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I’m yet to see ivy kill a tree. I don’t get why people think this happens. It can certainly make them look ugly though.

That’s not true. It lasted 3 months, which was the entire duration of the agreed phase 1. Phase 2 did not begin because Hamas turned the hostage/body releases into a propaganda circus [1] and refused to accept modified terms for phase 2 that prevented this.

I don’t love either party’s behavior here, but there’s no need to mislead like this.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/middleeast/israel-h...

So you don’t recognize the state of Palestine?

What was it like for you living Germany in that period?

^^^ This is such a great example of the deranged elitist groupthink that dominates the UK’s national discourse.

Holding the door open for fake asylum seekers costing billions while his fellow countrymen are laid off, and pointing the finger at MPs taking a few million between them.

> minor breaking of the law being dealt with severe justice

This is the case if you do anything that opposes the governments desired narrative. For example, by saying something “far right”. Multiple years in jail for a tweet.

But I agree, what you’re describing is I think best called anarcho-tyranny: not some (disturbed) utopian inspired police state, but a police state of gritty hypocrisy.

Everywhere was a band of feudal kingdoms. What’s so special about the U.K.?

What you are describing, from the POV of the British firm, is ownership, not investment. Water is a classic example of failure because there was no shareholder capital invested - exactly my point. We don’t talk about all the successful investments because they’re doing just fine.

What the UK desperately needs is actual shareholder capital actually being invested into British companies, so that they can create new wealth. They are welcome to take a share of the wealth they create! Everybody wins!

This is not true. There is no Saudi ownership of Thames Water. 90% or so is owned by Australian, European, and Canadian pension funds. Specifically it was the Macquarie Group (Australian) that loaded it up with debt and pushed it off a cliff.

It’s true that too much of the U.K. is a piggy bank for those who don’t live there, but that is true of much of the West now.

> taxing money leaving the country might be interesting way to approach the problem.

This would end very poorly because what the U.K. sorely needs is investment (to create new productive capacity). For example, Americans invested huge sums in North Sea oil and created an entire industry (before we destroyed it). Conversely, if you force people to keep wealth in the country then you just make things more expensive: they will bid up the price of property and the like. Nothing is added to the UK’s real economy by increasing the number of pounds flowing around in it - it’s only helpful if it’s invested. So what you actually want is tax breaks for foreign investment, but with some kind of ownership cap.

The difference between social media and traditional media is, roughly speaking, the absence of a centralised editor that has the ability to gatekeep the nation’s discourse. If that’s not authoritarian I’m not sure what is!

Social media is a forum for people to complain about the problems they face, if you don’t like that the solution is not to censor the messenger but to fix the problems.

As someone who grew up in the UK I can tell you that the elitist mindset of the UK is a huge part of their problem: only the elite are capable sophisticated right-think, all others are wrong-thinking simpletons and must be silenced for their own safety. The BBC is a huge part of the problem as it is inevitably pro-government but trades off a strong image of neutrality, to the extent that it regularly misleads the public and they lap it up.

The EU is facing the same fundamental situation as the U.K. The latter recklessly accelerated their problems but an aging and shrinking population coupled with unsustainable social spending and precious little technological investment can only result in a downwards spiral. Just look at how far behind the US the EU is since 2008.

Not in any decent places.

Pro tip: do both.

One block from the freeway, no less.

Personally I use a 100 character limit. Anything more and the ability to have two editor windows side by side gets impeded upon. The point is, there is a limit.

Wait, no, if there is an 80 character line limit and you like 4 space tabs but I like 2 space tabs, we’re going to have a problem. My code will exceed the line length on your screen or be forced to wrap prematurely on my screen to suit your preferences.

Tabs are for tables. Change my mind.

Actually for me this shows why tabs don’t deliver on their promise. As soon as the user’s tab size is small enough that baz doesn’t need to wrap, the user gets suboptimal formatting. As someone who prefers tabs of 2 and often views code authored with tabs of 4 I encounter this often.

Most traffic nowadays is HTTPS so as long as you configure your router to use a non-ISP DNS resolver such 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) or 8.8.8.8 (Google) then your ISP cannot see your traffic.

However, those ISP branded modem/router devices are completely backdoored and can be accessed by ISP employees for remote support. As they are your router they also get to see your internal network traffic. HTTPS traffic remains encrypted of course, but I personally would never let an ISP have access to my hardware.

Let’s not kid ourselves, the goal is to shame men in an attempt to control them.

There’s also a ton of bad incentives for those women who lie, manipulate and abuse beyond “gossip”.

Having grown up in the U.K. where sports gambling has always been a thing, I can say that the big difference when compared to the US is the TV advertising.

Doubtful. They’re not part of the government so the 1st amendment applies.

Something tells me that disabling AI is going to age about as well as disabling JavaScript. Even so, I like what Zed is doing here.

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This implies that a human life is valuable but what they spend it doing is not.

Because perceived existential risks capture people’s attention and imagination. If you’re a white collar worker then it’s a big deal to you.

So they can use (expensive) emergency care but also they are paying for (cheap) services they can’t even use? That’s some interesting logic. Clearly they can and do use some of these services.

The Gestapo murdered millions. Please don’t throw around such callous and ignorant insults.