The great thing is though, it’s completely up to you to choose: If you want to carry a child to term, and have the requisite equipment, you can do so.
If someone else doesn’t want to, that’s their decision too.

That’s a pretty awesome idea, I’m not going to lie!

Alternative take: People should be able to undertake one of the hardest personal decisions/actions of their life without the chilling effect of others.

There are a bunch of other stl files available on wikip/media too.

For example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:STL_files&fileuntil=UFO+20230214+0001.stl#/media/File:Steamboat_Willie_3D_Model.stl

I thought it was.

And I also fear overburdened professionals not having time to second guess ML hallucinations.

I just got frustrated with it.

How many chapters that actually detail what happened? It felt like all it did was go

Then spends more time talking about how he is burdened and manly as a result of doing it than the actual doing.

The Hell storyline after that gave me hope, as I trudged through chapters of “cor, look at Adam’s muscular muscles muscling”, but once that finished, and we started getting storylines like “Why can’t we have guns in Folctha? Murica!”, I kinda gave up.

The main contributor continued writing it on a full novel scale at https://deathworlders.com/ .

However…Imho after about 40 chapters, it really loses it’s way (bar a couple of cool minor plots). And the author goes a bit right wing rhetoric/muscleporn-y.

I like to think a list like this is highlighting that you can enjoy being british without being one of the wankers you mentioned.
The less good ones of these are more wanker-lite.

It’s only Virgin Media to my knowledge who does this.
Most of the other providers are happy for you to use anything that works properly for VDSL or FTTP.

Most FTTP providers fit an ONT that puts the connection back into an RJ45 ethernet connector.
Then you connect to the provider using PPPOE. Anything past the ONT, you can do whatever you like.

I think it’s time for me to get into the soundproofing and triple glazing business.

A dark gritty reboot, complete with “BWAAAAAHM” noise in the trailers and TV spots?

I see no downside: If they crash and burn, it’s free black pudding!

Is that why you’re banned from John Lewis?

For most squishy remotes, you can disable the buttons by taking the remote apart, and putting tape on the underside of the rubber button.

My hope is that the reform is in the form of more early intervention at a community level (which is kinda what we had before the Great Gutting over the last decade).

Though going by the mood in this thread, I should be emigrating to Sweden…

They year is 2044.

The police pull you over for doing 90 on an 80 limited motorway.

The police computer malfunctions, and instead of serving up your driving license photo for comparison, they get a lovely picture of that bum rash you caught in the 2030s.

This would be great news. Imho, council run buses are a great public good.
When you have a large town/city, it’s really important to have a way to get around that’s not expensive.
You only have to visit somewhere with a properly run network to see the difference.

Reading for example:

As a municipally owned bus service, the council says Reading Buses can invest an additional £3m a year in the bus network, around 12-15% of its annual turnover, because it does not pay out dividends to private shareholders.

Money from commuter services also subsidises smaller less well-used routes.

Edit: Another place it helps councils: Old people bus passes.

In June 2023 the LGA said there was a £452 million gap in the funding councils receive from government compared to the actual number of ENCTS journeys made in 2022. This meant that councils were having to plug the financial gap from their “own stretched budgets”, which was “completely unsustainable

So a LA owned bus company with lower fares means the council doesn’t end up making up the shortfall between what the government pays for free journeys and what the bus company decides to charge.

“All customer installs need to have firewalls disabled, and the widget needs to run as domain admin”

Continues until a big enough customer puts their foot down, at which point all the installation engineers get upset because they need to do something new.

Anything involving Myers–Briggs.