It’s not at all weird and very easy to explain. The BBC positions itself as an impartial reporter. Anything that appears to be a judgement call by someone else is (quite rightly) put into quotes.

In this case, I would have simply left out the words “innocent victim “ myself, as it’s a bit odd - but that is the rationale.

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

“It’s a bit lively tonight “

£115? That’s nearly 3 pints of bitter

If you’re on an agile tariff where the price changes ever 30 minutes, it’s a bit of a bummer

Hopefully the plughole is clogged with hair

Indeed. To be honest, I’d probably fall back on the old idea of filling the bath right up if the shit looked like it was about to hit the fan.

Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

I think that ‘resilience in depth’ is a reasonable idea. The NHS exists, but I still have a first aid kit at home.

In practice, I think it will be difficult fir a household to store 3 days drinking water.

I’d say that the railways were probably more likely to fail because you have the added complication of the rail infrastructure company on top, plus the need for through-ticketing and timetable coordination. Those factors magnified the sheer amount of shit in the show

Counterpoint- the council can mandate routes and frequency in the contract and put it out to tender. The idea is that the private sector is better an innovating to be efficient, though I’m not sure that has ever really been demonstrated

Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.

You should definitely spend time trawling through Oxfam shops for books, if this annoys you.

Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂

Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)

You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest

That sounds as if the register for .ar should be out of a job

Yes, that is mildly infuriating. Someone deliberately going to additional trouble to increase the a kind of microplastics in the environment and make it harder for the poor folks in the recycling plants.

Get over yourself