A fascist party coming to power.

Led by a man who wants to call himself Chancellor.

In Austria.

West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic barrow over 5,500 years old. It's part of the numerous neolithic structures in Wiltshire, UK (which includes the frankly far less impressive but more famous Stonehenge).

Going inside it is a very odd feeling. You can see and touch ancient work marks put there by people who are so remote to us we know very little about them. I've visited numerous ancient world heritage sites and its unique (to me) in how close you feel to those people.

Yes, creating legislation to ban everything non-Jesus related is identical to not being forced to buy a product.

Best way:

1. Break a chunk off x4 teaspoons sized
2. Put it in a teapot
3. Boil a kettle
4. Pour about 2 mugs/cups worth of boiled water into the teapot
5. Let the tea mash for a few mins
6. Pour it through a tea strainer into a mug/cup
7. Add sugar and milk if you're an uncultured heathen

Source: am British.

Yes, the guy who wasn't director at Shifa hospital currently sporting a long sleeved padded jacket who's just been interrogated by the Israeli army is definitely a reliable source.

I think ignorant might be more accurate than stupid. That crosses into stupidity if the ignorance is wilful eg they refuse to accept facts or refuse to even investigate if someone tries to present evidence.

People these days seem exhausted and angry and for some there's comfort in the 'certainty' of their wrong beliefs. I read a piece recently about an ex qanon guy who said a large part of the appeal was being part of a community and encouraged to be angry about everything.

Turns out it's often kids doing it to other kids, which is deeply concerning.

The kind where, when they can no longer win at the ballot box, they don't abandon their beliefs, they abandon democracy.

Hi fellow Brit :)

1. VPN, they don't make you anonymous but they do encrypt your data between your machine(s) and your ISP so the ISP can no longer see (and record) every site you visit and the sites you do visit don't know the ISP you're using. IVPN and Mullvad are both good.
2. Switch your email to a privacy friendly alternative like Tutanota, Startmail, Mailbox or Proton, especially one that lets you have aliases.
3. Use Firefox (or even better, LibreWolf) with Containers enabled. If you set up a (for example) FB Container you could use FB in a contained tab secure in the knowledge any data it leaves on your machine can't escape the Container. Also install UBO extension to prevent tracking.
4. Switch to a privacy respecting search engine - best of all are self hosted instances of SearX or Whoogle but, failing that, DDG and StartPage are both good.
5. If you use cloud storage, change from Dropbox/GDrive etc to something like Filen or Proton.
6. If you can, use Signal for chats. I say 'if you can' because obviously it means trying to persuade all your family/friends to use it too.
7. If you use Android, degoogle your mobile as much as possible, try and ditch as many corporate controlled apps as possible, use open source alternatives, avoid the Play store etc.

Yep, plus a list of reasons why I might want to use it over other Matrix clients.

I can also vouch for PhotoGIMP. It's the closest thing to Photoshop I've used and certainly made things much easier for me when I transitioned.

I use this for just about every non-official (e.g. govmt or banking) account I set up.