I’m expecting a stock market crash when the bubble bursts. It’s still very much a product in development looking for a stable marketplace. Silicon Valley hype trains follow the same pattern. Bubble inflates, the smart ones extract as much cash out of it as possible then bail before it bursts. Repeat

I don’t drink tea so makes no difference to me.

It’s the whole America is the greatest nation ever thing they’ve got going on. They don’t appear to study world history properly until college and only if the courses demand it.

Flapjacks predate America.

They date back to the 17th century or earlier. Way before America existed.

The buy to let market needs to end, housing stock snapped by Government and returned to social housing. Doable if somewhat politically painful given people are still hooked on the idea owning property makes you wealthy.

I think that's a bit of a western thing, believing history is just that history. Not a breathing and living entity that tends to repeat itself time and again because a majority of humans never learn as they are comfortable and don't think they'll be impacted by anything.

She clearly loves the attention her diatribes bring, if she put that much energy into writing books she might have avoided falling into the internet rabbit holes she fell into. Emma Watson was nice the only time I met her in Oxford. Didn't say a word to her, she looked relieved by that and smiled.

I do have a passport for ID purposes, but it's an expensive process and no guarantee you'll get one. Not something many can afford when prices on everything keeps going up.

I tend to put an audiobook on then get into that and before I know it, the time is 5am. I'm currently listening to Sleep Token, and reading about Grunya Yefimovna Sukhareva.

Looks like another way for meta to gather data while trying to make it look cool so people don’t ask questions. Other than to Meta’s AI to fill the rage machine.

I tend to overbuy socks. As I tend to lose them, get new socks and “oh there’s the old socks”.

“My free speech has been denied by this well. Down with wells and that sort of thing”.

Either he’s dead or had a stroke etc and they don’t know what to do. Or it’s a distraction. That’s as far as I’m going with it. He really isn’t worth the time or energy.