Eurovision likes to make sure we know they're non-political.
In fact, their international competition broadcast around the world is SO non-political, they even let Russia compete, despite Russia's ongoing war and human rights atrocities.
checks earpiece Sorry, I'm just getting this in now, there's a rumour that Russia is, in fact, not competing in Eurovision. Reasons unknown at this time.
A group of people: Hey we've talked about it and done research and consulted with qualified people, and we wanna build a load of co-housing in this area, in a way that'll fit in with the landscape and maintain the heritage-listed buildings here.
Their local council for some reason: no
[1] 'Cause we've let too many[2] people buy a ton of housing and keep it empty to drive up the prices.
I've also seen a news article saying that a golf course may be "called in" to help fix the housing crisis.
Like, fuck golf, but maybe we should require the perfectly good housing being kept empty to boost some shithead's investment portfolio to be used?
I'm at least 9% certain that using existing housing is going to be cheaper, and available faster, than building a new housing development designed by some shitwit who thinks a single access point for hundreds of people is a good idea.
Look I'll even offer a compromise: 10% cumulative tax increase per month on empty housing until it's got someone living in it properly, with decent tenant rights and maintenance.
This is coming down from my starting position of we take the housing and beat you to death for being a parasitoid on society.
Why are there so many fucking predatory businesses?
"Have you gotten into debt with a load of other predators? Transfer it all to us at Total Bastard Co, for peace of mind*"
In cosmic horror stories, which world is more real: the mundane world the character has lived in their entire life up til that point, or the new world discovered beyond the veil?
@eniko I was so disappointed when I saw someone trying out the character creator and the roegadude was huuuuge, and then they switched gender and the max height shrank so much
going through old images i stored and found this classic. for a while i put "most likely to be the next phil fish" in my bio on twitter as a point of pride
Today I've read about a bunch of farmers who probably had H5N1 but refuse to test, cats getting infected by drinking raw milk on farms, and a dolphin dead from it
Honestly not feeling very optimistic about this one. Wish I could trust any of the soothing things governments or media are saying about it but I won't fall into that trap again now I've seen how they behaved during the still ongoing covid pandemic
EDIT: And I should clarify I wasn't going out of my way to see H5N1 news, this is just stuff that has come across my feed organically in the 1 hour I've been awake lmao
One time on twitter I commented on the dancing robots propaganda video they put out a few years back that I found it creepy and concerning and this one guy who had followed me and been pleasantly interacting with me for a year or two completely blew up at me, ranting how I was a joyless luddite who feared and hated progress and fun and then blocked me
Anyway I just saw a post that they're fitting one of the dancing robots with flamethrowers now