The Off Topic Topic

[HVC]

Meta lifting their ban on Trump on their platforms.

Nick Clegg has said it was apparently his decision and is apparently basing it on an assumption that Trump will cease to be Trump. Which seems bold:

Nick Clegg on Trump: "We just do not want — if he is to return to our services — for him to do what he did on January 6, which is to use our services to delegitimize the 2024 election, much as he sought to discredit the 2020 election."

Just when you think the story of the frog and the scorpion is overtold and everyone knows it, you find someone who never heard it before.

[Razgovory]

I did not know that Nick Clegg worked for Facebook.

[Josquius]

To be fair trumpys seem to be Facebooks core target audience these days.

[Tamas]

I don't mind actually. Clearly Trump is fading out of GOP god emperor status and his heir, De Santos or however he is called, seems more dangerous. I don't mind giving Trump a bit of boost to prolong this upcoming battle of titans between him and the crazier loon.

[Sheilbh]

I did not know that Nick Clegg worked for Facebook.

It's slightly mad - he's apparently the second most powerful person in Meta since Sheryl Sandberg and is very, very close to Zuckerberg.

Separately photos of fen skating - which I'd never heard of:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2023/jan/25/there-really-is-nothing-like-this-east-anglias-fen-skaters-in-pictures

I don't know why but the images made me think how similar East Anglia and the Low Countries look:

[Richard Hakluyt]

Not sure if you would know this, having been born after the iniquitous 1974 local government act, but one of the traditional parts of Lincolnshire is called Holland 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts_of_Holland

[Sheilbh]

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We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing "the" labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.

"the French"

More seriously I get the point here but there's a part of me that thinks the problem in our society is that we hide from view groups like "the poor" and don't talk about them enough - so while I get what they're trying to do, I'm not sure this helps

[garbon]

People with poverty, people suffering from poverty?

[Valmy]

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"the French"

More seriously I get the point here but there's a part of me that thinks the problem in our society is that we hide from view groups like "the poor" and don't talk about them enough - so while I get what they're trying to do, I'm not sure this helps

People who possess citizenship of the French Republic? Just rolls off the tongue.

[celedhring]

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We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing "the" labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.

"the French"

More seriously I get the point here but there's a part of me that thinks the problem in our society is that we hide from view groups like "the poor" and don't talk about them enough - so while I get what they're trying to do, I'm not sure this helps

People who possess citizenship of the French Republic? Just rolls off the tongue.

People afflicted by Frenchness?

[Valmy]

Frenched people.

[Sheilbh]

People afflicted by Frenchness?

It's trending in the UK.

It could be about this, or it could just be a day ending in y.

[Habbaku]

People with poverty, people suffering from poverty?

Poverts.

[Syt]

And they say you can't make Segways look cool.

[The Brain]

Only in Kentucky.