I don't know if it's everywhere in Japan, but in my wife's hometown it's traditional at New Years street festival to throw lots of satsumas into the crowd. Everyone scrabbles around for them. They're very popular generally and Japanese get through boxes of them over the New Year hols.

Trump be like Lord Farquaad at this point

Also:

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-official...

You want to talk about "spiraling benefits costs"? Wait until you see the bill for 95% of the population being made redundant forever from corporations by AI and robotics.

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

But it's far from a disaster. We just need to rewire "income tax" to tax corporate income.

That said, we've been known to defend ourselves with a 5ft narwhal tusk when required.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-5087...

We have a problem with knife crime.
The solution is not for everyone to carries knives.
We have a problem with chemical weapon crime (spraying caustic soda or battery acid in people's faces).
The solution is not for everyone to carry chemical weapons.

We defend ourselves with colourful language.

Wow. Cuomo had brain freeze and then replied with a roll against his 'spurious logic' skill... and failed spectacularly.

The numbers tell you everything. Bookies are profitable. Very profitable. They don't make any product to trade for the money. They just bleed the customers. The art is in bleeding them without killing them, so they come back to be bled some more. That's it. That's the business model.

Vampiric.

While the added unemployment would be hard on the employees in the short term, the gambling industry empire has been built on many ruined and lost lives.

Their lobbying goes like, "Let us legally destroy people's lives and we'll cut you in on the profits".

Sounds evil, doesn't it?

Well, the US is only 1/32nd of NATO, and yet we're so over-dependant on them. UK leave NATO? Nah, the US should be "rebalanced" within the alliance, so that their influence is limited to their ~3% slice of the membership. It's just taken Trump to expose that failure mode.

it's entirely possible for two things to be true at the same time in the real world...

That Hamas are terrorists who murdered Israelis and Gazans alike and they need to disarm, disband & be held accountable.
That the Israeli government has committed grevious war crimes and must be held accountable.

It seems speaking truth to misinformation will get you blocked by some. However, I now know the information was received and acknowledged (in a way).

Scottish Water's prices are regulated to increase by "not more than CPI+2% per year on average". This years increase is above that, although within the Determination limit of a cumulative 12.6% increase over the 6 year regulatory period of 2021-27.
Granted, a lot less than private water increases.

I'm no Gen Z but they can do the math the same as me.
£7-£8 for a pint of cider in a boring London pub/bar.
£2.60 for 4 cans at the supermarket.

All my friends are online in VR on a Friday night until dawn on Saturdays. In virtual night clubs, karaoke, playing dancing games... y'know, having fun.

Yeah. But it's not delusional policy. It's deliberate bad policy.

You know how you solve an unaffordable housing cost of living crisis due to high market prices for housing in short supply?

Build lots of houses. Supply meets demand and house prices go down. It's kindergarten grade economics.

Uh, isn't the unprovoked attacking and destroying of a fishing vessel and murdering of the crew in open waters just piracy? Is Trump a pirate now, on top of a felon and (as of yesterdays NYC court ruling) a convicted property fraudster? Is there no limit to his criminality?

Sales rocket of the new Natural Fresh range of... ahem... "toys" 🤫

Over 2.5 million UK residents opposed this authoritarian power grab.