blackn1ght
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- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 6 days ago:
You’d also need a separate type of sign for kph, but one that still adhers to the current standard (white cirle with a red border and a black number). Or put a separate rectangular sign under it with “kph” to denote that the number in the circle is kph rather than mph.
The problem is that you can’t just replace one, you’d need to replace them all on the road due to the repeater signs. It would be confusing to see some say 60 and others 30 on the same stretch of road as some repeater signs have been replaced but others haven’t.
There’d also be the issue of cars understanding the signs with their sign recognition software, and drivers having to switch their digital spedo, as you usually only see one unit rather than both like on older anaologue speedos.
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 6 days ago:
Not just the speed limits that need changing, basically any sign with a distance on it too.
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 6 days ago:
We and the US are just too stubborn to use the better units.
And expensive. Imagine the cost of changing the entire road network over to use metric.
I’d love to see it but the money could go on far better things.
- Comment on Russia suffers worst month for casualties as Ukraine's Western allies would be resolute for "as long as it takes", says UK defence chief 1 week ago:
1,500 dead and injured “every single day
No idea how many of those are dead vs injured, but to put that into context, the UK lost 457 people in Afghanistan in a 20 year period, and 179 in Iraq. 255 were lost in the Falklands.
I’d take the figures coming out of Ukraine with a pinch of salt but even if they’re half of what’s being said, these numbers are crazy. Such a crazy waste of life on all sides.
- Comment on NHS-branded baby formula could prevent parents paying too much, watchdog says 1 week ago:
I’d doubt the NHS would go for this. Our experience is that they heavily promote breastfeeding and seem to put as much resistance into using formula as possible.
This would seem at odds with their current approach of trying to get more people to breastfeed.
- Comment on Sign the petition calling on PM Keir Starmer to be bold when dealing with Donald Trump 1 week ago:
Has there ever been a single one that’s worked?
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 1 week ago:
I know absolutely fuck all about satellites but I have to assume on something this old, that it’s extremely unlikely.
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 1 week ago:
“It’s still relevant because whoever did move Skynet-1A did us few favours,” says space consultant Dr Stuart Eves.
"It’s now in what we call a ‘gravity well’ at 105 degrees West longitude, wandering backwards and forwards like a marble at the bottom of a bowl. And unfortunately this brings it close to other satellite traffic on a regular basis.
“Because it’s dead, the risk is it might bump into something, and because it’s ‘our’ satellite we’re still responsible for it,” he explains.
So basically, you can’t park there mate!
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- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 weeks ago:
You’re supposed to stop using the mouse while it is charging, and use the mouse unplugged.
Why? Says who? There’s been a few times where I’ve booted my work laptop up in the morning and my mouse is dead and I’ve had to plug it in. Once it’s charged I unplug it. What’s the harm in that? I’d be way more furstrated if I had to open up my laptop (I keep it closed with an external monitor) and use the trackpad instead.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 weeks ago:
I get that, but it doesn’t really make sense with a mouse as I pretty much never see the front of it as it’s always ahead of me. The only person who would see it would be if someone were to be sat opposite.
- Comment on Colours of Blood 3 weeks ago:
This is clearly propaganda by Big Penis.
- Comment on I feel you, green guy. 3 weeks ago:
Damn this absolutely hits home. He looks so peaceful. I’m jealous.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 11 comments
- Comment on Over £1 billion to boost bus services across the country as bus fares capped at £3. 3 weeks ago:
I think they’re referring to actually having a cap.
Also it’s a 50% increase not 150%.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I realise that, that’s why I thought about maybe the advertised salary might not necessarily be the truth and they do get decent compensation to reduce the chance of them getting compromised due to financial reasons.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 3 weeks ago:
A part of me thinks it’s low on purpose so the only candidates that apply are doing it for ideological reasons, and aren’t motivated by money (thus opening them up to risk of being bought by a foreign agency). Who knows, maybe it would be revealed their salary would quadruple after they get the job.
But the likelihood is that their budgets are low and can’t compete with the private sector.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
He definitely is. It’s refreshing to finally even hear this sentiment from our government. However it’s just words, hopefully we start seeing some positive changes in the rental and housing market.
- Comment on Man who lost home to coastal erosion loses court case against UK government 3 weeks ago:
That part of the country is famous for its coastal erosion going on for centuries, probably longer. Anyone that moved within 20 miles of that coastline in the past 70 years knows that their property has been at risk of falling into the sea.
I feel for him for losing his home but I’m not sure what the governments climate change policies have got to do with anything?
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- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
It was awesome. Especially paired with the msn messenger plus mod.
Near the end of its time and also when WiFi was taking off, I had friends with everyone in a uni house, but their WiFi was quite unreliable, so every hour or so I’d get 6 “person is online” pop up toasts appear simultaneously, stacked up on top of each other.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
I think this is another one of those cases where the US does something different to the rest of the world: the majority of people were using msn messenger but the US was using aim.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 4 weeks ago:
Same, it was pretty much an instant change too. Which sucked as Facebook chat was very unreliable at the time and obviously not very feature rich.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 weeks ago:
This is like the perfect comment as to why a lot of people find ml users insufferable and toxic.
- Comment on Russia suspected of planting device on plane that caused UK warehouse fire 5 weeks ago:
It says they’re investigating whether they’re behind it, not that they’re saying for definite that Russia is behind it. They could very well just conclude it was a bad battery.
There must be more to this to prompt an investigation by counter-terrorism, I doubt they come along to invesigate every single fire in the UK.
- Comment on Drake 1 month ago:
Has this just gone completely over your head?
- Comment on "English" 1 month ago:
I didn’t spot that!
- Submitted 1 month ago to britishproblems@feddit.uk | 23 comments
- Comment on oh shit 1 month ago:
Looks like she’s holding A3, not unless she’s absolutely tiny.
