In the UK we call it a dead cat strategy.

There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don’t mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout, ‘Jeez, mate, there’s a dead cat on the table!’ In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat – the thing you want them to talk about – and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

Eh?

Well, yes. You find a sharp tooth that’s as long as someone’s finger you’re going to make up some kind of creature for it to have come from.

If they did put in fake candidates then this is massive electoral fraud and there needs to be crippling fines and jail time for their leadership.

On a side note, why the hell do we have to have ID to vote, but to stand you clearly don’t need to prove you even exist with ID?

Ohh I thought donut was the American spelling of doughnut.

And socially progressive parties got 56% of the vote. But that’s split between about 4 parties.

with federal authorities’ obligation to enforce the supervised prison release plan which he accepted.

So does this mean he previously wavered his right to free speech when it comes to stuff related to this?

What’s that got to do with the price of fish?

Regional

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bants

Bullies often don’t realise what they’re doing is bullying. It was just a bit of bants, you shouldn’t be so sensitive about it.

Ok. What’s your point? Did I argue that nuclear was unsafe?

Just because it’s safe doesn’t mean it’s the best we have right now.

• It’s massively expensive to set up
• It’s massively expensive to decommission at end of life
• Almost half of the fuel you need to run them comes from a country dangerously close to Russia. (This one is slightly less of a thing now that Russia has bogged itself down in Ukraine)
• It takes a long time to set up.
• It has an image problem.

A combination of solar, wind, wave, tidal, more traditional hydro and geothermal (most of the cost with this is digging the holes. We’ve got a lot of deep old mines that can be repurposed) can easily be built to over capacity and or alongside adequate storage is the best solution in the here and now.

Climate doomerism is the new climate change denial.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q5D0t6ejcGE

No, British are rectangular pins. Thinking on it I think I may have seen them in specialist use for theatre lighting.

So I take it back, they’ve chosen a bit of an obscure plug. That or it really is 👽👽👽👾

Good to know that aliens use the same standardized American outlets and plugs.

It’s very lucky they don’t use European or British of the other dozen or so types of plug that exist globally.