I still think defederation is the biggest hurdle. It would be a lot easier if you could just tell people it didn’t matter what instance they join, they will be able to follow anyone.

Usually when I mention it people will talk about all the reasons defederation exists, but it doesn’t change the fact that if a normal person has to start looking up what instance they can follow uncle ReaganLover69 on, they’re probably going to stay on twitter.

What licence did it use before?

If you count Hel (one L) from Norse religion, older than the bible.

the idea of the snake in the Garden of Eden as having given free will and wisdom to humanity can’t be that modern of a thought, even if it would have been heretical.

In Gnosticism, the snake is sometimes identified with Jesus, while the god of the old testament is the demiurge. You’re correct in that the catholic church really didn’t like that.

I once read that sponsored skydives for NHS related charities end up (in total) costing the NHS more than they raise, because of how often people get injured in them…

From what I’ve read, GLP1 drugs can change how your brain thinks about food, and can cure the “addiction” to high sugar/fat foods. They’re even being investigated for other addictions. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043661824002573

To be fair, at that point it’s a little late to quit smoking, and an addiction isn’t something you quit overnight.

Dai-guard, a somewhat obscure mecha anime. It’s a comedy about what would realistically happen if you had a giant mecha fighting monsters from another dimension: bureaucracy, lawsuits, government interference, and physics.

If the washing machine isn’t an option, dry cleaners.

Hard copy.

Photos in a photo album, documents in a filing cabinet.

When most ocean plastic comes from nets, it’s hard to disagree.

Honestly the obsession with single use plastic seems like a distraction. Every piece of plastic in landfill is oil that isn’t burnt.

Alex Jones is a false flag crisis actor who’s job is to distract people from the real conspiracies.

If you somehow killed him he would be replaced by someone who would be in a position of having to prove they were strong enough for the position.

Nobody wants an AI that talks like that.

No one else receives winter payment coverage.

Not true, many disabled people do.

He thinks pensioners living on 12k a year should lose their winter fuel payments, but a donation valued at double that is no big deal?

I was trying to clean something in a bucket of bleach, but didn’t have quite enough to cover it. I grabbed a bottle of toilet cleaner, assuming it was just expensive thick bleach, and poured a bunch in. After I started coughing I looked at the back of the bottle, it’s active ingredient was hydrochloric acid.

Genuflect, show some respect

Down on one knee

No, it’s licence violates, well, pretty much the entire open source definition

pencil, graphite is conductive.

At least Major and Blair could use Maastricht restrictions as an excuse for using PFI, Sir Starmer doesn’t even have that.