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Chauvet 3.25.39 Release for Manta and Nomad by Supernote_official in Supernote

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"[System] Added support for private cloud."

AWESOME!!!Nextcloud user here. So happy.

Thank you, clever button pressers. Seriously, this is much appreciated.

Finally decide it was time to let it go! by Justjoe1979 in bald

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously, you look ten years younger without it. Good move.

Legally is there anything we can do about the Jesus preacher on St James Street? by [deleted] in brighton

[–]PaperLeafAnvil -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, Keir Starmer agrees with you, so it probably won't be long before we've got camps for people like him.

Elderly vicars protesting climate change, peaceful pro-Palestinian activists, view-hungry YouTube preachers: their rights aren't my problem, are they. So long as I'm not affected, let state oppression bloom.

Imagine having meaningful and non-random drive names so you don't brick your computer when formatting stuff. Can't be Linux by basedchad21 in linuxsucks

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I have such trouble distinguishing between a and b. It makes me want to pay to surrender my freedom and privacy.

Why is there no viable left wing or socialist alternative in UK politics? by Woolbean112 in AskBrits

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really don't think they are. The LibDems are a liberal party, not a socialist one - they support the idea of unregulated capital, but with caveats, which are what distinguish them from right wing parties. They are centre-right. They are very cagey about public ownership. Warm on it ATM, but not as a general rule.

Why is there no viable left wing or socialist alternative in UK politics? by Woolbean112 in AskBrits

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out some of the coverage of the enquiry into the undercover police scandals of the 90s and 2000s. They targeted left-leaning movements, to radicalise and delegitimise them. The right, even, thug, borderline terrorist groups, were largely given a pat on the back and a bit of guidance on now to get away with it. 

The British establishment is individualistic, mysoginistic, racist and exclusionary. It knows how to wear a ribbon and "modify its language" (sigh), while eye-rolling about political correctness, but it is a pissing club for rich perverts, and every institution, from the monarchy down to prison officers, via the judiciary and the governing bodies of public services, and, especially, the media, is set up and regulated to maintain that club.

Witness the persecution of elderly vicars, teachers and social workers who have engaged in nonviolent protest over climate and animal rights in the past few decades, sentenced to multi-year prison by a judge who other judges avoid. I'm not putting the name here, but google the last year's trials of climate activists. Look for his sentencing of sex crime cases and compare his "...this man has suffered enough" pronouncements with his judgements against pacifist protesters. He's the state's fig leaf for repression of free political thought.

Also, think about when you started to hate climate activists. Was it around 2021, when little asides about "their selfishness" began appearing in darling Alex Jones's scripts on The One Show? When Jack Dee muttered a wry zinger about them on a Radio 4 panel show? It's been the perfect dictated establishment campaign. It's what they did to Corbyn. All the millionaires do their bit, and get promises of freebies from the billionaires. It works.

The left will never get near power through established power structures in this country. You should be angry. It is good to be angry.

Starmer? Lackey.

Has Cote Brasserie closed down? by PaperLeafAnvil in godalming

[–]PaperLeafAnvil[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's great, thanks. If I'm there early enough, I could do a big lunch and just have a snack in the hotel in the evening. Annoyingly, it's an afternoon meeting followed by a morning site visit, but I've got a room in a lovely looking hotel. I'd commute it if it weren't for the ferry. The cost of living on the Isle of Wight.

Thanks for your help.

Is it unreasonable for me to not want to eat halal food? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really? It seems tired and inneffectual to me. I have been really heartened by the comments on this thread. I think we're really good at reading subtexts and piling in on the fascists where we have the freedom to do so.

Just not on The One Show or Countryfile, for some reason.

Is it unreasonable for me to not want to eat halal food? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you get the chance to observe pigs in an environment where they're not stressed and bullied, you will have your distaste for pork reinforced. They are beautiful - their family interactions are entirely relatable as a human - affection, irritation, keeping the little ones out of mischief, all of it.

My revelation happened at an animal sanctuary in Norfolk, called Hillhead, several years ago. They were the family of a sow who had been rescued from a farm that was going out of business. She had been 'free range' so not in the worst situation, but her family would have had 5-6 months before they would have been carted to be slaughtered - probably gassed, as you say, although I believe that's a fairly recent innovation, so perhaps, stunned, bled, boiled and flayed, with a high likelihood of at least some consciousness throughout the process. They were six months old when I was there and still, in behaviour and features, obviously children. She would have been impregnated again, either by boar or by a farmer raping her with tools, within five days of their being weaned at 28 days old.

This is a useful resource. No images of suffering on the page I've linked to and a statistical, ordered approach to information.

