I think a switch to PR would be more practical, and more effective.

Second-hand Nissan Leaf?

Energy prices are set to keep gas-fired power stations profitable because we need those power stations to keep the lights on. Sometimes. As we build out more renewables, the need for gas diminishes, but we still need it.

I agree with the proposition that we ought to be pushing for more renewables, but cutting the electricity prices so that gas-fired power stations close, whilst simultaneously eliminating the incentive to build more solar & wind… just doesn’t seem very smart.

That sounds like a terrible idea. Just one step away from a return to 1970s-style price controls. Unless you nationalise all the farms too, you end up just encouraging producers to shift to other crops, and that way lies Soviet style bread queues.

If you want to support poorer people, it’s far cheaper and easier to just give them more money.

As I understand it, much of the genuine need to food banks in the UK (remember, a relatively new phenomenon) is down to the inflexibility of Universal Credit. It used to be that you could sign on, and get cash in your pocket pretty immediately. Nowadays, there’s weeks of waiting. Let’s fix that, rather than trying to get the government into the supermarket business.

I literally think that Corbyn would struggle to organise a piss-up in a brewery.

Rents wouldn’t go up in general, because the rental market is driven by wages, not by landlords’ costs. Landlords already charge as much as the market can bear.

If there’s a negative consequence, it would be on the supply side. If letting becomes less profitable, then there’s less money for renovating and maintaining rental properties.

A timely reminder to never accept a caution (unless you are damn sure you would also plead guilty in court - because that’s essentially what you’re doing).

But what style of boot do you want?

The latest Ubuntu defaults to using Wayland. On my Framework, it would freeze the whole box every few days. I switched to Xorg, and it was much better. (It’s an option on the login screen - just clock the little cog and choose Xorg before you log in.)

Perplexity cites its sources though, so you can just read those when you suspect it’s halloucinating.

It’s powerfulness IS the problem. Some parts of systemd are great. Some are meh! Some really suck. But because it’s monolithic, you can’t take the good bits and replace the bad. You have to take it all or nothing.

That’s the problem. Its architecture is offensively bad.

Decimated literally means “reduced by one tenth”. So I guess you’re right. A one third reduction is not “decimated”. It’s three times worse than that.

The Endless (2017)

Malta. You just have to pay a (largish) fee, and they’ll have you.

Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries.

What??

If the Tories completely collapse, then next time the FPTP nonsense might favour Reform. If they get in, they’ll do everything they can to undermine democracy, and ensure they never get voted out.

Look at Hungary, and Poland. It took an almighty effort to get the fascists out in Poland, and it will take a lot of work to undo all the damage they did.

We urgently need proportional representation.

The inews article does quote that paragraph, but it does not say whether the Russian media who praise Farage mentioned it. I’m going to guess not.

Aside: Farage is so full of shit it’s amazing he manages to sit down without it dribbling out of his mouth… “[Here’s why Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the fault of Western ‘liberals’…] I have never sought to justify Putin’s invasion in any way and I’m not now.” Sadly, his open contempt for the intelligence of his supporters seems to be entirely justified.

I have no idea why I am being down-voted.

Just FYI. I downvoted you for the whiny edit.

Conservative members chose Liz Truss as leader too. It’s really not a good look.

The real problem for the Conservatives is just how far their membership has diverged from the mainstream of British society. Post Brexit entryism from UKIP supporters has left the Conservative Party in real trouble.