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  • A Hung Jury in the Latest Just Stop Oil Trial Shows the Nonsense of these Prosecutions

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  • They say ‘I do what I like without thinking about the law’. I don’t think following the law and doing the right thing are always the same thing.

    And you are correct. But when you make the choice to break the law based on what is right. You also make the choice to suffer the consequences. As law is made by society. Not right or wrong.

    If you believe, your actions are correct and society wrong. Then you are choosing to sacrifice to fight that battle.

    And just like, a person killing a paedophile may be seen by all as right. It is still a crime of murder. Just like destroying property to make your point is still criminal damage, no matter your point. Your willingness to commit the crime is pretty worthless. If you are not also willing to suffer the punishment.

  • U.S.President-elect Donald Trump’s Greenland 'Supporters' Were Homeless and Socially Disadvantaged People Bribed With Hotel Dinners, Danish Media Reports

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  • Homeless are likely cheaper.

    Not to mention he can likely claim a tax break for charity donations to them.

  • Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government”

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  • True.

    But as much as I hated privatisation.

    If owning the trains was required. Then sort term contracts would be impossible.

    Making what labour is doing now, as expensive as the more right wing keep falsely claiming.

    So we sorta have some gratitude that the tories never required the same companies to own the rolling stock as run it. But instead sold it to banks requiring them to rent it.

  • Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government

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  • Do you honestly think that would stop him taking the UK gov to court.

    It would not. He would claim it is a personal attack on his companies rights to free speech.

    Remember, this is not about having a valid case. It is about who has the greatest limitation on spending. Elon spending his own money. Or a gov that must argue it is a valid use of voters money.

  • Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government”

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  • The labour gov is pretty much planning to nationalise rail again.

    All contracts as they expire will be replaced with co ops or a new nationalised company. By 2027 apparently.

    So yep public owned rail again.

  • Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government”

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  • Yep also China has a hold on musk economically. And supports Russia.

    Russia has managed to gain a hold on the US again. (Reminding folks about his illegal holding of Ukraine funds last time)

    The UK is by far the next most vocal supporter.

  • Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government

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  • Given he is now part of the preparing US government. And has openly asked that government to overthrow the UK.

    The US government can def be seen as having threatened war against a NATO member.

    The US embassy should def be called to explain. And closed as a hostile nation if is fails.

  • Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government

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  • Issue with that ia the cost of fighting.

    You fine someone like Musk. He will take ot to court and has the fiscal clout to make the fight to expensice for the government.

    Heck even the US IRS has difficulty taxing billionaires due to this.

  • Firms to raise prices due to tax and wage increases

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  • Last estimate I heard was 0.4 acres per person to grow enough food. And honestly, the UK does not have enough agriculturally suitable land to support its population.

    Only way we could do it now. Would be to build multi level indoor farms. Technically, this is possible. But economically even more likely to require individual non-self sufficient solutions. IE, groups be they societal or capital motivated. Getting together to fund, build and manage such complex and experimental farming.

    Not to mention energy requirements. Multi level lighting may be possible using sun reflection. But the more levels you need, the harder and more likely you are to need artificial lighting. So this increases our need to consider division of land usage for farming vs solar and wind or nuke generation.

    Honestly, I am not sure being fully self-sufficient as a nation. Will ever be possible again for dense population nations like the UK. We have not been so food wise since sometime before the 1900s.

  • Firms to raise prices due to tax and wage increases

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  • Entirely true.

    But what is more annoying is how Tories etc are trying to suggest it was not expected.

    We live in a capitalistic society. Even the most left wing politician. In no way expects corporations to choose reductions in profit.

    The labour may not like it. But they fully expected this to happen. When companies start to increase prices above the % amount, the wages increased. Making employees worse off over all. That is the point things can be said to have failed. Rather than all the crappy biased telegraph and times articles claiming Labour has destroyed the economy.

    And if that happens. It is the companies that are to blame for their own choice to price themselves out of the market. Not tax rate or wage levels.

  • Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government”

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  • Elon Musk clearly needs mental health support.

    Hell of late he is making trump see, sane and well-thought-out.

  • 'Dark Money' Is Tainting Washington Think Tanks

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  • I assumed that was the point of think tanks.

    They are all paid. So tend to exist to further corporate interests. Such interests rarely align with society as a whole.

