Glad to hear it!

Yes it is a product of those things, if you’re thinking about it then please see someone and work out a path to better mental health.

We only get one life, it would be a tragedy to waste it!

Two people close to me have gone from “normal” to suicidal and back again in the last 6 years, for different reasons and at different times. Thankfully they are both stable and enjoying their lives now.

If you’ve not witnessed anything like that, count yourself lucky. I remember talking to people about suicide when I was younger and couldn’t understand how anyone could get to that place until I saw someone I know really well go through a complete mental breakdown.

It does have a similar vibe to when Liz Truzz killed the Queen

Didn’t he send another cardinal to lecture Vance?

Exactly.

There are lots of people in this thread who aren’t familiar enough with how the UK system works (understandably, because it’s not a UK community). A lot of those people have jumped to the wrong conclusion.

It makes me wonder how often I get the wrong end of the stick when it comes to US/international politics etc.

Yeah it’s going to be a legal mess for a while and I do sympathise with people who are affected. Something for parliament(s) to sort out.

The courts in the UK are not politicised like in the US.

“Judges say the “concept of sex is binary” while cautioning that the landmark ruling should not be seen as victory of one side over another”

They interpret the law as it’s written (I.e. about sex, not gender), so to change this you would need a new law. It’s not supposed to be a moral judgement.

I hope it works out as you say; however, I can’t help but think the situation is much worse than that and it will be difficult to recover normality even if the dems win the midterms and resist trump for the rest of his term.

From an outside perspective it seems like people knew what trump was like in the first term, had some time to reflect on it, and then decided they wanted another hit. The kind of propaganda he used to win is incredibly corrosive but apparently it works, and certain oligarchs have thrown their weight behind it to maintain their power. AI and deregulated social media is going to make it easier for bad actors (both foreign and within your own country) to pump it out at scale, using more sophisticated and targeted methods. I can’t see regulators controlling it given what your political culture is like, and how powerful the tech lobby is.

If your country is so fractious that you get one term for each party repeatedly, the republicans will win, because it’s so much quicker to break things than it is to fix them.

In Europe we need alternatives to American tech and weapons systems in case this trend away from democratic norms and rules based international order continues.

Edit: I realise I’ve assumed you are american here, apologies if not.

I think most of us are coming to the realisation that America pulling its head out of its arse is not going to happen, and this is a permanent change.

I think the short supply is due to bird flu, so not really

50% tariffs on imported shoe polish

The sad thing is, this would be a completely hysterical thing to say like 10 years ago but now it’s a serious consideration.

Electing this dickhead once is a blip but doing it twice in a row indicates that the american voters actually want this, which is deeply troubling for Europeans (and the rest of the world).

They don’t even have to leave NATO formally, just undermine confidence in article 5 enough that it’s no longer a deterrent.

I had no idea, thanks!

For other unenlightened lemmings:

4X is apparently an abbreviation of “Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X

It’s also possible I’m wrong, I never played the games before CIV6 (or not enough to learn them), but on Fdroid it’s described as an “Open source 4X civilization-building game” which I assumed means it’s a CIV4 clone.

Either way, it’s a good game - one of the best open source mobile games for sure.

Isn’t it based on CIV4?