaire gets an awful lot better deal than anyone else.

So although he cannot liquidate a trillion dollars, there's a decent chance he can borrow at exceptionally low interest rates enough to do pretty much whatever he wants because he has the moniker.

It's not hard to be morally superior to a childish self-righteous socipoath.

He's not bright, he's not clever, he IS abusive, and he is exceptionally rich. However, only an idiot equates "rich" with "better".

I would say more than half of Slashdot can match or exceed his intelligence. And that's despite the fact that Slashdot has attracted pet rocks as users in recent years. Actually, truth be told, it's because of that. Back in the younger days of Slashdot, I'd say 95% of the regulars were smarter than Musk.

All Musk has is money. And I can understand you envying that. But here's the thing. Smart people don't talk their company's value down. Smart people invest their money. Musk throws it around, such as buying Twitter and destroying the userbase.

Musk is not your friend.

“The Chinese,” bellowed a drunken Australian, “Chinese bloody invented nerve-splicing. Give me the mainland for a nerve job any day. Fix you right, mate”

When I was in training to be a medic (late 1980s) at a USAF hospital that also treated veterans, I asked a doc what he thought of socialized medicine.

"Look around you. That's what this is."

Complaining only about Chinese trolls is some combination of blind and hypocritical. There are troll farms in every direction, certainly here on Slashdot where non-leftist opinions are down voted by sock puppets.

Teach girls marriage is slavery. Teach boys approaching girls is harassment. Subsidize divorce. Take away mens support networks. Tell women if they're not working something is wrong with them. Tilt college entrance and careers heavily toward the graphic that only wants to date up. Give all the wealth to the upper, upper class. Make housing expensive. Make health care prohibitive.

Why are birth rates collapsing? Must be smart phones.

Hmm. Just from my own bullshit experience, if you find yourself in an empty room, you probably look to the right and then, naturally, you're moving counterclockwise.

Een Soviet Roosha windows throw 1-in-10 peepols out, to land on a bunch of boolits 9 stories below.

While having a haart attack-ack-ack-ack.

And drinking a delightful cup of polonium tea.

Just make it so folks can purchase online gift cards and then print up their own physical version to toss in sock or stocking or something.