It’s an incredibly complicated issue, even if you look at individual cases (like Caster Semenya) and there’s almost no easy way to define what you mean by a woman. Ultimately it’s down to the individual sporting organisations to decide how to call it based on expert advice and any decision is going to disadvantage some athletes. If they think the decision is wrong, then there should be a way to appeal decisions because it can come down to difficult analysis based on each individual’s life history.

A compelling argument I’ve heard is that the greatest performance enhancing drug is being exposed to testosterone during puberty and that seems to be the base line a lot of the sporting organisations use. However, even then it is difficult to call for individuals and would need expert testimony on each individual case.

We’re yet to see if it’s a good one.

You rang.

you should never use Wikipedia as a source. and definitely not on politics.

I wasn’t. It’s there for further reading.

Seems like Obsidian could easily address this need [on Android] by adding a widget feature. Allow the user to pin a note to the home screen like Google Keep, or tap the widget to open a lightweight markdown editor which saves to a new file in the vault.

From the linked article it does sound like they are aware of the issue and will come up with a fix. For now, I’m happy with ZN but we’ll see.

And the Award for Least Hateful Tory Student group goes to…

However, as Farage has already been spouting pro-Putin rhetoric, he’d probably see it as a great endorsement.

On the plus side, at least it is a lot clearer that voting for Farage is really furthering Putin’s agenda to erode Western democracy (not that we needed the help).

The article does suggest iOS options for Mobile Quick Capture - Drafts and Shortcuts. Might be worth a try.

Pity they didn’t do anything when claims emerged of Russia interfering with the Brexit vote.

No problem, I’ve only been using it a month or so, and haven’t really dug into all features yet but there’s a lot to like - the markdown editing is very smooth (with lists, including check boxes, automatically generating on a new line) and I’ve started drafting longer Lemmy posts in it too.

I have some niggles, like the YAML “note_type: task” producing a much nicer check box list but it seems to stop line wrapping. I’d also like checked items moved down the list. However, the developer is, apparently, approachable so I may drop them a line or note.

Yes, even if they never hit these “heights” again, the example of Europe is going to make electoral reform a real uphill fight.

I’m hoping more sensible thinking prevails - with PR, you’d likely have a majority Labour government for most of the time, backed by Greens and Lib Dems. Gordon Brown seems to be driving a lot of the ideas for improving our democracy but his focus seems to currently be the House of Lords, which is an easier one to implement (although likely not in a way that suits me - it’s sortition all the way for me), but I could see him chewing this one over afterwards. Realistically, Labour won’t do anything now but if their support collapses they may need other parties to prop them up after the next election and PR is likely to be the price for it.

What’s the relevance?

It’s a concern of mine too. Next election we may have an incumbent Labour party that has done little to improve people’s lives (potentially despite their best efforts because the economy and national infrastructure is wrecked) and a Tory party wrecked for a generation and Reform could emerge as the protest vote or, worse, Reform merge with the Tories and Farage leads a BNP-lite party to victory. The latter might doom the Conservatives forever but after BoJo and Trump getting elected, and the rise of the right across Europe Farage worming his way to PM is not something we should dismiss too quickly.

What are you getting?

He is Ezekiel Sims and the Wikipedia entry might give more background on the original character, although he has been chopped and changed so much he is almost unrecognisable.

The reason the character is so one dimensional is that they radically changed the story (why cast members have been so happy to throw it under the bus, as what we saw wasn’t what they signed up for) and we’d have got more of his motivation. As the character is key to some of the big storylines and lore upgrades, he might have also helped set up future films. Instead they still seem intent on killing the franchise, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because a Spidey-less Spider-Man fictional universe is a stupid idea, badly implemented.

A nonce is a sex offender. As in: "we had to put him on the prison’s nonce wing as the other prisoners would try and kill him.’

This isn’t exactly a great defence:

“He wanted to create opportunities for him to talk to these ladies.”

Except he wasn’t:

Instead of stopping to talk to the woman after that, he walked past her.

It sounds more like he was getting off on it for some messed up reason

I’d been calling it a Sith gimp mask until I saw the photos of the Black Series helmet.

I’ve had absolutely no issues and I’ve been using them for years - they’ve been rock solid and reliable. I switched to a ZigBee dongle and packed away the hub. I also use their switches and plugs, all good.