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Admittedly, I don’t take the train or bus anywhere near as much as I used to, but when I did there were always poster adverts about being respectful towards other riders and staff. Have those gone away, or is it that there is another influence supplanting that messaging?

Perhaps phones being much more engaging that people actually spend a lot less time reading the PSAs and adverts around them?

In a weirdly similar way, I remember pre COVID there used to be so many more drivers that would be blasting music with their windows down that it rarely deserved a second thought. It’s much more rare to hear it nowadays, to the extent that when I do, it seems so much more obnoxious.

My brother in Christ, how much do you know about housing? Renovations? Insulation? Mycology?

The standard that likely had not been followed was ensuring that the property was watertight to begin with.

The dry rot that is spreading through their house is effectively going to condemn it.

Your take of “hurdur, how hard could it be to do some insulation? you glue on the boards, mesh and render” is asinine at best.

Lots of these companies didn’t do their due diligence to ensure the suitability of the properties before installing.

Which then disproportionately effects people who are less likely to be able to afford repairs due to them already being on very limited lower incomes, the exact reason why they are getting this work done via these schemes.

I took wouldn’t want to trust the same company that put me into that position to be the one to rectify it.

+1 for prusa if you want to spend more and get something that just works with no fuss, if you’re wanting to go cheap&cheerful an Ender 3 will be a good option as well if you don’t mind the occasional bit of tinkering for about half the price, as it’s probably one of the most supported printers by the community and newer ones come with Auto bed leveling and half of the fancy stuff you had to add on back in the day.

I’d spend any money saved building/buying an enclosure and something to run octoprint with (Raspberry pi or a spare android phone)

For the texture/pattern around the edges where the squares are cut off; I would either remove them or taper them down towards the edges, so they are less likely to catch and eventually pull away.

Otherwise, this is a very cool idea that I’d like to see updates on!

Can I ask what you like about it?

Literally every part of my experience having gone there 2/3 times was shite; soggy chips, overcrowded and obnoxiously loud, the chicken burger literally is no better than my local fast food joint (and a hell of a lot worse than the slightly upmarket fast food places).

Most of that could be forgiven if the prices were reasonable but they’re not; I seriously struggle to see any redeeming factors or reason for it’s popularity beyond the meme of “cheeky Nando’s”, yet there’s not anything cheeky about it beyond the cheek of what they get away with!

/Rant

Honestly Nando’s is overpriced crap.

Less likely but if you get the chance to try a Pepe’s burrito they’re pretty good.

Pepe’s is basically a fast food version of Nando’s, with better ingredients and price for the portion size. As such it’s about as far as I’ll stray into fast food.

God Nando’s pisses me off.

That’s mostly just Coventry…

Was in a Tesco’s about a month back and saw this bugger flying around my mum’s partner whilst queueing for the self checkout, with about 4/5 more flying around, I plucked it out of the air and got a photo of it

Couldn’t make a positive ID on it, though I’m unsure if its a local one - I’ve always heard to be wary of stripped legs

This is such a silly one, pylons have been here well before I was born, to me they are a part of the landscape, I literally have one within 200m of my house.

As the other commentor says, unless we’re intending on moving to HVDC, then there’s not real point as losses will be rather staggering.

…Like you realise most secondary schools have the set of responsibilities and expectations on a single page that the child will sign in year 7, right?

It’s basically just symbolic and of course you can choose to not sign it and will still go to the school, but to say that they never agreed to it, atleast in my experience is a stretch. Though obviously there is a lot more nuance in this conversation.

The reality is underfunding of both schools, as well as sports/youth clubs, the schools being unable to make effective punishments, and parents not caring what their child gets up to both online and in school likely are the key things to blame.

Plus the effect on the psyche of children growing up in a world which they know is fucked and seeing genuinely so little to improve it probably doesn’t help.

Why don’t you think working less hours (assuming that the same amount of work gets completed in the same time frame) couldn’t work?

The biggest issues I see with it are for things where jobs that are restricted by physical limitations (manual labor, construction, etc) wouldn’t be able to follow the same reduction in working hours, but beyond that, many jobs could likely benefit from it.

The other way it could be achieved is paying people more per hour of time worked whilst having people working less hours but also increasing amount of people working on a job, which would result in more people being employed and likely an increase in productivity.

We have a higher efficiency in output of work per hour nowadays than we did 50 years ago, yet we work longer hours for less compensation than we did then, IIRC

https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/guardian-steve-bell-cartoon-netanyahu/ this article goes into the past accusations a bit more, tbh I’m struggling to see it as well:

" The incident is not the first involving Bell, The Guardian and allegations of anti-Semitism against his cartoons. In 2018 he said he was censored by the newspaper’s editor, Katharine Viner, when the editorial team declined to publish a cartoon depicting a Palestinian medic shot dead by Israeli forces in a fireplace besides Netanyahu and then-prime minister Theresa May.

Bell subsequently sent the cartoon in an email to the entire Guardian editorial staff, from where it was leaked to Huffpost. Critics argued the image evoked Nazi gas chambers, which Bell responded was “the last thing on my mind when I drew it”.

Viner told The Guardian’s reader’s editor that Bell’s point “could easily have been made in a way that didn’t reference fire or ovens”.

In 2019, another of Bell’s cartoons – this time depicting Labour deputy leader Tom Watson as a witch hunter looking for anti-Semitic tropes – was blocked. In November 2020, The Guardian received 32 complaints of anti-Semitic imagery over a Bell cartoon which did make it to print and depicted Labour leader Keir Starmer holding the head of predecessor Jeremy Corbyn on a plate, alluding to the beheading of St John the Baptist. "

As the pay, support and education for officers diminishes, the police as a profession become less attractive to those who are intelligent/educated, who might carry a slightly authoritarian slant but ultimately view their role in the context of being beneficial to society/preventing crime etc.

Due to Tory cuts to forces, the numbers of those who are more thuggish, less educated, more racist, and generally shouldn’t be policing wider society due to unchecked and unchallenged beliefs increases.

I know people who hadn’t achieved their GCSEs saying that it didn’t matter as they’d become police.

Like I’m personally not the biggest fan of the police, but those who were educated enough to get better jobs but stayed in the force because they believed they were genuinely helping have left, only leaving mostly those who seek power/control over other people. Obviously this is a general sweeping statement, but like everything else under Tory rule it’s been hollowed out.

Except the whole bit where the government refused to make a deal regarding processing of asylum applications whilst they’re still on the French side, inherently creating this issue of them drowning in the sea, heck there still might be some which attempt it, but it’d certainly be lower than the current situation.

By removing legitimate methods to apply for asylum, they’ve exacerbated this situation.

…They literally are in some scenarios.

When Cameron’s Government “closed” the tax avoidance loopholes in 2014(?) they went to my sister’s boyfriend at the times firm which literally finds ways for multimillionaire/billionaires to not pay tax to close the loop holes but enable other means to remain functional.

Like this firm made millions purely from helping billionaires avoid tax, they aren’t going to give up their income source because the government gave them a few thousand to act as consultants on the new bill being drafted.

They were consulted so the government at the time could “close the loopholes” and discretely open up others.

In the same way that (IIRC) regarding the conversion therapy ban, it was pointed out that there were loopholes left in when the bill was drafted.

Seeing that you mentioned MS365 imma just have my mini vent here, my mum is over 60 and her work has just started using MS365, so far run into a bunch of minor frustrations, but two big ones that she wasn’t able to figure out herself, and damn near stumped me:

First was trying to create an email group, so it’s easier for her to mass email her different classes, go to create the group, realise there’s a bunch of other junk like chats and shared files as part of the group thing which isn’t needed (and can’t be used by non ms emails anyway, over half of them) but whatever, get most of the way through it then realise that two people aren’t included in any group… ok that’s odd, just says they can’t be added to the group, turns out that they’ve likely had some permission set regarding not being able to be added to groups.

45 minutes in at this point and they cannot be added at all, decide to go back and manage to find the option to create a bog standard email group (list?) hidden away under a drop-down menu, this is what I wanted to and thought I was making in the first place, then realise I cannot import or move over the already existing groups to the simpler email lists, so have to start again…

Finally get all of that done and my mum starts to send her zoom links out except nothing is hyperlinking automatically, try to search links, hyper links, linking, etc via the help and nothing of relevance comes up, turns out outlook Web doesn’t support that, only the desktop app does but nothing mentions that. Manage to track down some random forum post that states that automatic linking only works if the email is set to plaintext format, not html…

Absolutely ridiculous

Sounds impressive! Would you mind posting a picture of two of it?

I’m currently in a long an arduous process of turning the sloped part of my garden into terraced beds

Believe me, I’m quite aware they’re very different chemicals, just was pointing out one aspect for the reasoning regarding the reduction in anxiety might be too do with CO2. I would attribute the reduction of inhaling carbon monoxide has possibly helped reduce the amount of lightheadedness I used to get when smoking

Another +1 for magnesium glycidate before bed, and another suggestion for you to speak with your Dr about is propanol; it’s a blood pressure medication used to treat anxiety, it’s often used in combination with ADHD meds. I personally didn’t like it, but it can be very effective for some people.

You’re spot on about everything you’ve said, the only bit I’d like to say is that my reasoning for the reduced anxiety is the reduced CO2 inhalation, as increased CO2 levels will generally increase anxiety.

Also my goodness I am so much more outgoing now that I vape weed as opposed to smoke; when smoking it back in the day I wanted to be atleast 100meters from people (or better yet in some woods) due to concerns about the smell etc, nowadays I will confidently walk down the street vaping, or go to social events not too worried about it, ironically my friends who still smoke are so much more anxious about going out.

I’ve only ever had someone comment on the smell when we were both in the same room.

(Also unrelated but seriously fuck my countries culture of smoking weed with tobacco)