What was the justification for banning them in the first place? Seems a bit hardcore…

Great idea!

I’d like to see the Greens really build up some steam over the course of this parliament. If Labour are going to commit us to ‘Austerity 2.0’ then I think we’re going to need some serious progressives to counteract the appeal of right wing fringe parties like Reform.

When I’ve thought about this is in the past I’ve concluded that my expectations of Linux are actually higher than Windows or Mac. It’s given me the expectation that if something doesn’t work the way I want it then it will be possible to make it do that, whereas with other operating systems I have been more inclined to just accept a limitation and move on.

OK, I’m guessing that term has some extra baggage around here which I’m not privy to… I spent too many years chopping wood and growing corn, so someone will have to fill me in!

I thought I’d just slip it in and see what happened! I like making things in GIMP as well

Amazing, thank you so much :)

What’s that? GIMP?

Found it! I’d missed that - thanks!

I’ve been ricing my GNOME DE.

Only joking. I had a bit of fun in GIMP for to illustrate this post. You’re welcome to use it if you want :)

I was seriously appalled with how quick people were to turn on each other during the pandemic. It’s one thing to bitch about people with different politics than yours but quite another to grass up your neighbours for minor infractions. Also the kind of open jingoism between counties/regions during tier-system phase. It made me realise what it must have been like in the soviet union. Shocking to see our own capacity for that.

By the way; which messaging platforms, protocols or ‘services’ are currently supported by Pidgin? I haven’t looked at it in a while.

Was the plugin open source?

Edit: looks like it wasn’t and the incident has prompted more more transparency. Good stuff.

You may be right about interest rates but there is a vast amount of existing money in the UK which is simply serving itself rather than being directed towards public investment. Austerity is a political choice imo.

I wonder if that’s because they have showed no sign of stopping austerity.

Yeah I guess Nvidia have had to grow up pretty fast recently.

What did he actually say? Plenty of high-profile people have denounced what’s happening in Gaza. Either he said something ‘extra’ or he’s been singled out for some reason…

Fuck yeah! Go GIMP! Also announced on Mastodon fwiw:

https://floss.social/@GIMP/112995553132226800

I’m super excited about 3.0 🪇

Of course, it’s hypothetical. My point isn’t about their specific budget (which I agree was an insane budget), it’s about how the financial industry is able to manipulate the entire economy when it doesn’t like a budget. We are nominally a democracy and they shouldn’t have that kind of power. Truss, Kwarteng and the crash are the small story. The big story is that politicians don’t have the courage to present a budget of any kind that challenges the vested interests of the financial industry. I want to see a budget that creates a fairer/more competitive market and an increase in standards of living for everyone by rolling back the massive accumulation of assets by the financial industry. But I won’t see that budget because the financial industry would stand to lose by it. The economy would “crash” because we have essentially let them become the economy. Truss and Kwarteng’s fiscal policy might have been worse than the crash they provoked from the financial industry - we’ll never know. Personally, I’m glad they are gone because I thought it was a stupid budget. But I don’t want future good policy to get killed at birth in the exactly the same way. The current Labour government are smart enough to know this, which is why they are pursuing growth instead of fairness. But it’s ultimately a waste of time because the proceeds of any growth will end up in the financial industry where it will get used to further entrench their position at the expense of everyone else.

TLDR: We need a budget which is radical enough to address our problems, which will crash economy as it stands and allow it to be replaced with a better one, which is based on fairness and real assets instead of finance.

I totally agree with everything you just said.