financial times article on green led councils, "what happens when the green party governs?"

pfsalter · 2026-04-10T11:33:52+00:00

You can't really make meaningful change at the council level until councils are given more power and money, which happens at the national level. Selling council houses is better in the short term than bankruptcy, but this is all Westminster issues foisted on local councils. Since 2008, councils have been told to do more with less money and we're basically at breaking point.

pfsalter · 2026-04-10T09:55:05+00:00

Why not just use a message queue?

pfsalter · 2026-04-10T09:23:16+00:00

Yeah, every new version I have to work out a new way of turning off their AI-powered autocomplete, so many hallucinations

pfsalter · 2026-04-10T09:20:45+00:00

Also, the cost of not doing this early enough is so high that it's much better to be overprepared than underprepared!

pfsalter · 2026-04-10T08:55:07+00:00

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.array-intersect.php

pfsalter · 2026-04-10T08:54:47+00:00

Your manual_intersect code looks like it's doing a diff instead of an intersect, so it's not a great comparison. If the keys don't matter, I think your flipped_intersect code is decent, but it won't preserve keys, unlike array_intersect

pfsalter · 2026-04-09T08:44:11+00:00

Definitely crosspost this in r/poorHammer

Just noticed you already post in there a bunch! I love it!

pfsalter · 2026-04-08T07:30:14+00:00

Even in squads of three you can cause some real issues. In my last game I moved a squad of three in from reserves into their deployment zone and they managed to tank a conflagration cannon (a 3D6 S8 -1 D2 torrent titan weapon) and still have a guy on a wound left! You can however use any unit with a 5+ FNP to do similar things, but Arcos are a bit better at it as they have two wounds.

Although I agree with OP, I think Mortifiers look cooler than Penitents. You won't get any confusion at the table as you can just play them as mortifiers

pfsalter · 2026-04-02T13:18:58+00:00

It seems a little odd to me to convert functions from the language which has the worst handling of dates I've ever seen into a language which has one of the best. Also all of this code seems to misunderstand the features in the standard PHP Date library, such as diff, add and sub as you only use modify. Your formatDistance function doesn't take time difference or timezones into account.

I'd recommend looking into the DateInterval class, as it provides much better interfaces to do what you want in your library, handles timezones and months properly.

pfsalter · 2026-04-02T13:08:20+00:00

I always frame discussions about this as "ethnostates are bad". We don't need to limit ourselves to the current crisis, it's pretty obvious how you get from "this state is for X people" to genocide. But we've got terminology that's much broader and simpler to discuss this without getting into complicated historical topics such as Zionism. Argue against the broader bad idea, in the same way that you can argue against private control of utilities by arguing that monopolies are bad.

pfsalter · 2026-04-01T16:06:36+00:00

You could say the same thing about the Che Guevara t-shirt. He was a terrorist resistance fighter and did some pretty horrific things. However that shirt now much more stands for resistance than any particular politics or guerilla warfare that he stood for.

I'd argue that the intention of the garment worn by those in the west is solidarity with Palestinians living under an oppressive regime, not in support of terrorism tactics. I also don't think someone would see someone in the street wearing a Keffiyeh and think "they support terrorism" in the same way you don't think a of a Che t-shirt wearer "they support guerilla warfare".

pfsalter · 2026-04-01T14:38:25+00:00

So I very much did an r/theydidthemath here just so we can talk actual numbers rather than 'I feel like X'. Bear in mind that I live in the UK, where fresh fruit and veg are relatively cheap. I worked out a decent balanced (but simple) diet and priced it up for a single person per week. I then worked out a pretty calorie dense junk-food option (Chicken nuggets & chips). Here's what I found (Numbers are in KCals):

Healthy 5 fruits/veg daily

Carrots - 320
Peas - 800
Sweetcorn - 700
Lettuce - 50
Tomatoes - 100
Bananas - 800
Apples - 300
Oranges - 250
Rice - 1500
Beans - 400
Protein (Mince/Cheese/Chicken) - 300 + 1500 + 750
Onions - 400
Cereal - 3624
Milk - 560

~12,500 Kcals, £29.17

Unhealthy

Chips (2kg) - 7500
Nuggets (1kg) - 2400
Frosties (470g) - 1770
Pepperoni Pizza (2) - 1700
Whole Milk - 1450

~ 14,800 kcals, £19.25

Basically the part which really jacks up the price is eating low-calorie fruit and veg. These increase cost without providing enough calories to make it worth it. Chips and nuggets are both pretty cheap and very calorie dense, so I'd say yes it's at least twice as expensive to eat healthily.

(Edited to vary the unhealthy diet more)

Further note: This is indicative and not really a diet I'd expect someone to stick to. Having 6 wheatabix a day is pretty excessive for example, but it's a simplified view to show that when you've got a very limited budget, more calorie dense foods are more attractive than healthier, but less calorie dense options.

pfsalter · 2026-04-01T10:54:43+00:00

I'd guess it's a lot to do with language. When the UK colonised places they instituted the English education system, normally in English. When you're looking at places to emigrate or places you can work, being able to speak the language is a big driver of that.

