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- Comment on Ban phones throughout the school day, Phillipson tells teachers 2 days ago:
Apply the rules to staff too. Let them lead by example.
If doing so is problematicfor the adults why not the children.
Phones don’t need to be banned we just need to teach everyone when their use is or isn’t appropriate.
- Comment on Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road? 2 days ago:
I used to ride a bike every day for 15 years, I’m currently a car driver.
The big problem is when design desisions are made without considering all users.
For example where I used to live they divided the pavment into two, one side for pedestrians one for bikes. The only thing making this divide was a line of paint. This meant that you had to dodge pedestrians who didn’t like the bikes encroaching on their area whilst also having to deal with crossing junctions.
If you stuck to the road in the same area you could get a much higher speed as you didn’t have to deal with obsticals. The big problem was now in the eyes of the car drivers you weren’t supposed to be on the road as you had your own lane on the pavement.
Similarly, in a nearby area they decided to try and take a lane away from the cars to make a cycle lane. The issue being they ignored the fact that most people needed to take a turn that crossed the lanes, the only way to do that was to leave the cycle lane and join the cars, but again you have your own lane and the car drivers don’t think you’re allowed in theirs anymore and you’ve made their traffic worse.
This kind of infrastructure led to so many negative encounters for me that I gave up riding all together.
The problem tends to be that these kinds of infrastructure changes are only done as token gestures and are rarely well thought out. When these kinds of changes are done well it can be fantastic but those occurrences are rare so everyone defaults to the defeatist stance of the changes will cause more problems than they solve.
It’s a catch 22, you need to build new infrastructure that is good and works, to stop people being against it but it can’t be built because people only know the bad examples that have been built in the past.
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 week ago:
The cool math trick I know of is using your other hand to count groups of 12, 5 fingers times 12 knuckles is 60.
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- Comment on same shit every day, on god 1 month ago:
Before we can even try to crack fusion, we need to clear out the last of the 2000s pop bands and their videographers.
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 1 month ago:
Another vote for immich here, works great and let’s me shade albums with other accounts on my server.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Black & White film was usually cheaper to buy and to process, it’s also easier to process yourself at home so was still quite common even into the late 90s.
In my family color photos were a rarity until my dad got a digital camera because it was easier for him to process the b&w film in a home darkroom.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
So be a dick and get eaten then :(
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I rent so I don’t own my house.
Does this mean i can be an absolute dick and invite them in anyway knowing they won’t be able to enter. Could I literally stand at door and mock them. “Can the big bad vampire not enter, aww, what a shame.”
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 6 months ago:
Chariots, string the t-rexes together like sled dogs, though now I think about it raptors might be better suited.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 6 months ago:
Even the capitalist hubris is done wrong.
They knew how to activate the dwarfism gene. They could have been selling pygmy raptors and rexes as pets to everyone. At the right size they’d be no more dangerous than dogs or cats.
But no; we need a theme park that eats people.
- Comment on Thames Water lenders demand UK government block campaigners from legal action 7 months ago:
The company and the lenders can get fucked.
They’ve caused immesurable damage and want to get away without any consequences.
All utilities should be nationalised ASAP and the people currently running them into the ground should loose out we shouldn’t be bailing out their bad investments.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 7 months ago:
I’m in the same boat here, I watch on my TV through a Roku and I don’t think there are any options for ad blocking.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 8 months ago:
I would guess into the tree soup.
- Comment on The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot 10 months ago:
This is what I was saying to someone a couple of weeks ago when Musk was talking about liberating the UK.
They don’t need to invade us, they’re already here.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 1 year ago:
Space Karen
- Comment on Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK 1 year ago:
That makes a lot of sense, I hadn’t considered that business sellers would still be charged.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 year ago:
It’s the other way around. Nintendo is a law firm with a game dev hobby.
- Comment on Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK 1 year ago:
Any info out there on how they actually plan on making money going forwards?
The article talks about other platforms charging a fee to buyers instead but mentions nothing about eBay introducing this.
Are they really making enough from ads on the site and vehicles to replace the lost revenue?