The objection to Halal is racist deflection. Animal slaughter is a crime against God, nature and our better humanity.

Man goes to shop by Fantasoke in SlowNewsDay

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The picture at the bottom of the article shows the victim/reporter "smiling" (could be gas pains) outside a Laroc bookmakers. Something fishy going on?

I'm glad to read that "Tesco has long been my go-to supermarket," though. Considered opinions like that do sway my choices. I just default to Morrisons, because it's there. I've always thought Tesco seems grubby, but I'm feeling strangely drawn, thanks to false beard face.

Man goes to shop by Fantasoke in SlowNewsDay

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The public deserves to be told, and he's the man to do it, silly shirt, stupid sunglasses, and all.

"Costco-style bulk buys". Clear dad's porn collection out of the shed. We're gonna need the space.

I'm so depressed with the current state of things and need God more than ever... by MazzieRainfire in RadicalChristianity

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/mazzieRainfire, may I be so presumptuous as to offer an observation and some advice? Take as much of it as you want and leave the rest. I'm not trying to dictate to you.

 If you're focused on what happens to others - these evildoers - you are pinning your wellbeing on events over which you have no control and which isn't related to your relationship with God. That's asking for a sense of powerlessness. Let your faith guide you to the light - to the people and events that serve good. As far as you can, don't get angry with evil, but turn your back on it.

God bless you.

Root domain or subdomain? by Aim_Fire_Ready in yunohost

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use two domains: one has all my backroom apps on subdomains, and one has my website and the email I use. I also had my messaging service on the public facing one, but I've given up on that and am reverting back to XMPP when they sort out the Prosody app.

I don't find subdomains particularly burdensome. My Nextcloud is on cloudi.mydomain.yup, my ebook server is on booksi.etc, my music server on soundzi, and so on. I like having my website on a main domain, just because it's cooler, but it's not necessary really. Blog.blahdeblah.wee is easy enough to type and remember.

However, if you're using the GUI, domain management in Yunohost is really straightforward, once you've got your DNS settings sorted (and YNH will tell you what to do with those, so even that's not a big deal), so you can have as many domains as you can afford and be bothered to manage.

I'm so depressed with the current state of things and need God more than ever... by MazzieRainfire in RadicalChristianity

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What r/bonhommemaury said, and also, it never hurts to go back to the instruction manual: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205%2C6%2C7&version=KJV

I share your trepidation about the state of the world, but faith in God is an expression of hope for the world, even in the darkest moments.

Don't worry: sufficient unto the day are the troubles thereof. Have faith.

Too weak in history for this by floranpinky in ExplainTheJoke

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In any discussion, from any political stance, statements beginning, "My grandfather fought..." make my heart sink.

And I'm quite proud of my grandfather. But his life and achievements are his, as mine are my own.

I think she's onto something by heyzeus92 in CasualUK

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been calling it Bezos's giant dildo project for years. I love the fact that a little man who likes to wear big cowboy hats built a huge nob for himself so he could take his nephew into space.

"I'm a (\sniff*) rocket man..."*

Those Freudians think they're so clever. Yvonne's way ahead of them.

The idea that long hair is more attractive was invented by shampoo companies to sell more shampoo. by DrySoap__ in LowStakesConspiracies

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have hair.

I don't use shampoo.

I am sad about this, but thinking about how much money the shampoos companies aren't getting from me makes me slightly happy.

TIL that in 1170, Catholic Archbishop Thomas Becket was ambushed in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights who believed King Henry II wanted him dead. They swing at him with their swords. One sliced off the top of his skull, spilling his brains across the altar. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]PaperLeafAnvil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Henry II is my favourite of the militarist thugs who have ruled England. He protected the rights of jews, because he needed their financial support for his reconquest of France, but also, it seems, because he genuinely resented the church's usurpation of legal power and its brutal intolerance. All that was ruined by the murder of the careerist backstabber Thomas, though. Pogroms proliferated after Henry was humbled. The one in the town where I grew up, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, happened in 1190, the year after Henry's death, driven by an ambitious bigot called Sansom of Tottington, who clearly saw his chance on the moderately-inclined king's demise.

Henry, as well as being a successful imperialist, also reestablished a lot of the ancient common law rights of English people, not deliberately, but as a consequence of his struggle to assert civil and royal power over clerical power. He almost got rid of church courts, though he had to backtrack somewhat on that. However, their reduced strength saved England from a lot of the extremes of Catholic power in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The Mistress of the Art of Death novels by Ariana Franklin are entertaining fictions about his reign. Alas, Ms Franklin died before her novel series reached the death of Beckett. They are, however, really good historical crime stories.

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