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  Same as today, now isn't it? Most of the population leans one way but those in power *de facto* lean the other way.

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  There's a picture of a young Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth) being taught by her uncle, the then King, how to make a NAZI salute. At least the British upper classes actually liked NAZIsm, they only started having a problem with NAZIs when Hitler invaded Poland. More broadly, the white supremacist ideas have always been appealing in Britain - even Churchill himself committed a Genocide in India years before he became PM and the Battle Of Britain. Certainly a continued love for su...

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  Cops are mainly to suppress anybody who doesn't go along with the will of the powerful. They don't exist to reduce harm to the many, they exist to protect the assets of the Owner class, which is why in Law property "crime" is usually more severely punished than anything but murder and why cops are vastly more speedy at investigating and prosecuting "crimes" committed against the Owner class or their Assets than they are when it's the riff-raff that suffers. They...

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  With age this improves: I can now come back to were I left the story after I went down on a tangent, even after going down tangents of the tangent. (Well, usually).

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  Who needs catnip when there's thick sliced almost raw beef?!

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  It's called Oligarchy and it predates Tech "Overlords" in America.

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  Start believing in miracles?!

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  Just of the top of my head here are some possible ideas to explain why not: - Meat subsidies - Meat substitutes require more processing and additional ingredients - Meat sells a lot more than meat substitutes hence the whole chain benefits more from economies of scale - Animals raised for meat can extract nutrition from plants and parts of plants which humans cannot (for example cattle can actually break up the fiber in food and extract nutrition from it, which humans cannot), plus they can eat...

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  GDP in the UK is hugelly manipulated anyways. I remember back in 2012 when in the aftermath of the 2008 there was a "double dip recession" (a bit of GDP fall, twice) according to Official figures. Well, a few years later a group of Economists calculated GDP from the very same source figures and the result was very different from the Official GDP, with Britain having actually had a Depression (a GDP fall of over 4%). And don't get me started at the whole scam of using the CPI meas...

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  A Mini PC with an N100 (exact same performance as the microprocessor in the Pi5 according to [this](https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_processor_n100-vs-raspberry_pi_5_b_broadcom_bcm2712)) and 8GB RAM will cost you around $140, which per what a previous poster dug out is exactly the same price as a Pi**4** with only 4GB if we're talking about something with the equivalent kit (i.e. with box, dissipators, power supply and HDMI cable)

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  By doubling down on ICE and ultra expensive penis replacement "trucks" the Auto Industry and it's paid up politicians there are basically committing suicide, so sooner or later there will be plenty of room in that market for auto makers with friendly priced electric cars.

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  I'm an European (specifically from an EU country). I was born still in a Dictatorship, before the Revolution which brought Democracy, and I grew up hearing the stories of Censorship and the Political Police arresting people for criticizing the local Dictator. I don't know who your "we" is, but it sure as hell ain't me or most of my countrymen. A mandatory Government app on your phone is the kind of thing that rings alarm bells in people's minds around here because it...

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  Clearly, if you're really from Europe (and not just a paid propagandist or troll), you're not from one of those countries which freed themselves from some dictatorship or other recently enough for most people in that country having themselves or their parents been alive during the dictatorship days. One thing is some kind of passive ID, be it in a card or in digital format, another very different thing is software running on your devices which is capable of automatically reporting to th...

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  If this is not the most crooked EU Comission ever, it's a pretty close second.

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  Literally the worst that can happen to me if I'm really really unlucky is end up tied down to a single provider, same as you. There were already 100s of registars back then (and as of 2024 there were over 2000) along with a standardized process for moving a domain to another registar, all regulated by an international regulator, ICANN. Given that ease of migration is guaranteed by ICANN, making the market highly competitive, the only real risk that this entire system end up "consolida...

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  The actual problem isn't at all making a 4G mini-computer: you can literally buy the necessary parts as modules and wire them together with a a half-way decent microcontroller board and an smallish LED display and then make some code for it in something like Arduino IDE (though I would recommend Platform IO + VS Code instead). The problem is making it small (especially thin) and capable of running of batteries for days rather than hours. For example, if you're trying to actually solve...

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  Remember boys and girls, if the bomb falls from the sky either from a plane or ridding the nosecone of a missile or is shot from the barrel of a tank, that is never Terrorism, it's only Terrorism if it's otherwise.

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  On one side people shouldn’t get special treatment for things of their chosing - that’s just the Principle of fairness of treatment. Nowadays in modern countries with easy access to modern contraception, having kids is a choice. However given how for example in America there is a crack down on abortion, things are going backwards in this and having kids isn’t always a choice anymore, in which case it’s actually fair to more easilly accomodate people who have kids more than people who don’t....

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  Alternativelly, they've just been competent in the execution of their less savory intelligence operations and thus not been caught doing something too outrageous. It makes a lot more sense for China to arrange an "overdose" than shoot somebody in the middle of a busy street in broad daylight from a car with diplomatic plates and a Chinese flag. Same for all other countries, by the way, though in Autocracies politicians have less to worry if the country ever gets caught murdering...

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  What we're talking about is "The Great Game", not Tit-Tac-Toe.

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  Well, it might be enough wood to make a hoovel to live in that fits all the 2 m2 of land a young person can afford nowadays.

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  I’ve worked in all sizes of companies, in various industries and 3 different European countries. In my experience it very much depends on the industry the company in, the division one is working in and the size of the company. Engineering types in an Engineering/Tech company using Linux isn’t at all unusual in smaller and mid-sized companies. Sales types or accounting, definitelly are using Window. Creatives tend to use Macs, mainly because the Adobe suite runs perfectly in it and the hardwa...

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  I have never heard or read of anybody saying that people should "**Vote Trump** because Kamala supports Israel" until this moment.

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  In a normal giraffe the neck (and the legs) is long in order to be able to reach the leafs high up on trees, so it makes sense that in a giraffe centaur arms would be at a that would let them use theirs arms to help with that, which would either be higher up or, alternativelly, lower down but long enough that they can both reach the leaves above AND the ground below whilst standing up.