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  • I imagine more than a little of my frustration is rooted in me not agreeing. But, I think I would have still been frustrated if the SC had decided the other way, just less so. I think regardless I would have wanted:

    I guess they could have refused permission to appeal earlier[.]

    But, more than that, these nonces have been noncing for actual decades. How the fuck is “whether oat milk can be called milk” a question we’re thinking about for a second time?! “The purpose of a system is what it does” is being thrown around a lot recently, I’m not sure organically. But fuck me if the purpose of our system isn’t to protect monied interest and bind the rest of us.








  • I don’t do anything with it, pure set and forget. I probably should, I don’t use XXX at all. NSFW is under a different stack, different gluetun, and different network namespace. As for size, I don’t know but I found this in the FAQ:

    What are the system requirements for bitmagnet?

    As a rough guide, you should allow around 300MB RAM for BitMagnet, and at least 1GB RAM for the Postgres database. You should allow roughly 80GB of disk space per 10 million torrents, which should suffice for several months of crawling, however there is no upper limit to how many torrents might ultimately be crawled. The database will run fastest when it has plenty of RAM and a fast disk, preferably a SSD.


  • Never mind. I can see a salary interpretation in this. Perhaps that’s what you were aiming for and I was wrong. If so I apologise and agree, his giving up a salary isn’t a spinless act. Bit of a nothingness in the face of his support of genocide though. But, I think the parent comment was making a double entendre of salary and bribe. Starmer is so spineless you don’t have to pay (salary/bribe) him.

    I’ll leave having asserted Kier is spinless. Having shown some reasons for why I think he is spineless. And having justified why I think him being spineless is bad.


  • I was just ignoring your attempt to goalpost shift.

    Parent comment:

    The country with a leader who accepts any and all bribes + the country with a leader so spineless that you don’t even need to pay him? Who’da thought?

    No mention of salary.

    Your reply:

    Sorry but what do you mean by this? I’m struggling to see how this is bad. Would you rather a leader took all the money they could get their hands on? Because that’s how you end up with Trump.

    No mention of salary.

    My reply:

    You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s support of genocide is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s capitulation to the right is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s refusal to stand up for trans rights is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s appointing of Mandleson is bad? You’re struggling to see how the UK sinking to new lows in the global corruption index is bad? You’re struggling to see… Should’ve gone to Specsavers.

    But to answer your false dichotomy. We dont need to chose between a spineless government or a government that “took all the money they could get their hands on”. We can choose a government that is neither spineless or corrupt.

    No mention of salary. Your reply

    I didn’t say any of that. I’m simply asking why not having to pay someone is a negative? Or makes them spineless?

    No mention of salary, a bribe [see parent comment] is payment and corruption.

    Because we have both a spineless (see examples in my comment) and corrupt (see headline) government.

    You didn’t say those things, but they are the setting for which your comment was made. Kier is spineless, you’re struggling to see why that’s bad.

    No mention of salary, eventually you shift the goal posts.

    If you don’t want me repeating comments could you please read them? The original goalpost was having a corrupt leader over a simply spinless one, a false dichotomy. Now moving goal posts, be better.

    Never mind. I can see a salary interpretation in this. Perhaps that’s what you were aiming for and I was wrong. If so I apologise and agree, his giving up a salary isn’t a spinless act. Bit of a nothingness in the face of his support of genocide though. But, I think the parent comment was making a double entendre of salary and bribe. Starmer is so spineless you don’t have to pay (salary/bribe) him.

    I’ll leave having asserted Kier is spinless. Having shown some reasons for why I think he is spineless. And having justified why I think him being spineless is bad.


  • Why does not accepting a salary to be a political leader make someone spineless?

    Cause and effect are reversed here. Spineless people do things regardless of payment.

    Silly example, I see you’re a spineless person in the playground. I walk up to you and demand your lunch. You, being spineless, give it to me, no payment necessary. Not taking payment isn’t, in and of itself, a noble act.

    Apply that to a position of leadership, apply that to politics. Apply that to his policies I listed. Do you now understand why I believe him being spineless to be a bad thing?

    For example there’s a big bully in the playground called Trump, Trump took something from Venezuela, what was Starmer’s response? It was spineless is what it was.


  • I understand what you’re saying but I think you’re misinterpreting what I am asking.

    I don’t think I am.

    I am purely interested in why you think not having to pay a leader [because they are spineless] is a bad thing rather than a good thing

    Why do I think a spineless leader is a bad thing rather than a good thing? You’re struggling to see how having a spineless leader is a bad thing just as I asserted.

    Which brings us back to my first comment and all the products of this government:

    You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s support of genocide is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s capitulation to the right is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s refusal to stand up for trans rights is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s appointing of Mandleson is bad? You’re struggling to see how the UK sinking to new lows in the global corruption index is bad? You’re struggling to see… Should’ve gone to Specsavers.

    To be clear, their increasing of corruption is bad too. Which brings me, again, to my first comment:

    But to answer your false dichotomy. We dont need to chose between a spineless government or a government that “took all the money they could get their hands on”. We can choose a government that is neither spineless or corrupt.





  • You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s support of genocide is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s capitulation to the right is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s refusal to stand up for trans rights is bad? You’re struggling to see how Starmer’s appointing of Mandleson is bad? You’re struggling to see how the UK sinking to new lows in the global corruption index is bad? You’re struggling to see… Should’ve gone to Specsavers.

    But to answer your false dichotomy. We dont need to chose between a spineless government or a government that “took all the money they could get their hands on”. We can choose a government that is neither spineless or corrupt.





  • Thanks, I have a Lazy Librarian helping me at my local library. They prowl* so I don’t have to.

    I’m thinking of building my own Bookshelf as a replacement for my Lazy Librarian, because It could use Hardcover. Also I liked the interface when I used to Read* so Bookshelf might suit me better.

    Anyways, I stupidly pointed Bookshelf at the same folder my Lazy Librarian was using, and they had a bit of a falling out. Stuff was lost, stuff was broken, there was much gnashing of teeth and rolling back.

    *Are these things on? I thought .world was anti… Anyways