It seems that the app is for people who want to be told what to think by influencers that tow the party line, not for people who may dabble in right wing or Qanon but primarily think for themselves.
Tell that to Parler. Or news stories censored as "misinformation" during an election (e.g. Biden laptop). Or people talking about COVID origins/therapeutics. Or specific criticism of China (e.g. Daryl Morey). Regardless of your alignment politically, the mechanics of censorship are what they are. The "target group" is a wildcard - any position that competently challenges/threatens the established order, even if that established order is the appearance of control. Today there may be a common thread between the issues above, but I tend to think that's one of convenience. Several decades ago, it wasn't conservatives complaining about censorship. The parties will revolve according to the orthodoxy of the day. Fundamentally it's a question of political principles (which should transcend - that is to say, stay consistent regardless of - parties, contemporary crises). What do you really believe in, politically, otherwise? The Party?
The Parler situation was shoddy engineering, nothing else. They chose a hosting provider with a completely incompatible ToS for their application. There are thousands of “free speech” providers out there. To make an analogy, they tried to publish porn on their Disney.com profile.
It was somewhat funny to watch them completely blow their one moment in time due to sheer incompetence.
I don't think that's accurate at all. Parler was condemned because of a much publicized narrative of its role in hosting speech related to J6 protests, right? And it was shown contemporaneously that there was far more activity on other platforms (facebook) coordinating those protests than on Parler, though they suffered not. Nonetheless, Parler was blacklisted - app pulled (which looked like selective enforcement of ToS). When they attempted to set up on other platforms it was difficult to find a home, in part due to similar de jure application of ToS, but also arguably due to a lack of substantive competition in that space. I say de jure application of ToS because the ToS are not applied consistently, and seem discretionary from the outside. It is not like porn on Disney, but more like (exactly like) talking politics on facebook. Sometimes it's okay, sometimes it's not. Leaving aside flagrantly bad examples of talking politics, your best predictor of how ToS will be enforced is by understanding the alignment of speech to the official institutional messaging. We can see this at work in a very recent example - talking about the COVID lab leak hypothesis would get you banned when the government was messaging (and invested in) a natural origin hypothesis. Now that they are not, such speech will not get you banned. The nature of the speech has not changed. Have the terms of service delineated these circumstances sufficiently? I would say not at all. We can infer what speech will be banned based on an acceptance criteria that is only loosely coupled to the actual language of the terms, and more easily explained by (documented) coordination between the government and social media platforms.
I think the "funny" you express may be schadenfreude based on your political alignment, but there are some transcendent and substantive issues of political principles that are worth examining (and I feel, criticizing) regardless of one's blue team/red team alignment. By transcendent, I mean these problems come back to bite both the red team and the blue team in time. This is classic "Cast it into the fire" type stuff.
Totally agree. I don’t understand why the author couldn’t just say that Drupal is for a different use case. Rather than label a whole framework, the people who build it, work with it, and use it, as basically “incorrect”.
> PHP gets you job offers customizing Drupal and Wordpress websites
I get that there's a lot of legacy PHP sites, that you could end up finding yourself working on.
But there are still plenty of new Drupal and Wordpress sites being built.
You could also say that building a site with these tools as akin to "customising", as a lot of what you're doing is configuration rather than coding (but I would say sometimes JS + NPM is pretty similar).
There are still opportunities to push yourself with coding, with some fairly complex Drupal sites being built.
That’s what contactless cards do now, there’s a PAYG cap. When you read about it doesn’t really sound that complex (not sure if it needed a clever bloke with an algorithm, but then what do I know?)
I guess because they couldn’t work out a way for you to purchase a travel card on your contactless card, so this was the only way to allow regular commuters to use their contactless.
Anyway it was the reason I switched over from oyster to contactless. I realised I was getting ripped off as I would always use PAYG and _sometimes_ went over the caps.
