samc

Found the Private Eye reader

Maybe it's just me, but I still feel like I don't know what Union is after reading this. Is it a new, intermediate styling specification + code to translate the existing 4 formats to/from it (a la pandoc and its intermediate json)?

The words "new state-funded faith schools" are already quite disappointing to me. I understand that secularising existing state schools would be incredibly messy, but I wish we could at least agree that they should be considered an anachronism

I agree, but my point was that cost isn't a sufficient explanation.

I think I particularly agree with @megopie@beehaw.org: one reason we see photo-realism instead of more stylised graphics is that it is more generic, and thus less dependent on a specific team.

The more artistic/creative your work, the less interchangeable your workers are.

But you could also make the same argument about graphical fidelity, which has been pushed further and further for decades, greatly swelling the cost of production

To be honest, I find my Emacs config important enough to live at the top level of my home directory.

As much as I hate FPTP at some point we have to admit that the majority of people don't hate it (enough) or give a shit (enough) to change anything. We want this life.

We wanted Brexit (well 52% of people who voted in 2016 anyway...). And a lot of labour's success is down to reform splitting the right-wing vote (nice to see it the other way around for a change). Labour only actually got ~34% of the popular vote. So whilst I don't know if we chose this exactly, I agree that there is too much apathy towards the status quo.

I find myself constantly thinking about American vox pops, where a surprising number of people say they would vote for Trump or Bernie. A lot of people just want somebody that'll shake things up. Farage is that for many people, but our left-wing options just aren't seen that way.

You calling Kier Starmer a "far left ideologue"? I wish he had that much conviction.

I think the truth is a bit more boring. FPTP hugely favours the 2 established parties and, whilst their foundations are certainly eroding, it'll take something seismic to actually bring a third party into power.

Labour seemingly want to be all things to all people. That's all you need to explain the brexit doublethink IMO. I really want to believe they'd be popular with a more assertive stance that brexit, and the preceding decade of ~~looting state assets~~ austerity were terrible mistakes. However, the growing popularity of Reform and the tories' ugly swing to the right make me sceptical

The Koru is a 416-foot masterpiece with three towering masts, each standing 230 feet tall, that harness kinetic energy to propel the vessel. The yacht is so massive that, for it to leave the shipyard after completion, a historic bridge in Rotterdam had to be dismantled. Bezos even offered to fund the dismantling and reconstruction of the 95-year-old De Hef bridge but later abandoned the plan amid public outcry. Eventually, Koru was towed away without her masts, which were later assembled.

The tone of this article is astonishing. "He even offered to pay to vandalise a historic building", how selfless..

I use magit in Emacs in a similar sort of way. Bringing up the magit status page instantly presents a list of hunks I can browse and stage. When committing, there is also an option to "instant fixup" into an existing commit, which you can select interactively from the commit log.

Plus we could also get rid of the hacky risky vs safe dir-locals system that fills up custom.el with clutter

Green is my pepper... If you know what I mean... 😏