I’m amazed that Clarkson has managed to paint the landowning class as salt of the earth workers who are just trying to get by. The fact that you have people who would never be affected by this tax arguing on the side of these people with massive property and assets portfolios is just wild to me.

The logo suggests that’s how Dave arrives every morning.

Or, if they’re a foreign agent being paid by another state, they’ll be at the front of the queue of applicants because they don’t mind the uncompetitive pay.

It certainly doesn’t make you a worker.

It’s good they’re giving the EA some extra funding and powers, but we really need to nationalise this. Water privatisation has been a disaster, and the longer we keep it going the more money they’ll be able to syphon out.

I think we get a CNN rolling news channel on Freeview but I’ve never heard of anyone watching it.

Is there some kind of parental software that can lock down phones like what happens on corporate phones? Like where you can control which apps are installed etc? That sounds like the best approach: just give them a phone with WhatsApp, phone and SMS. Any refurbished phone from the last 10 years would work for that (lack of Android security updates might be an issue though)

Still an extremely influential writer, you can’t talk about cosmic horror without at least mentioning him.

There’s so much in Infinite Jest, but I think my favourite would be “Blood Sister: One Tough Nun”.

They’re great! Best way to get around London imo. I cycle a lot but being able to leave it at your destination without needing locks etc is great. My only issue is the price - it’s often more expensive than a cab for the equivalent journey (especially if there are two of you). Hopefully it gets cheaper, and they work with councils to sort out parking and avoid them being dumped on the street.

PFI? Of course not! This is GFI, it’s green.

Yeah I don’t trust the canary at all but this sounds in line with what she’s been saying so far.

And then there was the Quake 2 engine which gave us Deus Ex, American McGee’s Alice and then (through the modified GoldSrc version) Half-Life, Counter Strike and countless others! The family tree of 3D engines is really interesting.

If Andrew Tate was a Persona character his dungeon would be something else.

It only works if you whistle the theme tune.

But I thought LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder?!

Actually I never got that. WINE isn’t an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder

Interesting, thanks for explaining!

Right, for some reason I thought it was a binary choice: close at 12 or get the (probably expensive) 24-hour licence.

Is there such a thing as a 1am or 2am licence? I feel it would be better if pubs/bars could just choose whatever opening times they want, it would prevent this “chucking-out time” phenomenon where everyone spills onto the streets with nowhere to go.

Are there are good Monster Hunter communities in the Fediverse?