I originally read that as sucked off. What’s wrong with my brain

Definitely a Magnum, not Haggen Daas

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_(ice_cream)

Trust me, I’m a greedy cunt. I know all about ice cream.

I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, human rights are up for political debate, since a lot of people are vehemently against them.

In the books they pretty much confirm it takes more than just heat to destroy the One Ring.

Good forges burn hotter than lava, and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn’t be able to harm the One Ring.

It’s the magical tie to Orodruin/Mount Doom that allows for its destruction.

There are arguments for and against assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.

Cost – regardless of whether it’s a bit cheaper or a bit more expensive – should not be one of them, Wes.

What the hell is this headline?

The claim has always been that the planned green energy investments and state-owned company ‘Great British Energy’ will save ‘up to’ £300 (compared to 2023 prices) by 2030.

This BBC article from May 2024, before Labour were even in government, confirms this.

There’s nothing to “admit” – nothing is being pushed back or watered down. The timeframe has always been 2030.

The £300 estimate actually comes from a non-Labour-affiliated right wing think tank that uses less ambitious modeling than what labour actually wants to put in place. So assuming that goes well, it could be better than £300, or the £300 could be achieved even sooner than 2030, but Labour haven’t made any promises about that.

Honestly, sometimes it feels like the supposedly left-wing outlets such as The Morning Star would prefer to have the Tories or Reform in charge than have a Labour government that’s not headed by Corbyn.

Heroic Games Launcher has been improving a lot, now having install scripts like Lutris, more platforms available, and a lot less janky than it used to be.

Bottles I don’t have much experience with for games, but it’s a really good program a lot of people use, and if you like Libadwaita apps it’s pretty amazing.

If you only need Lutris as a game launcher (rather than the install scripts, WINE/Proton-GE, and such), Cartridge is a nice little GTK4/Libadwaita launcher too. But it is just that - a launcher, nothing more.

Yup. I’m living in a new build right now and broadly enjoy it, but in some ways I’m shocked it’s not more forward-thinking.

No solar panels, gas boiler, radiators on the walls, no heat pump. I keep thinking why the hell was a house built in 2019 not built with this stuff in mind.

Homebuilders need to be told, they won’t do it by themselves unless it’s cheaper.

Ngl a 90s PC beige steam deck would be amazing to run emudeck on

I tried this but even permanent marker kept rubbing off

Yes, that’s certainly how it appears, but in order to stay that way, we need constant pressure.

We’ve seen a fair amount of places go backwards in terms of rhetoric surrounding climate change. The US in particular was more accepting of the reality of climate change 20 years ago than they are now. We need to be vigilant and make sure climate denialism cannot take root here.

Unfortunately, some conservatives and all of Reform seem to be trending in that direction.

Idk where you live, but a number of countries give you a 14 day cool-off period where you can return purchases for any reason.

Nice to hear. Feels like all I’ve heard recently is politicians (UK and elsewhere) advocating scrapping climate pledges

Yeah I get that SteamOS wouldn’t, but Valve themselves have explicitly stated people should use Flatpaks, not distro repos or Snaps (perhaps with an exception for Arch repos if what you say is correct).

Seems very weird to me.

I assumed this was already the case but regardless this is a great change!

I hope more developers get their apps verified. It boggles my mind that the Steam flatpak isn’t verified, for example (even more bizarre is that Valve encourage people to use the Steam flatpak despite it being unofficial!)

Hopefully the Flathub website, Gnome, Cinnamon, and now Plasma showing verified app status will be the kick up the arse devs need.

The visit will have a symbolic element with Starmer becoming the first UK leader to attend France’s national commemoration event since Winston Churchill in 1944.

I’m actually very shocked nobody has done this since then. It’s not like our armed forces weren’t also there

There’s nothing to suggest he does.

Powell worked on the Good Friday Agreement as well as a handful of other things, so presumably Starmer wants him for his experience.

The thing about him negotiating release for Pinochet has no backing.

All the article states is that Powell had meetings with the chief of press for President Frei’s government… the government that indicted and arrested Pinochet.

This article Guardian article, on top of just being an allegation in a book, doesn’t accuse Powell of doing what Skwawkbox says he did.

Literally all it says is that the press chief of the 1999 Chilean government (i.e. 10 years and two governments after Pinochet stepped down) had meetings with Powell. That’s it.

Frei and his government, by the way, was anti-Pinochet. During his presidency, he indicted and arrested Pinochet.

I don’t know how you could read that and think it’s a confirmation that Powell negotiated release for Pinochet.

Stop spreading misinformation.

This article Guardian article, on top of just being an allegation in a book, doesn’t accuse Powell of doing what Skwawkbox says he did.

Literally all it says is that the press chief of the 1999 Chilean government (i.e. 10 years after Pinochet stepped down) had meetings with Powell. That’s it.

Frei and his government, by the way, was anti-Pinochet. During his presidency, he indicted and arrested Pinochet.

I don’t know how you could read that and think it’s a confirmation that Powell negotiated release for Pinochet.