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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Nah, this journalist can't say that the jury would reach a different verdict even in light of the challanged evidence - for him to announce they would today find her "clearly not beyond reasonable doubt" is incredibly arrogant. The jury spent 10 months of their lives on this - not a few hours writing this blog and he's phrasing it like they were stupid.

The biggest red flag for me and still is the handwritten notes and its funny seeing him try rinse away with word salad. I've never ever written nor know anyone - including those who have been to therapy - who has a written the words I AM EVIL and I DID THIS. And I Killed them on purpose. Its not careless admin, its damn creepy and certainly would alone be enough for me to feel zero empathy for her. Yes, one may say a normal killer would surely destroy the evidence, but we're not talking about a normal killer. This guy wants the families to go through hell all over again to likely (by his own admission) reach the same result. Guilty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

I enjoy smaller BBQs (5/6 people) but really dislike larger "extended family friend" ones.

You know, the ones where the related host will invite everyone and there neighbour's cousins cat to sit around in a circle of sweaty plastic chairs, sunburned, all facing each other like some waiting room while we all melt away. Slowly the tinnies get opened faster, noise rises and after like an hour all the decent conversations have all ended, replaced by bad karaoke chorus of kings of leon.

Okay that escalated into PTSD, maybe its a me problem..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Huge congrats mate! Takes a special commitment to spend so long turning a vision into reality.

Also, pretty sure most AA games are also held together with tape and glue.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Appreciate its only been about 9 months or so, but been disappointed with Labour so far...

Starmer doesn't appear to be listening to the public mood on benefit reform, taxes or even the growing hostility here towards the US. It seems he's stuck 2 years in the past and as others have suggested it's difficult to see him as being the leader of the Labour Party. The most positive move I've seen him make was his warm welcome of Zelenskyy after the White House disaster.

I don't know if it was true, but I once read that Churchill rode the underground shortly before his famous speach which helped him get the mood of the public. Starmer really needs to doing something similar. He's looking more out of touch every passing week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Mozilla offer something called Relay which can mask your email address (disclaimer: haven't tried it nor looked into their policies etc).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Seconded - switched from Outlook 2 months ago to the free tuta plan and very happy so far: Android app works great, no ads and Linux app solid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I've luckily pre-ordered one with Mario kart World bundle for £430 - which I agree (with a inflation) is not ridiculous in itself. I've been waiting for 2 years as I never got the original switch and thought I'd wait for the all new model with backward compatibility..

However I am concerned about future game costs and controllers/accessories. Likely will be looking for preowneed/sale/3rd party. The £10 demo is also a big red flag and I hope doesn't set the tone for a Wiiu like story.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For me, its not the console price thats the problem. £395.99 in the UK but if we consider inflation, the switch 1 would be around £360-365 today. An extra £30ish for a bigger screen and more power is not too unreasonable. Plus ending in 95.99 rather than 99.99 suggests Nintendo have tried to trim the headline price down.

The real problem is the accessories and games. £75 for new pro controller, £50 for new microSD Express (only ones compatible) £50 for webcam and £67-75 for physical games, £59-£67 for digital.

Ouch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fun fact, in The Flash movie (guessing nobodys seen it considering it was a flop of the year) Barry opens his mostly empty fridge.. and there's a tin of these in there. Most people probably think it was a prop product but I literally ate them last week..

I have a weird thing about ratios with meat/bread and these are the only hotdogs that don't overwhelm me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

We had these last week with a pack of 6 buns, can normally fit 2 extras on to one of the other buns.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for breaking that down, I wish newspapers or even BBC News did this. They do now have BBC Verify but its never super clear of their findings, certainly not in the format that you've just used. Perhaps theirs should be called BBC Balance. The only thing I would say with regard to your first point is that I'm not against the idea that any individual could make a breakthrough. At least with regard to theory.

We already know that throughout the history of cosmology, whole experts have been wrong when a new discovery is made. E.g. Highly likely that not everyone believed that Earth was centre of the Universe (like the earlier science communities claimed). The issue with this guy is he's using his own biased ideas and data and some people believe whatever is printed in a newspaper must be right.

Only silver lining is at least there clickbaity headlines give the public something more substantial to think about for 60 seconds instead of what the next Kardashian is up to...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

Brilliant and huge congrats to the amazing people who worked on it. One silly question though, is the "new" Gimp logo supposed to look out of focus or are my eyes getting old?

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