But let’s be honest, the gifts are only higher in value because other PMs didn’t declare what they were getting!

The longer you keep pretending he’s any better than any of the others, the harder the reality will smack you in the face when/if you’re eventually willing to acknowledge it - Starmer is in politics to serve Starmer.

You’re good, no “gotcha” intended, I just think potatoes are too good to overlook 😁

Lets not forget that AI is known for not only not providing any sources, or even falsifying them, but now also flat out lying.

Our GP’s are already mostly running on a tick-box system where they feed your information (but only the stuff on the most recent page of your file, looking any further is too much like hard work) in to their programme and it, rather than the patient or a trained physician, tells them what we need. Remove GP’s from the patients any more, and they’re basically just giving the same generic and often wildly incorrect advice we could find on WebMD.

I’m sure all of this is correct, but you’re forgetting one thing: potatoes are the only one of these you can grow enough of to eat at home, as long as you have space for a bucket or sack or two of soil, and which basically require zero processing aside from applying heat to consume.

I agree with you that we shouldn’t actually need to know or use any of this information, and as a poor disabled person I also know that growing your own food isn’t always an option for everyone, but if it is an option, I think it at the very least puts potatoes back in the running.

It wasn’t included, because, just as the replies here show, elections are not about improving society, but instead are nothing but a popularity contest designed and orchestrated to keep the public distracted while those who exploit and oppress us continue to do so uninterrupted.

The public’s continued participation is the continued legitimisation of the process. Getting you riled up to vote “team ____ no matter who”, making you feel like you’re part of a team, that’s just part of the cult indoctrination, and the harder you deny it works on your “team” just as much as it does on the other, the stronger it’s obviously working on you.

Their rules are made up by them to keep themselves at the top, stop obeying their self appointed authority, they don’t care about you, nor the planet.

Calls for J.D. Vance to resign

Lmfao, good luck with that, guy is on the power trip of his life, and the only way to be rid of someone like him is by force.

I suppose it’s possible they won’t make a pig’s ear of it and that the two-ish party rigidity of our system could be broken

You mean it’s supposedly possible that the media won’t start an even worse smear campaign in continued and unrelenting defence of said system… I wouldn’t hold your breath…

I’m baffled that he’s imperiling all the effort

Lol, why? He got the job, that’s all he was after. He never even attempted to hide the fact that he is just another maintainer of the status quo.

Oh yeah, I’ve had my fair share of disaster, backing up lesson learned the hard way lol

I’ll do my best to remember to update when I get around to trying the upgrade out. Thanks again!

Wow, thanks! That does look promising (to me as a lay person anyway!), I’ll have to give it a try once I’ve sorted out that extra memory I’ve been meaning to buy since my backup space is running out, and I definitely want to make sure I have a solid back up before trying anything.

Better, fair, but is it possible to upgrade an existing install? 😬

I have a lot going on right now and convenience is priority over ideal if I’m honest…

This is nothing more than legal corruption.

It is loooooooooooooooooooooooooong past the time to get rid of this “bring a friend” system of keeping power and influence in the hands of an almost always un (or at least under) qualified privileged few who are only ever looking out for, and manipulating the government and society at large to maintain their own interests.

So far I’ve managed to avoid most this kind of crap with minor tweaking, but with end of life coming soon I’ve been meaning to make the switch for ages, but there are always more urgent priorities… If you don’t mind me asking, and if you know - is it still possible to switch from win10 to win10 LTSC, and if so, what does it entail (do I need a fresh install, or can I just upgrade?)?

I’ll be honest, I just looked it up and shared the link (E: and in case you didn’t notice, am not the op of the thread), I’m no good with texts that long so have never read the entire thing, though I have left the link open to read through at least this part once I have my cuppa, and have bookmarked the pdf for future reference, so I might have to get back to you on that 😁

Here you go, it’s in chapter 10 section 4, p175: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf

These are the same people who, faced with an obviously intersex newborn, would 100% surgically mutilate the baby to fit in a binary ASAP without thinking twice.

It never is and never was about protecting children.

It’s long past the point of “what if”, it is what’s already happening, and it’s no accident, either, the system is working as intended - to withstand progress and maintain the status quo and the control it affords those in power.

Right, as if the system isn’t very deliberately designed to withstand reform and will not hesitate to weaponize every tool it has at its disposal (from the courts to the media to the police and the other alphabet agencies) to assure no leftist ever actually makes it in to a position of real power (not that we would want to, since we believe the state should be abolished, not joined, for precisely the reason stated above).

For the however many’th time, you die hard liberals can tell yourselves as many fairy tales you want to make yourself feel better, it won’t change the reality - the system is not designed to serve you, but to keep you placated with nothing but an illusion of choice. Those with power and money wrote the rules, what on earth, and at this point in time with history unfolding right in front of our eyes as it is, again, makes you think that following those rules will ever work in your favour?

I do, plenty, but there’s only so much time and emotional labour one can waste presenting anarchism to smug libs that think electoral politics can beat fascism and can’t even see how they’re being played in to upholding the status quo that is enabling the rise of fascism with just an illusion of choice, because the people you’re talking to aren’t actually listening, they just want their bias confirmed and ego coddled, not an alternative, especially not one that requires them to look outside the box they’ve been indoctrinated in to, challenge their understanding of the world and their own actions and all the discomfort that comes with that, and act in a way that might risk the privilege the status quo and those who actually benefit from it grants them to keep them in line, demonstrating just how well it works. ¯\(ツ)/¯

The rowboat, with you at the front working your cult following ass off, carrying Cheney where HE wants to go: