This probably reflects increasing immigration - there will be plenty of people who don't celebrate christmas so it's just a bank holiday, or who are alone in the UK without family with them.

For example in 1981, 96% of the population was white british. In 2011 that was down to 87% and in 2021 it's down to 83%.

It's not surprising that 10% of young people might spend Christmas alone if nearly 20% of the population is not white (which is largely Christian or secular with some Christian traditions). While some of the non white population may be Christian, it's not surprising that christmas may not be an important day to Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs.

Also European white migrants who might be christian may celebrate christmas on a different day.

So there is a danger of over interpreting statistics like these. Saying more young people are spending Christmas alone over 50 years is kind of meaningless as it's a totally different group of young people today than 50 years ago.

That might happen but is very unlikely. Jury selection is done by both sides so it's very unlikely you'd get a jury united in deciding not to convict him.

However the Supreme Court ruled that jury verdicts have to be unanimous. It is very possible that the jury is unable to reach a unanimous verdict if 1 or more jurors refuse to convict. If this happens it would be a mistrial, and the case would be retired with a new jury. In theory this could keep happening until either a unanimous verdict is reached by a jury or a judge decides that this should not be retried as its been tried multiple times without outcome.

Another key element will be his defense which could lead to him getting a not guilty verdict. The only real defense as a mitigation would be insanity. Otherwise it seems unlikely (albeit possible) that it's the wrong man.

The most likely scenario is a jury unanimously convicts him in my opinion. However people may feel about the case, a jury has to make a decision on whether the facts show he committed a crime - it seems pretty clear there is enough evidence to make a decision and it's unlikely other factors will come in to play in a jury room.

"Warns"? The word they're looking for is "threatens".

But then that'd risk being factually correct.

I use the new tab screen as my homepage, I've set it to show 3 rows in the grid and it's populated by the most visited sites. Make sure to turn off sponsored links and pocket.

I pin my personal favourites so they stop moving around in order.

It's not the functionality you use. I agree I find the default list from the address bar pointless - I don't need my search history, and when I do type to search I want to see my bookmarks but instead I get a confused list of history and bookmarks mixed up.

I don't like how Firefox has taken so many design cues from Chrome. Chrome is not the epitome of browsers or good design - it dominates because of Google shoving it down everyone's throats. Some of what it did to streamline and speed up browser made sense but mostly what it does is push Googles products, so of course it pushes search and your search history in the address bar - Google wants you back on its site where it cna sell you to advertisers.

Remakes are a cheaper way to make AAA games but how good it will be depends on whether it aims to remaster the old game or be an actual remake as a modern game.

RPG has moved on a lot since 2006, and Bethesda's Starfield shows that they haven't really learnt the lessons. Switcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldurs Gate 3 have all taken RPG forward particularly in a narrative sense. Starfield felt like.old hat and focused on a big empty world.

While I'm sure some people will enjoy an Oblivion remake, it'd really need to push things forward to be worth playing. The Witcher 1 is being remade and they seem to be approaching it as an attempt to bring it up to be more on par with the Witcher 3. That is the kind of approach that would make an Oblivion remake interesting. Not just a port and asset update. So we will need to know the actual details to judge.

But ultimately people just want the next Elder Scrolls game. I just hope they learn the lessons from Starfield.

I would certainly do a factory reset before fiddling with the hardware side.

It's important to be systematic when problem solving issues like this or you will confused over what has or hasn't helped.

I would factory reset it and if that doesn't work, strongly consider using the warrenty rather than attempting a manual repair. If you're familiar with fixing electronics then have a go but the worst scenario is you accidentally break sornething else and invalidate the warrenty.

And 2% of a big number is a big number. People too often misunderstand what percentages really are about and think a low percentage is akin to nothing.

In 2015 there were an estimated 2bn desktop computers actively in use in the world. That means 40m pcs running linux - a small proportion but a big number in its own right. It's roughly equivalent to the entire population of Canada.

Both stats are from worldometers.info, and there are likely more than 2bn Pcs in use now.

Yeah this looks right. The program is launching other tools, in this case when it gets to CEF (chromium embedded framework) it is looking in the default path it's picked up when the .desktop file is launching it. So it's essentially looking directly under /home/werecat/ instead of where the /Greyjay programme is running from.

So if you specify the path in the .desktop file it should fix the problem.

An alternative route of that doesn't fix it might be to edit any config files (if it has them) to ensure they explicitly point to the correct Grayjay directory.

Is it possible? Yes

Could it at least in part explain some behaviour? Yes.

But the missing question really is how much, and the answer is probably infitessimally small even if Real.

For lead exposure there are far easier and more common ways to get exposed such as lead pipes (which the US has a lot of).

But also you'd have to establish that the underlying problem is brain damage, and that is probably not true and instead reflects cultural bias.

There are many other reasons to explain American culture and behaviour which does not default to brain damage (or at least provable brain damage).

I would look at social and cultural issues first: an extremely weak political system, a poor quality general education system, high levels of religion, poor quality general health care, high levels of inequality including shocking levels of poverty.

The problem with the US is the extremes - if you have money you have the best the world can offer; if you don't then the state provision is shockingly poor. But alot of the crazies are also rich, and that comes down to the culture and society.

Lead poisoning is the least likely explanation, and is almost wishful thinking to try and explain things as a disease rather than normal human nature.

You can't install Windows 11 without bloat and spyware, all you can do is minimise it and much of it cannot be disabled or removed. Linux can have 0 bloat and spy ware.

That is the difference.

When it comes to the spending deal this is a last gasp - the dems are out of power as of 20th Jan.

Then we get the opposite shit show - the republicans have slim majorities in congress so small groups within the party will try to hold the government hostage. We've seen it before and will see it again.

An early sign has been Trump pushing for a raise in the debt ceiling and fiscallly conservative republicans ignoring him.

Expect conflict between republicans to be the dominant story of the next 2 years.

This has been obvious from day 1 of the Trump and Musk show. Trump is an ego maniac and does not like other people taking the lime light.

Trump is predictable in that sense but then highly unpredictable as he turns to his next round of courtiers and sycophants.