blackn1ght
@blackn1ght@feddit.uk
- Comment on Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn 7 hours ago:
Change the vehicle tax to be based on height, width and length dimensions.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn on Britain’s New Left-Wing Party 1 week ago:
sign-up figures are insane, 650 k is huge! The last published Labour membership figures were about one third of that.
It’s 650k people subscribing to a list vs being a member. Not really the same thing.
- Comment on Parents in England skipping meals to afford school uniforms, survey finds 1 week ago:
Just scrap school uniform entirely and don’t allow any obvious branding on clothes. It’s such a fucking waste of time.
- Comment on How I hacked my washing machine 4 weeks ago:
I guess you’ll need to go back at least 40 years. Even so, if the belt or motor breaks then the washing machine doesn’t work either.
- Comment on How I hacked my washing machine 4 weeks ago:
That could happen to the washing machine whether it’s “smart” or not.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 1 month ago:
Blame the shitty UK legislation. Bluesky, Reddit etc are just complying with it.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 month ago:
Lemmy.zip blocks uk users on its front end but I think its contents is still federated.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 month ago:
Honestly I have no idea. I guess they could just block it if they don’t comply?
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
I’d say 10 over on any 30mph zone is crazy. These are usually in built up areas so there’s no excuse for it.
but there are many roads where 20 over is still fine.
Can’t say I agree. National speed limit is either 60 or 70mph depending on the road and I wouldn’t want to do 20mph over on either.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 month ago:
Under the new UK law, lemmynsfw would also need to have some kind of age verification for UK users.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
In the UK you’re allowed 10% (and I think +2mph) due to car speedo’s not being 100% accurate.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 1 month ago:
If she was caught doing 38mph in a 30, then her car was probably displaying 40 or 41mph as the speedo’s always report you going a higher speed than you’re going. So I’d say that’s pretty bad, especially when you’ve been caught several times before in such a short space of time.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 month ago:
How are PeerTube instances funded? I’d imagine that the cost of running an instance is significantly higher than a Lemmy instance.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 month ago:
True, but in order to make it a healthy viable alternative to centralised platforms then there needs to be a financial incentive for creators to use peertube. I guess any creators who give a shit about this kind of thing could upload their content to both platforms, but doing so could have an impact on their YouTube earnings.
Early youtube was beautiful precisely because it was normal people making videos as a hobby, not trying to earn money.
It was also a novelty as it as very new, but the quality of content being put out now is significantly higher than it was in 2005.
- Comment on Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature 1 month ago:
The thick layer of wasps and flies on the yoghurty windows would also help.
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- Comment on Starmer and Macron to announce ‘one in, one out’ migration deal 1 month ago:
- Nigel Farage
- JK Rowling
- The twat of a passenger who gave me a wanker sign in another car that was doing about 50mph in a 20 after I pulled out of a junction on a corner where I couldn’t see them until I was already half way across the road
- Comment on Royal Mail given go-ahead to scrap second-class post on Saturdays 1 month ago:
It’s this. The company I work for will sign contracts with Royal Mail for 12+ months. It’ll also give their business customers time to potentially switch to alternatives, either pushing people to First Class or maybe the tracked options such as T48.
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- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 1 month ago:
I wonder why these parties don’t just merge to create a single socialist party. And now Corbyn is starting another one.
- Comment on Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’ 1 month ago:
It’s still just slowly trickling down. Any day now.
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- Comment on Kent council bans transgender books in children’s library section 1 month ago:
Paul Webb, Reform UK’s communities portfolio holder who oversees libraries, said the move came after a “concerned member of the public” contacted him.
Good money says the concerned member of the public was Paul himself.
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- Comment on Fixed speed camera toppled hours before switch-on 1 month ago:
It’s just another tax
Nobody is forcing people to drive over the speed limit. It’s a fine, not a tax.
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- Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. 1 month ago:
I’m not answering your question at all am I lmao
Have you considered a career in politics?
- Comment on Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. 1 month ago:
You might have mis-read my comment, what are their prices like, relative to ours?
old and “full of character” (read: uneven floors, crumbling paper-thin walls) due to lack of regulation.
Basically a bit like our old terrace houses that are full of damp and way too small for modern life.