Hedges are a good investment because once it has matured a hedge provides food and shelter for many species of birds, animals and insects. There are government subsidies available for establishing and maintaining them. They also provide returns for people in the form of wood and in some cases edible fruit.

Good luck not getting shot mate.

This is a good one.

I think Ghandi and his followers understood this.

I think it’s because they are a setting where people are there for a separate purpose to meeting a partner, which allows for romance to be portrayed as spontaneous. Also, clothes (particularly underwear, pyjamas and towels) come into contact with the body and imply intimacy.

Cool, no more need for American military bases in our countries then. Or sharing intelligence with them. Or propping up their arms industry.

“The desire for power should automatically exclude you from having any.” Billy Connelly

Pretty interesting after Robin Wright’s role in The Congress.

The world has been changing fast and I think the safest advice in terms of always having work is to learn something to do with bedrock infrastructure, like plumbing or welding.

If you bang on about the election process not working and then win the election you have totally delegitimised yourself before you’ve even begun.

Vatican City.

It’s pretty amazing isn’t it?! There’s no way that I would have had the time and patience set up a server without it.

Interesting, I didn’t know that. Is that controlled by the operating system or something else? I’m curious about whether my Debian laptop does the same.

Recently at work I set up Windows to open spreadsheets and word documents in Libreoffice Calc and Writer instead of Excel and Word. Nobody seems to have noticed yet.

Either that or they don’t know how to change back again.

I tried a few out and found that Flowblade worked best for me. If you’re only trimming and combining video though, you MUST check out Lossless Cut. It’s ridiculously fast.

This is fantastic news.

Do you know if hugo blogs can federate?

Bitcoin is NOT based on thin air.

It’s based on wasting loads of electricity.

Property, when referring to a house/home.

Either slices cut in half or diced and the peanuts whole, in separate dishes. A half mouthful of peanuts followed by a half mouthful of tomato. Never mix the two together before eating! I prefer to use a spoon.