Yeah. Shipping and taxes does make it a bit more expensive outside of the US

Close the sky is an amazing phrase to be able to use

I feel like there are 2 related arguments against this. One is that it could motivate political prosecution to disenfranchise people. The second is that it kind of creates a slippery slope, if treason disenfranchises you why not murder, or rape, or election fraud or whatever other crime someone considers serious enough

One thing that I am really disappointed by is the lack of any meaningful reform to gender recognition. Like they pay lip service but they still want to keep the requirement for a medical diagnosis and they don’t want to recognise non-binary people. I don’t love the term red Tory because I think it’s inaccurate but to me this is one are where Labour are closer to the Tory party than they are to other left wing parties

As someone who works in Morrisons this wouldn’t actually be the case. They pay everyone the highest level of minimum wage already so this wouldn’t be a change. I know they aren’t the only company that pays everyone the 21+ minimum wage

Buffy

Coffee. There are a couple of Lemmy communities but none of them are that active. Reddit had r/coffee and r/espresso that were both fairly active

Even better. The countdown resets if you look away

Over the past year coal has only generated 1.2% of power in the UK

Elan.school is a webcomic of the author’s experience at Elan. Well worth a read and the author is currently in the process of making it into a physical comic

A lot of these comments are American so I thought I would provide a different point of view. In the UK it is a legal requirement for some broadcasters to have a certain percentage of signed programmes.

For espresso machines I would recommend Gaggia. I bought one that was at least third hand and from 2000. It still works great and if anything breaks all the parts can be bought online

This is a webpage from a guy who voluntarily because stateless. https://identityunknown.org/3e7/Introduction_A_series_of_life_experiences_by_Glen_Lee_Roberts_before_and_after_he_became_Voluntarily_Stateless

Tim Eicke, the UK judge at the ECtHR. He gave a talk at my university and I briefly spoke to him afterwards