https://www.itv.com/news/2024-06-11/rishi-sunak-says-he-went-without-sky-tv-as-a-child

Rishi’s parents worked as pharmacists at the pharmacy pictured.

AI is going to become more convincing by reading articles like this and learning what not to say (e.g. hockey match)

We have our black bin collected fortnightly and we usually half-fill it. Three of us and pets.

Our kitchen bin only really is used for non-recyclable plastic and pet waste. Everything else goes in the food bin or recycling wheelie bin. Our recycling wheelie bin is usually completely overflowing, whereas many of my neighbours completely overfill the black bin and barely even bother with the recycling and food bins.

Government should only be afraid of losing the next election - they should never be afraid of their life or family’s life for doing their job.

Politicians need to balance opinions from different groups of people, so even the best politicians can never please everyone all of the time. Taking choices you disagree with does not mean they should be afraid for their lives.

As much as I disagree with many choices of politicians, they should never be threatened in any way.

Well, it looks like reverting to Stable seemed to at least partially fix it for me. The keyboard is still higher on the screen, but at least it fits to the screen width correctly. Thanks!

I couldn’t find any mention of anyone else with this issue around the web or on valve’s GitHub issue tracker, so I assumed it was something dumb I’d done rather than a bug.

I am currently on the latest beta - I’ll test the stable/preview channels in case that makes a difference.

This is getting boring; there’s been so many articles about this over the last few weeks.
Starmer’s and Reeves’ statements about this do not totally contradict. They’ve both said they want to invest, but they’ve decided that they won’t staple themselves to the £28bn figure due to the Tories fucking shit up in the economy. I can’t say I necessarily agree with this, but that’s what has happened.

Apparently the sign is real but put up by “vandals”

They intentionally removed this feature years ago. It was possible to reenable via a dconf setting for a while but I believe that was also eventually removed.
So annoying.

The M25 is a motorway (70mph highway/Interstate) which circles around London. It’s illegal to ride bikes on any motorway, and there are no bike lanes on motorways, nor should there be. And I say that as a cyclist.

In this case, there is no good reason a cyclist should be on the M25 - there’s almost definitely a quicker and calmer way to get to where you need to, without bypassing around London.

Yeah, this isn’t that bad. It’s just a suggestion after running an apt upgrade. NPM has similar plugs which I don’t find too annoying.

In fact its not even as intrusive as NPM’s funding requests, as it is only 2 lines of text, plus it looks like Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use.

I’m on the fence about all this. In a utopia, a ceasefire would be ideal of course, but Israel aren’t going to listen to suggestions like that, especially when they believe that a ceasefire would be a risk for them in terms of allowing Hamas to regroup. Whether that is a real risk I don’t know, but either way I can’t see a ceasefire happening in the immediate future until Israel have completed their objectives, regardless of what pressure comes from the UK.

The “humanitarian pauses” do make sense to me, as it would save lives whilst allowing Israel to keep their tactical advantage over Hamas.

But it seems Israel won’t even do the bare minimum of a pause in bombing civilians, so what chance do we have of a ceasefire?

I understand the principled side of standing up for a ceasefire even if it seems unlikely, but the government’s (and Keir’s) POV does also make a kind of sense, to save Palestinian lives in a way that Israel is more likely to agree to.

Here’s the sequel after they realised there were scientific inaccuracies in the original

The difference between Braverman and a pantomime villain is that she actually has the power to make this stuff happen. It remains to be seen if these are just empty words, but it’s definitely worth reporting that a government minister intends to start putting people in prison for being destitute.

Their mindset is “Fossil fuels are still needed now, and if my company doesn’t grab them, someone else will” and it’s just so easy to continue getting those short term profits for their shareholders.

They may have long term plans for investment in renewables, but they won’t enact them until forced to (by government or market conditions). I imagine oil costs (and therefore profits) will skyrocket as it becomes more scarce, and they’d want to ride that all the way to the bank (and hell) before pivoting.

Basically, capitalism will be capitalism - its only moral is money. The only way is to have governments worldwide force them to change, and that ain’t gonna happen.

I use touchpad to look and spin around quickly, but gyro to make small aiming adjustments.

What’s wrong with the trackpad? I find using the trackpad to look around in FPS games is much better than the right stick.

You’re not technically wrong, but it’s a nuanced issue and people should treat it as such rather than black and white.

Sunak saying “no one can change sex” without any qualifying statements is just designed to inflame and divide people.

They were clearly referring to online foreign disinformation, not domestic disinformation.

Valve are a private company, so Microsoft can’t just barge in and buy it up.

Considering the investment Valve has poured into Linux because Gabe doesn’t trust Microsoft enough to have his business rely on Windows, I’d be pretty shocked if he decided to sell up to Microsoft.