Have you considered following the news and learning about the country despite not being required to take a citizenship test? Yet! 😉

More seriously, do you often read the Morning Star? I suspect their readers will know who Republic are.

The Civil List, if that’s what you mean, was abolished in 2011, but they claim grants instead now.

Allocating the cash from Crown Estate to the royals is itself controversial because it’s basically a special public corporation these days, unlike the private Royal Estates of Sandringham and Balmoral which the royals actually manage. Like, why exactly should the royal family be considered to own and exploit reclaimed land and the sea bed? It’s a strange throwback to the dark ages.

Also, “stipend” usually means only the Sovereign Grant, which funds only the monarch’s official duties and not all the other associated costs incurred by the royals. Some of the extra is paid for by the Duchies of Lancaster (for Charles III) and Cornwall (for William), but not all. Their police, armed services, various ceremonies and some visit costs (including road closures) are paid for from general taxation. I suspect that’s what this complaint is based on.

But in short, royal finances are a mess and almost like someone doesn’t want a simple easy-to-read budget allocated, but it’s almost certain some taxes paid for some of Andrew’s policing and pomp, and there have been recent reports he asked his police to work against his accuser, which does seem a bit like misconduct in public office.

I don’t expect this case to be allowed, unless Andrew has really really upset Charles III, but it’s not a completely ridiculous argument.

Well, that campaign group has been in the news off and on for over 40 years and was covered extensively around the last coronation due to the pre-crime arrest of its leader and incredible police claims that people carrying sellotape and luggage straps were “going equipped to lock on” and those with paper, ink and paint were “going equipped to commit criminal damage.”

I actually tried to research him before I made my post, all I found is a vague one paragraph mission statement and him asking for donations. No backstory, no credentials no nothing.

That in itself isn’t awful. If you try to research any random newspaper author, most have nothing much visible behind them except their past works. You may be able to see past jobs, but full credentials is rare.

I know enough boomers who get all their “news” from TV and newspapers without realizing that they are being influenced and don’t form their own opinions. I don’t get the reverence for legacy media that gave us some truly awful past leaders and wars.

One more, in that PVV lost 11 and JA21 and FvD gained 12, which may just be a quota quirk.

One interesting question is where did NSC’s 20 seats go? In the past, opinion pollsters said some of their support moved from JA21, but if so, either they didn’t return there or some of PVV’s lost support moved to the centre not right. Maybe some of PVV’s previous supporters would prefer more stability than a party that torpedoes the coalition it leads?

there are YouTubers and online influencers who qualify as ‘actual journalist’. Sure this guy is pro-european and not unbiased, but to discard him as some random guy with a camera is really not fair

Well, can you find out who he is?

But I’ve seen his work for years, he’s mostly been accurate, it’s nice to have a pro-EU voice covering this and he usually links his sources in the video description, whereas none of the popular national newspapers where I live are pro-EU or properly citing sources, so they’re painful to fact-check and sort opinion from fact.

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Well, that’s better than it could have been. Their prediction is:

• D66 (centre) 27,
• PVV (Wilders) 25,
• VVD (liberal-conservative) 23,
• GL/PvdA (leftish) 20 (leader has now quit),
• CDA (centre-right) 19
• JA21 (radical right) 9
• FvD (far right) 6
• BBB (farmers/right) 4
• 3 each: SP, Denk, Dieren, SGP
• 2 each: CU, 50Plus
• Volt 1

Any coalition needs 76 for a majority, most won’t work with PVV again, PVV, VVD and JA21 won’t work with GL/PvdA, JA21 says they won’t with D66 either. The ruling coalition from 2017 to 2023 D66-VVD-CDA-CU would contain 71, so still not quite enough, which may mean one of the further right parties is invited, or at least asked to agree to support the minority government in some votes. D66 have said they would prefer a national unity government to a right-leaning coalition. Interesting times?

hmmm… but at least they’re being exploited for the benefit of the commonwealth not the capital! (whistles past the graveyard)

Ben & Jerry’s is very dense

Apparently so dense that they thought Unilever wouldn’t interfere with the campaigning.

Well, that’s Mondragon OK then. And the other sorts of co-op? I think the consumer co-ops may be the biggest.

the idea that when the company is making lots more money it can do lots more good with it

The sales pitch of co-op carpet-baggers to their members since time began! It seems that “social entrepreneurs” aren’t immune to the siren song.

Go on, then. What law or link to EUR-LEX did I miss?

Depends if you view any larges co-ops as a multinational, or are they merely alliances? Not all capitalist, though.

Well, that cites the standards, but only asserts that all vehicles must comply. Can anyone say which law requires it?

In other words, CitationRequired still.

Those apt commands are in a less-good order. It’s usually better to update apt, then upgrade the system.

I upgrade as soon as reasonably possible after the notification appears, if the system isn’t on auto-upgrade.

If you did just paste that, looks like the Verge corrected it since! I wonder if they were using a competitor’s AI to generate the article, or if it was just the good old typo+autocorrect method?

It reads like “definitely should not happen” was indeed happening!

I wonder if some techs got a basic unencrypted test working, then a pointy haired boss moved them on to another project and it got deployed into use with no-one setting up the encryption.

You literally wrote that they don’t represent you, so what else could I reasonably infer (not assume) from that? I bet you’d be more offended if I assumed you were lying in everything you wrote… but great thanks to you for petitioning them. It’s up to us all to make our representatives care.