This is the kind of excuse I need to motivate myself to learn a language and exercise more.

I certainly feel my student loan repayments (9p + 6p in the £), but it is difficult to express the invaluable cognitive training and intellectual enrichment that higher education gave me.

So, they will accept protection money. They're basically mobsters. @gideonrachman.bsky.social was onto something with his article today: www.ft.com/content/9946...

It seems a lot of non-MAGA Trump voters had the same thinking: they believed that Trump would carry out the policies that they themselves liked, but he wouldn't carry out the other 'crazy stuff', thinking that he was saying crazy stuff to 'troll the libs'. It didn't occur to them that he was serious

Good article, Sarah. I am seeing this in software development. I was lucky to have come through an apprenticeship scheme. It's challenging to get hired as a junior outside of apprenticeship / graduate scheme routes. It will likely lead to further concentration (and scarcity) in senior dev roles.

Thanks!

is this a requirement in addition to scoring 8+ overall for daily living, that there needs to be at least 4+ score in a single PIP descriptor category?

meme stocks like Tesla tend to be volatile.

Subscriptions are worth it. The alternative model for online news prioritises intrusive ads that make navigation impossible, with clickbait titles that are either deceptive or tantalisingly vague as to what they're about. They punish the reader for clicking on the link.

Happened to me, a space in the project name which it rendered as '%20' caused broken SwiftUI previews.

The most obvious parallel to me seems like the end of the USSR, the classic "revolution from above." That's the clearest modern example of a small group seizing control of a state not in order to exercise power through it, but to dismantle it.