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Sounds like a perfect opportunity to bring the court case forward, and when he inevitably doesn’t turn up (not that he would have if everything ran to the original timetable), make the finding in absentia, presumably “guilty” but at least worse than it would be if he’d bothered to turn up, and then…

Sanctions? Heck. What else do we have to hold him to account? An ever bigger tariffs war? Forcibly close US embassies and consulates? Seize US assets?

It’d be a fine line to prevent the Big (cutter of) Cheese from bugging out and declaring war.

People with a serious criminal record. Murderers and worse. Those who leave their victims alive but scarred mentally or physically.

Then those with less serious criminal records. Fraud. White collar crimes. That sort of thing.

Then other “undesirables” depending on who isn’t liked by whoever’s in charge.

And then the goalposts for what’s desirable will start to move.

And the scope won’t just be limited to social media. Websites will be categorised further. Some might remain open access to all people (except the ever increasing list of those to be protected and those who shouldn’t have access) but others? No. Those sites themselves are undesirable.

Who’s next to be blocked?

I mean, now that the infrastructure and policies are in place, it’s only a matter of time.

Your former colleagues see your potential but do not see, or choose not to see, the rest of you. The rest of you that’s messy. The rest of you that cannot operate at a high level for long periods. The rest of you that’s just f–king done.

Your former colleagues have stamina in spades - or at least, more than you do - and imagine a perfect individual that combines their stamina with your enviable potential.

But, that person does not exist. Or at least, if they do, that person isn’t you.

There’s no point running yourself into the ground trying to meet an ideal that only exists in the minds of other people.

Don’t buy into their idealism. At least, not until you’re sure you can be the person they think you can be.

Source: I was in a similar situation, but kept going, burned out and am not OK.

Because he’s been on Russia’s payroll for a while (and likely his dad too), so like a stopped clock being right twice a day, when Don Jr. suggests that the US is thinking about not supporting an enemy of Russia, it might be worth thinking there’s some truth to it.

Right next to Clorida.

All forms of ampersand are based on “Et”, Latin for “and”, so cheat and use the backwards 3 (for E) forms.

The simplest puts a vertical bar through the backwards 3 like a relative of the dollar sign, and the other adds a t to it so that the middle point and the bottom line of the backwards 3 join up with the crossbar and base of the t. Bonus points for drawing that latter one without lifting your pen, but you’re doing well if you still have to extend the t’s crossbar after the fact.

Or really cheat and use the plus sign. That’s just the t from “Et”, but in the right context, most people instinctively understand it + will know what you mean.

The GPL doesn’t control how guilty I’ll feel if I don’t.

Most of my stuff is badly hacked together “runs on my machine” code. If I released any of it onto a public repository, I’d then be on the hook for maintaining it and making it run on more than just my machine, or else examining, deconflicting, and merging pull requests where other people have done the work. I really don’t have what it takes for all that.

Lib Dems to the left of Labour? I would have thought with the Overton window shifting, they’d still be occupying a position between Labour and the Conservatives like they always have… but I guess it’s possible with some of Labour’s suspiciously Conservative decisions lately.

Yeah, you’re right, the downvote was a bit harsh considering that I didn’t do a deep dive on the matter.

I can’t undo the bandwagon, but I can undo mine.

Well, there was a period in the 90s through to the early 2000s where we had a centre-left party (New Labour) running the show and mostly improving things, but then 9/11 and the Iraq war happened and the country went scurrying back to the Conservatives again.

The conspiracy nut that lives in my brain is convinced Putin’s taking control of Russia in 2000 has everything to do with every single bit of the above after “but then”.

We currently have New Labour (now just “Labour”) in charge again, but politically they smell an awful lot like the pre-Thatcherite Conservatives.

Well for whatever it’s worth, you’re welcome.

That “feeling adrift” sounds a little bit how depersonalisation and/or derealisation were described to me when I was trying to get diagnoses. I didn’t feel like they fit my experience of mental illness at all (everything feels real enough (maybe too much), and I’ve never felt adrift), and I’m not a doctor so I’d be the last person to try to diagnose either in someone else, but they might be things for you to look into.

They’ll find a way to launch it. They’ll go back into the old Soviet mindset of throwing blini at a wall until something sticks sending cosmonaut after cosmonaut until they have a success and then pretend the others didn’t exist.

And they’ll fill the minds of young would-be cosmonauts full of propaganda and tell them that there was definitely no-one before them who died up there, especially not in pain or terror. Those were unmanned test missions. Strap yourself in, you’re going to space!

I don’t think this is sexuality, it’s politics. Wario is clearly a UKIP supporter and Waluigi is UKIP / Tory coded.

(all in jest of course. Or is it?)

The NSA and GCHQ have both run their own TOR nodes and presumably already have an excellent understanding of how it works, so there’s bound to be at least one person, if not an entire department, at the FBI who already understands TOR better than most of the people reading this comment.

I can’t say they improved my mood much, so there wasn’t a great deal to notice, but I have noticed a distinct lack in extreme lows since I started taking it.

The trouble with mood-altering and mood-stabilising medications (and behaviours if you count things like exercise) is that they can affect perception not only in the present, but about past thoughts and behaviours too, so spotting any obvious change might require some effort.

Case in point, it took me a long while to notice that I haven’t been having the crushing lows, and part of me still believes that it’s not the Vitamin D that’s responsible.

Best as I can tell there’s no evidence that Vitamin D and kidney stones have anything to do with each other, and in fact, there may even be scientific papers in existence that suggest the opposite is true, i.e. Vitamin D may help reduce the risk of kidney stones.

Caveat: This was based on a quick web search, not deep research, and everyone’s biology is different. If you’re getting kidney stones, check with an actual doctor.

Interesting to compare and contrast with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe who deliberately wore a toothbrush moustache and referred to himself as “The Hitler of our time”.

Also interesting that now Mugabe is dead, there seem to be quite a few potential candidates for that title.

But, as best as I can tell, Uunona isn’t in the running there.

The on-board sound died on my old PC a while back. There was a free slot on the motherboard that looked like it might take an old sound card, so I found one for cheap online.

Installed it. Fingers crossed. Linux (Mint in this case) didn’t bat an eye. It worked fine.

My newer PC is budget and has barely any slots on the motherboard (pretty sure there isn’t one that supports the same card), so I’m hoping I won’t need to pull that trick a second time.

Other potential solutions:

Sound via USB or Bluetooth.

HDMI and DisplayPort carry sound as well as video, and there are ways to tap into that.