£293,000 per meter. You could extend HS2 by 6 km. It wouldn’t even get another stop.

£25 per person. Not that much could be achieved for that, tbh. Everything sounds like a lot on a national scale.

What’s wrong with drinking out of your hands?!

I’ve donated to Gimp and used it plenty. I’m sorry but Affinity on Linux would be an insane upside for me, regardless.

No really?!?

I would never have guessed!!

This would be MAJOR for me.

I second XFS for large files.

Tape is still a thing: Ultrion tapes store up to 40 TB. But the devices to read and write them are not priced for mortals.

Hyperbus!

They’re not doing anything that’s violating licenses. I’m happy there’s different options. Having paid support is pretty cool if you’re a school or never ran Linux before. Other users will choose other distros. We should be happy, not tear into each other.

Why do you think the super wealthy are so keen on robots and AI? When even the police officers can’t “have had enough” there is no rebellion possible, ever again.

It’s all getting worse and I can’t see any way to stop it.

I could not agree more. It’s a minor axis dominated by much bigger forces, serving as nothing but a distraction while the rich get richer.

I 100% agree. I was talking about what I think Labour should do if it wants to stay relevant in British politics, not what I believe we, as a country, should do.

I’m not sure I agree. That’s not me saying Labour’s leadership is competent.

But we keep circling around “the message just isn’t being heard”.

I think the message js being heard fine, it’s just that people disagree with it. Labour’s core philosophy around how we should treat refugees and asylum seekers just doesn’t line up with what many voters believe.

Until we recognise that people, rightly or wrongly (I believe it’s wrongly, but that’s beside the point), feel immigration really genuinely is too high, and “we should take care of our own first”, Labour will, I think, continue to lose (as will the Tories) and Reform will continue to gain.

The social democrats of Denmark “solved” this. And when I say “solved”, I simply mean they adopted a policy on immigration that I personally don’t agree with, but one which has kept the more extreme views out of too much influence. Their argument, at least the public argument, is that “immigration puts pressure on those with few resources first” and “to look after those people, we need to curb immigration”. They call this “good social democratic policy”, and call out that immigration can’t be seen as more important than looking after those we’ve got.

If Labour wants to regain relevance in the industrial ghost-towns, they have to move towards an expressed and inacted “harder line” on immigration.

I don’t think they will, or can, or should. And therefore we are seeing weird FPTP results all around the country (LibDem suddenly have a huge chance of winning my own constituency, where before they were a remote third), but with an overall push towards Reform UK.

If you really want to change that picture, supporting our education system so that people vote backed by data, not by emotions, is the real change we need. But that doesn’t serve anyone - the uneducated can much more easily be told what to believe and thus vote.

A variant of “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”.

Not if you trust your data to a company that makes money from selling said data to advertising companies.

What did people expect handing all their personal information to Google?

Ugh, there’s a Google search I’m happy not to do.

And a pardon from Trump.