If you’re the British Government you do your best to get onto the tram and hit the accelerator as hard as you can.

Wait, you’re supposed to mention hobbies?

I always just say “Hi, I’m {name}, I’m a {jobTitle} I’ve been working here {numberOfYears} years” and then pass it on.

They might! Animals don’t always value intelligence, they value other things like “Who is my dad?”

They may end up having to, because the landlord will only take ‘verified renters’. So unless you’re the only one making a bid, you will never get the property.

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Again, is it empty because it’s just sitting there, fully habitable and just accruing value, or is it empty because it’s under renovation, or in-between purchases so someone up the chain is buying and the house is sitting vacant while it’s being sold, but not for long enough for anyone else to be living there? Or currently sitting in legal limbo where a large number of people inherit a house and can’t all agree to sell it? I don’t know about the US but I know Malta has that problem where there needs to be consensus among all members of the estate before a property can be sold, so it sits empty, potentially for years.

Why should someone get to choose exactly where they want to live when they have nowhere to live currently? Not even the Soviet Union gave you that option. You were given an apartment, but you didn’t get to choose where it was, you got an apartment where there was one available and where your job was. In the case of the unemployed, you technically also got an apartment, but that was because you couldn’t legally be unemployed and were forced to work regardless.

So it’s not a ‘liberal’ thing to forcibly move people to where there’s housing, it’s actually a Communist thing.

Is that more houses that are unoccupied in the long-term or just unoccupied in general?

You’d also need to forcibly move the homeless population away from areas that have lots of homeless but no homes, to places with lots of homes but relatively few homeless. That means depopulating Los Angeles of homeless and instead moving them to… Maine, or Vermont, or Alaska, where there are lots of homes but nobody living in them.

At first I read that as FFMPreg…

It depends on what your museum is trying to convey. If it’s moments of gaming history and games and consoles of significance, I’d go with:

For the earliest video games, I’d show the Tennis for Two on the DuMont Lab Ocilloscope, released in 1958.

You should also include the life of Warren Robinett, because he was the first ever game programmer to receive in-game credit for a game he made, because Atari never gave their programmers credit, but he snuck one in as an easter egg. He then went on to found the Learning Company which made all those Reader Rabbit games.

For the Crash of 1983, you have to include ET for the Atari 2600 as the posterboy, but “Pitfall!” should also be included. Pitfall was a good game, but it was the breakout hit of Activision and therefore proof that third-party video games were viable, leading to the glut of video games which, in combination with ET being such a colossal failure, caused the crash.

For the resurgence after the crash, the Nintendo Entertainment System, but specifically the one that came with the little robot to help you play games. It’s essential that you convey that Nintendo intended to sell it as a toy rather than a games console because the games market in the US had completely died in the crash, but the toy market was very much alive.

Ironic that a guy who facilitates large amounts of piracy is complaining about violating license agreements.

If only they could have that response when the TERFs come knocking. When normal people want something good they’re like “lol no get fucked losers” but when JK Rowling comes along they’re like “Of course mistress anything you want do you want a viewing box at the gas chambers?”

You say that, but… Iraq was a dictatorship, and they weren’t all that efficient at anything other than killing Kurds.

Has there ever been a UBI study that lasted the person’s entire life?

You do need to be careful about what people spend that money on. Soooo many people just funnelled their covid stimulus into cryptocurrency or NFTs or Gamestop stock in the vague hope they’ll get rich, only to lose everything.

…That’s worse, gimme a country where everyone wipes with toilet paper, rather than a country where roughly half the population are walking around with shit in their trousers.

That’s because 90% of cryptocurrency marketing consists of “THINK OF THE GAAAAAAINS YOU CAN MAKE!” instead of “You can use this to buy things without government censorship”.

The entire crypto industry has based itself around being a speculative asset, not a currency.

…The genocide didn’t start in 2023, it’s been an ongoing project for decades.

Israel is unpopular, but Israel is not the end-all be-all of British politics.

According to YouGov (admittedly from 2024 but the Gaza War had already kicked off by then), the top 3 issues people vote on are…

For Labour Voters:

• Cost of Living
• Health
• The Economy

When asked what the single most important thing is, the most said Cost of Living

For Conservative Voters:

• Immigration
• The Economy
• Cost of Living

When asked what the most important thing is, the most said Immigration

For Reform Voters:

• Immigration
• Cost of Living
• The Economy

When asked what the most important thing is, the most said Immigration.

For the Lib Dems:

• Health
• Cost of Living
• The Economy

When asked what the most important thing is, the most said Health.

There’s nothing on the Green Party because they’re so irrelevant nobody even counts them.

Of the entire population surveyed, the total percentage of people that considered Gaza to be their highest priority was 2%, and of those 2%, the most were in the 18-24 age bracket at 14%.

Admittedly I may be reading that data wrong, and it is from 2024, but this is more current, and on that list, Israel vs Palestine isn’t even counted because it’s so low in priority. While yes, Israel is unpopular, in the grand scheme of things and the issues facing the UK right now, nobody gives a shit about Gaza.