A little thing you can do to help businesses struggling due to the quarantine
You could pay now for a session with a business such as a hairdresser, gym or restaurant that has been forced to shut during the quarantine, the voucher to be redeemed whenever the establishment...
View ArticleSamizdata half-forgotten sorta-quote of the day
If there is a disaster, would you like people for hundreds of miles around to drop everything and make herculean efforts to get those worst affected exactly the sort of help they need most – even when...
View ArticleIt lets us pretend that it is us talking
Samizdata no longer needs me. Soon it will no longer need you. I took the text from the sidebar: The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect...
View ArticleEarth Day thought for 2020
Just imagine the current Wuhan Coronavirus lockdown, not for a month or two, but forever, with government telling you when you can go out, when you can travel, who can work and what jobs are...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
So you don’t read people you disagree with? Do you at least read the CliffsNotes version to know if you actually disagree with them? To be fair, not uncommon, which is why my party trick of attributing...
View ArticleCovid-positive sex-mad Nazis and the Terminal Markets Act 1973
OK, the inclusion of the words “sex-mad” in that title was merely a desperate scheme1 to try and get you to read an article on a case brought against the UK by the European Commission in the European...
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The Great Unfollowing…
A man in Minneapolis was asphyxiated by a policeman, all the while with bystanders pleading with said cop to let the man breathe. Yes, I know the victim had past convictions and was being arrested as a...
View ArticleA contribution to debate
The Right Wing Dictionary – Here’s what the words and phrases conservatives use REALLY mean. They’re not sending their best. However I must admit that “arse-badger” is a nifty little insult which I...
View ArticleThe political purity spiral as experienced by the Instagram knitting community
I cannot knit and I am not on Instagram, but as someone who sews and is into politics, I cannot think how I came to miss this article from Gavin Haynes when it came out in January of this year. After...
View ArticleToo late now
Labour launches new campaign with “24 hours to save British jobs” warning, reported the website Labour List the day before yesterday.
View ArticleThe sad story of Scots Wikipedia
Hats off to the Guardian for the pun in this headline: Shock an aw: US teenager wrote huge slice of Scots Wikipedia Nineteen-year-old says he is ‘devastated’ after being accused of cultural vandalism...
View Article“I know that I will not be able to avoid destroying humankind.”
That was a line from a Guardian op-ed written entirely by a robot. The machine was instructed to focus on why humans have nothing to fear from AI. I do not find this reassuring.
View ArticleDon’t worry, their programming does not allow them to harm humans
Pelosi glitches out, randomly says “Good morning, Sunday morning” in middle of interview ‘It’s estimated that 200 million people have died — probably by the time I finish this talk,’ said Biden.
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Supporters are expected to place their absolute trust in BLM’s utter dishonesty
In the memory-hole world of PC, I’m never sure who should be the more annoyed when a loudly-proclaimed policy is silently discarded – those who spent time and effort refuting it or those who spent time...
View ArticleMake companies product-focused again
Coinbase Inc Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong has offered a severance package to employees unwilling to cope with the cryptocurrency exchange’s new policy of not entertaining discussions on...
View ArticleIf this is how the Democrats campaign, maybe the Republicans will win after all
With great glee, the Huffington Post reports, Multiple Right-Wing Figures Pranked Into Thanking The Devil For Supporting Trump Several prominent pro-Trump voices have been pranked into thanking “Iblis”...
View ArticleScreaming at the sky versus sitting by the sickbed
Four years ago, rage at the election of Trump expressed itself in a lot of what looked like performance art: screaming at the sky, ‘the literal shakening’ and so on. The usual celebrities as usual did...
View ArticleWalter Williams and Western Civ
thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest. (Sir Ector, speaking at the death of...
View ArticleGovernment response to Covid-19 explained in a single video
https://www.samizdata.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sheep-are-stupid.mp4 Addendum: Suitable narrative courtesy of “Bell Curve”: Government: We must lockdown due to this terrible disease! Data literate...
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