Stephen McGann

hahaha!

It's a price worth paying...

In a world of pain, there's always time for a little laughter...

Nobody trusts anybody anymore Late-stage capitalism built a low-trust society, and it's an economic disaster

This is very good. Economics focused, but generalises to pretty much everything. A lack of societal trust is very expensive - to the least advantaged most of all.

betterbelieveitbitch!

"Hi - can you summarise the uploaded document in the form of a work presentation for senior management?"

ChatGPT: "Sure. But have you considered a nuclear strike?"

Yeah, that must be it.

(sucks on pipe) Nay, yer not wrong lad...

Don’t mess with measles. #IDSky

hahahahahaha!!

I think what's notable about some of the commentary on the story is its complicity in narrowing the scope to the fine detail of their visa irregularities, when their hugely disproportionate treatment - regardless of the travellers's errors - is what makes the jaw drop. An overton window shift.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

Little surprises me nowadays. But this story still managed to shock me.

Yesterday was a bad day for Skynet... just saying...

‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

Interesting from John Burn-Murdoch - tl;dr: it's not the subjects studied that's the problem, it's the low-growth economy that they're entering afterwards.

It was actually genius!

Well it was the fast train...

Once, for my birthday, my friends got me an unusual, but brilliant, present. It was a trip in the driver's compartment of a commuter train. An insight into the complex things we take for granted.
I imagine spending a birthday seeing policemen do their jobs would be an equally fascinating treat.

It's Him, not him.

Watching the news on the Defendant Formerly Known As a Prince. Beeb, look, I get it. You have to mind your legal back. But if you just keep on repeating "Mountbatten Windsor denies all charges" like a verbal tic, then this news bulletin is going last about three hours...

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It's sobering to think that I've lived a whole life without taking knowledge and inspiration from the spirit of curling.

This pancake deserves full military honours.

...and there are few non-apologies as effective as a foreign domicile's non-apology.

We could stick it on a computer in a mystery landfill, and then run an TV reality competition to find it.

There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.

I'm sure that Tony Mc went to our school...

Easy mistake.