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I don't know how to fully explain the situation to zjh, being barred from anywhere I might wish to link to, but (as LW will surely recall), there was that fuss a number of years ago when schoolkids were served healthy school meals (courtesy of Jamie Oliver) and the patents retaliated, or perhaps gave into their spoilt brats' demands, by actually shoving fast food items through the fence for them.

(I didn't have many school meals, at that time I was within walking distance of my childhood home (about a mile) and usually had a homecooked dinner of some possibly unusually healthy variety. Occasionally parental schedules led to having to 'suffer' the results of the dinner-ladies, which was probably not that bad apart from being mass-cooked, mass-served, probably over-prepared... like a scoop of mashed-potato, as a textureless portion, being one of the three veg. At college, I think the canteen was more open to providing 'fast food' options. At uni, it was mostly what I cooked myself (probably far too much pasta), or the local chippie or occasionally a particular italian place in Town... the latter options being at least freshly prepared, but maybe with far more fat to them...)

The need for more reliable leaders is just the tip of the iceberg...

Floor 2194

Isolation block, reserved for those who question even the (local) lack of Floor 2193.

Quote from: Starver on September 04, 2023, 05:18:27 am

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I'll answer what I know:
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Appreciated. I'd added a few more updates to my own research, since then (and the updated 'summary' of my thinking), but some good additional points there.


Also an excuse to post an update to what I think I mentioned here about a year ago about Android Chrome and tab-groups going strange then just plain flattening out...
An update that happened in the last week or so reintroduced tab-groups (at least for me, with possible legacy config settings that might have become active again). As I'd effectively reflattened everything useful to me (to re-sort the 'tab order', when it shuffled everything and gave me no drag-to-reorder ability any more), I only noticed it for one small group of related tabs where I'm sure I did "open link in new tab in group" off a base page during the era that this was indistinguishable from "open link in new tab" by result.

But tab-groups don't crash on trying to re-enter them (and have their own horizontal mini-selector to switch within, as before). So some fork of the disappearing functionality may have been restored. Yet to exhaustively test all original half-remembered use cases, but trivially seems to be back.

(Of course, it completely re-ordered my current set of habitual tabs (and brought the tab-group to the top of the tab-list, but that might be coincidence) again, with no obvious reason - or ability to manually reposition them - but not so badly as to pursuade me to close them and re-open-as-new to shuffle them exactly like I had them, again. But the world is often far from perfect, so...)

Avoiding taking sides means not even offering up Starlink (he really needn't have, plenty of capable people didn't even rush in to personally/publicly help in such a meaningful way). Avoiding taking sides means not then telling Ukraine what they should just hand over to Russia (if everyone said everything they thought, in their role of Armchair General, it'd be a much noisier place than it already is).

What this guy does is not "not taking sides" and for sure it's not anti-war. Of course, neither is it taking a side. Very much an Elon Mess of a position. Either 5D chess or 0D tiddlywinks, and darned if I know which.

If you can replace a structural member with just about any bit of right-sized tubing (suitably machined, of course, by someone who knows enough about what they're doing), there's no intrinsic lock-in to the manufacturer. But when you have to replace something that's basically the whole footprint of the vehicle (and manufactured with cutting-edge fabrication techniques, not just any old cutting edge) then you'rectying your customere in.

It's the "IBM-compatible" vs "Apple product" dichotomy, of yesteryear (and, as far as I know, pretty much still). And the next step is when the vehicle refuses to start if the front-left suspension coil hasn't announced itself as being an Authorised Replacement (the Authorised Replacer having had to register the change in the Black Box, via their two-part key and a phone-home connection)

"Far Too Many Awareness Days Awareness Day"...

Drivers have been warned not to rely on sat-navs for the speed limit on residential roads in Wales when it is reduced to 20mph from 30mph on Sunday.
...or, you know, actually know the rules of the road and be aware what big signs with "20" in a red circle means.

(It mentions road signs below, but some people don't seem to know the road laws anyway. And, despite Scotland being said to not yet having decided on making it the default, I can tell you that many central-belt settlements are explicitly 20mph already, and not just with "20's Plenty" unenforcable nag-signs.)