Only three, huh? And people say he can’t change.

RIP King, you’re punching the angels now

Same goes if you’re obviously white but have family members who are not.

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If us Star Trek nerds can’t get our facts straight, what hope for humanity?

Measure of a Man is season 2!

I’d start with Strange New Worlds. It’s very classic Trek in terms of its themes and stories, but as it’s still being made it has contemporary audiences in mind. If you like it, I would then go to TNG.

Exactly. I think Labour would do it, more than happily, were it not for the housing crisis. They understandably want to build a lot, quickly, but they need to be convinced that the crisis won’t really be ‘solved’ without medium- long-term thinking, which includes eco-friendly standards.

Yeah, no room for complacency! But that’s why we need to do the difficult things quickly (e.g., building all the pylons we need to link up new green energy developments) and also do things that aren’t likely to be undone (which is why Labour shouldn’t drop the requirement for new homes to have solar panels).

In the UK, the environmental movement has actually won the argument, but I don’t think we’ve fully realised it, yet. Even Conservative voters (if not MPs) want climate action as a high priority.

I’m sceptical, but I think that as long as carbon capture happens alongside shutting down fossil fuels, it’s at least worth a try.

Yeah, you’re right about the footnotes. I read someone the other day saying they felt like Kuang was writing with an imaginary social justice scold hovering over her, and I think that’s about right. I find it odd that someone feels they have to say ‘racism — which is bad, by the way — exists in this society’. We know it’s bad! Even racists don’t like being called racist!

I started reading it yesterday, so I’ll let you know.

Why did you dislike it?

I’m not going to go through this point by point. Some of it I think is probably about right and some not. What I will say is that I don’t think it’s consistent to say people were crying wolf over Trump, who tried to overthrow one election and would have done the same with this one had he lost, and then in the same place to suggest that a Harris win would’ve resulted in the end of democracy based entirely on a loosely defined notion of elitism.

Yeah, if I was in charge I’d build council housing for the rich, too (like the Barbican). Then the money currently going on rent and mortgages could be better invested elsewhere!

sell them for full market value and put any profit into a fund to build more council houses

This is probably the way to go, because then the Tories won’t be able to run on ‘Bring Back Right To Buy’.

My point was that if the man is still ‘armed’, he hasn’t been ‘disarmed’, he just has one less (type of) gun. For example, if I told you that there was a man in my street with two guns, and then added that he’d now been disarmed (forcibly or otherwise), you would assume that he now had zero guns.

The fact that he didn’t call them trash is the salient point here.

I mean, apart from anything else, the word he used, whatever it was applied to, was ‘garbage’.

disarm

If a man had an assault rifle and a handgun, and he put down the assault rifle, would you describe him as ‘unarmed’? If so, I don’t think you can describe removing assault rifles as ‘disarming’ people.

No, he didn’t. Both the context and the grammar make it clear that my interpretation is correct. Even if you interpret it unsumpathetically, the inference that it’s ‘all’ Trump supporters is something you’ve added.

Any Trump supporter pretending to be offended by what Biden didn’t actually say is in any case a massive hypocrite, because Trump built his political career on being offensive. They can’t turn around now and act all offended unless they also repudiate Trump.