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JTcollinson said:

The British are not going back to imperial, we are discussing the possibility to remove the law that makes it an offence to quote prices in Pounds and Ounces. 

To be specific - remove the law that makes it an offence to quote prices only in Imperial measurements. It has never been illegal to sell products in pounds and ounces.  

seanj said:

Yes communists like yourself have a special racial hatred for Priti Patel. The daughter of an immigrant to the U.K. who is a minister in the Conservative party.

Let's look at Priti Patel's track record:

• Forced to resign after holding secret meetings with Israeli authorities without government approval.
• Multiple incidents of bullying staff. The last complaint of bullying cost British taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds to settle.
• Broke the ministerial code a second time by not declaring work outside parliament. 
• Backed soccer fans who booed England players kneeling against racism (although she changed her tune when the team started winning games). 
• Broke the ministerial code again by lobbying to get PPE contracts awarded to friends.

And that's before we get to just how incompetent she's been as a minister. She's hated by the left for revelling in being cruel and she's hated by the right for being completely ineffectual at stopping asylum seekers from reaching Britain.

But, sure, anyone who dislikes Priti Patel is a racist and a communist.

Maybe Epic could explain how ripping off the work of indie developers is helping fulfil their goal of app fairness?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/18/22630365/among-us-fornite-impostors-mode-clone-reaction

DAalseth said:

Closing the Slack channel comes off as rather petty. It's not like it will stop the discussions, they'll just move somewhere else online, Discord maybe, or one of the other dozen similar tools. This whole situation is making Apple look bad, and I'm sure headhunters from other companies with more flexible work plans are circling to pick off the best people. 

Agreed. It'll just move the conversion to somewhere that Apple can't monitor and where people feel less need to self-censor.

tbsteph said:

There is volumes of scientific data that clearly show masks do nothing to prevent the spreading or catching a virus. Of course many will never see that sort of evidence with the news media and social media blocking access to such information. 

Well, you're not on social media now so I'm sure you can share this peer reviewed scientific research from a respectable journal with us.