I’m meant Spotify has the larger choice.

And yes. I need to keep WhatsApp for this very purpose.

Meet my wife.

You mean those wide, spotless manicured, tree lined roads, devoid of cars, that we see on American TV shows aren’t real?

I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked!

Whilst he’s on it.

Sounds like just want to copy the Nazis.

Oh, so that’s OK then.

Right, I make that (using the lowest figure) over 40 launches per month, every month for the 2 years. Anyone who thinks that is plausible is a tad optimistic.

Exactly, we shouldn’t even be at this point. Russia should be a windswept wasteland.

Oh I don’t doubt people were killed.

It’s just describing them as being martyred puts a bias on the article. I’m inclined to see it as a.propoganda piece.

The whole thing is bad enough as it is without stirring up religious hatred even more.

I’m always wary when an article tells you that people have been ‘martyred’ when describing casualties on one side but not the other.

They’ve usually got an agenda to push and numbers will be exaggerated and not always the truth.

Didn’t think anyone would subscribe to Pocket - a good proportion of the links require external subscriptions.

Sorry, but am not going down that route. Unless you’re telling me all the links to externals become free.

IIRC I tried a free trial of Premium but still had to subscribe to Medium etc. That put me right off. I might just as well subscribe to Medium and forget about Pocket.

Yeah I get that, it’s why I don’t use FB anymore. I keep WhatsApp for close family though. They’re is no other option. And dont tell me to use text. Doesn’t cut it.

This. The average user doesn’t want to know about the workings and ‘All that technical stuff’, and why should they?

They want to click an icon and have everything and everyone there. They shouldn’t have to swap instances or what have you.

I put Mastodon on a back burner as it’s just too clunky (for me at least) and am currently interacting with people from all over on BlueSky. Half the time on Mastodon (various apps/instances, web, or browser) I couldn’t even log on.

BlueSky will probably go the way of others. Yes, there is a troll problem, and you need to be wary. But I had the same to a lesser extent on Mastodon.

In the end, I’ve had to accept my relatives, work, and old Army colleagues will never be on there, I’ve become resigned to that and keep a WhatsApp account for that reason.

Right, so we just trade in our relatives for some new ones.

That’s the attitude that puts people off.

Lloyd Bridges clip from Airplane springs to mind.

They don’t like it up 'em, do they?

Can’t accept it when it happens to them.

So he has the concept of a plan.

The plan itself he’ll make up half an hour before it’s due, and then spout off about how everyone agrees it’s the best plan ever. The fact that they knew sod all about it, is neither here nor there. It’ll give Trump a few more hours of air time, because that’s what he wants, to be the main news event every day.

What a tool.

I would have thought Ukraine should have a say in the matter.

Not a convicted felon.

Good point. Not everyone swears like a trooper. I’m ex British army so can live with it. But I wouldn’t swear in mixed company or in front of my daughter, even though she is over 21.