I love this 🤌

A few months ago I would accuse Americans here of being a bit hysterical but not any more.

No, it’s not just your imagination. It has become distinctly more hostile in all communities.

Polanski is doing well keeping the focus on their economic policy and not getting drawn in on identity, defence and immigration which are more controversial.

I agree that they are becoming to Labour what Reform are to the Conservatives. I have no idea how things will ultimately pan out but it’s refreshing at least to have two clearly distinct sides again, instead of the endless ‘centrism’ (a new conservativism IMO) of the last couple of decades.

Just look at Joe Biden - he’d been in US politics waiting to be president for something like fifty years and then totally fudged it over this.

People are not serious about their hats any more.

You need to hide inside one of the cupboards at IKEA so you can really test the beds out after the staff leave.

Here in the UK (and elsewhere I’m sure) there is public funding for the arts. It’s recognised as being good for culture but that it also stimulates the broader econony. In that way it is treated as a public investment with expected public (and private) returns.

You can easily install most of those services on YUNOhost - in fact I have a bunch of them running on a cheap VPS. All open source. It even comes with email and XMPP out of the box. I had no hosting experience beforehand and I rarely have to touch it these days. I would want more resources if I had 10 people using the whole Nextcloud suite every day but if you wanted to go the VPS route I’m sure you could easily do it for less than €5/month/person. You can run it on your own hardware as well.

Preferred choice: dont build any houses.

Second choice: build houses on flood plains.

Backstop: ignore climate change and charge people more for insurance.

600 acres might sound like a lot but I think bears/wolves/lynxes need more space than that. And I think lynxes hunt from the edges of woodland, so there would need to be enough of that too.

" …for really I thinke that the poorest hee that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest hee… and I do think that the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that Government that he hath not had a voice to put Himself under."

Thomas Rainsborough 1647

A lot was also coded into art, buildings, clothing etc. Historically most people were illiterate, so more communication happened through other media or ‘material culture’.

I agree

I haven’t tried it yet but Calibre Web looks like what you need. A good write-up on it here. Looks like you can enable uploads from your phone.

Great resource - very accessible 👍

I agree with you but at the same time I recognise that in practice most people voting in elections aren’t primarily looking for evidence of democracy in a party’s inner workings, even though perhaps they should be.

The bungled membership launch totally devastated their credibility when instead it should have been a massive positive event.

I have still joined, but without the hope and passion I had about it. Hopefully it can be recovered. I’m very glad that the Greens will be there for me if not.

This is excellent software.

Yeah, as a user I’m starting to regard this as a classic developer pitfall. It’s the same with everything I guess - when you work on something for long enough your perspective and reason for doing it evolves.

If FOSS users and developers mixed more and had more time to offer everything would work and flow better: UX/UI, documentation, install scripts etc.

We are our own departments: Speak up and be more specific, users! Take a couple of steps back, developers!