Nicklin noted that the man has repeatedly said he intends to take his own life if the allegations are published, and that this must be taken seriously.

The normal approach when someone is making serious threats to take their own life is have them committed to a psychiatric hospital rather than giving in to their every request.

I wish they were motivated by workers’ rights though. I don’t understand why the EU never makes a deal about this.

A massive part of the reason that Chinese goods undercut European ones is that workers in Europe are entitled to a reasonable amount of time off every week, sick pay, minimum wages and so on.

Import tariffs on a particular country (aka customs duties) based on worker welfare in that country would help protect workers inside the EU and also encourage other countries to improve conditions at home.

you forget one - owned by corporate interests

Look it’s great that you’ve got some imaginary being in your head that has helped you accept yourself as you are.

It’s honestly great and I’m sorry that you grew up in a very religious society which can be intolerant of behavior that does not conform to tradition. Do you think that this upbringing could be the reason that you want the blessing of an imaginary* being, one that you can tell yourself is superior to humans, especially those who have hurt you?

* By imaginary, I mean only existing in your mind, otherwise invisible, leaving no clear trace in the physical world. For religious people, these attributes make that being special, and full of potential. Think of what such a being could know or accomplish, unrestricted as it is by the laws of our mundane everyday reality! But for non-religious, can you not see that these same qualities make such beings irrelevant, and even dangerous, because we can create them as we want them, and use them to justify our own shitty behaviour? This is where the concern about immorality comes from - the abdication of responsibility for one’s own beliefs and actions.

oh interesting, as that’s what PHP did too. Originally it was just a set of shell scripts for creating “Personal Home Pages” and it gradually grew into the beautiful swan it is today <3

an alien civilization with the technology to travel thousands of light-years

undetected. they have this great stealth technology, in addition to their mind-boggling interstellar propulsion technology, so why did they mess up so clumsily?

did one of them accidentally knock the “cloaking mode” button to the off position with a stray tentacle?

oh really? I wish they’d do that in Britain too. Instead they’re talking about forcing everyone to pay for the BBC if they watch Netflix or Youtube.

it’s PHP that needs the patches. Yes you should take the site down until PHP has been patched.

edit: assuming you are hosting wordpress yourself. if you’re using a large 3rd party service that manages PHP itself like wordpress themselves, one should hope that they will be updating PHP early, before the patch is even released publicly.