My gut reaction to this article was probably the same as a lot of people here “this is just baby boomers complaining about younger people again” and it kinda is, but it’s mostly a targeted parliamentary review into the effects of ageism on the older generation, and I would expect the government to do a similar review on the younger generation, if they haven’t already.

I do believe that pinning negative stereotypes on whole generations is wrong. It was wrong when the boomers did it to the millenials, it is wrong when millenials do it to gen z, and it’s wrong to go the other way.

Where does all the power and wealth concentrate? Amongst the boomers and older Gen x. Are they all wealthy and powerful? Fuck no! We’re all being exploited by the top 0.1% of the population, let’s not forget that.

I probably should have seen that already.

Thank you

Does anyone have a link to a technical review of DeepSeek? Dataset analysis for example. All I have managed to find so far are articles about how much of a “disrupter” this will be.

I have been looking into setting up a pixelfed server, but I don’t know if I could afford to run it at the moment.

Well, to be fair it wasn’t just her. Kwasi Kwarteng helped too!

No positive change happened as a result of 2008, and I doubt any change will happen if there was an equal or even greater crash now.

The only way change will happen is if people demand it. The collective trauma of WW2 was enough to bring about change almost as if the populous went “That was shit, now we deserve something better”. That, and the fear of communist thought taking hold pushed the governing class to action.

It’s about a 24 minute walk or a 17 minute journey by bus

If you’re willing to take the plunge and spend more time in the terminal you could give neovim a try.

To turn it into an IDE contender you can use LazyVim to automatically setup a bunch of quality of life improvements.

It’s a bit of a commitment to learn but it is super rewarding when you get it.

Looks like next year you will have to fire up a windows VM and play a game for 5 minutes, and then safely return to the warm embrace of your cosy Linux system.

If you haven’t already, try and find a zero waste shop near you, the kind of place where you take your own containers and fill it up with what you need.

Me and my partner made it a part of our routine to visit once a month, and we have successfully replaced a bunch of our household items with zero plastic options.

I ain’t seen shit!

There is a way of mounting a btrfs partition in Windows, but I am not sure about it’s level of performance.

https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs

The report this article is based on is actually called “On Thin Ice: Disproportionate Responses to Climate Change Protesters in Democratic Countries”

The title of the article is a bit misleading including the term “rich countries”, especially as that term is not used once in the article.

In my mind measuring the level of democracy is harder than the wealth of a nation.

I could see Starmer’s Labour doing this for sure; they don’t want another Jeremy Corbin again, and are doing their best to rid the party of outspoken ‘leftists’.

What a cool and normal country we have.

I’m proud of Southampton! Only 10 shitheads, and hundreds of anti-racists. Good showing everyone

Is it lazy of me to suggest showing nuked releases as a percentage of the groups total releases?

It’s funny you should say that, because my local council are currently struggling to collect bins. They haven’t collected to bins for the cafe that’s attached to my workplace for about 2 weeks now. It’s getting grim.

Anything, or anyone, that speaks positively of ‘Coddling of the American Mind’ should be approached with extreme scepticism.

An interesting resource for people looking to combat shit like this is the podcast ‘If Books Could Kill’.

I don’t nessecirily always agree with the hosts’ wider takes on things, but their reading of these types of books is pretty spot on.

Cookie clicker. But I only know that because it’s the only game supported by this project