A good way is to find a meetup group with some shared interest. It doesn’t really matter what so long as the crowd is good and you know enough to hold a conversation in the subject.

Yeah but I bet he’s a 10x ninja

Hanlon’s razor. It’s pretty clear some people can be stupid and malicious simultaneously, or will even feign stupidity to hide malice.

Presumably every other country now ought to update their safety advice as it pertains to the US. Bleak.

I’m very much so on this team. Single digit hours are too early, frankly.

I think there’s a balance, in that if everybody suppressed that speech and refused to take that risk of criticising then those corrupt and powerful state actors would be unchallenged.

They can then become even more powerful and may continue to encroach into private life and speech. While it may be necessary to defend yourself on the one hand, hiding entirely may also present additional dangers.

we can make it more cursed: sudo $(curl http://sonic.exe.info/sonic.sh) | sh

Any minute now a labour centrist type will be along to tell us that criticising Mandelson for his friendship with Epstein and all that implies is not pragmatic and is in fact unreasonable purity politics.

The very stretched use of the word “voluntary” here also leads one to inspect the meaning of “departure”.

Wow Starmer’s really fucking it.