My family immigrated to the UK from Poland when I was six. I’m 20 now, speak much better English than Polish and feel like this is my land/culture. However I have a Polish first and last name, Polish passport and “unique” accent everyone picks up on, so despite this I’m usually perceived as an outsider. It makes me...
You seem like a decent thoughtful person, and I would rather have you as a fellow Brit than the knobheads that throw conkers at you.
Defining a person by their nationality is pretty stupid when you consider that we are all on the same rock hurtling through the unfathomable depths of space. My grandad always had to know where a person was from in order to put them into a specific box in his mind. I always found it utterly disgusting and just weird. I guess there will always be people like that, but it’s learned behaviour. Kids don’t care where someone is from until they are told it’s important by an idiot adult.
I’m waffling now, but it genuinely doesn’t matter where you are from. One of the few things that makes me proud to be British is the fact that we are a big melting pot of different cultures. We are enhanced by having British people with different heritages. I don’t know if you are planning on applying for British nationality, but I would be delighted if you did. I, and a huge majority of Brits would welcome you with open arms, while the bigots amongst us can fuck off and go and be miserable in their own nasty little corner.
Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation....
I don’t think they would trawl through hundreds of thousands of submissions to go after individuals. I also doubt they would extradite me from the UK. So fuck the VPN.
Israel has launched a major military offensive against Hamas forces in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, seizing control of a key border crossing and cutting off most aid into the territory a day before indirect talks on a ceasefire deal are due to restart....
There is work going on making actual electric jets. They use plasma to expand the compressed gas in the same way conventional jets use fuel. Very early days though.
Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country’s tax agency is still one of Sweden’s most trusted institutions....
He could always fund public health initiatives in order to help stop people becoming ill in the first place rather than forcing sick people into work. Lol. Who am I kidding? A tory wanting improvements for the general public? Ridiculous.
We won’t be rejoining for another 20 years at least. What we will be doing is forming agreements and pacts over those 20 years that slowly bring us into realignment without using the “R” word. They will be easy economic wins for future governments with less political baggage as the Brexiters die out.
_ is a variable name, [] becomes 0 when converted to an integer, !![] becomes 1. The + “” + means that the integers 1, 0, 0 get converted to a string - “100”, which gets converted back to an integer because it’s in the for loop. And there’s various other horrible conversions going on to make it all work.
That’s great unless you have an impaired sense of smell, like I had for the last 2 weeks following a COVID infection, or other people have permanently.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
Will I ever be seen as truly British?
My family immigrated to the UK from Poland when I was six. I’m 20 now, speak much better English than Polish and feel like this is my land/culture. However I have a Polish first and last name, Polish passport and “unique” accent everyone picks up on, so despite this I’m usually perceived as an outsider. It makes me...
Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement (apnews.com)
Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation....
Israel launches Rafah offensive it says is start of mission to ‘eliminate’ Hamas (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has launched a major military offensive against Hamas forces in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, seizing control of a key border crossing and cutting off most aid into the territory a day before indirect talks on a ceasefire deal are due to restart....
‘No safe place’: people in Rafah describe terror as Israeli assault begins (www.theguardian.com)
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Lilium (LILM) receives firm order from UrbanLink to put 20 eVTOL jets into service in Florida (electrek.co)
Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England (www.theguardian.com)
We can dream right
Russia has forked Wikipedia, featuring "better truths" (www.404media.co)
From real Wikipedia:...
Too smol (lemmy.world)
Why the Swedes love doing something that Americans hate (www.bbc.com)
Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country’s tax agency is still one of Sweden’s most trusted institutions....
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Sunak to cite Britain’s ‘sicknote culture’ in bid to overhaul fit note system (www.theguardian.com)
Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns (www.theguardian.com)
Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2° (arstechnica.com)
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I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? (lemmy.world)
Asking nicely obviously didn't work, maybe being passive-aggressive will? (lemmings.world)