Daf Smith
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My disagreement with this is so hard, it's obscene.
December 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My disagreement with this is so hard, it's obscene.
I learned 3 languages to fluency at school without Duolingo.
It used to be good, but now it's so unmitigatedly bad for actually learning languages that I just use it for the chess course now.
Did their maths course as well, as a former maths teacher to see if it helped. Utter cack.
Textbooks FTW
It used to be good, but now it's so unmitigatedly bad for actually learning languages that I just use it for the chess course now.
Did their maths course as well, as a former maths teacher to see if it helped. Utter cack.
Textbooks FTW
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I learned 3 languages to fluency at school without Duolingo.
It used to be good, but now it's so unmitigatedly bad for actually learning languages that I just use it for the chess course now.
Did their maths course as well, as a former maths teacher to see if it helped. Utter cack.
Textbooks FTW
It used to be good, but now it's so unmitigatedly bad for actually learning languages that I just use it for the chess course now.
Did their maths course as well, as a former maths teacher to see if it helped. Utter cack.
Textbooks FTW
There's also the regionalisation.
Eg, money is invested only when London is a destination.
Also HS2 is Brum to London, but it's classed as "England and Wales". Scotland and NI get money through Barnett, but not Wales, a country excellently connected by rail... to England and not itself.
Eg, money is invested only when London is a destination.
Also HS2 is Brum to London, but it's classed as "England and Wales". Scotland and NI get money through Barnett, but not Wales, a country excellently connected by rail... to England and not itself.
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
There's also the regionalisation.
Eg, money is invested only when London is a destination.
Also HS2 is Brum to London, but it's classed as "England and Wales". Scotland and NI get money through Barnett, but not Wales, a country excellently connected by rail... to England and not itself.
Eg, money is invested only when London is a destination.
Also HS2 is Brum to London, but it's classed as "England and Wales". Scotland and NI get money through Barnett, but not Wales, a country excellently connected by rail... to England and not itself.
Even so, building more track so other private companies can make money off the extra fares doesn't seem like a good deal for the state.
Conversely, I bet if we had a few MPs who part-owned private rail companies, they'd find the money.
Conversely, I bet if we had a few MPs who part-owned private rail companies, they'd find the money.
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Even so, building more track so other private companies can make money off the extra fares doesn't seem like a good deal for the state.
Conversely, I bet if we had a few MPs who part-owned private rail companies, they'd find the money.
Conversely, I bet if we had a few MPs who part-owned private rail companies, they'd find the money.
Is the rail network itself privatised or state owned in the UK?
December 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Is the rail network itself privatised or state owned in the UK?
"No-one remembers any of that..."
"...apart from me, telling you, now, in an interview, presumably multiple years after the event"
I'll take socialism with hope and proper policies over socialism with infighting, boycotts and lack of trust. Thanks but no thanks 💚
"...apart from me, telling you, now, in an interview, presumably multiple years after the event"
I'll take socialism with hope and proper policies over socialism with infighting, boycotts and lack of trust. Thanks but no thanks 💚
December 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"No-one remembers any of that..."
"...apart from me, telling you, now, in an interview, presumably multiple years after the event"
I'll take socialism with hope and proper policies over socialism with infighting, boycotts and lack of trust. Thanks but no thanks 💚
"...apart from me, telling you, now, in an interview, presumably multiple years after the event"
I'll take socialism with hope and proper policies over socialism with infighting, boycotts and lack of trust. Thanks but no thanks 💚
Andrew Lewin's comedy is like his political principles: bin-worthy.
November 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Andrew Lewin's comedy is like his political principles: bin-worthy.
Yeh I thought this too.
If the info is the truth, no need to use this much AI fakery to get it out there.
If the info is the truth, no need to use this much AI fakery to get it out there.
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Yeh I thought this too.
If the info is the truth, no need to use this much AI fakery to get it out there.
If the info is the truth, no need to use this much AI fakery to get it out there.
Fully expect everything here is true, but the AI Anderson Cooper makes it look very sus.
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Fully expect everything here is true, but the AI Anderson Cooper makes it look very sus.
Meanwhile, in reality...
November 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Meanwhile, in reality...
Yeh, leave Wales out of your arguments.
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Yeh, leave Wales out of your arguments.
Wait til you hear about Welsh taxpayers paying £5billion for HS2.
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Wait til you hear about Welsh taxpayers paying £5billion for HS2.
Is the main lie that she is lifting kids out of poverty?
Cos she could have done this last year, but actively campaigned not to.
Cos she could have done this last year, but actively campaigned not to.
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Is the main lie that she is lifting kids out of poverty?
Cos she could have done this last year, but actively campaigned not to.
Cos she could have done this last year, but actively campaigned not to.
Why is he wearing ski goggles?
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Why is he wearing ski goggles?
Hilarious he didn't respond to you on this.
He's clearly too busy attacking the poor and disabled to engage with someone who wants to tax his puppet masters.
He's clearly too busy attacking the poor and disabled to engage with someone who wants to tax his puppet masters.
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Hilarious he didn't respond to you on this.
He's clearly too busy attacking the poor and disabled to engage with someone who wants to tax his puppet masters.
He's clearly too busy attacking the poor and disabled to engage with someone who wants to tax his puppet masters.
Progressive choices that Labour MPs were losing the whip for supporting only a year ago.
Wake up to the reality that you are just Tories in red rosettes.
Wake up to the reality that you are just Tories in red rosettes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Progressive choices that Labour MPs were losing the whip for supporting only a year ago.
Wake up to the reality that you are just Tories in red rosettes.
Wake up to the reality that you are just Tories in red rosettes.
You should send an invoice charging them "4d10 × 10,000 gp".
November 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
You should send an invoice charging them "4d10 × 10,000 gp".
That's funny, cos they definitely did believe that last year.
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
That's funny, cos they definitely did believe that last year.
Literally only because the Greens are polling so well and some of her own MPs want to jump ship.
Without the Greens, she'd never lift the cap.
Without the Greens, she'd never lift the cap.
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Literally only because the Greens are polling so well and some of her own MPs want to jump ship.
Without the Greens, she'd never lift the cap.
Without the Greens, she'd never lift the cap.
Ed Balls is as good an interviewer and debater as he is at searching for himself on social media.
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Ed Balls is as good an interviewer and debater as he is at searching for himself on social media.
I'd like to say great minds think alike, but I'd be overestimating myself.
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I'd like to say great minds think alike, but I'd be overestimating myself.
There's a joke in here about Starmer being a bigger tit, but I'm pretending to be far too high brow to make it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
There's a joke in here about Starmer being a bigger tit, but I'm pretending to be far too high brow to make it.