deadcatbounce @ deadcatbounce @reddthat.com

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Not really a genie, more of a willo the wisp, but I get it from a bloke called Spider. It's very more-ish.

Beautiful.

I've tried the other way already. Not so good.

(P)icked-a-piece-of-pickled-pepper.

Ftfy

Everyone knows that McDonald's don't degrade over time. You can put one in its original bag in the closet for a number of years without problems.

Shame on you for not buying in bulk when the price was more amenable. Get down to your local McDonald's now and buy yourself at least 57 Big Macs which I've calculated to be the optimal amount until global warming renders this planet a cinder. And get me a chocolate milkshake while you're at it, please.

My cousin is eight. They were very confused by the reference to twenty-five. The rest of the family gave me funny looks too.

YMMV.

Update: I've realised my mistake. My cousin isn't my sibling. Actually I better check that .. brb.

Where are you? Brit here.

Feels like we're fighting a losing battle to people who you simply don't care about privacy, who use the built in browser of the OS; the default.

Strangely, when I asked them for their home address and peccadillos they always refuse/walk away. They even ask me to turn away when they enter passwords. What's that about?!

Maybe. My great grandparents escaped from Poland and Russia in the first decade of the twentieth century. I don't know what you'd call it as a geographic area.

I remember, with a small child's view, the seventies. It was really shite. Weak leaders, unions asking the physically impossible, wild inflation (25+% vs a kinda normal 5-7%), strikes and poverty. 'managed decline' was the way it was described in the civil service: the airplane is fucked but we're going for a soft landing. 2020 here is like the seventies writ small. The UK had no choice but to join the EU.

The UK contributes less than 2% to greenhouse gases but our idiots are pushing climate change costs onto us - or maybe it's labelled climate change but the taxes is just trying to keep us the country afloat. What we learned from Mrs T was that 70s style tax burdens don't work. The halving of the tax rates doubled the revenue and suddenly punk became synth and new romantics.

I think the real change was the second wave emancipation of women. House prices went wild because there were now two serious incomes per household to multiply by 4 or 5. People were buying houses on self- certification of income, never making a mortgage payment, and still selling the house at a huge profit. The thing exploded, like in the US, as you'd expect. The government didn't raise interest rates to combat the excess money now in the system and pop-goes-the- weasel.

Selling off the infrastructure was a dream to build wealth for small shareholders, mirroring the US - I have a SEC Series 7 Traders qualification for work - but the Brits are sadly a more disconnected lot. Every budget raids our pensions funds because we don't care about them until the day before we retire. I'm guessing small shareholders are a small minority now.

After the nineties We've had a succession of weak leaders, each tacitly claiming to be the new Mrs T. Boris filled his mates pockets with the cash meant for COVID and locked down the working man.

Now we've got a naive ex-chief prosecutor 'authoritarian' in who is as weak as fuck pandering to every liberal cause you can shake a stick at. Violent prisoners being released, people jailed for sending a tweet; serious honours given out for the mayor of London who has failed by any metric you care to name, but someone has elected him three times in a row. Mind you, the opposition candidate was particularly hopeless this time.

It's all very reminiscent of Neil Kinnock failing miserably to walk unaided on a beach, having being surprised by the presence of water, staging a election victory before the day and losing the general election as a result to a complete twat.

Meanwhile, if climate change was actually important to you all, you'd tackle the major polluters of this world. China also owns Africa for the minerals and large quantities of the US, India lives in abject poverty as the largest population in the world. Not a damn thing was said.

I don't think we can quite equate this shite to the 1930s but I take your point!

Some people like to live vicariously through their children. The children become athletes or painters just because their parent wanted to but was thwarted in their attempt.

You've got a case of the reverse. Not so widely known of but still a thing.

I use degooglechrome (flatpak - Fedora) for the moronic sites that are too encumbered with trackers and other shite to ever load on Firefox. In the UK that would be the National Lottery website as an example. If it loads for you, you're not as privacy conscious as you think.

To me, using Firefox would suggest that you don't use Chrome for more than the odd few sites because you specifically use Firefox for privacy. That's because Chrome goes out of its way to remove privacy eg. frustrating uBlock Origin.

I don't sync bookmarks because I don't want Google to have them too easily. I'm sure they have them but I didn't offer them up knowingly.

I'm bound to ask: why do you use Firefox? Unless you're a dev that has to cover all browsers.

That word is egalitarianism. Ftfy.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/egalitarianism

Sending hugs. We've got your back. 😁

My apologies. I was confused why you asked me about the word risk. My bad assumption.

Netflix subscribers might watch: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81927969

1. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/risk I'm assuming you're not familiar with the word and English is not your first language.
2. 1. 80 - 90% of women win custody battles, despite prisons being almost entirely of fatherless homes. Homes where the father is the single parent have the same recidivism rate as two parent homes. 100k children each year lose contact with a parent as a result of divorce - guess which parent usually. Legal Shared parenting has almost completely disappeared.
   2. False accusations of violence are free or fully funded for women. In the England/Wales when legal aid introduced the requirement of domestic violence before legal aid was granted, on the quarter of this rule coming in (2011) applications under domestic abuse as documented by CAFCASS were multiplied by 10 times. Either men collectively decided to start beating their wives in that quarter or fully funded false accusations were exposed as an issue.
   3. About 20-30% of children are not related to their father as named on their birth certificate. Statistics from the child maintenance body in the UK shows that for the thousands of men placed on child maintenance applications over a third were shown to be false applications citing unrelated men. In France, it is illegal it seek the DNA child - father match for your own children. Visit a genealogy community or ancestry on Reddit or Facebook.
   4. In the UK the 1971 law (MCA) says effectively that joint marital assets follow the children. The woman typically gets around 80%+ of net assets because they have custody of the children. that's a personal observation because these are private law cases. The government refuses to publish the real numbers.
3. (I'm tired of typing now) Domestic violence against men is ignored; or the victim is arrested. There are no shelters for men and children in the whole of the UK. Erin pissey, a lovely woman, who came up with the idea for shelters for DV survivors for both sexes was removed from the organisation she started by feminists and now campaigns for DV shelters for men. All of these government money for supporting male victims of DV is given to 'Women's Aid" after their successful bid years ago. There is still no support for male victims; it doesn't take a genius to imagine why.
4. (Others are going to have to help finish these.) Sixty five years after the female pill, there is no male equivalent. Women can opt out of being a mother with abortion, men don't have the right to opt out of their equivalent. I don't know a guy who hasn't been told "you can take the condom off, I'm on the pill" - if he refuses a row ensues. I do know of the sale of positive pregnancy tests, condom mining for semen which is then used to become pregnant and the "on the pill" being a complete lie.