clara

this meme can be saved, there are indeed methods...

the OP's image was originally posted to the internet through twitter on October 21st this year. (nitter link)

source image was posted to twitter handle "GlowFYourSelf", as part an advertising campaign for a website called "GlowFYourSelf", which appears to sell... personal toys. based out of portland oregon, no surprises there lol.

source image was part of an album of 4 of images that all look similar. they were likely generated using AI because in the original image, the writing on the box is all borked.

this original, crisp, 2k x 2k image was then stolen 4 days ago by an instagram meme account called "worst.buy".

from there, it has then received a caption, a bitmoji sticker, and a faint "CV" watermark stamped in the lower left.

through all these saves and re-uploads, it has been deep fried, jpegged, and cut in resolution. for shame.

fortunately for this meme repair, no 'shopping was needed to complete the work - i went straight to the source.

here you go folks. ❤️

yeah i can see what's happened here, rishi has been forced to say "fuck it" and align with one of the factions.

if you have a choice of a faction to align with, you should pick the one that is closer to the center of the overton window, to maximize future vote gain under FPTP.

if suella didn't force her own sacking to then try and force a no-confidence vote to seize leadership (or otherwise secure cabinet control for the NatC faction), then... why did she write that opinion piece otherwise? she didn't have to write it.

gold skin unlocked: escape 1000 cats

i don't get what the guy in the middle panel is there for, standing on the dome of the rock. if it's funny, i don't get the reference, can someone enlighten me.

oh and that speaker icon is annoying in the bottom right of the lower panel.

i decided to repair the meme by removing these two elements, and then adding alt text. enjoy.

if you're serious, then here's two places i recommend to make a start on that train of thought

https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org should clue you in on which "advanced economies" might skew towards the life factors that interest you

and https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison-tool might help you narrow down which of these will be a better cultural fit

i'm aware there's a lot of subjectivity in these two links but, it could help you make a start.

many people are great at saying "get me out of here" online, but not many people follow up that thought, and ask themselves "but where to?"

be one of those who answers the second question. start working on your escape today! 💪

worrisome 🙁

yeah, i was watching him occasionally after the events of 7th october 2023. hasan was doing a react to some parent grieving that his kid was shot and killed, and the parent was saying "i'm glad my kid was shot because then i know she wasn't taken hostage"

the obvious implication was that the parent was expressing melancholic relief of the knowledge that yes, his daughter won't be tortured or worse.

instead, hasan takes that and states "see, he's happy that his kid won't have to suffer like the people in gaza" 😬

(not those exact words, before some clip chimp finds the exact phrase to try and score points. but it was definitely this sentiment)

it forced me to introspect and have a real "are we the baddies?" moment

haven't tuned in since

he really has shit for brains huh? he's seen the word "hostages" being used in the last month repeatedly, and now his brain has made the association

he never said this about them before 7th october 2023? what the fuck

ooh, you're not gonna like this then

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/falcons-planes-middle-east/index.html

is there a secret sneaky reason why this question is being asked? like, is this a trick to boost the number of questions that the MPs have both asked and answered in parliament? i.e, is this political stat padding?

yep i found this one out the hard way when applying for a job in the uk at currys (similar to best buy like in the op)

didn't get the job of course, that's fine, whatever, move on and go to next application

what i learnt afterwards though was that, they don't hire for currys/best buy based on your actual understanding of tech. they hire on your ability to sell the items, and help customers engage in excess consumerism.

the main point being, i obviously wouldn't sell anyone a $99 gold plated hdmi cable. because firstly, that's unethical profiteering, and secondly, i know that a $5 would do the same job. i would point a customer to the $5 cable, it's the correct choice. but this is why i am unhireable for this job.

currys, best buy, euronics, mediamarkt etc need to hire people that can sell the $99 cable. to do that, they counterintuitively have to hire people who don't know enough about tech. reason being, if you don't actually know about tech yourself, you will think that the gold cable is better, and you can then do a more convincing job of selling it. plausible deniability. apply this to every item in the store. you want someone who can push 8k tvs, beats headphones and smart fridges. not someone who will guide the consumer to what they actually need for their use case.

it's the reason why you go into these stores and the staff don't have a fucking clue about actual tech questions. they were hired precisely because they don't have a clue.

yeah people i talk to don't seem to get what's coming. like, they haven't had the misfortune of a medical emergency in their life, and so they've never actually experienced how bad the service provision is getting. but not just for healthcare, it's for every service.

me personally? i'm saving up that money for sure. not for the next emergency, oh goodness no. i'm going to use that savings pot to leave this island for good. ideally before i get my next medical emergency. selfish? yep, you bet! 🙂

but, i am fundamentally sick of living in a place where we pay all this money and get little service to show for it. for me, one of these two options is fine:

1. somewhere where i pay low tax and rightfully get poor service.
2. somewhere where i pay high tax and get premium quality of service.

one or the other i am fine with, preferably option 2. but what we have in the uk is the downside of both of these options.

bit of a tangent i know, but...

rather than national or local governments fix any of this, they've instead embarked on massive campaigns to massage the statistics, through changing the measuring sticks used to assess service quality across the board, and in doing so, hide all the problems. this extends to water standards, and unemployment statistics, and cancer waiting times, etc etc.

don't even get me started about the filthy liars who do the passenger rail statistics 💩