Yeah, but "do your own research"
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They come into the bedroom at 6am to ask if don't ducks have feet.
Yeah but you can get stoves that look just like that. A lot of them are actually induction these days rather than radiant, the main benefit being it doesn't heat the kitchen up to sweltering temperatures.
Nah, I'm just lazy.
I used to work for a company that made these kinds of almost art pieces. You definitely got a certain sort of client.
To be clear you can actually use them to cook food, they do work, but they are definitely more focused on the aesthetics side of things than the functionality. Having said that they do have things like timers and different cooking modes.
They come with instructions on how to clean them and it looks like a hell of a process so I don't think I'd ever want to cook with them.
It wouldn't though because rich people are rich. They can afford to be extravagant, they all moan about it but ultimately just consider it the cost of doing business.
You would actually have to implement laws that directly instructed affordable homes to be constructed, trying to pussyfoot around the issue will just result in it not working.
It's not just that it's everything that he does.
At some point he was asked if he would fire nuclear weapons in the event that we were attacked with nuclear weapons. It was a stupid question, and one that's easy to answer, just say yes. You don't need to think about it, you don't need to analyse the hypothetical situation, just say yes you would, and move on.
But he turned it into this whole thing about whether the ends justify the means. Obviously he has a point, but that news conference wasn't the time or place to have that discussion. The time to have that discussion is after you're already in power, otherwise it's pointless and refusing to give a straight yes or no answer just hands the media another weapon to hit you with. As they can say you're indecisive.
So this new change that will make me furious is that they're adding Gemini to the speakers and changing some names for the voices.
Yeah I'm really mad about that.
The thing already doesn't work anyway so I'm not sure why I would be mad about any change, they can hardly make it any worse.
You won't believe what person just did!
I don't think he should have been ousted but at the same time he gave them material to smear him with.
What concerns me about him is he thinks that having principles is enough, he thinks that if he truly believes in something that's the end of it and no more thinking about the matter is required. Righteously or wrongly, if you want to make an impact in the political world you have to play the political game, and part of that means limiting your exposure to smear campaigns.
I feel like Reform are more likely to split the conservative vote than Jeremy Corbyn is likely to split the Labour vote. Mostly because the left has a very complicated relationship with him, he's truly awful at being a politician.
Meanwhile Farage is a good politician, he's good at playing up to a crowd, he's good at taking advantage of controversy.
Also of course signing up to the party newsletter doesn't mean that you'll vote for them when the time comes. A lot will be doing it to try and send a message to labour. I've signed up to the newsletter but I'm not particularly inclined to actually vote for them. Not unless labour gets substantially worse.
That's definitely what it turned into.
But it was originally designed with good intentions and actually initially it worked too, the problem with our democracy is that it's very old and no one ever updates it. Just look at the absolute mess that is copyright law.
The system was designed when there were loads of little parties, and they all had a fairly equal chance of winning an election. Then all the parties started to consolidate and we ended up with the three-party except it's really a two-party situation that we now find ourselves in. No one intentionally designed things like this it's just how things ended up. And now all the billionaires are taking advantage.
If we ever do change the system, whatever we replace it with, needs a stipulation somewhere that it will not be fit for purpose indefinitely, and it isn't intended to be a forever solution.