Some of us don't use our phones much, and are in front of a screen all day. Download the windows app, you say? Not on linux.

We need a website to be a real thing. At least blue sky understood that.

They've lived feeding on our rodents and waste. They will have, given their breeding habits, have been plentiful amounts around until neutering brought the population under control in modern times. But they were there. Living by our farms. Eating rats off our city streets.

And probably for the longest time, eating scraps from our table, leftover fish pieces from our fishermen, long before we started to farm.

To think of them as just animals of the desert is a classic modern forgetting that we've been sharing with them for a VERY long time.

The UK Tory government will give money to Tory donors to piss away, in the latest of a long line of bribery, payoffs and bungs.

The most it will probably buy will be a bag of chips, perhaps even with fish.

Oh and huge mansions and yachts to the people who will employ the current UK Tory party members in a years time.

Because people forget The Suicide Squad and the first Shazam! movie were really really good.

I just don't use phone apps. I'm on the net via a desktop PC. Threads does not exist in that sphere.

I'm guessing they fired everyone with half a brain otherwise they might have spotted this.

Let's face it, it's the one which they are mostly talking about when using the term. It features most if you drink branded drinks. And thus can't avoid even if trying (like out and wanting a diet drink in a diner).

Previously research on this has always been "sweeteners" when mostly it means aspartame. Sure, there might be other problems with other sweetners, but research those, and do it separately, not this nonsense science of "sweeteners do this".

I believe it is supposed to be a weight-loss suppressant, some of the low carb books say to avoid it too. So the lack of weight loss when switching to aspartame diet drinks might be clear too, if they've not too scared to publicise it.

Research them all. Document them separately. Maybe this will explain a lot of breast cancer cases, based on the drink being favoured women from a young age onwards. Maybe one of these sweeteners is safe, I'd certainly like to know that....

"Daniel Jackson will be happy" - T'eac

AI is everything (please don't notice the last great hype: Uber, has never made any profit).

It will identify counterfeit product's and negotiate their 50% margin and stick them as a "Featured" product...

It's what it has been doing with the $49 8TB SSD's. As it suppresses reviews, ignores tweets, I assume that amazon is a pro-counterfeit company. Absolutely nothing is trustable with the company on there. I don't even trust them to sell me genuine samsung, kingston or sandisk sd cards anymore, I test every single one of them I receive.

I'd trust ebay over them, and I don't trust ebay at all.

His political leanings go towards the likes of Trump who doesn't live in this reality.

If Trump tells me it's raining, I know it's dry.

Perhaps that might be the standard.

Is that leak even real?

We (the west, US, Europe) have been in a disinformnation war with a country for about eight years and even now people deny it is happening.

It's far more widespread. Local newspapers, national newspapers, local groups, forums across the board, hell, slashdot, they all have them in scale. My local newspaper in a high unemployment midlands UK town reads like the letters page in the Munich Gazette in 1936.

And it might be at such local or niche levels they are so effective. The template of "I just saw a IMMIGRANTLOCALTOCOUNTRY down the park staring at the children" causes such fear and rage from locals that they'd never question that it was just a lie to make them angry.

The first thing we really have to do is acknowledge the scale. This might need to lead to the end of anonymity on the internet, and even at that, these bots identities have been in place for nearly a decade, so that might not help.

Governments have been elected off these, and are still there (UK, for instance), so even some countries will have to be dragged into admitting their weaknesses. Or lose that government. Otherwise we'll be dancing whatever tune Russia wants us to dance for years to come.

Now that is NOT a surprise..

(Buys another CD and DVD)

I guess that's the difference between you and me. You see, I want my chemicals tested by scientists, with double blind testing and control groups. You're fine with speculation about behaviour of organs with these chemicals with how you expect them to react, and I find that the type of nonsense science which has made people think saturated fat is unhealthier than other fats for the last sixty years.

Sure, tell me nutrasweet/aspartame is bad for me, or sucralose, or whatever individual one is, because you've tested THAT chemical. I'll believe that.

But telling me things like "sweet tasting stuff taste bad", and I'm going to say "So you think I'm stupid?". These are all different chemcials and extracts and it's like no different from saying "coffee and bleach are bad for you".