In todays news...

[Yorick]

Ooooh. Must bite my tongue

[Cousin Jack]

And breath!

I am no fan of large corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon et all, but they are just greedy bastards trying to achieve a monopoly in their field. It is a big step from nasty big business to controlling the USA although they certainly have far too much clout. Wait a bit and they will die, like the cattle barons, oil barons, railroad barons, etc did before them.

[Screwdriver]

And breath!

I am no fan of large corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon et all, but they are just greedy bastards trying to achieve a monopoly in their field. It is a big step from nasty big business to controlling the USA although they certainly have far too much clout. Wait a bit and they will die, like the cattle barons, oil barons, railroad barons, etc did before them.

IKR but there is so much information out there that people either are not aware of or don't think is relevant. For example, Amazon AWE is MASSIVELY subsidised by DARPA who basically run on their servers. Infrastructure as a service, platform as a service etc. to use the nomenclature. Here's how I translate that: US tax dollars being given to Amazon AWE to provide the state with cloud based surveillance solutions.

Now you can spin that any way you want. Human nature, greedy bastards, capitalist business venture, they're just a client etc. but don't be fooled. Amazon is not making its money by selling tat or books. It is selling you and they are representative of the deep state, following a trajectory towards a surveillance and totalitarian regime similar to that employed by the CCP.

Currently you will discover it is difficult to operate within the "developed world" without a certain minimum number of basic technology solutions. Email, eBank, authentication protocols etc. That is about to change. Soon it will be impossible and I am horrified that people are so casual about the whole thing. Put it this way: what evidence do we have that our political representatives can be trusted?

[Yorick]

I'd like to comment, but don't understand 99% of the conspiracy site that's being posted.

Maybe we should have a separate thread for the US shite that nobody cares about?

[MrLongbeard]

Maybe we should have a separate thread for the US shite that nobody cares about?

What, like Biden leaving a MoA winner on the stage, Cali increasing tax on guns n ammo, New Mexico suspending the 2nd amendment and Liberty Safe Co. bending over for the FBI.

S'all news.

[gremlin]

'In today's U.S. News'...?

Not saying things get derailed in this thread, but if somebody posts a link to the story of a cat stuck up a tree in Wolverhampton by post no. 3 it would have been Hunter Biden who shoved it up there and Trump charging to get it down and Amazon shoving a microchip up its arse on the way to the vet.

[DefTrap]

What, like Biden leaving a MoA winner on the stage, Cali increasing tax on guns n ammo, New Mexico suspending the 2nd amendment and Liberty Safe Co. bending over for the FBI.

S'all news.

It's sort of -News- but there's a decent amount of unsupportable bollocks, moaning and regional specific stuff in there. I think we can assume this thread is primarily for interesting news stories that might spark a bit of debate. Given the demographic on here I can't see that article about California gun tax has much legs to it. But yes, we're crying out for more point-and-laugh Biden content obviously.

[Count Steer]

'In today's U.S. News'...?

Not saying things get derailed in this thread, but if somebody posts a link to the story of a cat stuck up a tree in Wolverhampton by post no. 3 it would have been Hunter Biden who shoved it up there and Trump charging to get it down and Amazon shoving a microchip up its arse on the way to the vet.

All on the orders of the Overfiend, Bill Gates operating from his bio-weapons lab in China? (Aided by his trusty advisor, Wormtongue aka Sadiq Khan).

PS It was the FBI that put the cat in the tree. Fact.

[MingtheMerciless]

'In today's U.S. News'...?

Not saying things get derailed in this thread, but if somebody posts a link to the story of a cat stuck up a tree in Wolverhampton by post no. 3 it would have been Hunter Biden who shoved it up there and Trump charging to get it down and Amazon shoving a microchip up its arse on the way to the vet.

All on the orders of the Overfiend, Bill Gates operating from his bio-weapons lab in China? (Aided by his trusty advisor, Wormtongue aka Sadiq Khan).

