I’m English, I assure you people here eat them all the time!

Are you sure they were invented in America? That seems very unlikely to be true so I googled it, wikipedia says recipes for muffins appeared as early as 1747 in English cookbooks…

Most English people don’t even know what an English Muffin is

Citation needed

Just in case it’s not obvious, they mean an English muffin, a kind of flat bread roll. In the UK that’s what they sell for breakfast at McDonald’s (sausage and egg, bacon and egg etc).

Big whoosh

I didn’t know about GCompris, I’m going to try it out with my daughter.

It’s on Fdroid as well which is cool!

Jesus, how high were the parents when they made that decision?

That’s a pretty toxic joke dude

Sounds maddening!

Mostly I was posting the information above in case someone else has a beeping fire alarm system as it might be like our one and not like yours. I can’t imagine that one took off!

I’ve lived in a place with a fire alarm system like that, but the beep is because the backup battery is flat or the unit needs to be replaced.

Most smoke detectors are essentially a small radioactive lump with a Geiger counter next to it; if smoke gets in between it blocks the radiation and if the number of radiation “hits” falls below a threshold in a set time period the alarm goes off. So, as radioactive things have a half life, there’s a point where the radiation emitted falls below the original threshold and you need to replace it. We fucked around with the batteries in ours for ages assuming one of them was low, but eventually replaced the detector itself and the beeping stopped.

The legal protection in this case being a literal high court judge having to check the person is not being coerced and sign it off. That’s a pretty high bar in my opinion!

It’s not possible for that to happen in the UK without a further bill in Parliament. I believe in Canada the law has changed as a result of decisions by the courts.

Agree with this, I have both Element and Fluffychat on android.

Fluffychat is nicer than Element in some ways, but it has some quirks around sharing files - I can’t get it to share multiple files from a gallery, and sometimes if it hasn’t been open recently the share action starts it up but nothing actually gets shared, and you have to repeat the action. It also tends to glitch if rotated to landscape and back again.

I keep Element on the device but disabled so I don’t have both running, but enable it any time I need to do something that fluffychat can’t manage.

They are both being actively developed so things are constantly improving.

I know I’m late to the discussion, but I was experimenting with this recently so wanted to add my experience in the UK.

I’m on a gravel bike and I’m a beginner cyclist although I’ve done lots of walking/hiking in the past so I’m used to being out and about. It’s currently autumn so relatively wet.

With the default option (balanced), I get sent down a mix of minor country roads (good) and some paths that are in theory bridleways but in practice they are extremely rutted footpaths 1m wide with 35cm of brambles on either side. When I say “rutted” I mean 0.5m deep (and steep) holes that are full of mud/water. Absolutely impossible to ride down on a gravel bike as the holes are the full width of the path, and I’d be amazed if anyone managed it even on a mountain bike.

With “prefer byways” I get minor roads, which in my area means paved (asphalt) minor roads and country lanes, plus firm(ish) cycle routes. The routing engine doesn’t refuse to use a non-paved roads, but it avoids it where possible.

Basically, “prefer byways” is a good option generally for me. “Balanced” would probably be OK in summer except where the paths are overgrown (although a machete would be required as mentioned by someone else!).

I’m pretty sure Ukraine doesn’t have enough ATACMS to completely change the situation. I’m confident they will find clever ways to make Russia hurt with them though, they always use the weapons they are given to good effect.

That’s also a nice compliment though, I.e. it’s so good they think people would pay for it!

Yep, personal tutors etc

All of this also applies to women saying horrible things being called out by other women who they respect / think are part of their social group.

And only to men, because of course there aren’t any women who hate on trans people!

Yeah good point, it was more than just twitter.

YouTube definitely know they have an issue and don’t care, or they would do something about it. Radicalising people with extreme content increases engagement which makes them money, the only thing that will make them change it is regulation (with teeth).

The mad thing about the result is that the Dems spent so much more money and still lost. Not that you can easily quantify the financial value of changing the algorithm on twitter to favour Trump.