Rogue

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[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 0 points 4 days ago

The only way for Labour to govern under first past the post is to appeal to the center.

Unfortunately our country is disgustingly conservative and the right wing have always been far better organised, it probably helps they have the media on side.

Starmer is actually doing a surprisingly ok job. The austerity he's pushing is tedious as fuck but if he weren't keeping an eye on economics we'd be drowning in hysteria about "magic money trees" and labour dragging the country in to debt.

The employment rights bill will be an incredible improvement for working people. I wish it went a lot further but it's a solid start.

Unless labour support electoral reform we are doomed to an eternity of right wing government. Labour only got into power last year because reform split the vote, and very soon the reform and conservatives will merge together again.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Possibly because it's presented how news used to be - a simple statement of fact without embellishment or click bait.

Would you rather:

You won't BELIEVE how this weapon built by British boffins can yeet hundreds of Russian drones from the sky in seconds

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Even that's more steps than necessary.

Just serve your website with Caddy and it handles certs for you. The config is absolutely trivial compared to Apache, nginx, etc

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 33 points 1 week ago (11 children)

If you're truly unaware of why TLS is necessary or how to automate the process then you should probably retire.

Archaic attitudes like yours are precisely why these restrictions are necessary.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Labour aren't smart though. They believe FPTP gives them an advantage and thus we're destined to misery under the conservatives as soon as the party gathers together the resources to bribe farage into disbanding reform

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

That's honestly fine. Everybody deserves fair representation.

If we'd had PR a decade ago and the disenfranchised had had a voice in parliament then perhaps we never would have been dragged out of the EU.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's also worth noting that it wouldn't just be china profiting financially. It would create a dependence on china for an essential material.

Given how rocky International relationships are at present we need to consider how we would manufacture weapons and vehicles should we find ourselves in a major conflict.

If Europe is at war with russia it's unlikely china would willingly provide the steel we need.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

What I read elsewhere that made a lot more sense is the Chinese owners, Jingye, intended to turn off the furnaces in a way that it would effectively never be possible to use them again without incurring a lot of time and extraordinary cost.

In doing so Britain would have no choice but to purchase steel from China.

Therefore even if it's going to be expensive for the government to maintain in the long term it will be a better deal for Britain than letting china monopolise an essential material.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 20 points 2 weeks ago

Fireworks had so much potential as a web design app and they threw it away.

Illustrator and InDesign were too focused on print media and Photoshop could barely comprehend anything unless it was rasterized.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That's not semantic versioning...

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You could be referring to either of them

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk -1 points 1 month ago

War was the one thing the US was good at, now they have nothing of value left for the rest of the world.

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.

US is good at pumping infinite money into the military. But they definitely aren't "good" at war.

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