PS It was the FBI that put the cat in the tree. Fact.

Not to mention our Lizard Overlords.

[Screwdriver]

OK. Cat stuck up tree. That's "news".

I guess nothing that happens in the USA ever affects us here. Righty ho.

So the Iraq war, Syria, Afghanistan, no effect on the UK. Got it. Nobody this side of the pond uses Amazon, YouTube, Google, FaceBook. We' won't be using some stupid American A.I, Nothing BlackRock or Vanguard do will affect us. The war in Ukraine is a net positive benefit, thanks to the USA we don't need to endure cheap Russian gas from Nordstream II and we didn't even have to pay them to blow it up for us.

The WEF and the WHO definitely only have our best interests at heart. Doesn't matter that these unelected bodies are run by America for their corporate masters. Nothing that America does has any effect on us here. Turn a blind eye, let authoritarianism rule and we can just sit here and laugh at them.

So what if they're acting more like a banana republic, throwing dissenting voices in jail (or murdering them just in case). Former president looks like the most popular candidate in history, meh, chuck him in jail. That's why we call them "Trumped up charges" anyway. Won't affect us here at all.

Everything is just tickerty boo and will just carry on getting better and better just like it is now.

[weeksy]

OK. Cat stuck up tree. That's "news".

I guess nothing that happens in the USA ever affects us here. Righty ho.

So the Iraq war, Syria, Afghanistan, no effect on the UK. Got it. Nobody this side of the pond uses Amazon, YouTube, Google, FaceBook. We' won't be using some stupid American A.I, Nothing BlackRock or Vanguard do will affect us. The war in Ukraine is a net positive benefit, thanks to the USA we don't need to endure cheap Russian gas from Nordstream II and we didn't even have to pay them to blow it up for us.

The WEF and the WHO definitely only have our best interests at heart. Doesn't matter that these unelected bodies are run by America for their corporate masters. Nothing that America does has any effect on us here. Turn a blind eye, let authoritarianism rule and we can just sit here and laugh at them.

So what if they're acting more like a banana republic, throwing dissenting voices in jail (or murdering them just in case). Former president looks like the most popular candidate in history, meh, chuck him in jail. That's why we call them "Trumped up charges" anyway. Won't affect us here at all.

Everything is just tickerty boo and will just carry on getting better and better just like it is now.

So, this is a forum..... people are allowed to agree... people are allowed to disagree...

Just like you are allowed to post your news.... they're equally allowed to tell you that it's not important. That's kinda how it works on a forum, otherwise the whole site would be

"i like bikes..."... "yup."

End of thread, end of forum.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I don't like bikes.

[Cousin Jack]

Ban him!

[Yorick]

Ban him!

Ban everyone. Yeah!!!

[DefTrap]

OK. Cat stuck up tree. That's "news".

I suppose it depends whether you want to
(a) ruin the thread
(b) engage with your fellow human

Sometimes these 'news items' feel like you're being lectured - "you're too stoopit to want to know this but here you are anyway."

But yeah feel free to disagree. Personally I don't really come here for the sky-is-falling-on-our-heads stuff.

[cheb]

Just how difficult is it to scroll on past stuff you don't want to read? Or even to actually use the fabled ignore function?

[JackyJoll]

I don't like bikes.

Common condition among bike owners.

[gremlin]

Just how difficult is it to scroll on past stuff you don't want to read? Or even to actually use the fabled ignore function?

Probably not as easy as working out that the best audience for paranoid-sounding rants isn't a bike forum.

[Yorick]

Just how difficult is it to scroll on past stuff you don't want to read? Or even to actually use the fabled ignore function?

Probably not as easy as working out that the best audience for paranoid-sounding rants isn't a bike forum.

Amen brother Gremmers.

[JamJar]

Just how difficult is it to scroll on past stuff you don't want to read? Or even to actually use the fabled ignore function?

When it is pages and pages of the stuff it actually does become harder to ignore it.