I have opposing opinions
Please do share some opposing opinions rather than just shitting on someone else daring to add their voice to the great chorus of democracy.
I’m sure everyone will have a lot of time to indulge your certainly well-informed and nuanced political opinions.
Agreed. It sure is easy to publicly not be a cunt.
I love the focus on the ‘childless cat lady’ line.
I think that line epitomises the pointless spite that characterises MAGAism. The constant bullying and insults are entirely unnecessary to their agenda but they just can’t stop themselves, and if we end up post-November with them wondering how things might have gone had they not insulted tons of voters this way then I’ll find that delicious.
I suppose the counterpoint is that the insults and bullying might well be necessary, that their ‘othering’ and painting opponents as lesser, more ridiculous, less human enemies is a core part of how such populist fascist movements gain traction. “The cruelty is the point,” as some say.
I’m 100% with you on Docker. I haven’t used BSD jails in a very long time, but do you have a view on how they compare to other Docker alternatives in Linux like LXC containers and systemd-nspawn?
to run a virtual pipe organ
This sounds like an incredible use case.
I don’t think that link says what you think it does.
I think their venture into crypto was a remarkable shift in their proposition, one that led me to immediately end my subscription. I moved to Migadu the same day they announced Proton Wallet.
I think it’s a consequence of the weird coalition of competing factions they have to deal with. Among the at least four different ideological groups in the party, ideas are often contradictory between them and lead to the party’s policy positions often being weird and hard to predict.
Here, the climate concerned, net-zero, ‘public transport is good’ crowd lost out until recently to the ecological preservationists and ‘green spaces’ lot. Recently, the former group also lost out to the NIMBYish group on green infrastructure in Ramsey’s constituency, making the party look ridiculous and hypocritical yet again.
I don’t know what the solution is but I hope they figure it out and start treating politics a bit more seriously if they’re going to be a mainstay in Parliament.
Looks like you can self-host a web version of it, which is handy. Plus it’s always nice having open-source alternatives to closed-source, commercially-led apps.
I think it’s probably useful to mention the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) here which describes most of the tree structure detailed in the diagram.
The directory layout mostly adopted by most distros evolved over time though, with major differences existing in how distros view usage of different parts of the filesystem, making it more of a standard that documents how the filesystem is laid out rather than one that defines it.
On a personal note, I hated /run for the longest time, thinking it a pointless, redundant quirk that exacerbated inconsistencies across distros. More recently though, I’ve come to value a space that is now (mostly) implemented consistently as a tmpfs mount from which to handle runtime data.
I used it for a while. The flipped mode of thinking with it was weird at first but I liked it once I got used to it.
I don’t remember the specifics, but I vaguely recall encountering an issue with its LSP implementation that drove me toward thinking the whole LSP approach is insane and I went back to neovim.
Uh, just trying non-modal vim for the first time and… how do I quit it? I can’t :q.
Zsh is a shell like bash that supports shell scripting like bash (though with some syntactical differences). It’s a bit more like ksh than bash, but anyone familiar with bash will have no problems with zsh.
You can check out oh-my-zsh for an accessible preconfigured version of it (though I’d suggest installing via your package manager rather than the script on their website). I like the jreese theme.
Ehh, I’ve had a good life.
I have no doubt large parts of their nuclear arsenal have been stripped to fund their maintainers’ Krokodil habits but it only takes one to start a nuclear war, and a smaller and simpler tactical warhead on a Khinzal or Kh-15 of the sort we’d likely see used against Ukraine is less likely to have been scavenged.
I think a case could have been made for it. Borrowing to invest is allowed by the fiscal rules, and it would’ve been popular with a large set of the electorate. Weighing it against the electoral impact to the presentation of the party as being fiscally responsible would’ve been a tough needle to thread though. Many folks point to Corbyn’s WASPI payout policy and nationalisation of BT as being among the key things that killed his campaign back in the day for much the same reason.
The way the lady in the article speaks though, it sounds like there is maybe a case for pursuing private funding as a better option. I’ve read elsewhere that even a modest public investment over the long term can encourage tons of private investment due to the certainty it provides. If the planned ~£15bn public investment ends up attracting enough private money to get up to a similar amount to £28bn and comes with tons of consequent economic activity around the edges then this may end up having been the better approach.
On the other hand, if it attracts hardly any — perhaps due to the Tories pledging to scrap GB Energy and the NWF, thereby removing the long-term certainty around the whole thing — then it may turn out to be a massively consequential and disastrous route to have taken. I think we’ll have an inkling long before 2029 if that’s likely to be the case.
Saving this one for posterity.
The decision to cut the £28bn pledge was very unpopular among members, though seemingly immediately forgiven by an electorate that understood it was too costly given our financial situation.
In 2029 though I wonder how we’ll look back at the decision. The National Wealth Fund certainly holds a lot of promise, but will it have had enough of an impact to alleviate the disappointment of those who’d have preferred much larger direct public funding instead?
It seems Rhian-Mari Thomas may be a name worth remembering whatever the outcome.
Nope, MPs vote down to the final two then it goes to the membership — hence Liz Truss. This didn’t happen with Sunak’s ascension because he faced no opposition.
As Tim Montgomerie often says, as rabidly right wing as some of the '22 is, the membership put them to shame. Leaves them in a really awkward position right now with the soul of their party being fought over, with most sane MPs backing more moderate candidates despite knowing the membership will favour the most rampantly right wing.
I expect Powell to just ignore this, but man it’s going to be a political bloodbath this winter.
I think means testing the payment is sound in principle, but the bar to be eligible for it per that of Pension Credit seems way too high. The news stories and vox pops when the cold starts to bite are going to be devastating — to say nothing of PMQs where I imagine we’ll have months of this in prominence.
Hmmm. I’m broadly supportive of reducing the influence of the membership vote as I think it’s had a disastrous effect on both major parties, but I might need some convincing about removing it entirely.
The leader must be able to effectively lead their Parliamentary party. Thresholds for MP support is one effective gateway toward ensuring they do and it’ll certainly work after such a massive landslide as in June, but longer term it may not be enough given the number of persistent rebels in the Parliamentary party. Perhaps something approaching a veto or easier ousting from the PLP (like the 1922 Committee’s confidence system, perhaps) would do the trick?
Regardless, conference is going to be very fun this year.
I’m boring and just use Thunderbird nowadays, but sometimes I yearn for those simpler days when I daily drove aerc.