Sorry, I love them. Fried as part of breakfast, cooked with cream on fresh sour dough toast.

Beef and mushroom pie. So good.

Yes, it is a complete trainwreck.

And only 51% of people who voted, around 25% of the population, were in favour so it’s unsurprising that you can find large sections at this point who would be unhappy with the situation. It’s not necessarily Bregret, we didn’t want it in the first place.

Brexit was a viable approach to addressing NHS financing

You have to also remember that Brexit was a cross party matter. Tories gonna Tory with their made up numbers, but also the head of the Labour party was pro-Brexit since the unfettered access to the Labour market weakened the unions positions. It was only in the later stages that he rather weakly positioned himself as pro-EU because better a weakened position with the EU than a weakened position without the EU to back you up if you have a Tory government.

sensible healthcare policy

NHS gutting is due to austerity and unregulated privatisation rather than Brexit. I’m not aware of anyone who believed the Boris bus, mostly because I don’t know of anyone who believed a word of what he said. Conservatives who did vote Boris mostly appear to have liked the way he “owned the libs”.

If labor costs increase that may lead to automation to taking the place of migrants

Maybe. But only if you take a single point and follow it exponentially without implementing anything else.

The pound is vastly overvalued and needs to be brought down. That would improve exports and the value of the work, potentially allowing people to do these jobs without it requiring them to live in poverty. Also, perhaps these aren’t jobs that should exist at this point? We also don’t have people lighting the lamps in London, and pressing the bellows by hand in the steam ships. I don’t think it’ll come to that because I’ve seen the automation available for soft fruit harvesting, and there are limited situations where they are suitable.

Not that any of this matters as none of the parties have taken away any lessons from this mess, so I don’t really see how Britain will be able to recover for a generation.

Sorry, but I just get offended when people call us stupid. A lot of us didn’t want this, FPTP means that over the past decade we’ve had major Conservative control even though the majority of voters didn’t want them. Hopefully you can understand that a lot of us are stuck with a situation that we didn’t want. Hopefully if we can be a bit more empathetic to the reasons people made poor decisions in the past, we can help offer better choices in the future.

If any Britons wanted to work for the wages that immigrants take home, those low-paying jobs would be theirs immediately.

That’s a terrible framing of the situation. The opinion (rightly or wrongly) is that cheap labour from poorer countries sets the expectations for employment costs.

These workers will come for a season and live in horrific conditions with the expectation that although it’s low pay for Britain, its higher than the home country and they will take the cash out of the economy.

Brexit was a sledgehammer approach for people to say “no jobs should pay so low that you have to live a subsistence existence.”

Now whether it’s because farmers pay too low due to the supermarket purchase chain forcing the situation, cost of living is far too high or a mix of both, the fact of the matter is just saying “tHoSe LoW pAyInG jObS cOuLd Be ThEiRs” make you sound stupid.

There are a lot of problems with the British economy and even with the elections coming up, the opposition are not coming up with very good suggestions on how to improve the situation.

I miss Virgin Cola, I remember that being one of the better colas.

Ah, that reminded me of another bizarre Guinness product I saw when I was travelling to the States.

Why would you have Guinness American Lager?

I’m hoping this is an American. I can’t even imagine taking a huge spoonful thinking it’s blackcurrant jelly.

That sounds grim.

I really don’t get Oreos. The biscuit doesn’t taste of chocolate, and the paste just tastes of paste, making it worse than custard creams.

It just tastes “budget”.

It all depends on what you actually want to do.

I have a computer connected to the TV with Chimera installed because that’s SteamOS 3 with emulators preconfigured and is completely couch + controller friendly.

My laptop has Fedora because it’s up to date, but everything is tested before release, and all upgrade paths are automated unlike Arch which burnt me in the past with breaking changes.

On my Pi’s I have Diet Pi, which is Debian but has images for each of the different ARM boards and has a bunch of scripts for setting up print servers, Home Assistant, etc. I want Debian for it’s slow unchanging nature there.

On my desktop, less so.

But underneath they are all Linux, and they all behave in very similar ways, it’s all about the initial setup.

And how did he get her pregnant without being seen?

Stable has nothing to do with outdated packages.

That’s a personal decision by a distro.

Fedora is a stable distro because generally the packages stay on the same major version throughout the version, however they have a list of exceptions for certain applications that should be updated for security or perhaps they don’t follow a major/minor/bugfix release and it’s bad practice to hack together your own versions.

Fedora rebases it’s packages every 6 months, so it’s never left far behind.

They also don’t produce usable amounts of light.

Ah, but then you’ll have to put up will all the folks whining about new builds, and that a waste outlet pipe wasn’t connected properly, Vs a 60-70s that’s still standing so must be much better, as long as we ignore the black mold in the cavity that is slowly killing us.

That doesn’t make it “trash”.

It hasn’t rained yet.

Most people are not accessing the internet via a Chromebook.

The one I did last election for fun aligned me with Sinn Fein which was mostly because almost all of their policies were around the environment.

I think when UKIP were imploding I was matched up because their manifesto was around energy independence.

My point is, that these can be good guidelines but also make sure you do your research. Let this halp reduce the noise from all the parties.

Much like you looking at Reform, if UKIP was actually about independence, energy independence, food independence, and not just wanting to get rid of the French then it could be an interesting platform. But they consistently supported voted against onshore windfarms, increasing red tape for nuclear, and the normal Tory policy of overvaluing the pound so that we are optimised for imports.

Some of those questions were weird.

But 93% Green, 90% Labour at one end and 15% UKIP at the other. Seems pretty accurate.

I was just wondering if anyone was going to provide an upgrade path for my NanoPi Neo 3.

This looks small enough to do that job!

[Edit] Checked out the specs, I don’t think this is going to beat the NanoPi Neo 3 at all.

But it’s good to see other folks try to make the machines tiny.

No one said it’s okay.

We said “buying albums doesn’t directly support artists”.

Artists make a recording of a bunch of songs. A label buys that copy of a recording and makes a bunch of prints.

Album goes on to make millions, band had sold that copy of the recording so doesn’t get anything from the secondary selling.

Label then licenses that recording to Spotify. Spotify then makes money on people’s subscriptions and gives the 60% to the label they licensed it from. Notice how the artist isn’t involved here?

No one is a fucking slave you idiot, and no one is justifying it. Pirate the album and go to shows and buy their merchandise. This has always been the way, and remains the way.