They have a fairly short list of “bad takes” though, and they have an excellent track record in reporting broadly. Their impressive history of winning libel cases against them speaks volumes to that.

Portugal is secretly Eastern European, after all…

I’ve moved from Boost to Thunder. It’s a great experience so far.

OPs alternative is law.

I’m not sure the ethics of their employment are of much concern.

Why does 2/3 of the protein vanish when you cook it?

You might be underestimating the amount of protein you’re getting. Urad dal has 25g of protein per 100g serving. Chickpeas are similar (19/20g per 100g serving). Red lentils are like, 10g per 100g serving. I “need” about 70g of protein; some days I’ll get that other days not so much but the average is probably about right.

I don’t track macros though.

I eat vegetarian and it’s never been an issue, though to be fair in western diets we’re generally over-proteined.

Is it possible to use a number different to the one on the device you use? Seems like a simple workaround to use a throwaway SIM to set up, and then use it with that number moving forwards.

What’s your point? The Private schooling/Oxbridge education is a marker of wealth.

What’s going unsaid here is that for a while it was possible, because of a functioning welfare state, that an approximation of the fallback that rich people had was available to the rest of us povvos; this is the issue. It also applies to business as well as art too, to be fair. Rupert can found a business selling bespoke cat earrings or whatever and if it fails he has a fall back. If I try to run a business that’s shit or doesn’t make money and it fails and I default on my mortgage.

It’s standard pearl clutching because the concentration of people who can afford to work in creative industries in the upper economic echelons of society is something worth complaining about because it matters and we’re culturally poorer as a result.

“attack” is doing some very heavy lifting here.

Although the government is using the phrase “new towns”, most of them likely won’t be: they’ll instead be extensions of existing settlements, not so much new towns as new suburbs.

Ah, so we won’t be building more actually livable spaces, just tacking on house building to already stressed developments. Gotcha.

I’m all for more home building, but this isn’t the answer, at least not without sensible planning (which doesn’t exist because “it takes too long”).

What would actually make sense would be to build actual new towns which can be done, and done well, but it’s obviously a bigger commitment. It seems like they’re taking the wrong lessons from Milton Keynes. As much as it pains me to admit, Price Charles’ new town is a great example of what can be done if the will is there to do it.

I couldn’t swim until I was maybe 10 or 11 and it was awful. Thankfully my parents moved and my school mandated lessons - but I wasn’t confident until maybe my late teens/early twenties?

I think kids should learn as early as possible and it makes me a bit sad that my niece and nephew haven’t learned yet (and are unlikely to as their schools don’t teach them and my sibling doesn’t seem interested in getting them lessons or teaching them). We live on an island with a lot of water inland - it’s more important than other stuff like riding a bike!

M&S jeans are great - last me as long as stuff like Levis ever used to and cost less than half as much.

Love it.

I don’t know why I never considered this.

I work for a German company and wondered why our internal prices were so high!

Wacky

Is that because he’s Austrian and speaks - from what I can gather - the German equivalent of redneck English?

Annoyingly they’re doing actually objectionable stuff and all anyone seems to hark back to is the fuel allowance being cut to kill pensioners or however the Tories, Nick Ferrari, et al. want to frame it.

I used it decades ago (using the CLI installer for a Sid install I eventually fucked up beyond repair) and it was okay for a slightly tech savvy teenager, even then.

I suspect a lot of these issues are down to hardware compatibility more than anything else.

Ditto, I used it on my eepc 701 way back when. I miss that sort of computing experience!