He’s a nutjob (apologies to nuts and to employment). He wrote one of the books that emboldened the loopy Johnson/Truss/Sunak generation of Tories called Conservative Revival. He’s also VERY keen on bringing back the workhouses (genuinely, in his 2013 book Work for the Dole). Horrible nasty Tory.

Why am I not surprised?

(More and more I have an absolute feeling that I’m being fucked over by already wealthy people - and there’s nothing I can do about it in any way!)

You are right. Is a hitherto episode of epilepsy a good defence for dangerous driving in general?

I guess it could come down to whether or not the person has previous incidents of dangerous driving or they have footage or other evidence to suggest she wasn’t epileptic. If there’s no physical evidence or subsequent seizures. (I know I’m speculating and - you are right - we should assume innocence and that her account is right until shown not to be).

Is there a way checking whether an epileptic seizure has taken place? (MRI scan showing trace evidence in the brain?) If the driver has not experienced subsequent seizures, it would be difficult to accept this one without evidence.

What strikes me is how a so-called “independent regulator” seems to collaborate with these water companies and make HUGE pay rises seem normal and inevitble.

Thanks. I’ll give this a go.

I’m pretty interested in Gemini but the learning curve to self-host is pretty steep. Not sure why someone can’t just create a docker image for those of us who believe in self-hosting but haven’t the skills (yet) to CLI .

Non story for sabre-rattling attempt.

Navy rear-admiral on LBC this morning said that Russian subs go up the Channel daily to noin their Northern fleet and that if the UK scrambled a response every time it would exhaust the country’s resources. He said that Russian vessels are legally allowed in the area as long as they don’t interfere with any UK underwater resources.

Distraction from the Harry vs The Sun story and calls for criminal prosecutions?

Let’s just abandon retirement and have everyone enjoying the beauty and fulfilment of work until they drop. Bah! Pensions are for the workshy layabouts.

Why would wage-slaves not want to be slaves? I don’t get it.

“How dare anyone say the UK is a plutocracy!” says red-faced gammon swilling down a warm pint of bitter in Ye Olde Pubbe. “Our man Nigel is a ‘onest as the day is long and a true man of the people! Being a multi-millionaire ‘ee don’t need no ‘undred millionaire from no yank.”

I spent AGES trying to do this and trying out all sorts of apps.

The best solution (for me at least) was self-hosting Nextcloud and using its Calendar and Tasks apps (and using it’s CalDAV to keep tasks and appointments in sync in various apps across my devices). I’ve never got the hang of Kanban so can’t comment on how good it is. I also keep my scratchpad/fleeting notes using Nextcloud Notes.

I joined as soon as it was open. Very quickly it was full of junk TiKtok videos (many with the Tiktok logo). As others have said you have to keep scrolling through the same videos in the same order to see anything new.

The feature that’s missing is some sort of “filter creator” that would enable users to build their own algos.

(To be fair, I can’t see why Tiktok works as an app other than as some global-scale brainwashing tool.)

While the UK spirals the economic waste bin, Nat West makes 18.3% profit this year (£1172 million).

£770,000 in bonuses. Laughing their heads off as they swill champagne and chomp down caviar.

After nearly 30 years of work I’ve become convinced that ANY company or organisation would be better run without executive/senior management and letting the staff make decisions and work collectively would be more effective (or at worse… no worse than this disease of mangerialist greed that’s clearly adding to the ruin of this country).

I wonder how truthful any of this is anyway? One of the reason Western democracies love secret ballots is that it allows someone to proclaim something in public and vote the opposite in private.

Also agree with comment about how much people actually understand terms. For instance, I wonder whether people think Anarchism is bomb-throwing terrorist chaos.

That is not good news at all!

Not according to millionaire-owned media. Farmers good. Climate activists bad. Blocking roads for greed is justified whereas blocking roads to try and save humanity is criminal.

Nextcloud Notes?

I was skeptical at first but have found it the most useable of all the ones I tried out.

Yes. Yes. And Yes!