Chouxfleur

Chouxfleur, 12 days ago

I mean, It was that or being deported to Afghanistan - he obviously thought a boat journey was better than taking his daughter to “safe” Basra.

Chouxfleur, 23 days ago

That’s sort of besides the point really, though, no?

If you’re tasked with maintaining a structure (lol) you can be expected to perhaps attempt to know where all the bits you’re responsible for are aren’t you?

But then again, Severn-Trent uses dousing rods to find water mains so who knows what they he’ll they’re actually doing.

Chouxfleur, 4 months ago

This is pretty much the main reason I’m struggling! A few bucks a month for GCN was amazing - now I’m stuffed!

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

And, you know, a society in which your parents bank balance and the school you get sent to is the single biggest indicator of your future successes.

Brexit was just some real end-game shit for them to cement their authority over us little folk.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

Regrettably I know many professionals whose grasp of written English is worse than OP’s.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

How does the law require them to be greedy?

I just assumed that it was shareholders.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

I don’t mind a bit of proprietary-ness, what I’m after is controlling how and with whom I can share my data.

Essentially the goal is to have a family’s worth of accounts with Calendars, To-Dos/Reminders, and Notes that I can back up myself but still allows syncing to phones/PCs, etc. and basically a central calendar for ‘global’ (ie. Whole family) events.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

Yeah, CalDAV looks like the best fit from my limited searching, it’s just actually putting that into a usable system that I can use that I’m struggling with!

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

I think a lot of the issue is that people aren’t seeing as much music.

My fiancée saw Taylor Swift in London years ago when she was a country act and yeah it wasn’t cheap but she could afford to go as a teenager with a weekend job who happens to enjoy country music.

The acts people want to see are all huge by the time a lot of people would bother going to see them and they know they can charge insane prices for tickets because people will pay. It’s the same for theatre. There’s tonnes of awesome stuff you can see for peanuts (relatively, depending on your location) but people will still pay through the nose to see The Cursed Child™.

If you want to see live music (of any genre) you can - it’s cheap and easy. But you might have to go to a small cramped venue or see someone you’ve not heard of. Or seek out smaller acts before they become huge industry behemoths.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

That’s partly it as well! It’s fun to explore artists and genres who aren’t super mainstream.

Although sometimes it’s just artists who aren’t likely to be that well known. I saw Asgeir in Bristol for less than £50 - he’s pretty mainstream I’d say (>700k monthly listens on Spotify) - he just happens to be Icelandic and performing in his mother tongue at least half the time.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

I (and plenty of people I know) regularly attend live music, with on the door prices that are equivalent to the cost of a few drinks. But equally I’ve been prices out of seeing some of my favourite acts because they’re big enough to demand higher costs so I totally get where you’re coming from.

I think what I’m getting at could better be phrased as; people don’t want to see small acts much these days.

There’s loads of acts like Ed Sheeran, but if you’re into Ed, not just music like him, it’s going to seem like it’s impossible to watch it live, when in actuality there’s a lot of gigging musicians who are out there with accessible performances.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

And even better than that, they tailor their flavorful food for our palettes!

Fantastic.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

I went to the wrong church…

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

Traditional porridge is amazing. Just with a little salt added it’s the most fantastic breakfast food.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

Not the original commenter, but it think they’re not okay with it, just clarifying the situation…

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

If you’re a billionaire you’re exploiting people - It’s literally impossible to become a billionaire without exploiting others.

Chouxfleur, 5 months ago

What’s the countryside got to do with shitty governance and disability policy?

Chouxfleur, 6 months ago

If you can afford to fail it becomes astronomically easier to throw ideas around, turn them into real things and see what sticks.

Chouxfleur, 6 months ago

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Chouxfleur, 6 months ago

What are you using to browse lemmy?

In any case I was trying to link to matrix.org

Chouxfleur, 6 months ago

I’d bloody love to be earning half that 😂 at least I know now that I’m not in the 1%.

Bring out the guillotine I guess!

Chouxfleur, 6 months ago

To be fair to the plod that’s not the only thing she’s being charged with.

She’s specifically been leaking information about ongoing investigations which for an LEO is a big no-no.

Mottram drove to Kay and Bennett’s house to warn them about the police file on Kay – which as we know, and she didn’t, was deliberately bogus.

If she’d just told people that EncroChat was insecure then she’d have plausible deniability, but she’s clearly pretty involved in trying to assist people in keeping clear of the law (which is pretty cut and dry in the eyes of the law - regardless of what you think of the morality of it all).

Mottram bought weed from a dealer whose phone number was saved in her mobile phone. She also told Bennett about a murder file she had seen on her boss’s desk, and took selfies with her work computer visible and showing an “official sensitive” document.

A few other dodgy bits here too, again, very much in breach of her terms of employment which, for LEA employees can get sticky pretty rapidly.

All of this is quite apart from whether you think the fuzz should have access to private citizens communications (which I should be clear I don’t). But she’s not just an innocent person who just told her mates that they shouldn’t use a specific service to discuss breaking the law.

Chouxfleur, 6 months ago

33 here - if the staying up is enjoyable then 1-3am is fine. Hangovers are worse than when I was 23, but I’m usually back up to speed by lunchtime.

Of course this is heavily influenced by how much water I drink while I’m out. Hydration is important folks!