Thanks for the reassurance that I'm not such an incompetent dev as I feel.

Funny how companies tend to be competent at either devices or software, and rarely both. This sounds vaguely like the automotive industry.

Every network I've set up (which is not many) has a dns search suffix handed out by dhcp. So the wap will resolve, e.g. unifi.branch.megacorp.net with zero config needed.

I hate network vendors. Wish I could put BSD on my old Catalysts.

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So when a person wishes to deny this important institution to a minority, they are creating an out-group and discriminating against them.

By that logic, we can put those discriminators themselves in an out-group and discriminate against them. We can deny them institutions such as directorships. Fair's fair.

It's more than fair - despite what conversion camps want to sell, being queer is an intransigent characteristic. Being a bully is just a choice. Discriminating against bullies is as morally just as discriminating against the incompetent.

Obviously it's fine to campaign against marriage.

No tax rate is too high. Rebates for agricultural workers maybe.

That's funny. Because I lived in Peckham for a decade, and it's obvious to me that money is fucking fucking tight for a lot of working families.

It's obvious to me that zero-hour contracts have massively reduced labour power.

It's obvious to me that energy bills are crippling.

It's obvious to me that there has been galloping inflation over the last decade.

It's obvious to me that all food has become more expensive since Brexit, notably including fresh fruit and veg.

It's obvious to me that rent is increasing faster than wages, and that it's well over 50% of income for millions of households.

It's obvious to me that benefits can be speciously cut at any moment, by policy of "climate of hostility", leaving a recipient unable to cover bills for a month while they take time off work and chid care to bang their heads on the bureaucracy.

When I say "obvious", I mean it literally: these things are in plain sight. When you say it, what I understand you to mean is that you have strong preconceptions making your blind. Could you kindly not Marie Antoinette in my country, thanks ever so.

America didn't invent those tenors of self-serving cant, but it is the exemplar today

This supposed Christianity was one of the bigger factors in the assassination of reality, but ultimately we have these cunts because Zuckerberg gave a platform to perennial losers.

When one government, for its own reasons, sells a service, intervention is required to return it to public hands. The cost of that intervention was created by the government that sold the service.

The intervention could be more or less problematic, but it isn't the problem.

I should sniff traffic to find out why, but my assumption is that it's a mix of CRL bloat and code bloat.

Selling public infrastructure lets you give tax cuts now, and you'll be long gone before people recognise that they are paying more and getting less. It's much like MBAs making cuts - you can boost the bottom line in the short term and be gone before the blame starts gathering

We have a fptp electoral process, which means there are a lot of safe seats in parliament. In battleground seats, a vote for the third party is effectively a vote for the first. People who want not-the-incumbent cannot choose which party they actually do want. I personally have been disenfranchised all my adult life, MEP votes excluded. (If I could change only one thing, I would abolish fptp.)

Moreover, like most populous Western countries, most of the electorate is not well educated on politics or economics; they get their political news from limited sources, and they don't seek information that challenges their prior beliefs.

These facts combine to reduce electoral accountability.

Having flogged the public infra, renationalisation is tricky. You either buy it back at market value, which means imposing a tax burden and playing into your opponent's electoral strategy, or you seize it and spook capital markets, which also plays into your opponent's electoral strategy.

I do share your bitterness. Free-market fundamentalists have flogged assets for years, and the cost to the citizens is some future government's problem.

The rain that falls across the Thames basin has historically been distributed relatively evenly across months, compared to regions with monsoon seasons. That makes management easier.

I do expect supply to meet current demand. And afaics, it would, if the pipes didn't leak.