@philpem How's the pop-rocks ice cream?

@jockr Yeah, homegrown AI is so much more differently exploitative.

@philpem How are they still £1.60? Guess cheap offcuts and gristle are inflation-resistant like that.

@Lazarou There'll always be some group to other out of existence, they'd never let their lowbrow purity stop at mere melanin content. Probably assumes more than half the country is insufficiently "English" enough for him, wonder how the Scots and Welsh feel about it.

@Lazarou Don't sound too hopeful about it, Ars.

@Lazarou Yeah, that was pretty obvious to anyone in the community that it was specifically targeting a subgroup within a subgroup that tends to be a lot more out there overall. Just surprised it took this long to get targeted, we've arrived as a minority!

@philpem If true, sure.

@Lazarou Well, it is when you're selling bits of the war machine to the genociders and would prefer if people didn't react to your complicity in war crimes with protest.

@YKantRachelRead It's what happens when business corpospeak is used for fascism, elides the truth behind fancy words that say what they want it to mean, not what it actually is or does.

@Lazarou Sounds like embarrassment chased them out.

@Lazarou Not sure that's possible but sometimes you see someone as bad as you and go "That one's making us look bad"

@glyph Guess every so often we need a reminder about the dangers of radioactivity, this guy might be it.

@Lazarou Never can trust Starfleet's top brass.

@glyph Gives a her a little wiggle room that a full commitment to the far-right would otherwise restrict, whole deal is playing to whoever pays best and being centrist gives you a high perch on which to disdain both the left and right but more usually the left.

@ReggieHere Not while they still see the value in the commonwealth and faded glories of the empire still hold water.

@glyph So a centrist that appeases the right by having pretty rightist views?

@Lazarou Probably would need to run longer than a half-hour but it's a good first step.

@Lazarou I'm also considering the pure waste in it, showy yes but not impressive... more just a psychological evaluation turned into a promo reel with a celebrity cameo.

@Lazarou Don't care for that too much. So many issues, so many problems.