I’m of two minds with them. On the one hand, they’re doing more and better journalism than most Canadian media, but on the other hand Jesse seems to have a number of blind spots when it comes to Israel. That recent interview with the Israeli ambassador for instance was an embarrassment for example. He did everything he’s often critical of other journalists doing when covering Trump: he platformed a liar, knowing he would lie, and didn’t challenge him on any of his lies.

I’m a bit behind on the episodes at the moment. Did they do a story of what went down in Amsterdam?

Yeah it’s really quite shameful how Western media has covered it.

They’re horrendous. They marched in packs through Amsterdam chanting “There are no schools in Gaza” (because all the children are dead), pulled down Palestinian flags and attacked locals with metal pipes.

But why weren’t they wearing their helmet/high-vis/body armour???

That’s the dream. Where do you live?

You’d think, but there are three levels of responsibility: the city council, the county council, and the local police. Calling any one of them to complain and demand enforcement results in them redirecting you to one of the others.

Basically, unless you’re blocking car traffic, no one with power cares.

That’s a good point actually. Amazon is much more likely to care about a van that can’t deliver than some scratched paint.

Well, given that parking in a bike lane carries a hefty fine, and that the cops don’t seem to care, it’s unlikely that they’d be around to notice or choose to do anything about scratched paint or a broken headlight.

I have enough anger for both.

Curious how it never occurs to them to block the driving lane, or you know, park around the corner.

Cambridge checking in. It must be payback for the cows leaving their shit all over the walking path.

I just went through F-Droid and counted out all the projects I have on my phone. At £5 each I’m looking at an annual bill of about £70/year… Bargain.

Thanks for the idea!

While it’s understandable that you might think so, that’s not where this is coming from.

The white poppy comes from the UK originally where they treat Remembrance Day rather differently from the way we do. While in Canada, it’s a moment to remember the horrors of war and the millions lost when we embrace industrial scale international violence, the UK really doubles down on the whole “To Our Glorious Dead” thing. They take the day to recognise the sacrifices “for freedom” and other deeply propagandistic ideas.

So in rejection of this, the white poppy came about as a rejection of this messaging. In a way, it’s an effort to make Remembrance Day more how Canadians tend to recognise it.

If the white poppy is now appearing in Canada, it might be in answer to how the day is changing culturally.

Source: I was born and raised in Canada. My grandfather fought in our armed forces to liberate the Netherlands and we attended Remembrance Day ceremonies regularly as far back as I can remember. I emigrated to the UK when I was in my 30s, and I will not wear a poppy here. It means something very different.

Monolith has the same problem here. I think the best resolution might be some sort of browser-plugin based solution where you could say “archive this” and have it push the result somewhere.

I wonder if I could combine a dumb plugin with Monolith to do that… A weekend project perhaps.

Monolith can be particularly handy for this. I used it in a recent project to archive the outgoing links from my own site. Coincidentally, if anyone is interested in that, it’s called django-cool-urls.

I don’t know why I care so much to try to inform you when you can’t even be bothered to google israelis destroy food, but here you go:

• BBC: Israeli protesters block aid trucks destined for Gaza
• The Guardian: ‘Total outrage’: White House condemns Israeli settlers’ attack on Gaza aid trucks

Then there’s the case where Israel targetted and killed aid workers just trying to deliver food. Again from the BBC: Biden ‘outraged’ over Israel strike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza.

Not satisfied with mainstream media that’s often biased in favour of genocide? Here is video footage of Israelis straight-up destroying food destined for Gazan children.

You say you’ve “been there”. I assume you mean Israel and not Gaza. Maybe, if you’re so confident that Israel are the good guys here, you should go back and help get those aid trucks through the Israeli blockades. Maybe you should try to stop the soldiers from gunning down people trying to collect flour from the few trucks that do get through.

You might be thinking something outlandish like: “It must be Hamas. Some sort of deep-cover thing where they’re killing their own people to implicate the Most Moral Army In The World”, and honestly, if you’re that far gone, there’s no helping you. I’m not going to sit here though and let you repeat lies unchallenged. Israel has – in the words of its own ministers, besieged Gaza. It’s so bad that even Biden has demanded that they let aid trucks through.

You are misinformed. I encourage you to learn more about the country you’re defending.

You are misinformed. The food trucks are not from Israel. They are being blockaded by Israel and the food destroyed. There’s ample evidence for this. They film themselves doing it.

More of this please!

This will make rejoining the EU much more difficult.

ExFAT is good for portable devices, but if you’re working with something internally, there’s no reason not to use EXT4 or NTFS.