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Cake day: October 5th, 2023

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  • The only way for Labour to govern under first past the post is to appeal to the center.

    Unfortunately our country is disgustingly conservative and the right wing have always been far better organised, it probably helps they have the media on side.

    Starmer is actually doing a surprisingly ok job. The austerity he’s pushing is tedious as fuck but if he weren’t keeping an eye on economics we’d be drowning in hysteria about “magic money trees” and labour dragging the country in to debt.

    The employment rights bill will be an incredible improvement for working people. I wish it went a lot further but it’s a solid start.

    Unless labour support electoral reform we are doomed to an eternity of right wing government. Labour only got into power last year because reform split the vote, and very soon the reform and conservatives will merge together again.



  • Yep, I’m with you. Project Bluefin is exactly what I want from an OS. My previous Linux experiences had all been awful UX, having to diagnose obscure issues and copy pasting decipherable terminal commands. Until Bluefin, nothing ever worked straight out of the box.

    Bluefin’s main issue right now is a lack of good documentation. Like you, I’ve tried to get devcontainers working and they just don’t.








  • It’s also worth noting that it wouldn’t just be china profiting financially. It would create a dependence on china for an essential material.

    Given how rocky International relationships are at present we need to consider how we would manufacture weapons and vehicles should we find ourselves in a major conflict.

    If Europe is at war with russia it’s unlikely china would willingly provide the steel we need.


  • What I read elsewhere that made a lot more sense is the Chinese owners, Jingye, intended to turn off the furnaces in a way that it would effectively never be possible to use them again without incurring a lot of time and extraordinary cost.

    In doing so Britain would have no choice but to purchase steel from China.

    Therefore even if it’s going to be expensive for the government to maintain in the long term it will be a better deal for Britain than letting china monopolise an essential material.