The British imperial system invades other countries, makes them use pounds and feet, and then leaves.

Talk to people and figure out what they use their PC for.

It might be old games or an accounting app, you should make sure that these are working in wine so they can keep using them.

Big Yud was homeschooled after biting a maths teacher.

This fact makes it into his Harry Potter fan fic as a self insert.

Don’t use change.org.

Use https://petition.parliament.uk/ and then someone in the UK government might actually read it.

It being undemocratic is actually pretty important for the system to work.

Because only the house of commons is elected they have legitimacy and the house of lords knows that while they can resist some dumb crap, they do ultimately have to accept the decisions made there.

If you have two elected houses you end up like the US with the senate blocking everything the house of representative does.

A more representative second house with less rich people and politicial cronies would be nice though.

Also, I want it to go to people outside my org that I email back, not random spammers and salespeople.

For some reason, the only option is to use people in my addressbook which doesn’t auto populate and I never use.

There’s a bunch of women specific legislation in the equality act as well.

For example, it allows for the existence of women only spaces which include gyms, refuges and toilets.

If you say that women is used in its biological sense, you’re saying that trans men can use these spaces but trans women can’t.

However, the ehrc is going full terf and saying that despite the ruling that women is used in its biological sense, they think that all trans people should be prohibited from using some of these spaces.

The EHRC are political appointments that were selected for agreeing with the politics of the previous government.

That’s why they sound like anti trans activists.

The whole thing needs to be burnt down. There’s no room for political appointees in legal bodies.

You know open-source doesn’t mean publicly available. It means the person, or in this case the US government, that brought the software should have free access to the source code to edit and distribute it as they like.

So yes, the military should use something functional equivalent to open source to prevent vender lock in and to allow for external audits. They probably shouldn’t give it to Russia or make it freely available online though.

So which existing training should we cut to make time for sling practice?

Because you have to learn to use a sling and if you’re not good you’re much more likely to blow yourself up.

You could probably come up with a more idiot friendly version though some kind of fabric sock where you just launch the whole thing

It’s actually worse than you’re making it sound.

Supplements are not just less regulated than drugs, they’re less regulated than food.

Several of his stories are outright racist though.

How do you go about loving that without acknowledging there are issues?

Lovecraft is problematic for other reasons.

The problem is that what makes his work good is this pathological fear of the other, that he interlinks with xenophobia and notions of racial purity in his fiction.

You can’t love the art and hate the author with Lovecraft, you have to accept they’re both pretty fucked up.

BMI works quite well for typical people.

Either you do so much more exercise than everyone around you that it’s not a good fit for you, or you should take it as a warning sign.

If you think it’s muscle and not fat, there’s another test that you might like to try instead which is the waist to hip ratio. https://www.healthline.com/health/waist-to-hip-ratio

But if you want an honest appraisal of your fitness, just do a fun run. The shortish runs round a park with a bunch of normal people. Either you can keep up without killing yourself and everything is fine, or you’re not as fit as you think.

It gets even mader. If you take one step over the border into England, being topless suddenly becomes legal regardless of gender or birth sex.

however it is not an offence for a man or a woman to be topless in England and Wales, so long as the person has not taken off their clothes with the intention of shocking or upsetting others.

https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/616538

This actually doesn’t affect landlords because council tax is charged to people living in the house first, and only to the owner if no one is living there.

This primarily affects second home owners and short term lets, but there’s other renting reform coming as well, and this has already dropped house prices, so it’s a start.

If LLMs just copied stack overflow they’d respond to every question with “Closed as duplicate. Question already answered.”

Because demanding more nuclear power is free and feeds into the hype train.

Are they going to sign a contract committing to future energy use at a particular rate, so that we can build new power stations? Of course not, they don’t believe the AI hype that much.

But they will pretend they really need it.

Yeah but only because they’re pissed.