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Cake day: June 1st, 2024

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  • In 2017, NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists pledged to stop practising conversion therapy, including electric shock treatment.

    Yet conversion practices still remain legal in the UK and continue to take place in private homes, churches, and through some counsellors or therapists.

    According to campaigner Saba Ali: “People are still tortured and hurt in the name of conversion therapy.”

    The government has promised to draft a bill to end conversion practices by the end of this year, but it has not happened as yet.

    As a result of our investigation, the BBC understands the government will now investigate the historical use of electric shock therapy in the NHS.

    Minister for Equalities Olivia Bailey said: "My thoughts are with those who suffered from this inhumane practice.

    "The bottom line is that conversion practices are abuse – such acts have no place in society and must be stopped.

    "That is why this government is committed to bringing forward a full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices, as set out in our King’s Speech.

    “All people deserve to live freely and without fear, shame or discrimination, and as a member of the LGBT+ community myself, I will work tirelessly to ensure that is the case.”

    Hopefully very soon by the sound of it.













  • The Flores Historiarum claims that the Warwolf sent a single stone through two of the castle’s walls in the course of the siege, “like an arrow flying through cloth”.[5] Other sources, however, report that the weapon was only finished after the Scots had surrendered.[4] Edward decided to use it anyway, refusing to let anyone enter or leave the castle until it had been tested.[6]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf

    I knew it was Warwolf before I’d even finished reading your comment based entirely on Longshanks looking exactly as he did in Braveheart. I need to get a life 🫣


  • You can always dual boot. That’s how I started because, like you, I was too lazy to fully commit to wiping everything.

    If you don’t know what dual boot means. It means you can install Linux alongside Windows. So when you turn on your computer it asks which OS do you want to boot into (you can have a default if you turn it on and walk away too).

    So essentially it’s like having 2 computers in 1.

    It’s a good stepping stone into Linux without having to go to the full effort of starting from scratch with everything.

    What I found amazing afterwards was how loud my fans run and how much my CPU is constantly working when booted into Windows. And then how quiet and fast everything was on Linux. It was nice being able to compare performance on the exact same hardware.



  • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon#Private_property_and_the_state

    Some good reading to start with.

    One of the main things to take away is that there’s a difference between personal property and private property.

    Personal property are things like your clothes, your home, the items you use regularly.

    Private property are things you own but don’t personally use, don’t take real responsibility for.

    For example, if you have the money, you can purchase a factory. But a factory is too large an item for one person to ever claim they personally run the whole thing and take full responsibility for. There’s many people involved in running a factory, from cleaners to accountants, do they not also take responsibility for their part?

    If the factory could never run without all of these workers, can the owner really claim that the factory is theirs? It is everyone who works there’s. Why then does the owner get to keep all the money the factory produces? Because they stumped up some cash a few years ago?

    The owners are smart enough to pay you for your labour. Maybe even a bonus for a successful year. Some benefits maybe when people start unionising and demanding more. But at the end of the day, the owner still gets the vast vast majority of the profits despite not putting in the vast majority of the work. How is this fair?

    I’ve run out of steam now, it’s been a long day, but if you genuinely meant your comment in good faith have a read of the links above.