This may have been an entirely innocent interaction, a cleaner - thinking a bloke was in the women’s said that this is the women’s. I’m sure the cleaner was embarrassed to find out that they made a mistake. I think it is blown out of proportion to fan culture wars and generate clicks. Barley newsworthy.

I was once changing my child in the boot of my car when I had long hair and a man assumed I was a woman by “saying excuse me love, where is x”, I turned around and my beard and generally male appearance startled him and he apologised. I then told him where X was. Perhaps I should of went to the BBC and by now I could have had a published autobiography.

I’m not saying that’s fake, it’s likely not. But it also isn’t representative of the Ukrainian government or people. You’d find a bunch of idiots like that in most countries.

Oh yeah, I also use it as little as possible! it’s far from ideal.

I self hosted it within a docker container on Open media vault. So it is possible to host it on an nas (if you can use docker). My ebook flow works a similar way to op’s. Though I have to be on my home WiFi to download books using the kobo. Or connecting to a router with a Vpn to my server.

They didn’t actually throw the manifesto away and they’re not doing too badly against it: https://fullfact.org/government-tracker/

I’ll be getting this as soon as it has speech journals with transcripts! Looks amazing.

Amazing, thanks.

This sounds cool. Is speech to text, with saved audio and linked transcript part of the roadmap?

Using Linux mint instead of Microsoft. The windows 11 update fiasco made that easy.

Also: Google photos> photoprism and immich

I’d like to host my own email at some point too and move away from Gmail . or at least have a offline copy of my emails combined with an online EU service.

Bluey. It’s a really positive modern show , so not really from my childhood but it beats everything else from my childhood.

There are multiple Scottish accents. You’d have to pick which one! Perhaps the most widely recognised would be Glaswegian.

I’ve tried to keep on top of not allowing ai to crawl through my personal data on various services. Google going through my emails is like going through my physical letters, it’s extremely intrusive.

It’s getting tiresome. I think next year I’ll have a go at self hosting my emails. Email is one of the big things I have kept online and the same as everything is linked to it. It’s like your digital address.

Most users are just quietly accepting the significant loss of privacy, especially nowadays as a lot of our lives are online. I don’t believe there will be any pushback from users, governments need to step in but they are seemingly unwilling to.

Yeah, have a look in decathlon. They have waterproof shoes which look like trainers. I’ve got myself some, I can go through puddles with them and stay dry.

I did ask her that actually (how would she feel), but it certainly wasn’t the focus it was more how would that other person feel. I’ll explore the ‘i wonder’ too, not just for this. Thanks.

Thanks, I’ll take a look

Thanks. Do you happen to remember what were the books called? Maybe more moralistic TV is called for! I’d certainly enjoy a rewatch of star trek ha

Thanks. Yeah, I don’t want to shout at her really, it isn’t something I do. I have tried to talk about the moral aspects and how it makes others feel sad already. You’re recommending more of the same, I was worried about limited effectiveness. She certainly didn’t feel sorry when she apologised to the shopkeeper, but she was incredibly embarrassed and shy about it, to the point I’m surprised she did so! I’ve also tried the story thing and so has another trusted adult. Another poster mentioned removing vegetables as something she likes, this could be a direct consequence. As you say, I don’t want it to be about 'not getting caught ’

Thanks for your insight. I’ve not thought of removing vegetables, she does eat them no problem & enjoys them. My real worry is that if the behaviour continues into later life, then the consequences are much more severe.

That’s a good idea. I think I’ll arrange a meeting with the teacher. Thanks

It would be a community support police officer, in the UK. It wouldn’t be a criminal record sort of thing nor even saying my daughter is stealing or anything serious. Basically a discussion of what can happen if someone steals. Just an idea. They have regular community events which we would attend and I’d ask ’ what happens if '… My wife is a psychologist, so we have that part covered. Thanks for your response.