    It is basically paying smart people, to lobby the voters, as well as politicians.

  • Nigel Farage distances himself from Elon Musk on Tommy Robinson

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  • Its what happens when you have a billionaire all the way up your arsehole.

    Otherwise known as being a smug little shit.

  • Nigel Farage distances himself from Elon Musk on Tommy Robinson

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  • Well Elon is likely the most able to help there.

    Cant help but wonder how hard it would be. To convonce his Space X employees to tell him moving to mars is possible now.

    """ Yep the Starship is ready. All the stuff needed for a self sufficient home is on board. And as the first there you will be King. """

    He aint gonna want tobgo alone. And convincing Farrage he would be PM if he started as the kings lacky.

    "Si Lord Musk. You just need to leave the ship before your serfs. We are hiring an army for you. They will follow on next ship. Then colonisers after that. But will apl the palace loaded. Only the 2 of you will fit on this one"

    "Oh just ignore that countdown over the airlock. Its just a non important technical detail. "

  • Israeli lawmakers demand military destroy all food and energy resources in Gaza

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  • They also didn’t intentionally starve the populace, that was a byproduct of pissing off the world.

    Given they destroyed ship delivering food to the UK. Knowing the UK imported something like 50+% of all food at the time.

    The UK also did much the same. Bombing rail etc.

    Starving the population was an intentional side effect of trying to limit resources getting to an enemy.

    So the honest answer is things were less efficient.

    But starvation has been a common practice since rome. Salting the fieilds etc. And likely before then.

    Honestly the Geneva convention was the first time anyone expected otherwise.

  • Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government

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  • What he has the power to do.

    Technically he only has the power to authorise. The PM has the power to request.

    When the reformation happened. After beheading the last ruling king. It became a little more complex then the king passing soverignty to parliment. As the king did not have soverinty after the war the short lived republic did.

    Post reformation when parliment is disbanded. The king is authorising the government (IE pm) to gain sovereignty from parliment. But parliment must actually pass it. Hence the closing ceromony.

    So power never actually resides in the king under the post reformation constitution. But is passed between parliment and the PM. Hence why the Government \PM is in power during an election cycle.

    The only way the King could force parliment to disband. Would be to try and retake power using the loyalty of paliment or the military (who rechnically still swear to obay him).

    But technically he dose not have the power to force it legally.

    Sorry lots of typis. Visually impaired typing on a phone. Is A PIK (Pain In rhe King.)

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  • Grins.

    Nah. If i wanted revenge id put windows on it.

    They just need an internet PC with Libreoffice.

  • China may have stopped Putin from using nuclear weapons, Blinken says

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  • So in other words you are saying. Any nation with nukes has a right to walk in and take over any non nuke nation. And those nations have no right or duty to defend their borders.

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  • This is so true.

    I have been using Linux since the mid 90s. Exclusively since about 2005.

    I am obviously getting old now. But my willingness to remember the structure of rarly used commands/options. Has always been limited. If its not something I do often. It generally involves looking up man pages. And more often then not a GUI is just faster.

    GUI has improved hugly in the time I have been using Linux. To the point that now it really is quicker if I'm not already in the terminal.

    But as soon as things get to the multiple command level. Or complex enough that looking up is needed anyway. Typeing is just faster. Being all in one window makes a huge difference. But also once things get to the need to look up point. Command lines are just easy and quick to share online etc. So it tends to be the easy way for forums etc to share guidelines etc.

    For all GUI has improved. Text is still one of the easiest ways to share data. It allows things to be organised and jumped around from point to point.

    I am teaching an ex GF to use a new Linux PC for the first time. (Put it together as a wedding gift)

    I tend to tell her to switch between GUI and command line as best suits her. As long as you understand the goals of each step write or wrong is whatever seems easiest for the user.

    But it is important t to become comfortable with the terminal. Because this is how others will share info. And she will need to be able to understand what they are telling her to do.

    Online trolls still exist. So understanding things like

    sudo rm -rf /

    Is essential before typing it.

  • Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped

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  • “continue to disrupt many farm businesses for years to come”

    Or they could you know.

    Assume the right of way exists and plan to work within it.

    If the potential of it being a righr of way is effecting them in any way. Then they must know where ir is being debated.

    If they are choosing to fight it. The doubt is entirly their creation.