He is right. I highly recommend reading Good Cop, Bad War by Neil Woods, who was an undercover police officer working on drugs busts and is scathing about the negative effects of the ‘War On Drugs’.

On a political level Zack Polanski is smart to get this out of the way early in the election cycle. Still, most of the people who will be up in arms about this are old Tories and will be therefore voting for Reform anyway.

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Latest YouGov polling shows that the Green Party are now leading the polls for under-50s.

Reform are resonating incredibly powerfully, for old people.

What are the security advantages?

you get well optimized software for your specific cpu and architecture

That’s really cool. How does that work?

This was Taliban 1.0 drugs policy. “Drugs are forbidden, unless they are being sold to the infidel.”

Why not?

I’m not tuned in to welsh politics but find it very interesting to think about what this means.

I’ve just looked up Wiktionary in Kiwix and it’s available to download for offline use too. Just under 8GB.

dict.cc looks cool - thanks for the recommendation 👍

I just tried it out and it looks great. Do you have a subscription with them?

I agree

Because weakening our democracy, sovereignty and real economy leaves us unable to protect ourselves from any threats, whereas the other two are just instances of threats. They aren’t fundamental and systemic.

I think it’s a negatively compounding quick-fix. The more money that leaves the country as profits from foreign investment, the less there is left to invest yourself, so you need to go looking for even more, on worse and worse terms as you get smaller and smaller and they get bigger and bigger.

This is like your plumber knocking on the door to tell you that you have a leaky tap.

This means foreign governments and private companies can extract money from UK ‘customers’, recycle it into buying yet more UK assets, strengthen themselves and - whenever they feel like it - deliberately run critical UK infrastructure into the ground for strategic reasons (see British Steel). All safe in the knowledge that anything they do is underwritten by UK taxpayer bailouts.

Our own politicians are pimping us out like crack whores and not only to China. Just think for a minute about how monstrously dependent the NHS is on Microsoft and what that means.

The biggest threat to national security isn’t jihadis or the Russians, it’s privatisation and global free market capitalism.

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I checked out the Greens economic policy and it’s deep, comprehensive and well thought out. The wealth tax is just one component of it.

Not only are they not paying their fair share of tax but they are out-competing everyone else in the market, making everything more expensive.

They are a burden.

I had that in the beginning too. Once you’re used to the basics you’ll find that most of what you’ve learnt does transfer though.

I think part of the problem, at least for me coming from 20 years on photoshop, was searching for “how do I do this advanced technique in GIMP” before learning the basic layout/structure/tools etc.

YMMV but I highly recommend watching an hour or two of an introductory GIMP course. It’s what made it click for me.

Good idea for a video.

It definitely took me some time getting used to GIMP after nearly 20 years as a photoshop user but I’m very glad I did.