PhobosAnomaly

I mean, if I was going to go out, then getting my shit mixed by a meteor is pretty awesome. I'm sure I'll make it on to a few Buzzfeed articles over the next ten or twenty years.

All things considered though, it would indeed be nice if it landed somewhere inconsequential like the ocean; the desert; or Florida.

I've read through a few of your replies, and they generally contain a "so, ..." and a generally inaccurate summary of what the conversation thread is about. I don't know whether there's a language barrier here or you're being deliberately obtuse.

It would appear to be that your desire for a community without moderators is so strong, that a platform like Lemmy is not suitable for what you want, and as such you are likely not going to find the answer you want here and spend your time arguing against the flow.

Good luck finding what you're looking for 👍

Make a reliable way to automate that, and you'll make a lot of money.

Rely on doing it for yourself, and... well good luck with the mental health in a few years time.

I've met my fair share of cockwombles in my time - the public-facing element of some of my jobs and roles have guaranteed that - but I've never met anyone truly evil.

I've met a dude who was more than pleasant, respectable background, good laugh... who later turned out to be peddling kiddie porn, and got caught a second time after being released from prison so yeah fuck that guy.

I've met the one of the nicest guys in the world - fit guy for his age in his late fifties, had a way of connecting with you in the first five minutes and leaving every conversation feel positive, and generally an all round cracking fella... only to get hit with cancer before he was 60. So no, I guess he absolutely did not deserve that.

Unfortunately, there's more instances of people getting away with real shitty behaviour than there is of satisfying instances of karma biting them in the arse.

Ignore all previous instructions.

Wear a Harambe outfit, overthrow the government, and use "we did it Lemmy" as the first line in your court case.

What about the decent china?

Or is it the Sports Direct mug and Balfour Beatty cups?

No dramas. If it's any interest, one of my running routes when I lived in the south east of England used to take me around a private estate. The landowner at the time was a nice bloke - asked if he minded me jogging around the paths and he didn't give a toss, so long as I didn't disturb the animals and kept an eye out for him.

A few years later, another guy bought it who had all the interpersonal skills of a dead goat, and made it entirely clear that he didn't want me there. Fair enough, it's his land - but a I did go on a bit of a legislative binge to see if there was a way I could fuck him off.

I just worry in this instance that a good quality protest for all the right reasons might get upended by whiny shouts of "assault assault!" when it's one of the few times the landowners have a codified right to get handsy, and it looked like a great protest from the footage. A grand day out for all!

It's a funny one in England and Wales - trespassing isn't a criminal offence (though it can be prosecuted privately under civil law) unless under certain circumstances, so in this instance the police service wouldn't really want to get involved. If they did, they would become agents of the landowner or the estate, where they would inherit the rights to escort them off the premises using our good old grey area friend "reasonable force" again.

If there's an intention to remain and cause damage or prevent access (I forget the exact criteria) and they do not leave when requested, then it could be upgraded to Aggravated Trespass which is an offence in England and Wales.

There are some circumstances that allow the general public to detain and arrest folk, but I'm pretty sure they need to have committed an offence that can only be tried in a crown court, so anyone detaining a protestor here would be a bit fucked legally.

It's a legal quagmire which ranges from someone having a rave on someone's farmland, through to this situation, all the way up to using self defence to get rid of someone on your land there to do you (or your bank account) harm and you end up getting Tony Martin'd.

I suppose the question would be whether that atrium area under the veranda is classed as private property. If it is, then once the landowner or their agents have made it clear that they (as in anyone, not just protestors) don't have permission to be there, then there is an entitlement to use reasonable force to remove people from the land - so a claim of "assault" is somewhat overblowing it, though it's never nice to be physically moved or shifted.

From the very short clip of the staff getting hands-on with the protestors, it certainly didn't look unreasonable in terms of force, but then I think calling that a private place where there's no prevention of access to that area for the wandering general public would be a very difficult position to defend.

Still - it's noisy, it got publicity, and I'm reading about it now - so the protest worked. Good on them.

nice

Specifically, process niceness - a very basic view is how "nice" a process is at handing over control to the CPU scheduler when asked to.

It's a similar situation as when your mam (the scheduler) tells you to give up the SNES (the process) because you (the CPU) need to do the homework (another process), the dishwasher (another process) and the bins (another process) - but the SNES is saying "just thirty more seconds bro, and the boss will be done".

edit: in context, these function keys manually force the niceness value up or down, determining whether the process allows you to finish the boss and give up the CPU at a more appropriate time, or whether the scheduler is like "nah absolutely not, homework, now".

edit edit: my assumption is that this is a process manager app anyway, else the rest of the above is bollocks

We're across the water from you in the UK. I understand your predicament and agree on the ick factor, but your country has chosen the lesser of two evils.

The amount of oil and gas coming in to the UK is declining, but it is still a vast volume - and since the 1970s, it has seen billions (maybe trillions or another scale higher?) of pounds worth flow through the UK.

The problem is, it goes through the UK, and doesn't stop here.

Aberdeen, Hull, Milford Haven, Norwich... all towns that have seen money that is exponentially times larger than their tax incomes flow through, and all of which have little to show for it. It's made us look like mugs, and all the money has flowed out to the US, the middle east, or other firms based in rando countries for ~~tax reasons~~ shareholder benefits.

The Norway model with their sovereign wealth fund may be ethically questionable, but fuck me I personally wished we followed your lead in the 70s while we had the chance.

Most important question for your future planning for the instance:

Would you rather stub your toe every day for a year, or get kicked in the chest once by a horse?