ALiteralCabbage

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

Thailand has some of the strictest laws of this kind.

Typically you're looking at serious jail time if found guilty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I'm British - he regularly appeared on a wannabe Fox network "GB News" alongside a similarly "anti woke activist" Lawrence Fox (who is his own flavour of unseemly), was (is?) a spokesman for UKIP - the party which drove us to Brexit. I've taken an interest in him when I saw his dog collar and questioned his church membership, so I occasionally check in on him to piss myself off and generally increase my blood pressure.

I also used to be a practicing Christian so I'm very into denominational splitting and infighting - he studied theology, didn't get a job with the Church of English and was then ordained into the "Free Church of England", where he became a bishop. He's bounced around a few other denominations since; the Nordic Catholic Church, a Lutheran denomination, and now the Anglican Catholic Church.

Him being blocked from entering the Anglican Church of England (the real actual one which is linked to the royals) was reported in fairly mainstream news here. It seems like the church was actually pretty tight lipped on their reasoning for him not taking a position with them, and he's basically outed himself as too bigoted for the church by handing over to the press internal communication regarding him he secured through an effective FOI request.

He's an interesting chap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

There's an ingenious machine the french used to stop individuals producing CO2. I don't recall her name though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

"I'm being persecuted which proves I'm right"

A common sentiment in Christian circles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

I have to use an iPhone for work and I don't understand a vast amount of the UI choices - and that's before data fuckery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

He literally wasn't ordained by the Anglican Church because of his "anti woke" views. He joined a knock off church which wasn't desperately to be part of the catholic church (but, and I can't stress this enough, isn't at all). He's cosplaying being a vicar for clout while being a fucking worse bigot than two of the largest organised denominations.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago

The "Anglican Catholic Church" is actually not affiliated with either the holy see (the "actual" Roman Catholic Church) or the Anglican Church (as headed by the Archbishop Canterbury and the King of England).

He joined it because he didn't make the cut to become an actual Anglican Priest because of

concerns about Robinson's "libertarian anti-woke, anti-identity politics, Covid-sceptical" political views and his use of social media, particularly Twitter, to disseminate them."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

My boiler won't hold pressure; there's no leaks that I'm aware of, but it also seems to operate quite comfortably at 0 bar (hot water, warm radiators). I get it serviced annually so I don't really know what the problem is.

My best guess is ghosts keeping it alive at this point (my house is very old).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Only if their mothers were as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's a nice way to deal with it. Starling let you have a "linked" card which acts as a card w. Ringfenced money assigned to it which I like. It's part of their "spaces" setup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The efficiency of heat pumps is dependent on the ability of the home to retain that heat. In the UK that's a huge issue.

But my point was really more that to get to that point (and to install heat pumps) would be ruinously expensive.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don't even need to do this much to be at least semi-informed. It's grim how many people vote without thinking because they just copy their parents.

My 60 year old mother in law only stopped doing this like, 4 years ago because her kids finally got her to admit that she just voted how her dad would have done out of respect or something. Madness.

 

I have an old notebook which I've been toying with a few smaller distros on (typically easy to install, liveCD types), and while I enjoy the tinkering aspects of this, I had a thought that I've been mulling.

In the past I've run distributions based on larger, better supported, systems (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc.) and if or when they have folded, like crunchbang did, or PeppermintOS (however briefly), I just changed them out.

However, if I were to go back to peppermintOS, say, would it be feasible to 'convert' the system to the parent distribution? So, could I force peppermintOS to 'become' Debian, for example? Or is this overly simplistic? It's a level of engagement with my operating systems that I just haven't had!

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