The whole things a madness but its been coming for years American police are just localised milita gangs killing (mostly) black men with impunity. I’ve lost count of the number of stories i’ve read where unarmed black men are killed for being black or white mass murderers are led away safely

That’s simply a lie. The police kill more white people.

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Black people are disproportionately killed however and this is in the context of the slavery legacy, Jim Crow, and structural issue this has left behind.

I had a PC that would power off like that and it needed a new motherboard.

Perhaps, but then only white men should only judge white men and Muslim women should only judge Muslim women?

A T-shirt and jeans are secular, a hijab is a political-religious symbol.

There really isn’t much ‘culturally-ingrained’ about in given that it wasn’t until the Iranian revolution that it began to adopted by educated Muslim women.

What’s so good about the hijab?

I got a dirt-cheap Blackview BV5500 phone which is a ruggedised phone. I forget how much it was but prob less than £150. Yes, it looks like a brick but my previous phones died due to water damage so went with something robust and cheap. One Nokia phone was in the inner pocket of my Gortex MTB jacket but was caught in a squall of the heaviest rain I’ve seen outside of West Africa. My shoes literally filled with water and everything got wet.

I’d personally er on the side of Xbox ‘cos I like the ecosystem and the Game Pass is a very good deal, but there is probably no right answer.

Experience the middle ages yourself by wearing the same set of clothes for a year before taking your annual bath without soap.

My next-door neighbour has been exercising his common sense with a BBQ and party all day with about 8 guests :/

If the 4×4 ****ts use it then it will soon be eroded.

No direct experience but it shouldn’t warp or split as much as a wet softwood. The question is does the car port need to stay absolutely square? I’d suggest probably not in contrast to say a door or window frame, but it’s up to you.

There is also a display port mini. One of my monitors goes through two media converters (display port to HDMI and then HDMI to display port mini) to go from display port at the GPU to display port mini at the monitor. Don’t ask why, I think it was just what I had lying around. In the past, I’ve had problems with media converters, something to do with sufficient power.

He also showed us a video of a bloke being wrapped around a massive lathe which was very nice of him.

Yeah, there are some brutal ones. There was a vid of a Chinese worker being pulled into a paper mill a few years ago by his hand.

A couple of notorious incidents in the industry I used to work in. One guy with long hair being decapitated by rotating machinery which caught his hair. Another guy on a hoist being pulled into a 12″ tube.

What a moron.

Without wanting to derail the thread, any benefit of the doubt I gave to this regime has gone. They are both malicious and incompetent and that’s a bad combination. It’s also disappointing to see Jenny Harries totally compromised and nothing but a Downing Street puppet and that goes for Chris Whitty too. Surely they should be giving scientific advice not obeying political instruction, but do you reach that sort of office by having integrity?

Anyone else been ‘scared straight’ by covid to lose a few pounds?

I was probably about 5 kg above my fighting weight so have been dieting the last 3 and a bit weeks. Plan to do another 3 weeks. On about 1500 to 1800 kcals a day plus ride for 1 hr medium pace 6 days a week. Really feeling it now, get that lightheaded feeling and hard to concentrate, but can literally see the fat leaving me.

Well, one good think about the Cummings road trip is that it has opened my eyes to the true nature of this government. I certainly didn’t vote for them but didn’t see them as complete scum either. Now I do.

Indeed they are effectively re-writing the guidelines to save Cummings. The price for this is probably a much less enforceable lockdown in the event it becomes necessary during a 2nd or 3rd wave. To be this is verging on criminal behaviour.

Somehow I don’t think Cummings will be suing for slander.

Their shared aim is still the same as it was in 2016. A no-deal crash-out from the EU at the end of the year.

I can certainly believe that Cummings would like that. He’s said many times that chaos and crisis provides opportunity. His purpose is to wreck the civil service and replace with something in his own image, which he isn’t very specific on.

I just don’t trust him despite his brains; he is not a responsible adult as evidenced by his arrogant road trip and contemptuous excuses. He’s more like someone with an anti-social personality disorder; everyone else is an idiot except him. Is this someone we should trust to reform the state in such a ‘seat of the pants’ way?

Because they probably drove to the Castle as a minor day-out given that they were probably sick of being cooped up after two weeks and it was her birthday.

But they had to at least offer some sort of explanation given that they were spotted, so the eyesight test rationale was concocted. It’s incredibly lame, and probably (IMHO) not legally adequate, but it’s better than nothing and quite creative. Without it, Cummings may as well have been admitting to a lockdown breach.

