Ah nice, was just wondering because you usually hear FOIA in US discussions so it sounded weird that the UK would have something with the exact same name

Does the UK have FOI requests?

What video? They have a video of an interview with the victim if I read the article correctly. And not from 27 years ago.

As for why just now:

She told police she had had nightmares about being pregnant and said she kept quiet about the incident for years as she watched Brand becoming “more and more famous”.

The woman said a 2023 Dispatches documentary about allegations of sexual misconduct by Brand “triggered” her to go to police.

She probably felt like she could never win in court and I can’t say I blame her. It’s pretty hard to prove rape without a rape kit or video or something.

Much as the man has always seemed like an egocentric piece of shit, these things still need proving.

I thought it was a gta style stylized loading screen image for one

Who did he arrest? Does he carry handcuffs on him now?

Yes, but under libertarianism that would all be legal. So I’m not sure life without laws would be all that much better than life with laws. Would give even more power to the elites.

Okay, can YOU name a single large scale communist country that did away with the vanguard?

Depends on what you mean by AI. No, I don’t think LLMs will ever be sentient. I also just know that under human leadership it’s impossible for true equality to exist. Those in power will always want more.

Are you stalking me now?

No, I have no examples of a successful transition from to communism because it can’t really happen at scale with humans in charge. The “vanguard” will never relinquish control. Why would they? Someone else would take the role anyway.

Maybe one day we’ll have real AGI to handle it.

Ah I always thought welfare queen just meant lazy and living off it, rather than rich and claiming it.

The law, incidentally, is also what makes it illegal for said capitalists to kill you for example. Why do you think they always want their industries deregulated, E.g when it comes to safety regulations.

Doesn’t get much better under communism either since party elites are allowed to do anything they want and enrich themselves in the process.

I’d argue they’re welfare fraudsters rather than welfare queens. They’ve got tons of money, most of the tech industry is connected to Israeli engineering. They’re just also constantly getting even more money so they don’t need to spend as much of their own money. Always best to waste someone else’s money.

That doesn’t get rid of the filing process, only simplifies it. IRS can’t know all the details of your finances. The 0 interest loan only goes that way if you overpaid. Some people underpay so IRS gave them a loan instead. Etc. Flat taxes are stupid too, rich people should pay more.

I don’t disagree on it being overly complex but you can’t get rid of the whole thing altogether. EVERY country has some sort of equivalent.

Just what organ do you produce milk with exactly?

We’ve got a butcher’s shop in my country that doubles as a restaurant and all the meat comes from their own farm not too far from the city. Best meat I’ve had.

The US has like 300x more population and a huge thing for beef in particular. Bound to have tons of places like that if you know where to look, or so I’d hope.

From a global warming perspective, I’m pretty sure fiber is actually the best because it requires less power than any sort of radio, particularly satellite (starlink or whatever). For wired alternatives, you have copper which is a very useful and expensive metal, which would be put to better use elsewhere. It’s great for transmitting electricity and heat, just not as great for data.

Fiber optics are as close to magic as we can get in data transmission. There are very few downsides.

Plus the data will be collected anyway. The guys running all the services you connect to have their own fiber. AWS and the like roll out their own intercontinental fiber even. The only question is whether American citizens would be entitled to high quality Internet service that they already paid for over 20 years ago or whether it’s time to forget all that and settle for less.

You know you can just unlimit your bike? Right?

One reason is that unlimited speed roads and also racetracks exist and cars generally require much more driver certification than bicycles which anyone with a pulse is allowed to ride in a lot of places. I know I did over 50 km/h a couple of times as a teenager and pulled all kinds of stupid shit because it’s not like they can take your cycling license away lol

Orrrrr exercise is a form of therapy for a lot of people?