nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 indeed. But then the only countries in Europe to use FPTP voting are Belarus and the UK.
Curious, that.
nostr:npub1cvv8hq8em4jn3prg4jtlymfpfw6e98jk3m9z685hkv9z2vnkpx5q5mmv8d I don't have the choice. Bringing grid electricity over the hill would cost more than everything I own.
nostr:npub1xkgshzyxs8mrn97w7ck66y8y0nhd7kew8sssndg9xupfnxstus8qv7gph9 You can't really blame the Tor folk. They do something genuinely useful, and they're short of financial support.
nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 nostr:npub16qp7aqt3uxxm0pw8m59tmw7j5sa382w5m4j288850acdwc78lycsnyuyt7 nostr:npub17qmud32pgkk4v335kc0mct377pwtjw2rw7p9gphjy280xp2xlr0q24uz8c My feeling after my limited study of the Russian revolution is that Lenin was more motivated by hatred of the Tzarist state, and Stalin by personal ambition, than either was by concern about injustice or by the interests of either industrial workers or peasants.
nostr:npub1t39ksm7tthm4rgt75vj0q6l3y2fzy8z7sn87hltv7w7fd7wl7jhswxp7ef mine is without. My monitor has multiple inputs, and reliably recognises which one at any given time actually has a signal.
nostr:npub1t39ksm7tthm4rgt75vj0q6l3y2fzy8z7sn87hltv7w7fd7wl7jhswxp7ef USB based KVMs are simple and cheap (and work).
nostr:npub1wnfe4cs0wn3utnrfmcpqverytrtfrhjzwv8jpma75qfs22l5362qr3rmyg Please can I ask people who are concerned by this to sign the petition to devolve powers to admit refugees to Scotland, Wales, and Nothern Ireland, and to boost this message?
#RefugeesAreWelcomeHere
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/638626
nostr:npub1fk2jyjkty3uqe9mz4seppedsvgzrsutztj0favz0u5gxrhlypehs4v5l0c Well, that's true, of course. But it's a long way from being a majority who support the government on this; they have no democratic mandate for their 'crackdown on protest'.
And even if they did, we should still call a spade a spade. This is policy incompatible with democracy, incompatible with a free society. It is explicitly authoritarian. It shades towards fascism.
nostr:npub1krjcg3dv8yzpqydk0c3p824u6xmuwu46gx6m88u2qfxkwruy86as9f49sh That is truly superb bike control!
How about an extra 5% VAT on all good sold in mixed-materials packaging?
How about an extra 5% VAT on all good sold in non-recyclable packaging?
How about an extra 5% VAT on all goods sold in non-standard bottles and jars?
How about an extra 5% VAT on all goods sold with labels stuck on with non-water-soluble glue?
So that's an extra 20% for non-recyclable mixed-material non-standard bottles with bastard glued on labels...
Packaging would get sorted QUICK.
"Democracy may possibly be a good system of governance – I don't believe representative democracy can be, for reasons I shall give below – but we don't know, because at least in the English-speaking world, it's never been tried"
New essay by me, On representative democracy, and citizens' assemblies
I've been doing a bit more experimenting with #LargeLanguageModels #LLM and truth, and I've got an interesting one.
my experimental design was that I'd start asking about relationships between European monarchs, and then start introducing fictitious monarchs, but I didn't get that far...
#1/several
There's a place in Belgium called #Lisp. Arthur Norman used to have a photograph of the Lisp garbage collector truck (what in Scotland we'd call the scaffie wagon) on the streets of Lisp on the wall of his office at Trinity College, Cambridge.
I'm wondering whether anyone has a copy of such a photo (or could take one), and if so, whether they would share it?
Thanks