Right, not starting anything, but normal countries have a general election should their parliament serially fail to produce a functioning (at least in name) legislature.
So without naming names, if any large federal republics with a 9 digit population in the western hemisphere need an intervention, blink twice.
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“Don’t worry, Trump won’t be nominee”
“Don’t worry. Trump won’t be president”
“Don’t worry, the UK won’t leave the EU”
“Don’t worry about LePen”
“Don’t worry about AfD”
“Don’t worry, we can carry on with business as usual”
SOMEBODY FUCKING DO SOMETHING! START FUCKING WORRYING.
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I increasingly feel utterly alienated from the growing part of my species which seems to openly want to rush towards apocalypse.
WHY?!?!!?
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“Hey Siri, set cinema”
“Ok, which home? The one you’re currently in or the one two thousand kilometres away?”
YOU ARE LITERALLY A FUCKING HOMEPOD. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK?
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The Israelis are about to kill over two million people, half of whom are children, and the world is just going to let them.
How utterly monumentally fucked up.
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Wifi 6 (892.12ax) is interesting because it seems, the more of its useful features you turn on, the more 2.4GHz-only WiFi 4 (892.11n) cheap shit just breaks.
So I’m maintaining a separate 802.11n SSID on the same gear just for said cheap shit.
Cheap shit that breaks on WiFi 6 seems to include:
Princess dehumidifier (cloud only, but it seems they all are, so they’ll likely eventually brick it)
Daikin AC units (local control without cloud, thank fuck)
Legrand Netatmo zigbee hub (again local control, thankfully, but dear god its WiFi support is flakey and power cycling if involves using the fuse box)
iRobot Roomba i3
Seriously, this shit all has the cheapest nastiest buggy cheap junk WiFi implementation and they should be ashamed.
Also, I wish the EU would get round to banning cloud-only appliances. You just know they’re gonna turn the cloud services off years before the useful end of the device, basically bricking it. Local API or GTFO.
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Once upon a time the Internet would tell you what to press to make your dishwasher drain.
Now it wants to show you a video, about replacing your drain hose, by visiting their affiliate link, to remove the blockage.
It’s not blocked. I just want to know how to make it drain.
I gave up and just ran it on the shortest cycle on the basis that it will drain at the end.
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I want dials levers and switches that go thunk, with raised or deeply etched legends that aren't just screen printed, and more metal everywhere.
I don't need 5 different very slightly different dishwasher settings, we all know I'm just gonna hit the "regular" one every time any
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Amidst the performative cries of “Israel has the right to defend itself”, it seems to be heresy to acknowledge the humanity of the few million people who get to live, in perpetuity, as Israel’s ritual punching bag, and are expected to do nothing in response, nothing in prevention, and accept the blame for others doing literally anything.
And even saying this will just result in tedious wankers going, “oh, you support terrorism then?”
The way the Palestinian people are treated is some serious Omelas shit.
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Yet another lightning connector dies from
Electrolysis. Been cold plugging this one; it’s a lightning to USB C adaptor, and I’m working on the basis that cold plugging will extend the life.
But it still has a life expectancy of only a few months. My phone charges inductively but the iPad needs this fucking cursed connector.
I hate it with a passion. Useless piece of shit that doesn’t do the goddam thing it’s fucking supposed to.
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@Breadbin @Rachel Lawson I can’t find any consistent link to climate.
No other connector does this to me. It’s just lightning cables that provide power, and only lightning. USB C doesn’t do it. The old iPod dock cables didn’t do it. It’s just lightning, and they will always do it.
@rachel_norfolk Damn, that’s such a shame:(
Also odd that the iPad doesn’t have wireless charging. Hmm.
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Human bodies:
Ethanol: wheeeeee!
Ethandiol: I … die
Propanol: wheeeeee!
Propantriol: Yeah, whatever
Fickle.
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Apparently Farage and Patel sang karaoke at the Tory conference.
Can’t get the image of them doing a duet of “Endless Love” out of my mind.
I BLOODY WARNED YOU IN THE ABSTRACT.
