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  • Is this the sort of thing you're looking for?

    https://www.files.gallery/

    It's a php file you drop into a folder that creates a gallery of the files (including pdfs). There are security settings and visual customisations you can change. If you know what you're doing you can access the file remotely, too. I've used it for a while and found it helpful.

  • Good thing too... if those rich people had to pay tax then they'd leave the country. Who would pay all that tax that they don't pay if they did leave... er... er.... it made sense when the posh man said it on the radio this morning and his poshness made me believe it with all my poverty-stricken heart.

  • For me it's a conspiracy theory (and most likely untrue) - but it's quite an interesting one rather than "stupid". Raises ideas about authenticity and what people are doing when they go to look at artifacts in museums. There HAVE been paintings, for instance, hung in galleries for years that have turned out to be forgeries but - for a long time people were happy staring at the "art". Also, ones that have been restored beyond a point where they are pretty much not the original piece. How much would it alter things if the Marbles were all replaced with exact replicas at the British Museum?

  • Isn't there a conspiracy theory that everything on show at the British Museum is a replica anyway and that the real artifacts are carefully stored elsewhere?

  • It's great. I've been using it for nearly a year and it just works brilliantly.

  • Do you think I could get away with some serious financial crime if I just quoted the Psalms and declared I was a repentant sinner? I'd be happy to pray for any of my potential victims if that helps.

  • You might be in with a chance... of higher water bills. Just for your friends, of course.

  • I'm also not rich to start with and didn't go to public school either. I guess I just need to learn my place and celebrate the achievements of others.

  • Just heard Tice on LBC being questioned about all the lying and he used being a Christian as a defence. Everyone sins, he told Tom Swarbrick.

  • Anyone able to give me career advice about how to become a Thames Water executive? Doesn't look hard to do and you keep getting bonuses!

  • I struggled to understand his Brexit stance - a bit like Mick Lynch. Something about EU membership preventing future nationalisation.

    I'm more interested in his other international views... though I should really just look it up.

  • That's one of the issues, isn't it? I recently found someone who only responded to comments about Margaret Thatcher, challenging negative comments about her. This person's history went back years and ALL of the comments (thousands!) only challenged negative ones about her. It could have been a bot, of course, but if real, it was a pretty weird way of engaging online. That goes beyond contrarianism, it's some sort of "distributed sealioning" maybe?

  • It's a hard one, though. I've found myself challenging someone who then avoids answering and making other similarly unsupported points... eventually you learn that it's a waste of time. Equally, you don't want to leave their comments out there unchallenged.

  • How can you tell good faith from bad faith?

    For instance, can you tell if this question is asked in good faith or not? These things seem very hard know.

  • Seems to me that's the point of it: to stop people asking questions in good faith and then persisting on challenging lies and disinformation.

  • You'll forgive me but that's not evidence of a "crank" (unless "crank" simply refers to anyone who doesn't share your views). You made the assertion that Murray's "been many many times more discredited than proven correct". As I said, I'm happy to have my opinion of Murray changed but you've not provided any evidence other than a Wikipedia page which doesn't seem to show he was "discredited" in the way you think it does. He has some opinions which many people don't share (Salisbury and Starmer come to mind) but, generally, he appears to me to have stood up for some righteous causes (Assange, Palestine, the influence of oligarchs on Brtitish politicians).

  • Can you give evidence for your "crank" assertion and that he's been discredited? I've followed Murray over the last 5 or so years and I've not noticed misinformation. He's pretty much on the other side of things than mainstream political opinion but usually what he asserts tends to be the case. But happy to corrected and informed by evidence.

  • Keep searching Youtube. It's been put up and taken down a couple if times already. It'll be put back up again.

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