Only 6% of population is muslim.

This is just feeding a dangerously crazy rightwing meme. Stupid irresponsible woman.

A lot of vagueness. How many is “Hundreds”? I guess under 700 or it would be “nearly a thousand”.

Then “About a fifth of respondents said they had either decided to spoil their ballot paper or were considering doing so, among them Sharon”. How do we know Sharon is reflective of the others? We don’t.

It seams like picture painted with not a lot of data, from a self selecting group, that is being cherry picked. Maybe it’s reflective, but I got no way of knowing it’s even reflective of the few hundred who wrote to The Guardian about it.

This writer got an axe to grind?

Yep, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Key players in Right To Repair in the US. With good history of “fighting for the user”.

I can see a lot of comments against copyright here, but has anyone considered the implications of changes to copyright on copyleft?

I argue copyleft is demonstrably socially useful in locking things open. I do wonder if we’ll end up the two being different legally…

I’m dyslexic and even paying the half attention I have, is probably too much for what seams to be hexbear trolling. Nothing says troll more than torrents of insults.

If your real, just vote too keep Tories out or don’t complain about them. Then advocate for better voting to keep them out of unchecked power again.

Age of Earth will be my guess.

They won’t want their kids exposed to all that scientific consensus showing it’s about 4 billion years old.

Fine. Don’t vote. But don’t complain things don’t change. Perfect is the enemy of good. Me, I’m for getting rid of Tories then FPTP. I know the first is on offer, I hope for the second. As do the majority of Labour party members, so I have hope.

Refusing to vote just gets you ignored. It’s also being peddled by the rightwing to try and disengage left leaners and reduce their voting power. Both in the UK and US. This Labour might to be as left as many would like, but they are more left than this Conservatives.

Yer, I’m out. This isn’t worth it. Just vote to keep the Tories out, which ever party than needs to be where you are (bar Reform), or don’t complain about them.

I can only speak of on Linux. If you know the disk is bad, clone it, with ddrescue, and fix the clone. But in future RAID and backup remotely. Also, next gen filesystems like ZFS and Btrfs for check sums and self healing and subvolumes with send/receive deltas between them.

Because they and their voters had no interest. But they might now!

Hexbear has a rep.

Just because no one else has said, Adam has been involved in EFF for a long time. EEF Podcast episode with him in it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/podcast-episode-making-hope-adam-savage

Which delights me as he’s more mainstream and so wakes people up to things like the Right To Repair movement.

But super important and not done enough! Disproving something can save humanity such time.

You can see what he’ll be like. Constantly trying to talk more than he would be allowed for his position, then claiming he is being silenced when he’s not allowed. If he got himself kicked out for behavior, he’d love it. His followers will lap it all up.

Voting is how you change things in a democracy and that is the only systems worth having. Even FTPT is still going to give the Tories a massive kicking for their unkind racist crapness. Parties change with the environment their are in or they lose support. So shaping the environment is important. That why you get advocate groups.

Anyway, I’ve noticed your a hexbear so …

Are you saying you think FPTP has delivered representative Parliament?

As for action, I bash FPTP every chance I get, including here on Lemmy. But also Reddit (less now), Mastadon and Twitter. I do write into some of the main stream political podcasts I listen to. I voted for AV. Though I don’t think large marches have a good history in recently. With Iraq and Brexit being examples. But I’d join a voting change one anyway.

But when voting under FPTP my priority is get the Torys out. Anyway trying to convince people not to prioritize that I think are actually pro-Tory.

I think more Brexit than Truss, COVID and Russian’s war. Two of those are British specific and done to us by Conservative governments. It’s their fault.

I follow a lot of politics, and grew up in a political family. But I’m just an interested bystander.

As right in power, even if you don’t include New Labour, it’s more Right government.

This shows the last 100 years (p12) https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7529/CBP-7529.pdf

14 Conservative governments and 9 Labour

(I counted the two coalition governments as Tory due to them by the major party in the coalition)

Yet the majority of that time, progressives have been in the majority, but out of government because they are split over multiple parties. Plus a rightwing bias media placing a thumb on the scales as much as they can for the right.

If the public mood is turned against PR and everywhere is calling it undemocratic and their government illegitimate, they may not feel they have a choice. Especially since their membership want it.

The media is largely right wing (because the rich are rightwing) and the right have been able to use FPTP to have unrepresentative governments for decades. But now, with the right split, all of a sudden FPTP might keep them out of power. So the wealthy may turn on FPTP too.

What I wanted hasn’t been implemented.

I want Mixed Member PR (Germany and New Zealand have this), but with score/range voting instead.

I’m glad that had a happy ending and sorry that happen. Autolock is so dangerous.