Grass is useless. Why do we still bother with it?
I might replace my lawn with creeping thyme or something similar.
#gardening #grass
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A can of coke should cost £8. That's how much sugar tax we should have.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us the home office definitely needs a review because the people there seem to be causing a lot of issues.
I don't know much about the dual nationality issue, is it a new thing? My kids have dual nationalities.
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@TimWardCam@c.im @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us oh that's fine, so as long as I use our British passports when coming home it's fine. Sounds simple enough.
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@Walrus@toot.wales @DGI@graeber.social I'll have a look thanks. I only asked because "a few hundred years" is not that long ago and as far as I know it wasn't a much better situation then.
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@DGI@graeber.social oh, what was it like before those few hundred years of capitalism then?
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@hongminhee@hollo.social I mostly used EF Core or Dapper but only because I started working with .NET
#SoftwareDevelopment is so dead. I've only written a handful of lines of code this year. Everything else has been vibe-coded.
Some people say you need someone with experience to steer the LLMs, and yes that is true for the moment but they get better every couple of months.
So I'm starting to think about non-digital careers. Maybe carpentry or something 😅 it was good while it lasted..
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us but they save money not having to do the work up to that point?
I need an MRI, it will be covered by my private healthcare but depending on the result I may have to go to the NHS as my cover is only good up to a certain amount 🤷♂️
I mean if it came down to it, I wouldn't fight for the #UK either :D
What songs do you listen to when you're on a downer?
Here's one of my go-to depression songs:
📚 Today I learned...
About the "Paradox of Thrift" — economist John Maynard Keynes observed that individual rational behaviour can be collectively irrational.
If everyone cuts spending during a recession simultaneously, total demand collapses, businesses fail and unemployment rises — even though each individual was just being sensible.
Sometimes the logical thing for one person is catastrophic when everyone does it at once.
Makes you wonder where else that principle applies 🤔
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@derralf@fediverse.blackneon.net yeah I see, I often think about it as it'd be the same as asking a junior developer to do it but with better results 😅 basically all Devs have been promoted to management.
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@rgo@masto.pt yeah I've had to generate a few apps like a Git GUI for Linux because I mostly use GitHub Desktop and there is no Linux release for it.
I just find it funny when people say they built or made something that was actually 100% vibe coded. Can't trust CVs anymore 😅
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@Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social conservatives also do the more difficult and dangerous jobs 😁 police, soldiers, tradesmen etc
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@dansup@mastodon.social fediverse is great but I assume it's still susceptible to online safety act requirements? If governments demand people to use ID to get online?
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@robinadams@mathstodon.xyz but can they apply for roles that are advertised for minority groups?
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@robinadams@mathstodon.xyz www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/
This is a recent case and in the past the police force did similar.
Just wondering if Hungarians would be included in that.
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@robinadams@mathstodon.xyz well that is good news that the police scheme was found to be unlawful.
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@junesim63@mstdn.social it's not correct to call people minorities anymore
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c981g43vmmro
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@fanf42@social.treehouse.systems @DGI@graeber.social
Slavery was the standard across virtually all human cultures for all of recorded history. If by 'ignored at first' you mean for approximately 5,000 years — until a capitalist nation voluntarily spent 1% of GDP and deployed its navy for two decades specifically to abolish it globally — then yes, I suppose it was ignored at first.
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@minorusaba@toad.social it is time to end the united kingdom yes. I've never liked being called British.
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@quietewe@urbanists.social @junesim63@mstdn.social I just want to ensure that groups that are actually a minority on the global scale get the support they need.
Hungarians for example are a unique group but there are very few of them in the world.
Do they get protections in the UK? Are they included in DEI schemes?