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  • I get the impression from your comment you’re under the illusion that Labour are still a left wing party.

    Labour have not been left wing since 1995, when they reworded clause 4 of their constitution and reformed into New Labour.

    The UK hasn’t seen a left wing government since the end of the Callaghan ministry in 1979. We had Tories after that, New Labour in 1997, Tories from 2010 to 2024, and now more New Labour despite them going back to the old name of just Labour.

    Third way politics uses the marketing and “niceness” of the left whilst implementing right wing policies. For example, the modern Labour party claim to support the NHS, while at the same time selling parts and data off to private companies.

    Farmers are workers, workers lives improve when left wing parties rule. The only left wing parties with a viable chance at some form of power right now are The Green Party of England and Wales, the Scottish Greens, Plaid Cymru, and the SNP.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause_IV

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Labour





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    4 days ago

    And if, like me, your mental dictionary doesn’t include the word didactic:

    didactic
    adjective

    1. intended to instruct, esp excessively
    2. morally instructive; improving
    3. (of works of art or literature) containing a political or moral message to which aesthetic considerations are subordinated


  • A suggestion:

    Dual boot!

    Call the Linux partition “Mom’s speed machine” and the old Windows 8.1 partition “Dad’s slow shitheap”.

    Make the Linux partition as easy and intuitive to use as possible. Let the Windows partition rot.

    I’m sure dad will come around pretty soon when he sees mom’s sleek setup and he gets a pang of jealousy.

    Good luck!



  • I don’t think the term “drive”, which you used in the first comment, is generally associated with cycling.

    I understand what you’re getting at about using your head, but unfortunately we live in a society that needs to cater to the lowest common denominator.

    At 3am, when there’s nobody around, and you’ve slowed down and can see for absolute certainty that’s it’s clear then yeah you could perhaps justifiably run the red light.

    But then that concept gets normalised, people start pushing boundaries. Trying it at midnight when there’s still some traffic and pedestrians around. Trying it at 4pm because “it was quiet”. Guess what’s going to happen? Baring in mind how many terrible drivers you witness every single day.

    With driving we need to apply Kantian principles.

    “I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.”

    Or more simply: “What if everybody did this?”

    The purpose of the lights is to remove the requirement for everyone’s judgement at junctions, because human judgement has been shown to often be poor and result in collisions. Yeah, sometimes it may be unoptimised and you have to wait an extra minute, but really, what’s the rush?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantian_ethics






  • A nitpick but the Gestapo were just a part of the SS.

    The two main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy of Nazi Germany and general policing, whereas the Waffen-SS consisted of the combat units of the SS, with a sworn allegiance to Hitler. A third component of the SS, the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; “Death’s Head Units”[2]), ran the concentration camps and extermination camps. Additional subdivisions of the SS included the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) organisations. They were tasked with detecting actual or potential enemies of Nazi Germany, neutralizing the opposition, policing the German people for their commitment to Nazi ideology and providing domestic and foreign intelligence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel