"The Conservative Party has said it would bring back mandatory national service if it wins the general election.
It said 18-year-olds would have a choice of either joining the military full-time, or volunteering one weekend every month carrying out a community service.
The cost is expected to be around £2.5bn per year."
The Tories really haven't got a clue. Last year homelessness among armed forces veterans in England rose by 14%. How about you get them housed first?
Was playing The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on NES for first time and noticed it felt kinda familiar. Then realised what it reminded me of and did some sprite comparisons.
Top. Shatterhand. Developed by Natsume. Published by Jaleco in US, December 1991.
Bottom: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Developed by Chris Gray Enterprises. Published by Jaleco in US, January 1993.
Methinks Jaleco had CGE use Shatterhand as the basis for Young Indy.
Just in case folk need reminding of Eric Clapton's hugely racist rant in 1976 which he later on drink and drugs. An excuse he also used in 1999 when admitting he raped his then wife Pattie Boyd numerous times in the 70s too.
I censored the slurs but you can probably guess what they are.
Ok so for ages I thought my PC just wouldn't boot into it's BIOS. That somehow I'd broken something.
Turns out it was booting just fine... but displaying it to the TV (which wasn't even switched on) which is connected to my PC via HDMI. Which apparently has greater 'boot priority' over either monitor which are connected via DisplayPort.
And from googling, there doesn't seem to be anyway to change this behaviour other than "unplug the TV from the PC" which is a bit annoying.
"A former Metropolitan Police officer has received a minimum jail sentence of more than 13 years after being convicted of 10 counts of rape, including three of raping a child under the age of 13."
Another rapist / child abuser we had in our police force.
"We understand the concerns around Mitchell being cleared to join the Met after an initial report of rape was made in 2017"
So he was a rapist then became a cop then raped some more...
It's weird when Christians like Jim Olsen say "spare the rod, spoil the child when trying to justify corporal punishment of children and claim it's from the Bible.
The actual phrase from the King James Bible, Proverbs, 13:24 it actually states: “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
The rod isn't for beating though. It's for guidance. Like that of a Shepherd. He guides the sheep with the rod. He doesn't hit them with with it.
@Carnivius oh they adore misreading the bible. I'm hardly a fan of the book in general, but if they didn't omit the majority of the New Testament they'd be a lot less shitty.
Particularly weird since...as CHRISTians, they're supposed to be considering that by far more important. There's already a religion if you only want the Torah
@Carnivius These guys are meme stock + trumpers, they've been "investing" in this garbage SPAC for over a year and their best hope was honestly that it failed to materialize. SPACs should be illegal there does not seem to be any valid purpose
"Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by New York's top court, on the basis that he did not receive a fair trial.
The New York Court of Appeals found that prosecutors were allowed to call witnesses whose accusations were not part of the trial.
The ruling said that meant he was tried on past behaviour and not solely on the crimes he was charged with."
@Carnivius The decision is shit but from what I can tell it's a mistrial so he'll be re-tried, and he's being moved to a CA prison because he's still convicted there.
Bad decision as the dissent points out, but symbolic at best in impact. Kind of the opposite of what happened to Cosby in fact.
Please don't #lightitupblue as it supports the awful #autismspeaks that has always seen autism as a 'disease' to be 'cured' and among many, many other issues, in their current '100 Day Kit for Parents' they advise parents of recently diagnosed autistic children to 'grieve for the loss of their non-autistic child' as if we are changelings that killed the 'real' child and replaced them. Please #lightitupred or gold instead
Please don't use their puzzle piece either. We aren't a puzzle and we're not missing a piece. Also their spokesperson William 'Captain Kirk' Shatner has actively bullied many autistic people online and caused huge distress to his targets.
And it's ACCEPTANCE we ask for, not awareness. You can be aware of something and hate it, misunderstand it, abuse it. Acceptance is everything. Thank you.
@Carnivius Barf. I knew she was a bastard but the nazi denialism stuff is really extra. We learned about that shit in high school in the early 00's, it's hardly uncommon knowledge