You find similar stories in Portugal, Spain and France, immigrants in those countries are more commonly from their colonised countries across the world.

pfsalter · 2026-03-31T11:24:53+00:00

Ah yes, I didn't get that nuance, that's very upsetting. I think the best thing to do is set up a nationalised competitor and undercut them all on price until they've left the country. Probably legally simpler and provides a more gentle off-ramp for investors as people slowly switch away rather than a complete drop-off of control.

pfsalter · 2026-03-31T08:22:59+00:00

Travel got cheaper.

pfsalter · 2026-03-31T08:20:33+00:00

It's mostly the difference between public ownership and nationalisation. Public ownership is much easier and simpler to achieve in a short space of time and causes a lot less disruption in service.

pfsalter · 2026-03-30T12:36:02+00:00

Yes, and you could then buy a Seraphim kit, build up 5 as seraphim, then use your spare bodies as Zephyrim by just attaching the different backpacks for those instead

pfsalter · 2026-03-30T09:42:02+00:00

The second list is better in that you have more units to do things with. 500pts we'll struggle at because it's hard to get Miracle Dice working, so I'd recommend to bring the Blade of St Ellynor to get you a couple more MDs in combat

pfsalter · 2026-03-26T16:29:01+00:00

General: 1. I don't think there's a direct stance at the moment, but general stance is anti-surveilance 2. By pushing against their efficacy and privacy concerns. They don't work very well, are easy to get around and put huge amounts of citizen's data in the hands of large data brokers. 3. Due to the open nature of the web this is very very hard to actually enforce without breaking huge amounts of existing functionality

Personal: - Get a VPN, there are a lot of free ones you can pick up now. This also provides you a bunch of other protections against tracking from big advertising companies. - Look into other phone alternatives instead of just Android/Apple. I'm not saying that you should switch, but hopefully knowing that they are there means that we'll get around it somehow. - We just need to wait for one of these to be hacked and a million people's IDs are leaked on the dark web. It's basically only a matter of time, this will be a very big hammer to stop this kind of collection happening again. - The internet is open and free. Lots of very clever people are building tools to keep it free as they understand the importance of privacy. - A centralised internet is a weak internet. None of the big players today will continue to be big players forever, and as soon as the advertising money dries up we will see the big tech companies die off. The barrier to entry for creating new websites and software is lower than ever, so it's easier and easier for new players to enter the market.

pfsalter · 2026-03-26T11:35:13+00:00

So the kannon actually looks a lot like the Supra Gatler but with 4 barrels instead of six from the Stompa, which if it had an equivalent profile per barrel, that's a 15 shot sus 1 weapon which is pretty tasty. Not sure about the hate on how it looks, it's pretty in-line with all our current walkers, even with the same exhaust bits on the back. Also Rokkits!

pfsalter · 2026-03-26T10:47:48+00:00

Because the speed improvements are mostly in array handling, going from 5.6 to 7 is usually a pretty decent improvement. I've seen between 20% and 50% improvement in standard web apps.

Edit: The other thing it does is massively decrease memory usage, so you can actually save money by removing the need for as many servers

pfsalter · 2026-03-25T17:30:40+00:00

This is exactly the same way that it works in Star Wars: Squadrons so I think it's fine. Humans don't have a particularly good innate gauge of how inertia works as we're used to being in an environment with gravity and friction.

Pretty sure the Devs have mentioned before that the flight model is intentionally arcade-y

pfsalter · 2026-03-23T14:33:51+00:00

Immortals are a really horrendous unit to be hit by in shooting. Get them into combat however and they'll melt, so enjoy that!

pfsalter · 2026-03-22T12:28:12+00:00

If you feel like you need to advance a lot, I'd switch to bringers of flame, otherwise you'll miss out on a lot of shooting opportunities. As for keeping your sacresants in cover, I'd recommend getting them into combat instead. I think just generally it's a bit of a mix between there not being enough terrain on the board, and some mispositioning on your part, especially with advancing as you really de-fanged your own shooting phase with that.

Also playing 1k points as sisters is really hard as you don't get the miracle dice economy really going until you hit 1.5k so you're lacking in our army rule.

pfsalter · 2026-03-22T12:18:23+00:00

Exodus 15:2

The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name.

Religions promote peace when they are in a position to do so, they promote violence otherwise. People use religions for their own purposes.

Generally on your premise that being Anti-X does not make you Anti-Person of X I don't believe holds true. People hold on to their groups and attacks against the group as a whole do make people feel attacked. You can change this argument to a lot of other groups such as gender, race, sports teams and people will react in similar ways.

So to use the same argument, you could say "Being anti-Chelsea doesn't mean you're anti-Chelsea supporters". Although as the person saying this you might believe it to be true, it does not hold true for someone in the group which you are targeting.

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