The co-op fancy own brand salt & vinegar crisps are phenomenal. Vinegary enough to clean old brass with

This honestly should not be an issue. While Birmingham council is currently supposed to have a leader, there is provision within the law for a local authority to operate without one (as in, permanently and intentionally, not just as a falback measure). A minority leadership can be a thing too. There are plenty of those about already, and there’s even a minority coalition in Rutland county council

I searched “reform councillor suspended” yesterday and filtered for articles in the last 24 hours. The top four results were all about different people

In a similar vein, I quite enjoy a cranberry and tonic

Ahh, my Beam NG custom car builder

I hate this on a deep level, particularly the fact that it has apparently happened twice

The last thing any of us need is another Liz Truss

What was it that the community tool changed to fix it?

We’re actually just octopodes in skin suits, each of my legs is just a leather bag controlled by a couple of tentacles

I volunteered at a greyhound rescue for a while. They’re lovely sweet animals. It was quite clear from how a lot of them acted, especially new arrivals, that they weren’t used to being well-cared-for. Not all of them, but far too many. Part of that will certainly have been due to being thrust into a strange new environment, but that shouldn’t make them visibly anxious around humans. I am glad to say that almost all of them seemed to chill out once they got accustomed to their new lives and the ones that I saw post-adoption seemed like they were doing great

Because I’m quite tall and reasonably fit while most of the other volunteers were little old ladies enjoying their retirements, the more unruly ones were generally my job. I remember one in particular who was too outwardly aggressive, and he was big too. I took a while to get to know him, just being in his kennel at first until he tolerated me being there. Eventually he let me take him out for a walk and it was like a new dog, he was just lovely. I mean, he was still definitely badly behaved, but it was now playful zipping about and not realising how strong he was instead of growling. He got adopted and I hope he’s doing well

The more we depend on the AI for these things, the worse that our reasoning gets. It’s like a muscle, it withers without use

For what it’s worth, the act only authorises the president to command that to happen rather than requiring them to do so. It has a bunch of prohibitions on doing anything to facilitate the ICC, including on extraditing American citizens to get them on trial, but if he somehow does end up in the Hague then the then-president is 100% within their rights to just abandon him there

Of course I don’t expect him to ever come close to winding up in the Hague in the first place. What a beautiful sight it would be if it did happen

I can believe that he wrote this more than I can believe that some MAGA-loyal handler wrote praise be to Allah

The only rule is “don’t be the one to lose”. As long as the theocracy does not surrender, they are winning.

It’s entirely reasonable to believe that it is more likely that a new administration would take the chance to end the war than the current one is to make America incapable of bombing Iran on a reasonable timeline

Of course, that assumes that Iran thinks that this would work at all. They might make the full release of the files a condition to open the strait, but America would then just say “well we already released them so that won’t work as a deal” and rely on the current administrations cultish supporters to believe that

Well to not get bombed, naturally. The uselessness of said idiots does not have an impact on the fact that the bombs are actively landing on Iran

You probably know this stuff better than me since you’re coeliac, but just in case you don’t: try the Loopy Whisk’s bread recipes. I have a couple of coeliac family members and these are by far the best results I’ve gotten for making gluten free bread for them

My attempt to rephrase it based on how I understood it after listening to that section of the podcast (which I cannot recommend, he’s absolutely just spouting marketing shit):

You know, all of the AI-generated content increasingly looks similar, the faces generated are all beautiful in the same way, and so I’m empathetic towards what videogame fans are thinking about DLSS5

I can’t see that being likely. The current Labour admin seems cautiously pro-rejoin but just recognises that the public is too divided for rejoin to be actual policy (for them, I’m not meaning to say that that’s an objectively correct viewpoint)

Okay, it is the farther-forward sound I was thinking of! Nice. I’m always a little wary of applying what I know about Gàidhlig to Gaeilge, I don’t want to make assumptions just because there’s a closer relationship between the two languages

I really hate that the English all but killed Irish as a native language. Language is more than words, it’s culture and a different perspective.

I agree completely. I can’t help but admire how well Wales has managed to maintain Welsh under fairly similar circumstances. Scottish Gaelic is even closer to death, but we almost entirely did that to ourselves - or, we did it to what is now a collective “us” but was then a sharper line between Gaelic Highlanders and Germanic Lowlanders.

I have no Gaelic heritage myself, coming from the parts of Scotland that were never strongly Gaelic-speaking at any point in history, that now-collective us means it’s still mine to do my little bit to save

I am quite pleased that there’s enoigh similarity for me to have understood “tá brón orm” before you explained the differences to English