I've always had this slight background annoyance that whenever someone in a story is shown doing "science", they actually aren't. Usually what they're really doing is invention, or engineering, or just something to do with technology generally, but it's almost never simply discovering things about how the universe works, which is what actual science is.
Certified Good Dergs! One of them may rattle a bit louder than the other though. ;) With the sweetest charity dragon ever @Dondrakore at ScotiaCon 2024.
So Rishi, as well as being a climate change denier and a transphobe, is also a mental health denier.
It's good to know that he is continuing Thatcher's work of returning the UK to 'Victorian values'. I.e. no state support, work until you drop dead, no rights, no protections, no sanitation, epidemics, grinding poverty, killing workers with impunity.
I wonder if they will also try to get the limited liability company off the books, and go back to the Victorian value that directors and share holders are liable directly for their company and all its debts?
@avon_deer Yeah, but it won't happen will it? That's a 'Victorian value' that no Tory wants to remember. Similarly, they don't want to go back to it being possible to serve papers by tying them to the gate, nailing them to the door of a house, or to the door of a place of business. The current requirement to deliver papers into the hands of a Tory criminal has kept a good many of them out of prison.
Another Victorian Value they should revive is the ability to enforce debts against rich people. But again, it won't happen. They only want the starvingly poor, no rights or protections, cap doffing, forelock tugging obsequious worker parts back.
"Rishi Sunak calls for end to ‘sick note culture’ as he unveils benefits system shakeup"
A critical part of Conservative thinking is the absolute certain belief that most people are on-the-take chancers trying to dodge gainful employment at any cost
I suspect this is because they'd do themselves so why not other people? People who don't DESERVE to because they did not go to the right school or had the right accent or whose father had the right connections.
as I’ve said for decades they won’t be happy until they see a return to serfdom. This is part of it, the slow and planned removal of any workers rights or support. They want to undo anything the Labour Party, back when it was actually for the workers, brought in.
Labour now don’t have the balls to do what the country really needs. A rise in investment for public services funded by taxing the top 1% of earners at the rate they should be paying anyway.
@backpaw Which means the state of the nation and it's social fabric will continue to decay; paving the way for a return to the Tories in either the 2030 election or the one after.
TBH, they should just propose gas chambers for undesirable/unproductive members of society. That's where all of this is headed. If they cut to the chase, it would save everyone a lot of time.
Is it extremely petty to set a calendar reminder for one year out, just to prove that you were right about a crypto-based domain name system being useless grift?
You know, the old sayings often capture very succinctly even modern problems.
For example, take the phrase 'Maybe all I really need is five hundred million pounds'. It was true when it was first uttered and it's still very true now.
#ClimateDiary It seems, IS, utterly crazy, that amidst everything else the UK government is ruthlessly continuing its clampdown on climate protesters. But it is.
Excellent article by Natasha Walter here on how Dr Sarah Benn got 30 days in prison for holding up a placard saying “Stop New Oil” and overall recent developments:
“the direction of travel is fast and frightening and its repercussions are growing.”
#ClimateDiary and now Dr Benn has also been found guilty of professional msiconduct, by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal. This is deeply wrong. Holding up a sign and protesting - for planetary, human health! - does not constitute medical misconduct. I hope many #doctors will speak up against this. #NHS #JustStopOil #ExtinctionRebellion
Hugh Grant has been priced out of his ‘phone hacking’ lawsuit against The Sun, after learning it would cost him more money to win than it would cost Rupert Murdoch.
17th April 2024 Hugh Grant has acted in many counter-intuitive scenarios. But the situation he described today on Twitter is perhaps the most counter-intuitive predicament of them all: * Grant has …
The damages from carbon fueled climate change ALREADY costing more than building New Energy to end carbon.
Canada in one year above billions in other climate damage lost 30 billion trees
30 billion trees, the Canadian #Climate Wildfire Catastrophe🇨🇦🔥🚨in 2023, is more trees than would be cut in three centuries of logging. Canada isnt 200 years old. Paris east to Bonn Germany, down deep into the Alps, across west to Lyon in France. All burned into the soil
Does anyone I know work for a company that might want to sponsor Electromagnetic Field - a really cool tech & nerd festival held in a field in May. See https://www.emfcamp.org/sponsor for details, it would be much appreciated #emfcamp
We have started to see scans/exploits from multiple IPs for CVE-2024-3273 (vulnerability in end of life D-Link Network Area Storage devices). This involves chaining of a backdoor & command injection to achieve RCE.
Exploit & PoC details are public. As there is no patch for this vulnerability, these devices should be taken offline/replaced or at least have their remote access firewalled.
DESCRIPTION LAST UPDATED: 2023-12-06 DEFAULT SEVERITY LEVEL: INFO This report contains a list of devices we have identified in our daily Internet scans. The assessment is made based on all our Internet scan types.
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration. "I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced. "I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet. "This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable." -- William Shatner, actor
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration. "I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced. "I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet. "This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable." -- William Shatner, actor
Had a client tell my boss yesterday that I need to dress “more professionally” when in their office. It reignited how much I hate being told to “dress different” because that’s almost always a poor mask for saying “dress more normal” => “dress less queer”.
I was dressed well in clean, well kept clothes. This person, who is our main contact at the company, gave me the up-and-down look when I showed up wearing a nice hoodie and shorts and my bomber jacket.
When someone has issues with clothes that just don’t look the way they want, I can and will assume it’s always rooted in classism or not wanting queer looking people in their office space. What makes what I’m wearing inherently less professional than what you’re wearing? Old dress standards rooted in generations’ old desire to not look like the blue collar professionals that you employ? Fuck you, take a hike. I dress how I dress and you’re not gonna change that.
Pretty pissed at my manager for not standing up for me too.
Yeah... I find it so silly 'cause all the "way you're supposed to dress" things are really just arbitrary decisions that some dude in the past made and everyone went along with him...
@CheetahObscura Yeah, it’s dumb. My CEO talked to me when I got in the office today, told me not to worry about it and the contact that complained is a hassle. I’m sure there’s a bit of saving face based on the message I sent back to my manager last night describing how ridiculous it is, but still it’s good to know that my opinion matters haha
In high school, in my class at least, some kids got really creative about getting around dress code. No more graphic ties? Get wilder patterns. Then would get unique mono-color pants (lavender, green, yellows, etc) and even a square color paneled one. We all were gonna find our way to be unique and expressive despite the dress code and we did
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