The USA was founded by treason and terrorism
I run plex through a Chromecast into TV HDMI.
Wondering how others do it now....? Is it PCs plugged into TVs?
Or do modern TVs run Plex apps?
That is a lot to make a handbag, ten or twenty times more than a lot of them.
And there are other reasons and incentives beyond government discounts
When someone explains something everyone knows or is obvious as if they just thought of it for the first time in human history.
I saw the title and thought this was another politics thread
Very much depends on which seat right now.
The prospect of a labour government with a libdem opposition is hilarious to me.
There's evidence for this.
Trans priestesses attended temples in Mesopotamia and were very highly regarded.
I guess it would be valuable in shallow water, less useful in the deep ocean, and overall better than being stuck in one place!
That looks like excellent value because the funding for all those things doesn't come from the £4,
Maybe force goes in through the head and out through the hands?
He does look a little like he's being "cupped" now you mention it
They're famously good at DIY, especially plumbing.
Wesley Crusher. I always liked him
Didn't your dad teach you to turn off the enigmatic astronomical object when you were done with it? You think the universe is justmade of hydrogen or something?
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge.
This isn't a social media thing exclusively of course, I've met it in the real world too.
When I worked as a repair technician, members of the public would ask me for my diagnosis of faults and then debate them with me.
I've dedicated the second half of my life to understanding people and how they work, in this field it's even worse because everyone has opinions on that topic!
And yet my friend who has a physics PhD doesn't endure people explaining why his theories about battery tech are incorrect because of an article they read or an anecdote from someone's past.
So I'm curious, do some fields experience this more than others?
If you have a field of expertise do you find people love to debate you without taking into account the gulf of awareness, skills and knowledge?
I'm thinking that noticing the many similarities between Labour and the Tories misses the most important thing, the fringes.
To elaborate...
The UK has always favoured centrist governments, when the Conservatives get too nasty they're unpopular, Labour only wins when they do Thatcherism-Light, etc.
We now have a choice between a relatively moderate conservative prime minister, who is admittedly being dragged to the right by his party and others, and a relatively moderate labour leader who has purged the extremism from his party to pursue a centre left agenda.
In both cases, what I see are two people who believe in principles, compromise them for politics sake, who are fundamentally in favour of the status quo rather than revolution and prefer to win through being seen as competent.
Fine, this has been the case most of my life. It's why I've been relaxed about politics. Whatever happens, things will largely stay the same with small incremental changes.
The difference now is about the fringes. Not a day goes by recently without a headline grabbing policy coming out of the government press machine making a virtue out of being a bunch of ****s.
The ridiculous culture war stuff, the politicisation of fear and anger. Pointless, ineffective policies that are intended to win a few votes regardless of the harm they cause. Sickening stuff a lot of the time, born out of selfishness of behalf of those in power to try and keep that power and get as much as they can for themselves. It feels like they be the ones looting the Titanic as it sank.
So whilst Labour are not likely to usher in a revolution, a golden age or fix things overnight. I'll take centrist middle aged dad running the country if it means an end to this nonsense. An end to a government attacking it's own citizens in the name of defending the people.