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Characterise false rigour? Do you mean something that purports to be rigour but is not?

Good job I never use it then.

> Aren't we as a western society responsible for the destruction and destabiliztion of the eastern countries?

How far do you want to go back?

I think some idea of what the project does might motivate?

Oh Traveller! It has been such a long time since I thought about it. Have I still got those manuals, I wonder?

This reminds me of the great pleasure I got from technical drawing at school.

As far as I can tell, there isn’t a post in the Daring Fireball archive on Nov 3.

That is a generous assessment of Tim Cook’s reign at Apple and especially of his character. I found it a real pleasure to read.

Can't see from the UK as the poster claims the UK Online Safety Act prevents them from showing it to me (unless folk use a VPN, I guess).

The issue is more the other way at the moment. Norwegian prices can get high as they are exposed to German demand over the interconnector.

I think probably the interest rate is higher, but the value as a proportion of the starting value on LHS is less significant, compared with the periods you mention. If you look at the monthly interest rates at the bottom, it seems to support this notion.

I am going to have to ask you for a source this time.

Brent crude is a light, sweet oil. UK oil is extracted from same oilfields as Norways - little difference in quality - and the major extraction from both is Brent crude

A handy explainer on Brent quality is here: https://kimray.com/training/types-crude-oil-heavy-vs-light-s...

He could be referencing this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_of_Marque

I think the quotes is to say that these people who say that they are pronatalist have revealed preferences that indicate that it is not a serious concern for them.

Okay, though to be fair to me, you said just after

> and ignoring the Salisbury Convention (which is that they shouldn’t block manifesto commitments)

which is what attracted my question.

Thanks for the link. I haven’t watched it, but I will observe that a lot of the modern legislation that comes out of the commons should properly attract the attention of the Lords, as it doesn’t get nearly enough attention from the commons.

Most western democracies have exactly the same fault, maybe having unscrupulous, shameless legislators are the end state of the current models of democracy being practiced.

Which manifesto commitments have been blocked in this parliament?

That is the only disappointing aspect of the site. It's genius.

RIP Dan

And is a decidedly superior breakfast.

The word "trillionaire" does not appear in the discussion. Not good form to imply quotes where there are none.

UK is European. Membership of EU is unnecessary for that criterion to be met.

Are all of these dark patterns seen in the wild? OR are some of these merely a dreadful warning of what may happen?

I think some examples are in order - where has the UK, having recently left the EU, changed its laws so that it was completely out of step with consumer protection? Or is this one thing that made it necessary for them to leave the union, perhaps?

He was arrested for sex trafficking minors and convicted procuring a child for prostitution.

Here I nervously point out that it's my favourite of his books - and I have read just about all of them, certainly all the Culture novels.

Why isn't there a Tracey Alloway recommendation filter - I'm pretty sure she reads plenty as well?

That's fair - I just bought four or five books, a couple by authors I am aware of already and a couple experimental.

These days I look out for books that look a bit different from the ruts I mine and this list has been helpful in that regard.