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Ok, but what's wrong with a standard single lever mixer, or a two handle (temp and flow) mixer? Never had a problem with them.

I don't understand how what you're suggesting could work any differently than a standard mixer tap, where if you want full cold you turn it the way to cold, and pull all the way to fully open. You say "you'd generally lose maximum water pressure" - how does the mechanism you're thinking of actually set the ratio of hot to cold, and how does it not lose pressure?

But I don't really need to, now...

Why would you need separate hot and cold knobs if all that matters is the ratio between them?

Anyone who believes you’re going to shut Steve Crowder up by calling him a hypocrite is an even bigger sucker.

But you might be able to convince someone who didn't know already that he's a garbage person. Like me - I'd never heard of him.

You mean a (single handle) mixer tap?

The practical effect of the supreme court ruling has indeed been horrible in cases, but I would lay the blame mostly with the media, and perhaps with the Court for failing to provide sufficient clarity to the media. The actual ruling is so much narrower than the conversation immediately afterwards, with the BBC asking unqualified people if they thought it meant that women's bathrooms were now only for biological women, when there was simply no need to ask this question - the ruling is clear that it doesn't say this.

This reporting then feeds the situations you're talking about. Now, should Starmer have spoken out about this? I can see the argument for doing so, but not from the popularity point of view. The basis on which he could reasonably speak out would be narrow and legalistic, and risks treading on the authority of the Court. It wouldn't be the resounding pro-trans rally I imagine you might want, because that just plays into the hands of those trying to turn trans rights into a wedge issue.

Online Safety Act

I'll just point out that, tragically, this is another one of those things which is stupid but popular.

Infrequently (when I remember)

Because you were neutered as a kitten!

I don't think it's surprising that Labour is being judged this way, but what I started this off by saying was that I don't think they'll really improve with a new leader. Two things are clearly true:

1. Starmer & the government made mistakes
2. Starmer & the government are phenomenally unpopular

But seeing them together and thinking, "we can have a more popular (and successful) government by changing the leader, and this is clearly true because of this combination" - which is the logic I saw - is wrong.

Maybe Starmer was the wrong pick for leader and we're seeing this now, and having a different one would have been better. But at this point it's too late unless there is clear evidence that Starmer himself is a massive problem, which their isn't. There's all these other explanations for his personal unpopularity that would apply to any other leader too. So replacing him might get rid of his propensity for mistakes, might get in someone a bit more left-wing than centrist, but it must be recognised that "a few fewer mistakes and a bit less centrist" is not a good reason to swap leader, given how bad that is in other ways. It's his unpopularity that is propping up this narrative.

Mmm, Iran isn't the only country fucked by the USA, but they are an outstanding example of one that, decades later, still scapegoats the USA for all sorts.

Yes, and it’s not because they hate America.

I don't think Russia/Russians hate America. I do think they hate Ukrainians. But this conversation didn't start about hatred; it started about "enemies".

Which of those refers to their geopolitical rivals as "great satan"?

But bringing in Russia is somewhat ironic here. Modern Russia has many fascist traits. Fascism is on the rise...