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If she's interested but shy and insecure, this could lead her into a spiral of worry and despair. Better to just say "I really like you" and see how she reacts.

I suspect it's a share price influencing game with some of his pals.

Yeah, the lack of context on that is rather telling, I think, and a sign that the mods don't understand what it's like to be persistently deligitimised or why that could be the final straw. Go Ada, you're a great and caring admin.

That's kina beautiful. Thank you.

Nice.

Don't listen to her. You're a very good boy.

WHAT COULD HAVE CAUSED THIS.

Isn't he the guy that used a sieve to encrypt web traffic?

When you get in the bath, the water sloshes back and forth. When you hit a tuning fork, it doesn't matter how, it vibrates at the same frequency. Put those two together and it's the same thing with the sea, only bigger and wetter. People are always chucking things in the sea, like new boats and stuff.

It's my computer, not theirs. Watching a video isn't the same as taking money, you seem to have a lot of confusion on this point.

Oh, I consent to the content. Just not to the ads, so I stream the content and my software skips the ads for me automatically. Couldn't be simpler. Puts me in control over what I do and don't download onto my computer. I'm not buying anything.

I don't consent to watching the same ads over and over. I don't consent to them being downloaded onto my computer against my will. You consent, that's fine. You enemies consent to sending the richest corporations on the globe your hard earned cash so you can avoid the same ads I don't want, and they still send you ads. I don't know why you like that stuff, but I don't. I'm in charge of what I do and don't download onto my computer.

Not really.

You're trying really hard, for days and days, trying to make me feel guilty about skipping ads, and it's just not working. At all. But you persist. It's weird.

You're being a bit weird about this.

The word "theoretically" is doing a lot of lifting in that video. He said that the Queen is in important political figure, but that's incorrect. The monarchy in the UK survives by being apolitical and they all know that the day they start meddling in politics is the day when the royal family loses its one remaining role in the UK - ceremony. Their long standing popularity comes from the pomp and circumstance, and if they get mixed up in politics, they'll become deeply unpopular, just like everyone else who tells the British people what to do does in the end.

All the real power went in the civil war and the glorious revolution. Parliament decides who is the monarch. If the king went rogue, he'd be gone before you can say "that's not what we were looking for in the role of ceremonial figurehead."

"The Crown" actually includes, quite as a matter of law, the government and specifically the prime minister.

So all the stuff about signing laws isn't real power. It's not about whether it becomes law, it's about when it becomes law.

The King is The Sovereign, but he is not sovereign, Parliament is sovereign.

He embodies British power, but he doesn't wield it.

The king has no real power. Real power lies with the prime minister since previous kings with the same name and the Glorious Revolution. He's a figurehead.

You can talk as much crap as you like, watching a video without ads isn't theft.

No, because that would be theft - taking something from its owner with the intent to permanently deprive them off ownership. Nothing is removed when you watch a video.

Skip 'em with an ad blocker for the win. Better experience, and you don't have to pay megacorps with megaprofits your own money.