Why does anyone actually care about Eurovision in 2026? Or at any time in history, for that matter.

And absolutely nothing will happen. It will all be a show. The US is above the law.

Well, I guess you can keep growing, reading and learning so that you can speak more confidently in future.

But I think of it like this… morality is something you don’t necessarily need to study for. We should aim high for morality and how we live as a species. When people accept what they see as lesser evils to bring ‘order’ to this world, it’s because they have a weakness and the inability to imagine and fight for a just world without humans harming each other.

I’m in the UK and have a friend who has intellectually supported Trump over the years because “there’s nothing better and we need to sort this world out” etc. etc. You know, “he’s a little bit far out there but at least he will shake up the system” type stuff. But he’s also religious and looks up to saints of the past and I told him, why not have those standards, or at least standards where you’ll get behind merciful, kind people who want to share, etc.

So, its your professor’s weakness because he’s too scared to try to make a kind world. He’s unable to manage his fears over ‘foreigners’ and people who might have different viewpoints or interests. He wants to jump straight to attack. Tell him that he’s weak!

In what way do you feel too weak to respond to or tackle it?

I would like to change the article title to IOF Soldier Filmed Shooting Palestinian in Leg amid Completely Normalised, Commonplace West Bank Settler Standoff

Capitalism rewards those who have the most command over capital. And how much command over capital one has is determined by how much command over capital one already has.

Of course there are practical elements to design. That hasn’t changed. We didn’t suddenly discover aerodynamics when cars became blobs toward the 2nd half of the 90s. It’s been a factor in car design for a very long time, so this does not negate my point at all.

My original point was to negate the notion that the claim of things being better in the past was unfounded.

Of course, there are examples of mediums and things being better more recently, such as animated TV series. The quality of today’s far outshines that of 30 years ago, for example.

But some of the most culturally important areas were better previously. Music and film clearly are important elements of culture.

Hmm… I actually can explain why certain things were better in the past compared to today. It comes down to market research, consumerism/saturation of capitalism.

Take modern music, for example. The 60s and 70s was a time where the music industry hadn’t flattened out in any way. The labels and publishers were trying to work out what people responded to. And people were responding to all kinds of stuff. It was just a mishmash of tastes and people liked what stoked their imagination.

And with regards to the artists and musicians, they were mainly just making whatever the hell sounded good and felt good. No one quite had any idea what they were doing.

Almost everything was really original for the above reasons.

You had bands who released albums, containing what you could vaguely call rock but with many other influences, containing three tracks, one of which was 20 mins long and the other two being 10 mins each. And such a band would go on tour selling out stadiums and selling millions of copies of said album.

Of course, there was bad music then. But the sheer proportion of amazing music was insane.

And it was because we hadn’t yet been market researched into oblivion. It was like the wild west; anything goes.

I’ll give another example… car design. Market research has managed to narrow car design down to a very generic form that is not the most beautiful but the least offensive and somewhat pleasant to the most amount of people, to guarantee sales.

Back before such deep market research, designers were artists who would take a risk and design something in their vision. Not everyone would like it. Perhaps the design would be divisive. Ok, some bad ugly cars would come out but there would be some incredible designs. Now, almost every car looks like a generic blob.

Right in time for all the IOF soldiers to go there for treatment.

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I’ll let you in on a secret. The BBC doesn’t need to explicitly be out and out propaganda itself because the whole of “western civilisation” and its ideals are the great propaganda. The BBC is merely a tiny part of an enormous propaganda fever dream that grips the world as it destroys the world.

A loneliness epidemic is literally the most obvious effect of capitalism/consumerism/individualism I would expect. But very few of the ‘male loneliness epidemic’ clan has anything to say about capitalism being the problem.

Not sure anyone asked you yet… tell us your story. Where you living and what’s the sitch?

I’m sorry we couldn’t find a BBC source for you :'(

You know, when I saw the Greens doing well in the polls and Reform ahead like a year ago, I knew it was a matter of time before Reform would scandal themselves out before any general election. Now the British public have to wake up out if this nightmare and stop voting Tory or Labour.

Not that I actually believe in electoral politics at this point…

Because AI was never really meant to be for us. The version for us was just part if the cover.

With the US footing the bill, I’m guessing.