It's funny to find people who think that the modern world isn't also barbaric. I'm not sure miners in the Congo think modern technology is all that much of a blessing.
Raise your hand if you think it's immoral to keep tribal groups like the people of North Sentinel Island from the blessings of modern technology, comforts, health and medicine, and electricity just so we can "preserve them" as a zoo and museum exhibit for people to observe.
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I had no idea nor could I conceive of grown men dancing on chopsticks, but life is full of surprises.
The reason was cocoa solids. But don't let facts get in the way of a good story I guess.
While you were looking at "lab-grown" meat, the chocolate industry pulled off the ultimate heist. Major companies are quietly funding lab-grown cocoa for 2027, but the truth is, they stopped giving you real chocolate years ago. In 27 countries, Cadbury's "Dairy Milk" isn't legally chocolate. Why? Because the Cocoa Butter—the very soul of chocolate—has been stripped out.
How the Heist Works:
Cocoa butter is expensive. To save money, companies replace it with a blend of six industrial oils. But oil doesn't taste like chocolate, so they add PGPR (polyglycerol polyricinoleate) to keep it from separating and petroleum-derived vanilla to mask the waxy taste. They do this in tiny steps—changing the recipe by 1% every few months—so your tongue never realizes the "real" taste is being erased. In 2026, you aren't eating a treat; you’re eating a cleverly flavored chemical slab.
The Check: Look for "PGPR" on the label. If it’s there, it’s not chocolate.
The Survival: Real chocolate has five ingredients or fewer.
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No. If your food requires transport the transport infrastructure will kill, locally you couldn't produce enough without death. So no, absolutely not and not when you consider 9 billion humans.
if you decided for ethical reasons not to eat any food whose production requires killing a living organism, animal or plant, what would you be able to eat? i think fruit, berries, nuts, seeds, eggs, milk maybe? which grains can be harvested without killing a plant?
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Absolute dicks both these dudes,.first one unclips well before stopping but chooses to push other road users to less safe positions because putting you foot down is uncool? Nope. Learn to use your pedals or just use normal ones. (I've ridden with clipless for 15 years now)
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Normally I wouldn’t criticise what feminist organisations do but in this case they appear to have dropped the idea of being a feminist organisation in favour of vacuous virtue signalling and vague statements about being against “bigotry” and “the far right” - despite that meaning marching alongside some extremely unsavoury groups including:
- Islamists
- Iranian regime supporters
- Transgenderism advocates
- homophobes and misogynists (granted that’s inherent in the above three)
- antisemites
And yes some very naive people who genuinely are against racism but are appallingly misinformed. I do hope *those* people have some time to reflect - rather like I did at the last pride march I attended where I thought “hmmm this is a bit… Nuremberg 👀”
This “protest” wasn’t about any actual tangible threat at all. The actual “far right” in this country is weak and unsupported (thank god), because actual racism is in decline (good).
What we’re seeing is people concerned about incompatible *values* and behaviours between different identity groups, and those concerns are valid. More than valid in fact. Yes some people are over generalising and some are going to be also racist but in the main people are not saying that brown skinned people are incompatible with our society, but that people who don’t share are values and want to impose theirs - are incompatible.
And if organisations that claim to represent people continue to dismiss their concerns and pretend everything is “fine” and anyone objecting is a “far right bigot” then the “far right” may indeed see a resurgence in support.
Marches like these aren’t grass roots opposition either. They are well funded by the (lunatic far left wing) establishment which is also making this critical error.
And at this point I don’t think it’s even an “error”. I think it’s deliberate. It’s a power play to try to assert dominance and to shut people up about intolerable things happening to vulnerable people.
This isn’t just marching alongside people you “disagree with”. It’s literally marching alongside your mortal enemies (and that’s not even hyperbole).
.@UKTogetherAll is an alliance of 500+ organisations, representing 15 million+ people, coming together to build unity against racism & the far-right. This means we won't agree with some here on some topics, but that we know the importance of a united front against hatred & bigotry, especially at the moment.
togetheralliance.org.uk/supp…
For certain well understood tasks computers can make fewer errors than humans. The errors may be different. For some tasks computers are completely useless. Computer controlled precision manufacturing is completely different from hand made artisanal crafts.
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Anyone got a list of all the times the NHS has screwed over staff who knew men were men and the like? Only care about the NHS at this time.
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If a year and a half after I sold my flat the buyer comes looking to 'settle' some 'outstanding' service charges they believe I am liable for what should I do. No agreement was in place for any reapportionment of service charges and the outstanding debt on the account was ...
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cleared before completion. Their lawyers did make a mistake and put they owed me money when I probably should have paid ~£50 (I notified my lawyers of the correct calculations at the time). But everyone signed and the money was paid.
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