Javi

Amulet of speak with the dead - cursed. Once attuned the user can speak with the dead, but can only interpret chat with the living as wailing, any attempts to speak with the living will sound like wailing to the other entity. Removing the item does not break the curse.

Or she employs the old ‘secretly give them a gold eating coin’ trick. Momentary gain for eternal torment.

Not so much to do with the current designation of clowder, but rather I was inspired by the origin of the word.

A variation, recorded since 1801, of clutter, itself from clot, from Old English clott (“round mass, lump”), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (hence cognate with Dutch kloot (“ball, testicle”), Danish klods (“a block, lump”) and German Klotz (“lump, block”)).

As for murder, I think labelling them with their intent is simply a good idea.

I’ve nothing against crows or cats, but the person who coined their respective collective nouns probably did.

I think the plural should be chungi, and the collective noun either a clowder, or a murder.

Congrats! Out of the usual suspects, (nginx, traefik & caddy), id say nginx has the steepest learning curve, so it’s definitely something to crow about mate! I know professionals in the tech industry that have a hard time with nginx config, so an enthusiast getting it down is a bigger deal than you’re giving yourself credit for.

I host various services for friends and family; and here are a couple I think will be of particular interest to you:

• matrix server with element clients. (Self hosted discord/WhatsApp alternative which is open source unlike TS).
• Drop server and client setup (self hosted steam like experience).

Another thing I would strongly suggest doing, is setting up a single sign on Auth server. Something that will allow your friends and family to have one login for anything you setup. Personally I use keycloak. But there are other options like authentik and voidauth that are worth looking at too!

Congrats again on the progress mate! You’re smashing it so far.

‘Fighting in the canteen?! That’s a week in the McHole for you!’

It’s funny because you still seem to be hung up on “my toys are more expensive than yours, therefore I win” mentality.

That logic didn’t work for the US in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan. And it didn’t work for Russia in Ukraine.

You’re talking about a country full of drunks.

Underestimating your enemy is my best guess as to where the US goes so wrong when invading “weaker” countries, but I’m no expert.

I’m not sure if this is unique to the UK or not, but if you don’t have a full licence, you can apply for a provisional; the pre-requisites being the following:

• be at least 15 years and 9 months old.
• be able to read a number plate from 20 metres away (which isn’t checked or enforced until the driving test anyway).
• have been given permission to live in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) for at least 185 days.
• £34

So most people have a licence in the UK, regardless of whether they can drive. Usually so we don’t have to carry our passports to the pub when we turn 18. (Which also isn’t unheard of here).

Can confirm we don’t have an official identification card, let alone electronic ones.

We use driving licences for that purpose. And kids in my area get child identification cards, but I’m not sure if that’s a national thing or not. (The name of the card has the county in it, hence why I’m not sure).

The TV licence has been around since 1946. Are you able to name one “increasingly mundane thing that now requires a licence” which didn’t previously?

nothing spells tolerable quite like concentration camps.

Ah so you’re suggesting the numbers are falsified?
I Definitely wouldn’t put that past the maga lot, they haven’t said a single truth since they took the whitehouse; but this was as soon as the results were announced (Nov 6 from what I can tell), so i was just banking on their laziness, in the sense that they would just pull the graph from AP or somewhere like that.

Are you able to link us to the figures that show gen x voted for predominantly Harris? All the ones I find seems to corroborate this trend of predominantly trump supporters.

IE the BBC, which aren’t exactly trumps biggest supporters:

I also found the source of the image used by whoever that maga loon I originally linked is, it seems to be from NBS news. I know little of their integrity as a news outlet, but here is the source nonetheless:

NBS 2024 exit polls

I’m not American so I can only go based off statistics, but from what I can find, the opposite is true?

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But y’know, shakes fist
those darn kids are at it again.

I’m glad to hear it. I am doing everything in my capacity to help with the repatriation of the empire’s illegally pillaged artifacts.

Admittedly that’s not a great deal currently though, most of my spare time is spent helping out at the local food bank, as there’s a bit of a malnourishment crisis going on in the UK ATM (as I’m sure there is most places tbh. The disparity between rich and poor seems to have grown exponentially since covid and the job market is only compounding the issue).

You guys should have ceded from the crown eons ago; if I had the choice I certainly would. You won’t find much love for the monarchy among the working class in Britain.

The irony of an Aussie saying this is palpable.

When are you going to stop the rampant and ongoing persecution of the aboriginal population and the intentional erosion of their way of life?

There’s nothing I can do about my ancestors’ actions; but you have a real opportunity to enact the change you feel our ancestors should have done at home.

It describes a subset of the British population… Which is what this entire conversation has been about.

The rich get it, that’s why Epstein island has people like prince Andrew as well as sheiks from Dubai; affluence has no borders, and they use borders to keep everyone else fighting among one another, rather than dealing with them directly.

And you’re a perfect example of just how effective it is.

Evidence of rich people in India: https://www.forbesindia.com/lists/rich-list-2024/.

Evidence of poor people in Britain: https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/food-banks/.

Yet according to you, the people at these food banks owe those 100 people who have a combined wealth of $1.1 trillion dollars, due to respective nationalities.

I can’t speak for the actions of people that died a century before I existed of course, but I can near enough guarantee that neither I, nor any of my fellow working class citizens have caused any famines in India. (I say near enough; because for all I know there could be some obscure despot running around who just so happens to be from a working class village in Scotland or some shit).

I wholeheartedly agree with the last statement. It is a human condition ultimately; we’re seeing the same situation out in the states, where a lot of immigrant families voted in favour of tighter immigration (the “fuck you I got mine” mentality). I suppose you could argue it’s due to Americanisation of the people who have migrated, but to me it just highlights the fact that morality isn’t based on nationality. I believe brandishing any nationality/ethnicity or race as anything other than human only perpetuates ‘us and them’ mentalities, and I believe it’s by design.

Until the world wakes up and realises it’s not north Vs south or east Vs west; but rather rich Vs poor, nothing will change.

Ah so thats your basis for responsibility, not action, but circumstances.

What if that British newborn was born to Indian parents? are they now both responsible and a victim of their own doing?

I didn’t see anyone rejecting the spoils of plunder

There are plenty here who agree with you, unfortunately they’re too busy trying to survive the same persecutions you’re angry at them for supposedly perpetrating. The working class in the UK have absolutely no say in any of what you’re campaigning about; but your narrative of “fuck British people because they were born British” does nothing but alienate them from your cause.

It becomes a case of “damned if I do, damned if I don’t”

Ah gotcha, so a newborn in the local hospital is responsible for the atrocities committed by a man who died 60 years ago, seems logical.

I’m not downplaying anything, I’m pointing to the fact that your anger is misdirected. There are many British people that have had absolutely no say or action in any of what you’ve stated, yet you claim they should get fucked for no reason other than where they’re born.

Churchill was a racist piece of shit.

So are people who disparage entire nationalities for the actions of a few.

I’ve never done anything to you or India; So can you explain to me why I should get fucked?