I’m not surprised it got a bad answer though. The government was completely dysfunctional by that point (and had been well over a year), I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just some random civil servant who was just told to weave a fig leaf at it.

There’s no way he actually said that. It’s correctly punctuated and there isn’t a single misspelling.

They should have gone the other route and just had the woman from 2 point Museum/Campus so it, complete with sarcastic remarks.

“The train is delayed, but you know that already”

There are probably tons of people who would pay to hear an AI version of their voice coming from the train speakers.

Yeah, but it needs to be clear, and as much as I love Dave from the pub, he tends to mumble.

Is this the weird football but not really game? I saw it advertised a couple of days ago and it didn’t seem to have a really awful camera.

Just by literally any of the other handheld PCS and just stick an emulator on it if you’re that interested in playing the games. The only reason to buy a Switch 2 is for convenience.

The military are actually trained though. There’s no point trying to train these guys they are military rejects.

The US military versus these guys would be more farcical than anything else.

That has to be a market for XXL bulletproof vests. Although it’s the US so that’s probably already a thing.

Alternative Vote wasn’t proportional representation though. It’s basically just like having a whole series of head-to-heads under First Past The Post. It didn’t actually solve the fundamental problem which is you end up in a situation where most of the people are unhappy with the result.

One of the few benefits of Reform if they do get in is they do support PR. Whether that support will dissolve the second they win under FPTP remains to be seen.

Nope. They definitely will not move to a proportional representation system. Why the hell would they?

Proportional representation benefits them when they are not in power because it’s the only way they can get into power, if they somehow manage to find a way into power under first past the post then introducing proportional representation would only dilute their power.

In any scenario in which they have power they are unlikely to introduce proportional representation, and in any scenario where they support proportional representation, they won’t have enough power to actually implement it.

Like most things with Reform, it’s all bark and no trousers.

The US actually has other parties, it’s just no one ever hears about them. I’m afraid to say that this will go the same way, the days of the three-party system are long since over. Now your choice is right-wing politicians, really right-wing politicians, or actual Nazis.

Or you can have the delusional hippies (who don’t want to build solar farms on the basis that it would require cutting down a few trees), who always pick up a few votes, but never enough to make any difference.

The only good thing about reform is that Nigel Farage has utterly failed to establish the cult following that Donald Trump has. So they’re unlikely to be a long-term issue.

I don’t mind Labour, it’s the current leadership that I’m upset about.

Labour have some really strong potential party leaders. If the Conservatives continue to be as pathetic as they currently are, and Reform continues to just have unhinged PR disasters every 5 minutes, it’s entirely possible they will get the chance to be Prime Minister.

I would be all for a new left-wing party but I don’t particularly think it would be a good idea to have Corbin anywhere near it. As much as I agree with him as a person he’s truly awful at being a politician. He just doesn’t seem to play the game very well.

Him being in an advisory role would be absolutely fine.

Vibe coding is an utterly stupid idea that just results in you not knowing how the code works.

I’m sorry but that capitalisation is really off-putting.

You’re Not Writing A Headline You Know

Federation is an overly complicated solution it’s not required. It also wouldn’t actually help, they can still take it off the app store there’d be another one but they would just play whack-a-mole and you can achieve the same thing with open source.

The best bet would be to have the database hosted outside the US and just have apps that pull the data from an API. There’s no need for the app itself to store the data in fact that’s a really stupid way to do it. You could federate it if you wanted but honestly that’s probably unnecessary

There was somebody else who works at the company I work at with the same name as me. I will often see my boss typing a message and it goes on for a very long time and then suddenly stops, that’s when I realise that right at the last minute she’s realised she’s messaging the wrong person.

I cannot say I find the experience overly distressing.

So it’s just an amp version of the gov.uk website? I assume so because after reading the article I’m no clearer on what the point of this app is actually supposed to be. Apparently I can customise it, a feature that I’ve got to be honest I’ve never felt was missing from the website.

I actually think the gov.uk website is really quite good. Certainly a lot easier than it used to be with all of the services and departments having their own website, I’ve never really felt an app is necessary.

I think that might be the most Florida thing anyone has ever said.

I don’t think I have ever seen a taxi driver operate their vehicle for more than about 60 seconds without committing a driving violation.

It’s like they think that it’s their job to drive stupidly. But the absolute worst is the way they park, they just stop the car in the middle of the damn road. But it’s all right because they’ve turned on their hazards.