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They're native to this environment though. Unless you mean the ecology of farms, farms, and more farms. Made and run for the purpose of profit and nothing else. Then yeah, fuck that ecology, release the lynx. Particularly given the genocidal history of the area and its owners.

Please stop bending over backwards for the corporations. The customer shouldn't have to control the taxi when they're calling for emergency support like this. Should he just crawl into the front seat and drive the thing for them as well?

He was on his way to a flight. Flights are expensive. Of course he wants reassurance that his costs will be covered if he misses it due to their failings. He has no idea for how long he's going to be continually going in circles and we don't know for how long he'd already been going in circles.

This is a customer in distress and you're shitting on them because they had a stressed tone towards the mega-corp representative? Shameful.

Lemmy on the TV? That's a thing? How? Why?

855 "legitimate interest" vendors with no easy reject all button? No thank you.

The solution is a varied diet.

We need to be eating random things, not the same protein, carbs, and veggies that we know we like and buy on routine.

How much of the fruit and vegetable aisle do you actually purchase from? I think many of us get in a routine of buying the same things over and over because we know what we like or we're on autopilot from work burnout. But, for example, if instead of buying apples each week, we buy a different random fruit. Or, if the budget can stretch it, buy apples and a random fruit. Then our nutritional variety has just increased.

I'm being a bit of a hypocrite here because I myself like to buy the same things over and over. I like chicken, I like apples, I like the same granola I always get. But during each shop, I try to add at least something random that I don't normally get. A vegetable I don't normally cook with or tofu instead of chicken, whatever. We need variety.

There's also the talk of nutritional content reducing in supermarket goods as they're produced for profit. So growth speed and shelf appearance are prioritised, a way to combat that is to start growing some of your own. Obviously, this is highly dependent upon living situations, but even some herbs in a windowsill will help. Personally, I think vegetable gardeners are some of the most punk people out there, sustaining themselves, entertaining themselves, and learning new skills all for the price of a bag of dirt and some seeds. Be punk!

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Or a gay fish

How, as a Russian, do you watch the blowing up of a fictional children's joy bringer as a good thing?

Any chance somebody knows how to find saved comments on the Boost android app?

I've saved this one to listen to that Manila Road cover later but can't find where they're stored so commenting here instead. Sorry!

I use drills everyday for work and have one at home that doesn't get used much because if I want to get handy I don't want to drive to work to get one.

The average person has fuck-all experience with power tools, they don't use them every day. They can pull the trigger and it goes brrrrrrr but they don't know what the options on the rotation piece are, they don't know about different types of chuck, they don't know which gear setting to put their drill in. They use it for the absolute minimum amount of time possible and then put it away. You're clearly a professional if you're using them every day, most people are not.

I don't know whether the 7 minute claim is true or not, but the idea that most drills barely get used and spend most of their time sitting about is not very difficult to believe. I'm quite a handy person, and even my drill spends most of it's time doing nothing because I'm not drilling every single day, just as and when DIY jobs come up.

In a world drowning in ewaste, and lithium being a precious resource, why are we collectively wasting so much on individual drills when, as JubilantJaguar said, we could own these things communally and not create so much waste.

The idea of a communal toolshed for your street, block, tenement, whatever, isn't the same as having tools sitting at work. Work for most people is a commute away. Communal toolsheds would be local. They ideally shouldn't be any more than 10 mins walk away. Can you really begrudge a 10 minute walk for the sake of your wallet, environment, and community?

This also helps the young get into DIY easier. Most of my mates growing up barely did any DIY or tinkering, not because they weren't interested, but because the cost of getting the necessary tools was prohibitive as a teenager. It's taken me years to accumulate the toolbox I have now, and many of the items in there are hand-me-downs or second-hand. A communally owned toolshed gives everyone instant access to tools regardless of personal wealth or resources. If a power tool dies, £150 spread between multiple households is nothing compared to £150 for an individual household.

Managing it, caring for the tools, ensuring they're returned, and in a good state, are obviously hurdles to be addressed, but if communal toolsheds were the cultural norm then they could easily be overcome. We manage to do it with books easily enough, why not anything else?

In Scotland? I don't think so. In the world, ever? Certainly, there's examples from America, which means it's not impossible to become a thing here at some point.

My worry is more about the point of barring certain people from being able to hold office rather than the specifics of why they're being barred.

If somebody is on the sex offenders list, in a proportionally representative democracy, with a healthy fourth estate, I would hope that would be requirement enough to prevent them from becoming an MSP. If they still managed to get elected, I would hope it's because they managed to prove their reason for being on the list was spurious. It erodes trust in fair and free elections the bigger the list becomes of who can not set the rules.

I know it's a slippery slope argument, but after years of reading other countries' news, it feels a legitimate worry to have. Governments come and go, just because we have a good one now doesn't mean we will in the future. Laws like this could be abused to prevent "undesirables" from holding office.

Simpson said: “This is not a cosy club, this is a Parliament, this is not a second-rate chamber to be used as a part-time hobby, this is a serious Parliament, and members should be fully focused on their work here.

Along with the ban on double-jobbing, the Bill also makes provisions that will allow foreign nationals with limited leave to remain to run for office while barring sex offenders from holding office, along with those who have been convicted of a crime which includes hostility towards politicians or electoral staff.

Sounds a bit like a cosy club if you can just bar people at will, regardless of whether the public wishes someone to be their MSP or not.

This is the kind of law that sounds reasonable until you hear cases of people being put on the sex offenders register for having a piss near a playground at 3am on their way home from the pub. Or in the future, if we have a hostile parliament to the people and there's a backlash, anyone who stood up could potentially be barred based on their activism.

Scotland is a pretty well run and reasonable country when it comes to laws and courts but that doesn't mean there isn't and won't be abuses of the law now or in the future and laws like this can be abused to ensure only the "right people" get to decide our laws.

I also notice the article focuses heavily on Stephen Flynn with no mention of Douglas Ross at all, wtf?

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