There's some complexity arising from zones, and travelcards being based on zonal travel. So it's more complex than just capping it, or comparing it to the price of a travelcard, because you have to consider different combinations of travelcard (period and zone) and which journeys to ignore, leaving at PAYG rate.
I don't know what alpha-beta pruning is, and I'm not necessarily asserting it's massively complex, and I don't know anything about/haven't worked in the area beyond as a user - just pointing out it's not as simple as it might at first seem.
I haven't found one for London (my hometown), but there is this interesting animation project that uses historical data to demonstrate passenger flow on the system. http://wgallia.com/#!underground
The rules were somewhat ambiguous, which allowed him to break them (on the "childcare exception").
But his account of his actions is so untruthful. It is obvious to most that being on a remote farm would be a nicer environment to isolate than a house in central London. This simply _must_ have been a factor in his decision.
He did not even contemplate seeking childcare support at home, he stated this himself in his press conference, it hadn't even crossed his mind.
His trip was not safe, and should have been used as a last resort. Is that the impression you got? That he had exhausted all other options?
If you had, then I would say you are even more political motivated than those you are saying are looking to give him the "boot".
Even if it wasn't a problem (which it was, at the time he did it). It's his covering up of his actions + colleagues backing him up, which is the real issue here.
He's so blatantly lying about the "eye sight test", it shows a total lack of respect for the public and his role as part of the UK government. They should be, if anything, following the rules more than anyone else in order to set an example.
Amazon pretty much sets the standard for this. They're the biggest ecommerce home delivery company, and yet have absolutely nothing in the way of reducing waste, and give the customer no option or control to do so. The _only_ thing they do is allow you to group deliveries (in case you want everything at once) which has the side-effect of reducing carbon emissions by the delivery van.
They do offer the frustration-minimizing packaging program, which is less wasteful, but manufacturers have to opt in.
Here in the UK, Ocado (a home shopping delivery firm) will take back the plastic bags your shopping came in. Now that Amazon is handling an increasing proportion of its own deliveries, it would be great if they adopted something similar and started using reusable shipping cartons like these when the client opts in:
>Here in the UK, Ocado (a home shopping delivery firm) will take back the plastic bags your shopping came in.
They charge 5p per bag (as required by law), which you cannot opt-out of. You might as well use it as a bin-liner, as the cheapest version costs around similar price. These bags are unlikely to get reused, when you return them, due to any cross-contamination issues e.g. bag for poultry (campylobacter) reused for loose produce.
An excerpt from their faq's:
Can I choose to not have my shopping delivered in bags?
We can't eliminate bags from our deliveries just yet. Packing them in separate bags for your fridge, cupboard and freezer is a really important part of making sure your groceries arrive in tip-top condition.
How much will I get charged for bags in my order?
The legislation states that big retailers must charge at least 5p for single-use plastic carrier bags.
So, as of 5th October 2015, we will be charging 5p for carrier bags used to pack your shopping. How much you are charged will vary depending on the size of your order, but we will only charge you for the exact number of bags used – there is no fixed charge. If it takes five bags to safely pack your order you'll be charged 25p. If it takes 6 bags, it'll be 30p. It's that simple.
The total amount charged for bags will be shown on your receipt.
Yeah looking at her Google timeline maps that she posted, when she went to the "south bank" she actually walked around Waterloo station.
A walk along the actual south bank (of the river) I would say should be a must for any tourist in London. Great view of the Thames, no cars, interesting architecture, and plenty of galleries and other cultural highlights. In particular the Tate modern.
She got a train from Manchester to London. I'm surprised that the price of this ticket wasn't mentioned (when the £4.90 one in London was). Manchester to London can typically cost anywhere between £40 to £90.
Yes, I was slightly surprised at the whole "flying into manchester then taking a train was cheaper", given how many times I've chosen air over train because of the prices.
When it works and it's reasonably priced and you get a seat in a good environment it's the best form of travel. It's a shame those conditions so rarely all hold at the same time.
What the users of this app really want, is somewhere they can write their complaints, ie vent their angst, without being cross examined.