HeartyBeast

Indeed. To be honest, I’d probably fall back on the old idea of filling the bath right up if the shit looked like it was about to hit the fan.

Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

I think that ‘resilience in depth’ is a reasonable idea. The NHS exists, but I still have a first aid kit at home.

In practice, I think it will be difficult fir a household to store 3 days drinking water.

I don’t think my grumpiness level has particularly changed since I emerged from my grumpy teenage phase.

I’d say that the railways were probably more likely to fail because you have the added complication of the rail infrastructure company on top, plus the need for through-ticketing and timetable coordination. Those factors magnified the sheer amount of shit in the show

I know what you are getting at OP, but I can’t say I find ‘both sides committed atrocities ‘ uplifting, exactly

Counterpoint- the council can mandate routes and frequency in the contract and put it out to tender. The idea is that the private sector is better an innovating to be efficient, though I’m not sure that has ever really been demonstrated

It is a great attitude, yes. Some people actually enjoy work and do work of meaning. Some people also love their kids and want to be there for them. Some companies treat their employees with respect.

These are not things to shit on

If you are asked about bad reviews directly, you can’t exactly ‘no comment’ them. His response is basically ‘it’s not a conventional film’ is a perfectly reasonable one, I think.

Who knows how this will turn out

You might be interested in mbin - a fork of kbin that I believe is being actively maintained https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin?tab=readme-ov-file

Could you give som examples of where it’s desirable ?

…adding that they’re not too sure about this Jesus bloke though. He seems dangerously woke