I was going to suggest putting something in the water that would discourage swimming, but I guess it needs to be worse than whatever’s already in there… and not kill the wildlife. That’s a fine line if it exists at all.

I’d bet a few of those actually do want to exclude people from the other UK nations. Not as many as are flying the flags, I grant you, but nonetheless. Colonialist mindset still runs deep in some of the English.

Banksy is as much a person as Nicolas Bourbaki was. Although unlike Bourbaki, there is allegedly one guy who is kind of the main guy, but if that one guy goes to prison, I’m fairly certain Bansky artworks will continue to appear.

In fact I’d put money on the fact that one would appear in a prominent place soon after.

And if the establishment somehow manage to round up every single person associated with Banksy and manage to get something to stick to every single one of them, which I strongly doubt is possible, the rise in wannabe Banksy groups doing the same thing won’t be far off.

The artwork is almost always made with stencils and spray paints. Stencils can be prepared well in advance. A trained group could have one of these up in under a couple of minutes.

If I was Banksy - or one of them - I would almost certainly have distributed my art to trusted individuals for the event of my incarceration and beyond.

Actual populists rarely call themselves populists, you got that right at least. Mainly because a good chunk of people they pander to aren’t bright enough to understand the term “populist”.

But the ones I can think of are all firmly right wing. Trump. Orbán. Farage. And not one of them is, or would call themselves “leftist”.

There was one guy back in the late 1930s who tried that and it didn’t go well for him, and I suspect that makes them nervous.

But then, you probably think that guy actually was a socialist.

This is odd in at least a couple of ways. Mandelson is well-known to be homosexual, so an association with a man known for arranging situations with underage girls doesn’t quite match up.

In the best case, this means that Epstein liked socialising with powerful people even if they didn’t want what he had to offer, but that raises the question of what Mandelson was getting out of it.

Hey, I don’t want my (albeit meagre) tax payments to go towards security for a war criminal. Would be far cheaper to leave him where he is.

You know you’ve hit rock bottom when DJT is your only hope.

Indigenous Peruvians: “Hey! You can’t do that!”

Peruvian Government: “Hey! How do you even know about this?!”

Deeply, deeply vanilla here.

gnome-system-monitor for network, drives, memory and CPU usage. Sensors Monitor applet in Cinnamon (which makes use of the lm-sensors console command in the background) and occasionally xsensors (likewise) for temperatures and the like.

Bottom right of my second monitor, on a Cinnamon panel, I have the aforementioned applet set to show G: xx C: yy where xx and yy are the current max temperatures of the GPU and CPU respectively. Tooltip hover on that is set to show drive temperatures, but I rarely look at those because they rarely ever seem to get above 40C.

I’ve also used the bash-sensors applet in the past to do similar things.

xsensors/lm-sensors needed a kernel module loaded to access extra temperature stats beyond the basics, but most of those turned out to be useless, wrong or not worth worrying about.

As for stress testing, I have a shell script that spins up several do-nothing, busywork scripts and will push the CPU to 100%, 80C and the fans to high RPM in barely any time at all. I don’t feel the need to do that very often.

For the GPU, I can just remove any FPS limit from whatever relatively recent game I’m playing. Heck, even Minecraft.

I’ve considered installing one of the applications that adjusts CPU fan RPM curves, but I set a profile I liked in the UEFI over a year ago and that’s been working fine for me. If I’ve ever hit a point where the CPU has had to rate-limit, I haven’t really noticed the drop in performance.

Also confused / ignorant here. The only one I can think of is a slur usually aimed at black people, not trans people. (Starts with C.)

With apologies to anyone who could have done without a reminder of that word, especially if it’s not the one OP’s talking about.

It was once said of Margaret Thatcher that she didn’t so much bring the “much needed” woman’s touch to politics, but that she instead became a man.

Likewise, New Labour was supposed to bring a much needed leftward slant to politics, but instead they became Tories.

https://xkcd.com/927/

I’m shocked. Who would have thought?!

Nothing legal, no.

The article makes no mention of his religion. And even if we were to stereotype purely on nationality, Muslim would be the wrong conclusion.

I mean, he could be, but his religion has f–k all to do with the fact he’s a pervert willing to take advantage of a weaker individual.

I can think of a certain President who’s in that club and people seem to love him for it. They should deport him.

Ehhh. I feel like if I was from any of the real Baltic countries, I’d be insulted.

I seem to remember a guy on Instagram or TikTok being called out for the same thing. He got really into wearing make-up and female-associated dress ostensibly as a means to mock transgender folks, but then he kept doing it.

And doing it.

And doing it.

With different clothing each time. The lad must have had an entire wardrobe full of clothing, or he was borrowing heavily, with support, from whoever actually owned it. And he was having a great time.

Anyone remember that song “Things that make you go ‘Hmm’”?

Hmmmm

It’s more likely that they’ll meet than any meeting changing either man’s mind about what is to happen regarding territory and the “special military exercise”.

Zelenskyy (and any replacement who isn’t pro-Russia) won’t quit unless Putin gives up and takes all his troops home and Putin won’t quit until the whole of Ukraine is part of Russia like it was in the Soviet era.

Putin’s whole “I only want the 10% where my troops currently are” is a bluff. If he gets that he won’t stop, or else he would have stopped with Crimea in 2014. He might stop for a short while to make everyone else think he’s stopped, and he might even take the opportunity to gloat “See! I stopped!”. And then he’ll find some other excuse to start again in a few months.

The only hope here lies with the fact that Putin is an old man and this whole thing might be something only he wants. But given the fact he hasn’t fallen out of a window yet, that’s a very slim hope indeed.

An excellent example of Poe’s law right here. Bravo.

You might not believe I’m anti-Zionist when say this, but I’ll say it anyway: The genocide of one people to cure genocide of another is the wrong thing to do.