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1·24 小时前What does (Designate) mean?
10·24 小时前Greenpeace has accused Syngenta of driving wildlife decline and threatening UK food security by making and selling pesticides that poison British wildlife. A recent report by the NGO found that just one teaspoon of the Syngenta-made pesticide, Hallmark, was enough to kill 13 million bees.
This bit is important to highlight.
21·1 天前It’s not that simple.
This is what The Institution of Engineering and Technology has to say:
2·1 天前The Foreign Office denied the shift in policy could be described as a “waiver” on sanctions aimed at hurting Russia’s economy, but admitted extra flexibilities were required.
Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality.[1]
I don’t think the downvoters understand your comment.
Germany was greatly destroyed in WW2, much of their housing stock was built post WW2. That didn’t happen in the UK, the Blitz didn’t destroy a huge amount of national housing stock, only specific pockets.
We have lots of Georgian and Victorian housing which has had upgrades over the years of vastly varying standards and quality. My wiring certainly isn’t up to scratch.
Breaker boxes, or fuse boxes as they used to be, aren’t designed to protect humans from electrocution as many believe. They’re designed to prevent house fires. If things don’t go as planned electricity can very easily melt wire insulation and start fires. Can we trust every homes wiring that could have been installed anywhere between 1920 and now to still be safe when used in a different configuration than normal? Current spikes in ring mains that have never had that much current before?
I’m all for the increase of solar power, but this needs to be done very carefully or people will die in preventable house fires.
Edit: to be clear, I am for these panels but unless the home was built in the last 20 years it should be thoroughly inspected before any work is done and done so by a qualified person. I’ve been out the industry for a long time now but there are ways of testing wiring insulation such as these meters by Megger.
7·2 天前You might enjoy LibreOffice after changing to a different UI, here’s how:
Select a preferred user interface variant as follows:
Open a LibreOffice module to change the user interface.
Go to View > User Interface on the Menu bar to open the Select Your Preferred User Interface dialog (Figure 12).
Select the preferred user interface from the options available in UI variants. A preview of the selected user interface is displayed in the dialog.
To use the selected user interface for all LibreOffice modules, click on Apply to All.
To only use the selected user interface for the LibreOffice module that is open, click on Apply to {Module}, for example Apply to Writer.
Click on Close to close the dialog.
https://books.libreoffice.org/en/GS252/GS25213-CustomizingLO.html#toc34
LibreOffice has multiple UIs to choose from and allows a huge amount of customisation, what are you on about? Did you last use it 10 years ago or something?
A copy of a Japanese POW.
UK regulators to Mozilla: Yeah, that’s the problem. We don’t like that.
2·3 天前I’ve read the original report that the Guardian story is based on now and despite having more detail it still reads very weird.
There’s something either being omitted or embellished.
Like the assailants and victim may have known each other but for some reason the victim isn’t disclosing that. Fuck knows. It’s shite being on the receiving end of a beating though, hopefully they recover soon.
The group added: “The Ministry of Justice and the government must ensure the courts are properly resourced so that any prosecutions linked to Grenfell are heard swiftly. Justice delayed any further would be unacceptable.”
Too fucking right. Justice delayed is justice denied and it’s already been almost 9 years.
Candy, such a joy to me
Inner city nights, I cannot sleep
Oh Candy, sweetest remedy
Only you can ease my troubled dreams
What? That story makes absolutely no sense.
A Jewish man stepped outside to “make a phone call” and just by pure chance a group of antisemitic thugs happened to be walking past and instinctively somehow knew this man was Jewish and beat him up so lightly that the police could interview the victim within 6 minutes of the incident and proceeded to not take him to the hospital so he visited of his own volition?
Firstly it smells of bollocks, secondly since when has street beatings become national news? They’re usually lucky to make local news, let alone national. Could it be somebody is trying to push a propaganda narrative? Hmm…
I can’t unsee the Mater Bater [NSFW?] in his little face
Most leftist books are complicated and boring, this one is simpler and more engaging. Maybe give it a try before tackling the dry tomes.
Berkman’s work explains anarchist philosophy in terms that uninitiated readers can understand. The book’s chapters are brief, and many of them begin with questions (e.g., “Is Anarchism Violence?”, “Will Communist Anarchism Work?”). A number of the ideas he discusses are similar to those proposed in The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, whom Berkman cites throughout. Berkman avoids the sort of jargon and technical language that is often used by political writers in favour of plain language. As he writes in his foreword:
Anarchist books, with few exceptions, are not accessible to the understanding of the average reader. It is the common failing of most works dealing with social questions that they are written on the assumption that the reader is already familiar to a considerable extent with the subject, which is generally not the case at all. As a result there are very few books treating of social problems in a sufficiently simple and intelligible manner. For the above reason I consider a restatement of the Anarchist position very much needed at this time—a restatement in the plainest and clearest terms which can be understood by every one. That is, an ABC of Anarchism.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_After
Available to read for free, here.
Paywalled. Available here: https://archive.is/QCrxC
James Tilden was elected to represent Hackney Central ward with 1,681 votes following the council elections last Thursday, but his party failed to realise this breached electoral law before making him a candidate because he is a primary school teacher who works for the local authority.
Muhammed Naser, who was elected in the Regent’s Park ward of Camden council, has also had to stand down for the same reason.
That seems a ridiculous law intentionally made to stop those most qualified from standing. Fair enough not being able to resume working for the council whilst a councillor, but the inability to stand for election while working there is ridiculous.
Inb4 “wElL tHE lAw iS tHe lAw aND tHeY sHOuLd kNOw tO FolLoW iT”
Over the course of the last decade, each year has seen an average of 2,685 new laws - the equivalent of almost seven and a half a day or one every three-and-a-quarter hours
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/jun/04/houseofcommons.uk
That was in 2007, how many laws have we had since then? So many that neither the Electoral Commission nor any of the competing parties noticed in time before the election.
Didn’t know that, ta!