I mainly meant it as a goal to aim for. Police don’t have to be brutish idiots.

Our police use a “police by consent” mindset, rather than a “police by force” one. Most don’t even carry guns.

Unless you can trace your ancestry back 5-10 generations, along with enough peerages and titles to matter, you are at best middle class. At least according to the old fashioned mindset.

As a fellow tea snob, I salute you. 👍

FYI, I’m not American, I’m watching from the outside.

The UK police, while they have their issues, are a lot better than American police. A lot of them also love the bodycams. They make their job a LOT easier, with far less hassle.

I’m a major one for transparency. I will accept that a police or justice officer doing their job properly and reasonably, can still make enemies. A certain level of information security, of their private lives, is then reasonable to keep them and their families safe.

Their job life should be documented well however. If their body cam is not working, it should be assumed to hide something, until proven otherwise.

I also don’t see the US’s ICE as police or justice. They have shown none of the restraint and control expected of the role. They are armed thugs, with a powerful backer, and should be treated as such.

There’s 2 tea cultures in the UK. Upper class is straight, perhaps with a little lemon and honey, in quite delicate teas. Working class is strong tea with milk and sugar.

Milk was originally to stop factory tea from cracking cheap cups. It’s now just a cultural thing, normal teas taste weird without milk.

Peaceful protests have an implicit threat. We are peaceful so far. If it is ineffective, some elements might go aggressive.

A good example is the Irish troubles. The protests often started out peacefully. They could explode into civil unrest very easily however. Also, they are backed by the actions of the IRA. If the UK government tried to crush them, the IRA would have struck back HARD. They also moderated their own attack level. They didn’t want to drive people away from the political and protest wings, but make sure the UK government felt it. E.g. by calling in attacks before detonation. Thereby limiting civilian casualties, while maximising economic damage. They were more than capable of getting nasty however.

Even as law enforcement, they have a level of rights to privacy, just like the rest of us. That is why badge numbers are used. They unambiguously identify them, without also spreading who their siblings are, and where their children go to school.

The lack of ANY identifying features for ICE “agents” is VERY telling.

The structure of therapy required for men is different to women. A lot of therapy training is aimed at women. This means when men get up the courage to go, they can often find it ineffective.

I’m 1 for 4 with therapy providers.

I would also argue that a lot of men need structural changes to their life that they can’t make currently. Emotional based therapy is not very effective against structural problems.

There’s an interesting argument that honey can be vegan, by that criteria.

A bee colony is not generally trapped in a hive. They are capable of leaving, if it’s not to their standards, or they find somewhere between. The catch is that artificial bee hives are amazing for bees, compared to natural locations. The only catch is the “rent” taken by the eldritch creatures. They never take too much however, only taking excess the hive doesn’t need.

Basically bees could be argued to be paying rent, in honey, for high quality accommodation.

The false choice trick either works really well, or they clock it quickly and leave you for dust. Our minion caught on far too quickly.

Powering through the tantrums is sometimes all you can do. My record was about 30 minutes or so. By the end I was more wowed by their stamina than stressing. Once they realise that tantrums don’t work well, they move on to other tactics (for better or for worse).

We seem to have dodged that phrase so far. At three, her goto was “you’re not my favourite!!!”. The hardest thing was taking their feelings seriously, without laughing at the cuteness.

If it helps, training them to negotiate helps a lot. It lets them get a “win” while doing what you want. It also requires higher level thought, which seems to help suppress emotional tantrums. Finally, it encourages them to make known what is actually important to them.

Very rarely, if ever.

The only time it is justifiable is if it’s either pre-agreed or if there is a threat to the child.

If there is reason to think they are being groomed, or used in some way, then yes. E.g. a room search after getting information that they are holding drugs for a dealer. They should be treated like a police search. Only done when there is real reason, rather than just fishing.

If it’s pre-agreed that a device isn’t private, then the rules change slightly. A younger child’s phone or computer should be subject to respectful monitoring. It should also be part of an open and equitable discussion on boundaries and rules. Even here, the goal should be to protect the child from dangers, not to snoop on what they are chatting with friends about beyond that.

Privacy, is an important thing for children. It needs to be provided with guard rails initially, but should be respected as best you can.

That’s literally one of the advantages of induction over resistive. Resistive heat an element, that heats the pot. Inductive use a magnetic field to induce a current in the pot. That electric current then heats the pot directly.

The only heat in the stovetop is either bleed back from the pot, or resistive losses, which are quite low.

He played politics, while modernising Britain’s defences. He then fell on his sword, politically, so that Churchill could lead without too much political baggage to deal with.

Britain would have been flattened, without his delaying actions.

Wars have a weird amount of holding back. Going after civilian infrastructure is often seen as “ungentlemanly”, basically bad PR. Most Ukraine attacks like this seem to be to prove they can, not to cause significant civilian damage.

Basically, Russia has a number of nasty options, currently unused. Ukraine is also unusually dependent of foreign help, and so it is vulnerable to the world opinion changing. Ukraine is mostly proving its threats are viable.

You’ve basically summed up what I was trying to say better than I did. To Linux users, bug reports are a good thing. They help fix things. To middle management, bug reports are a bad thing, they hurt their bonuses.

One group needs to change, and Linux users are impressively stubborn.

It’s anecdotal , but I heard that Linux bug reports are actually a problem for some game developers. When 1% of your customer base submits 10-20% of your bug reports, middle managers get upset. Apparently several games have had Linux support dropped because of this.

While Linux often has more bugs in games (and so more reports), Linux users have also been conditioned to report bugs better. It helps a lot in FOSS etc.

A horse rider I know once had to get an x-ray. They asked him when he broke his neck, since they couldn’t find any notes about it. He didn’t know he had broken it.

Best he can tell, it was from a fall a few years earlier. He spent 6 months grumbling about how slow it was to heal at his age. All the while, 1 wrong twist and his spinal cord could have been cut.

I tend to refer to them as informational Vs conditioning ads.

Informational are actually useful. They let you know a company exists, or a new product is available.

The conditioning ads are the evil ones. They are basically hacking your brain. We often shop based on familiarity, rather than logic. We weigh seeing a product in an ad at almost the same level as a friend recommending it. Throw enough ads at someone and they default to “all my friends recommend it, it must be good.”

I would love to either block or ban conditioning adverts, without also banning informational ones. The former are a lot more slippery at trying to bypass blocks.

There is a path, from the ground, up your leg, across your torso (including your heart) and down your other leg.

This is the reason that downed high voltage power lines are so dangerous. Walking with a long stride can create enough of a differential to fibrillate your heart.