My favourite thing about “Beat ‘Em Up” is that in French they adopted the English term for the genre but they say “Beat Them Up” like Ranier Wolfcastle struggling to say “Up and Atom” in The Simpsons.

"Please, my tulips, they're very sick"

Much good stuff in here but this is the heart of it

Fucking hell

“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Has there ever been a better final episode for a show than Star Trek TNG's All Good Things...

I know there are some classics from the 2000s, where plot arcs are resolved, twists made, but All Good Things is a great ending, and one of the best TNG stories on its own terms.

And it's why people like Trump, who can't maintain a standard from one moment to the next because they're stupid, make natural fascists. Everything is reduced solely to it's immediate use, and the inconsistencies in that are stabilised by use of force.

I think one of great missing pieces in public understanding of Fascism, honestly, is how much it's about might makes right, not just in a physical sense, but a rhetorical one. For the Fascist, having the will to make your position the loudest *is* truth. It's why hypocrisy doesn't stick to them.

When the dome is coming down and everyone in the bar runs into the church, and everyone in the church runs into the bar is actually an excellent joke though.

The thing I always think about the movie is that it's a very good example of all the best bits of that era, firing on all cylinders, and doing their best work.

But that era was still really bad and so the movie is mostly too.

You're thinking with your stickers again, Steve.

Met police calling on Anti-Genocide protestors not to protest today are saying they cannot keep the capital safe from any real terrorism because they have to arrest the people sitting peacefully, holding cardboard signs.
#protest #Palestine #genocide #gaza #defendourjuries

Yes, all the same racist hate and incitement is now right in the middle of Sensible Centrist politics *and* MPs and our entire press spent the 2010s screaming hate at right on students, anti-racist activists and the left in general. Could these things all be related? Could they be *the same thing*.

Right, because using Labour's cynicism to avoid doing the right thing is also *extremely cynical politics*.

You're trying to externalise the consequences of your own party's actions on to anyone else who doesn't agree with them.

Sorry, it doesn't work like that.

The problem with this, Steve, is that it's much easier to vote to proscribe a group again in future than it is to un-proscribe a group, because as soon as you do that, nobody can advocate for that group.

These two paths aren't equal. This is obvious if you think without your Lib Dem stickers on.

I suppose what I'm getting at is that, sure, nobody really objects to proscribing dangerous fascists, but anyone with a brain can see that two fringe and not particularly relevant in that moment groups were picked to provide cover for the PA proscription, and you're falling for it.

And had you heard of them before they were cited as the Lib Dem's justification for abstention?

Because far right groups and their operations are an area of interest of mine, and I'd heard of RIM but I'd never heard of MMC until July, and even then couldn't find *much* about them.

We all know this, Steve.

The difference is that you think it was a justified course of action and other people don't.

That's not complicated.

Steve, here's a little experiment, without looking it up can you tell me the names of the fascist organisations that were proscribed?

How do you think you're doing making your case here, Steve?

*proscription. Sigh.

But you realise that other people aren't obliged to believe a party's spin on every issue right?

Like, to me it sounds like the Lib Dems wanted to complain about the prescription, but not actually take any heat from it, because that's what they always do.

Gervais in a room backstage with a bunch of Sheikhs trying to explain why the Office is funny, while they just shake their heads confused and explain it's just not their kind of comedy.

i was kindly surprised that ricky gervais wasn't at the riyadh comedy festival and then i realised he probably just wasn't asked.