Google image search says it's a desk calculator with electron tubes.
$699 sounds like a great price!
Feasible in cities and large towns (if they have a reliable public transport infrastructure), not really feasible anywhere else.
I know I'm being pedantic but murder requires intent, it seems that the majority of these cases are manslaughter, still illegal though and just as sad.
I'm not convinced that the Tories downfall were their right wing policies, most people are thinking of partygate, Lizz Trusses disaster budget and the cost of living crisis in the ballot box.
I personally think that labour would have won whether they were trying to court centrists or not and labours biggest risk is that the the Tories will mop up the reform vote.
This election shows that the Tories still have a HUGE core vote, these are people that will never vote labour and I think chasing reform voters is a fools errand because it's likely they'll never vote labour either.
I've personally not met anyone that voted Reform for who immigration wasn't their top priority.
I know they're not a single issue party unless you consider "the Tories aren't right wing enough" as a single issue.
Love to see it.
This is clearly a great result, but I think that given the popular vote, that it's important to accept that this election was anti-tory, not pro-labour.
Labour have five years to make a substantial tangible change in people's lives or we may very well find ourselves back where we left off or even worse.
This isn't an open and shut case. People were pissed off with the Tories, but Tory voters have not switched to Labour, many of them have switched to a party even further to the right, reform, and that is the electorate that the Tories are now going to be chasing for the next election.
This vote wasn't anti-rightwing, it was simply anti-tory and the chance that the next election will yield a party even further to the right of the previous government is considerable.
I think saying that the island is covered in transphobes is doing the UK a huge disservice. I'm absolutely not saying things are perfect here and of course there are a few absolute knob heads, but the UK is one of the most accepting countries in the world and the diversity of the UK shows that.
Don't let a few bigots paint a picture of the whole country.
We need to keep in mind that this was an anti-tory vote, not a pro-labour one. This is shown by labour only increasing their vote share by 1.6% when compared with the previous election.
Labour need to ensure that they've made positive changes that the average person can feel by the time the next election comes around because you can guarantee that the Tories are already planning on how they're going to mop up the reform voters.
Definitely not a tube amp. A tube amp usually has only one or two tubes. This number of tubes implies that they are being used as primitive transistors for logic functions, you can also see a number display made from nixie tubes at the top of the image.