Sadly we live in a post-fact world, this is why I say the symbolism is more important like in a dream. In that sense, Cummings played his hand like a pro. He doesn’t have to convince his enemies only play to the gallery of his supporters (Brexit mob). Consensus politics is history.

On the contrary, even the Daily Mail was critical of Cummings and BJ in this case.

Blaming the media is exactly what those on the Brexit/alt-right side of this cultural conflict do.

To them, Cummings is a hero because he’s defying the self-righteous ‘liberal-media’ who are trying to bully him and bring down Brexit.

Brexit and Trump represent a weird refusal-defiance against what is perceived to be an entitled liberal-elite. Their supporters share not much more in common than the urge to stick two fingers up at ‘the establishment’. The policies aren’t populist per se just the symbolism of it all is.

Just watched the news and after that I don’t care what Cummings did. No interest whatsoever.

You should care if you have any moral compass.

Yeh talk to planning about it and I’d aim to get a lawful development certificate for any plans.

Yes Rockhopper is right.

Previous extensions don’t become ‘original walls’ with time.

We probably shouldn’t expect anything less from the Brexit government who lied and played with words like sophists during the Leave campaign. Like Trump, if you get caught lying you just deny it was a lie in the first place and never apologise. Black becomes white and up is down. My truth is better than your truth. There are no principles only a culture war where my team is always right.

Utterly depressing. Perhaps we deserve these bums?

Cummings made a point of saying that he didn’t know if his wife had covid which begs the question why he decided to self-isolate with his family, especially as BJ explicitly said that Cummings knew that he and his wife were about to become incapacitated with covid.

so he decided to go for a random test drive for an hour.

To a castle with his wife and kid?

It’s not. It depends on what is considered “reasonable” and I haven’t seen any rulings on that yet.

Two parents (one certainly infected) driving 250 miles to optimise their childcare would certainly set the bar for ‘reasonable’ so low that the lockdown would be meaningless.

People not infested have been prosecuted for much less.

Hey, come on now. He prioritised the child, and Boris says that is right and safeguarding children is more important than anything

What specific danger was the child in the required them to drive 250 miles?

There is nothing in the non-exhaustive list of reasonable excuses (for not staying at home) that makes any provision for people to leave their homes (let alone drive 250 miles) to find the best childcare arrangements. What is more, at least one person in the car was certainly infected meaning that The Coronavirus Act comes into play which imposes further restrictions.

This was not a life or death issue for their child. It’s preposterous to claim that childcare could not have been secured in London for a man of Cummings’ means and stature, especially with an in-law and assistant close by.

Sure it wouldn’t have been ideal, but it’s not ideal that people have missed saying goodbye to dying family either.

What certainly happened is that Cummings didn’t fancy spending the next two weeks being shut up in his London house; a person such as himself has every right to run off to the more pleasant surroundings of his parents’ property in Durham. He’s special.

The gov claiming that Cummings did self-isolate as per the rules is a bit like me claiming to be a vegan when I don’t eat meat; he broke the rules by driving across half the country first. That much we know anyway, and there are accusations he further flouted the rules.

It’s unedifying to see the gov playing with words like a sophist here.

It took them around 12 hrs to come up with the childcare explanation.

Cummings then appears in the morning armed with a handful of his child’s toys and puts them in the car to underscore the point.

Cynical and arrogant people.

Easily the worst gov in my lifetime. Both incompetent and the integrity of snakes.

Watching the Grant Shapps interview with Sohpy Ridge 🤦‍♂️

Even with the questions in advance, it’s not gone well.

Shapps is an embarrassment, but in his favour, he doesn’t seem totally comfortable with the rubbish he’s rather inarticulately coming out with.

Starting to look a lot like plebgate. Especially when you look at who the Durham acting PCC is.

Numerous independent witnesses have spotted Cummings out and about in the North East.

I’d be very disappointed if he isn’t sacked or resigns. It would signal a real decline in standards.

I think from the lay perspective, from the media perspective, etc., the ‘model’ almost has a fetished kind of value, where you ‘go with the model’ and your decisions receive some kind of unimpeachable warrant.

On the masks and gloves issue. I agree that there should be some comprehensive advice on how they are best used. Certainly not to do what I saw a guy do in morrisons on Tuesday. He came out of the shop with gloves and mask on. Opened his car and put all of his shopping in the back, pulled down the mask to his throat, got on the front and drove off. All with the gloves still on.

But is that more likely to lead to transmission than if he didn’t wear the gloves.

There is no question that certain practices optimise the benefits of gloves but are gloves by default riskier?