Just had some random pop up on Reddit, necroposting to reply to something I posted in 2022 saying, “you will never be a woman”
And, ok, whatever, but I replied asking if they’re able to explain what it is that doing this is doing for them.
And I hope they reply because I’m actually fascinated.
I get that they’re trying to offend me, but on the one hand, poor target selection because I’m years past that, and on the other, why not something contemporary? I mean, if they’re picking year old posts to reply to, their target might never even see it.
I guess I just don’t understand why they spent their time doing this in this way.
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People think coeliac disease, or even non coeliac gluten intolerance, is like lactose intolerance: painful and annoying but ultimately a “choice”.
It isn’t. If you are sensitised to it in that way, gluten will make your immune system attack your own body. It’s not nice stuff.
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@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I have non coeliac gluten sensitivity (if I eat it, I get rheumatoid arthritis), and my partner has coeliac disease. The prevalence of what we call, “Los Angeles Gluten Free” types is something we regard as a bit of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it creates a market for gluten free food because 90% of most supermarkets are simply off limits to us.
But on the other, it creates establishments which claim to sell/serve “gluten free food” which is nothing of the kind.
The worst offenders store their gluten “free” and wheat products on the same shelf and use the same utensils to handle them!
@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I would, however, note that it’s perfectly normal to buy gluten free and gluten containing produce in the same shop. Our household has a gluten free kitchen, but for the one member of it who does eat gluten, who has her own grill, we also buy gluten containing food.
Households contain more than one person, quite often.
Wasn’t aware of exactly how bad it can get, but anyone talking about medical issues as a “choice” can fuck right off.
Also auto immune is really scary shit:( Few things can unravel your life and turn it into a living hell as your immune system turning on you.
@Breadbin The thing with coeliac is that the autoimmune target is your gut lining.
So you die slowly of malnutrition.
“HS2 on existing track” is not a thing. The whole point of it is to move long distance trains off existing track so more local trains can run.
With this half arsery, the Tories get the worst of both worlds: they spend most of the money and get pretty much none of the benefit.
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!Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ AppleTV hardware now supports Tailscale, with exit nodes.
I am astonished that Apple allowed this blatant circumvention of region coding, but they did.
Get it while it’s hot, I guess.
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Há uma podcast que se chama “prova oral”, em português. O nível é difícil param mim, mas tenho ouvido no carro.
No episódio mais recente, houve uma conversa com uma psicóloga, e ela estava a falar sobre relacionamentos tóxicos e, também, sobre narcisistas.
E foi realmente, realmente interessante. Eu não entendi tudo, mas os partes que eu entendi, eu senti-os no meu coração.
Parece-me uma boa maneira para aprender uma língua.
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You, a TERF sitting there in your underwear with uncleaned teeth trying to convince the five Nazis left on Twitter that trans women are really men.
Me, a trans woman, spending her day SUP surfing at the beach followed by great food and sangria with family at a nice restaurant.
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On the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I tried sup surfing.
Let it be known that I have neither concussion nor a broken metacarpal.
But I am still grateful for voltaren.
Also, you absolutely cannot take the Atlantic in a fight.
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Dear god, I just hit 50.
How the hell did that happen?
Just watched the “Death of Stalin” episode of The Spanish Princess.
Whoever wrote this clearly has OPINIONS about Margaret Beaufort.
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Watching The Spanish Princess on HBO Max.
Dunno how accurate their portrayal of Margaret Beaufort is, but they’re portraying her as exactly the sort of woman who would wield power in the court of a Tudor monarch and yet still die of old age.
And if she was anything like that, then she’d have been beyond terrifying IRL, and an utter inspiration.
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Rewatched Star Trek First Contact, of which I have fond memories, recently.
It's aged VERY badly.
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@Alexandra Lanes Can't set it as Siri's voice (yet?)
But a generative AI with my dead mum's voice? Maybe.
HomePod: "And did those feet, in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green?"
Me: "No"
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They do need the concept of "provisional budget".
What they need the most is proportional representation in the House. The states could even do it under the current constitution.
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