TheGrandNagus @ TheGrandNagus @lemmy.world Posts 1Comments 4,005Joined 2 yr. ago
I do agree that the supposed justification for this change sounds quite daft and chest-thumpy... almost to the point of sounding like political satire.
He's definitely playing it up in that way because he'd be crucified by the tabloids and Twitter for saying anything less on VE day, which is unfortunate, but I guess it's the political climate we live in.
But the actual law itself seems quite standard. It's not unusual at all for climbing on statues and monuments to be an offence, here or anywhere else. It's particularly touchy when it's one related to WW2, and it wouldn't be completely unreasonable to argue this one is.
I guess it shows why I could never be a politician lol. I'd probably say something like ok, ban climbing these statues, fair enough, but piss off with the putting words in my mouth. Churchill was a complicated man and I should be free to criticise him until the cows come home, and then I'd immediately face immense backlash, the usual GB News ghouls would be calling for my head, and I'd be ousted from [party].
It's already illegal to climb on a bunch of statues, memorials, and the like, and that's not just a UK thing, that's a most places thing.
I'm somewhat surprised people were allowed to climb this one.
Chlorinated chicken isn't happening, it's been ruled out time and again.
Food standards and animal welfare is something that's taken quite seriously by both our politicians and our populace. The EU has strict food standards and yet our minimum standards are substantially higher than theirs (somewhat surprising, I know, but it's true). So to be blunt, I'm not worried at all about food standards.
I'm far more worried about other things. Regulation of big tech, data/privacy laws, further rigging IP laws (especially software patents, which are mostly banned in the UK) in a way that benefits US giants.
This damage limitation is, I guess, a good change. Although I'm more pleased about the other stuff going on, we're shifting to become more self-reliant on some things (particularly defence), and cooperating with continental Europe more again.
I just hope that by next election there's serious calls to do things like rejoining the Customs Union.
Correction: they've been doing it since Windows 8.
Windows 8 came out 13 years ago.
They literally do not lol
In game purchases in steam games don't have to pay Valve, nor does Valve prevent you from uploading your game to other stores, which is what this ruling was about.
Maybe if you send enough fan mail to Tim Cook
Clearly you didn't understand the point I was making. I never said you weren't allowed to like a product.
The article exposes the title as a lie. People shouldn't reward that kind of journalism by reading it.
Congrats, you sound exactly like some Apple fanboy.
Moore's Law has been dead for a long time.
Moore's Law hypothesises that transistors in an integrated circuit will double every two years, primarily down to transistor density improvements.
Intel in particular really like to say it's still alive, because it's what investors want to hear, but in reality transistor density improvements have slowed quite a bit, and we've had to rely on other things for better performance.
Huh? EVs are more popular than they have ever been, and most of the developed world is edging ever closer to ICE bans for newly sold cars (most are 2035).
Why are you being so ideological about the fuel type people's cars use?
People frequently act like Lemmy users are different to Reddit users, but that really isn't the case. People act the same here as they did/do there.
Good.
If Tommy Robinson was calling for people to murder their MP, people would rightly be giving him shit for it and calling for him to be charged for inciting violence.
To apply a different rule to these people would be pure hypocrisy.
His alternative is to become a vassal for US healthcare insurance companies
This deadline wasn't some unknown thing suddenly sprung upon energy companies, this deadline has been known about for a long time, why have they left it this late? Were they just expecting the government to keep extending the deadline?
I can't believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I'm such an idiot.
Infuriating that this isn't the standard everywhere.
Surprised the EU hasn't looked into it, even. The default behaviour to use proprietary MS formats is clearly intended to damage competitors by reducing compatibility.
I'd call that a textbook case of abuse of dominant market position. How is it any different to Google doing crap like preferring their own products in Google searches?
You: genocide is just when you kill or sterilise ethnic groups
Me: that's not the definition of genocide, it's more broad than that.
You: um ackshully it turns out the definition of genocide isn't strictly ethnic groups, nor is it only killing or sterilisation
You literally proved me right. No harm in admitting that I was right and you were wrong. There's no need to get upset about it and sling insults around.
You are forgiven for being wrong. It's no big deal.
I never said whether it did or didn't. I only said your definition is wrong.
Don't try to take some quasi-victory out of this.
I'm just telling you the facts.
but only providing instructions for.. what, fedora and rhel?
Yes, what, did you want me to provide instructions for everything under the sun? Look at what I wrote, I said "or whatever", I.e. or the equivalent commands on another distro.
And saying that running your package manager from the command line is to "feel like a hacker?"
Lmao you're just confirming you're trying to bait people here.
Fun fact there's a range of distros that don't have proper UIs for their package manager
Ok? What's your point? You'd only install a distro that leans heavily on the terminal if you're the kind of person who wants to rely on the terminal. I don't even know what point you're trying to make lmao
What exactly do you think is inside of those packages?
It varies. But regardless, that's a colossally stupid point. Installing random .exe files you find online also executes scripts.
The point you made was that on Linux the way you install programs is to go online and run random scripts. That is objectively a lie, and now you're backpedaling away from that point.
And you know, Flatpaks do exist and are the standard now.