Aceticon

I lived for over a decade in Britain until about 5 years ago and by the time I left I truly believed the UK was the most likely country in Europe to turn Fascist within a decade.

So far, they're well on schedule and there isn't a month without some news about it further confirming how wise my decision to leave after the Brexit vote was.

They literally have a Press Censorship system where they will send something called "D-Notices" to newspapers to shut them up.

Most sugar consumed in Europe is from sugarcane.

Most sugar produced in Europe is from sugarbeets, but that production is still less than the imported sugar from sugarcane (because sugarcane is just vastly more productive).

They didn't extract sugar from sugar beet back in the 14th century. In fact only in 1747 was it discovered that beets had sucrose and sugar beets themselves were only created after that, via selective breeding, so I don't think they had sugar as we know it back then. However as somebody else pointed out, they had honey which has a very high concentration of sugar.

I suspected sugar wasn't extracted from sugar beet in the Middle Ages or earlier but I wasn't sure and prompted by your question I went searching for it and indeed that is the case since sugar beets didn't even exist back then.

People who don't comply with some societal norm or other are always seen as "weird" or just "quirky" by those who do, especially those who make a huge effort to fit in.

This applies to just about everything, including the behaviours of the neurodivergent.

IMHO, what makes it a problem is that the judgmental takes (i.e. "weird" rather than merely "quirky") are accepted and even condoned in present day society which de facto means the bullying linked to negative judgements against people for being unusual is accepted and even condoned.

PS: To pick up on what others said, having the explanation "Autism" does seem to make it less socially acceptable to be judgemental about it.

It was painfully obvious some years ago when the Anti-Terrorist legislation was passed that it had been designed like that on purpose so that it could be used against mere dissent.

Of course, the really special bit here is that it's being used against those who dissent against the whole "let's help an ethno-Fascist white colonialist state mass murder children by starvation".

Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper are going to go down in History looking far worse than Neville Chamberlain, who at least didn't do his thing mid-Holocaust and wasn't actually supporting the Nazis.

There is nothing uplifting about it.

This is just a delaying technique to avoid sanctioning Israel due to public pressure, meant to let Israel finish executing their "Final Solution for Gaza", by which point they will pivot to saying "it's too late now".

If you read the article you'll see this "initiative" was launched by the UK PM, the very guy who has been getting people arrested for planning to demonstrated against the Genocide, so one should be incredibly suspicious (and, being familiar with British politics, the whole thing reeks of their usual "delay meaningful action by offering vague promises of future meaningless action").

Also all 3 countries still send weapons to Israel, Canada doing in the most hypocritical of ways by having a weapons export regime that says "no" riddled with backdoors so it ends up as "yes" - yet another very common tactic in British politics which one could describe as "the contents is not what it says on the box".

This way of delaying the meaningful action being pushed by public opinion is a very common technique in British politics, and during his years there heading the Bank Of England (a very political position) Mr. Carney is sure to have learned it.

Uplifting news will when there are actual sanctions against Israel in place.

Also numbers such as 1200 are "dozens".

Saying "dozens" is a great way to understate a number which is much more than 12.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/report-suggests-arms-still-flow-from-canada-to-israel-despite-denials/ar-AA1Jw2FU

First result from a DDG search for "canada arms exports Israel"

Last I checked France was doing a similar thing, whilst the UK is literally flying surveillance flights over Gaza and giving the info to Israel, selling weapons to Israel (in their recent "review" they cut something like 2% of licenses for weapons export to Israel and then loudly proclaimed that they had "cut weapons sales to Israel") and even arresting British citizens who are merelly planning to demonstrate against the Genocide.

People who are OK with the mass-starvation of children don't have any moral or ethic qualms about deceiving the public.

True, such a low number of production units design would really only make sense if you could find an off the shelf solution to drive multiple displays.

If these displays are not supposed to be animated and they're reasonably low resolution (say, 800x600 20bit RGB or less), they could be connected via SPI and pretty much every microcontroller out there has multiple SPI ports, so even a cheap SBC would work for that). However I expect that getting XWindows or Wayland in Linux to work with such displays would be a PITA.

I've only ever got software running under Linux to control a tiny 2-tone display via I2C - on an Orange Pi SBC - and it's totally its own thing which happens to be running under Linux sending low-level commands via the I2C dev and not at all integrated with X-Windows or Wayland. This would also work fine if the comms was via SPI (in fact the code barelly changes since I'm using a library that does most of the low-level work for me).

To just display a static image or a sequence of static images loaded from storage in a bunch of screens low-resolution enough to support SPI (so 800x600 or less) I expect something like that would be fine.

The more I think about it, there more I expect this thing could run on a single $50 SBC as long as the connector exposes at least an SPI device and 8 independent I/O lines (given how SPI works, shared SPI bus is fine with one separate Chip Select line for each screen as long as the SPI device under Linux can run on a mode that lets your code control the CS line itself, and the other 4 I/O lines are for touch detection) assuming touch position is irrelevant.

Human replaceable printed paper labels, manual stick.

What I describe goes well beyond things with screens.

For example computer mice have a microcontroller inside (and unless it serves a mechanical function, not much more than that) and cars have several, only one of which actual handles a proper screen (it's actually a microprocessor rather than a mere microcontroller).

The simplest microcontrollers have nowhere near enough memory to handle any half-way decent display (some nothing at all, some can just about handle a two-tone 320x200 display over I2C or SPI, some can handle 640x480 16-bit RGB but without animations as they don't have enough memory to actual have a buffer for image composition) and yet they keep getting sold in massive numbers.

Pretty much all digital electronics out there no matter how invisible to users has been replaced by embedded microcontrollers or, in a some use cases, single function controllers (which are basically microcontroller programs converted into integrated circuits).

Embedded computing was a massive revolution in digital electronics.

Yeah, I really missed pretty much the entire domain of sweet things.