I don’t think it’s anything as sinister from the current government. I’m not saying it’s a good idea, but they’re more stupid and weak than they are totalitarian. British Labour has had an obsession with “tech” solutions for social issues since the start of the Blair years. Sometimes it works, but as often it’s mired in incompetency and corruption.

I suspect that this recent spate of apparent puritanism is because they recognise that gender-based and sexual violence are “issues” after the discourse around Adolescence, but they can’t/don’t want to do anything actually meaningful (improve welfare, job opportunities, life prospects) so are latching onto what they believe are “easy” solutions. No-one with power actually understands how net infrastructure works, or cares about privacy as a principle, but they do have a group think that also leads them to think that this might make some inroads with “the right.”

It’s all absolute garbage being slapped together by career politicians who don’t understand anything and are primarily interested either in their next election or their post-parliament careers.

I work in biomedical research. We had an item delivered in a 40x40x40cm, dry ice container. It was a tiny vial smaller than my thumb.

A very expensive, tiny vial.

Read a comfort book/watch comfort show. You know it won’t hit as hard, but it’ll still be fun.

We get prints of photos of our daughter and from holidays for exactly this reason. Snapfish does pretty cheap prints, so although they’re not amazing quality they’ll still do for having a look through every now and then.

Unfortunately, my memory is pretty shit so I often forget how I fucked up when the situations come around again.

I remember my dad saying he regretted having not done a different degree in his 20s. I love him and I know he didn’t mean anything by it, but it did feel like he was saying he regretted having the life that ended up with me in it.

Since then I’ve tried never to regret a decision, but still to learn from mistakes.

I’d agree with the folk suggesting you live together for at least a year first, whilst also holding down full time jobs. That’s what most of your life is going to be like, so you should know what that feels like before making that kind of commitment.

To be practical, the commitment is more about the money since weddings are expensive and divorce is just a bit of hassle (unless kids or mortgage are involved).

Is this another safety factor, i.e. you can’t easily rip appliances out by accident?

Where’s all this stemming from? It smacks of Palantir…

Oh! Glad to hear his horrible attitude is no longer with us.

I must have missed this in the wake of Cheney’s retirement from the living realm.

This is why health and safety officers are worth it. That’s a lot of not dead or injured people.

I don’t see mention of remaining developers protesting, only IWGB and the reading of statements.

Where is it reported that the remaining staff are revolting?

Controversial opinion: I like comfort games these days.

The first AC came out when I was in high school, and my one of my favourite bands for a good few years released their first album around then as well. I may not have as much time or love for either now, but I still get a nice buzz when I engage with a new release - especially when it does something a bit different (even if not revolutionary) compared to previous ones.

The Bandcamp sale is hopefully good news. Songtradr looks like they’re just in the music business and don’t (from their Wikipedia page) have any obviously dodgy investors.