Notices by MarjorieR (marjolica@social.linux.pizza)

@ChrisMayLA6 "the population [of Iran] may not universally welcome a US invasion.

Given that the US President and Secretary for War idea so far of liberating Iran is to bomb it's schools, hospitals and desalination plants I can't imagine any Iranian welcoming his troops, even if they were also completely opposed to the Khamenei government and its actions.

@davidsirota well Polymarket finally wised up and pulled the bet.
Too much as temptation for someone to engineer a nuclear 'incident' so they could make a little money.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/polymarket-quietly-pulls-nuclear-detonation-145615266.html

@MamaLake I have never been on .social, but I'm still on the server I first joined. Your poll doesn't allow this choice.

@peterbrown @afewbugs seemingly some of these products now have so little chocolate in them they they can't be called chocolate any more. Needless to say the threshold for 'milk chocolate' in the UK is already ridiculously low.

At least they haven't (yet) resorted to adding vomit flavour to them like American Hershey bars.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79x7q325p3o

@FlashMobOfOne @etchedpixels not where that involves mandatory age-gating for everyone - both adults and children - for accessing tools for communicating with others that should and could be made adequately safe.

@thordis for those that don't know what the generation cut dates are I found this:

Generation Birth Year
Generation Alpha 2013–2025
Generation Z 1997–2012
Millennials (Gen Y) 1981–1996
Generation X 1965–1980
Baby Boomers 1946–1964
Silent Generation 1928–1945
Greatest Generation 1901–1927

However pooling Boomers and Alphas as in the questionnaire doesn't make much sense though.

@karlauerbach noting also the use of the 'One of ours, all of yours' Nazi slogan on Noem's DHS podium, even if she didn't actually say it.

https://news.meaww.com/fact-check-did-kristi-noems-podium-at-dhs-use-problematic-slogan-one-of-ours-all-of-yours

@ChrisMayLA6 meanwhile the Bank of England seems to have other concerns.

I know the BoE is supposed to be independent but maybe it would be sensible for the Treasury to listen to what they are saying.

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12/06/the-bank-of-england-is-warning-a-financial-crash-is-coming/

@SuperDicq @scy to make sure your librewolf is up to date you can add the librewolf repository to your sources.
Instructions how to do it are here:
https://librewolf.net/debian-migration/

This should keep it up to date even though it isn't in the Debian repository.

@Pamela1960 small comfort, maybe, but it is in the Guardian, and fairly prominently on the landing page:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/26/tens-of-thousands-of-people-take-to-streets-for-london-trans-pride-2025

@Pamela1960 just seen that there is now a (positive) article covering the record breaking crowd at the London Trans Pride in the Independent.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/london-trans-pride-march-record-breaking-crowd-b2796853.html

@jbenjamint the same thing happens down here is Devon but it's usually due to an accident or road works on an adjacent dual carriageway and GPS such as Android Auto, that monitors the congestion, then suggest a stupid alternative route that naive holidaymakers then attempt to follow, en masse.

@Wen @simon_brooke @jbenjamint probably most of those stuck motorists were planning to walk, just a walk always seems to involve a long car journey first..

@simon_brooke @Wen @jbenjamint sometimes the solution seems to be put parking at the bounds of the wilderness area and run minibuses in. Obviously you still have to provide access for those who live and work there.

@simon_brooke @Wen @jbenjamint true, but these days it has been mostly abandoned to sheep, grouse and hill walkers.
The same is also true of all the abandoned 'wildernesses' of the UK and around the world, they were originally nothing like they are today having been changed by human occupation, sometimes in different way at different times.
The Lake District was once heavily wooded with natural species such as oak, until they were cut down to make wooden ships and charcoal to smelt ore, so for a while a hive of industry.
The Amazon watershed was likewise extensively populated before Europeans brought their diseases.

@JugglingWithEggs and if you can avoid doing it don't go to the USA, full stop.

But remember the (US hosted) Cloud is over here too and we have still not banned use of it it even though it doesn't meet UK or EU data privacy requirements (that in the UK Starmer is now trying to rescind).

So get off Meta, don't use X, don't use MS Office or Google products. Look for Cloud free or if you must store onine switch to European alternatives.

@tealeg @GreenSkyOverMe given LLMs are inherently inaccurate it's very likely that there no net gain whatsoever when you included the cost of their mistakes (whether remediated or not).

Even the seeming demand for their product is largely artificial as they are still pushing this non-solution at below cost price, even with out factoring in their uncosted externalities: hammering websites worldwide, stealing intellectual property, pumping out CO2.

@zleap well As a fellow South Devonian I hope your training is going to be indoors. Even so getting there could be an issue (heavy rain, 40, gusting 71 mph winds).

@selea just so we all get a present from Santa tomorrow?

"A new dental scam is to pull healthy teeth to sell you expensive fake ones"

Well us Brits have always been amazed at how white and pearly American teeth are but dentistry is the US has clearly gone down the same oligopolistic and #enshittification rabbithole that the rest of American medicine has - as already documented by #pluralistic.

"Many dental clinics that offer implants have consolidated into chains owned by private equity firms that have bought out much of implant dentistry. In health care, private equity investment is sometimes criticized for overtreatment and prioritizing short-term profit over patients."

In the UK dentistry is increasingly privatised and our new Health Minister has been well bribed by the (often American) health companies to move even more of our health care to private sector contractors who will obviously take their cut. This will not end well.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/11/more-dentists-are-pulling-healthy-teeth-to-sell-pricy-implants-experts-warn/#gsc.tab=0