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- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Ok, you’ve got me puzzled. What’s a US state named after a UK (or English) queen where cannabis is legal ?
The only female named states I can think of are Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana, none of whom have been Regent.
- Comment on Linda Reynolds failed to offer a ‘basic human response’ after Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, court told 2 months ago:
What else woukd you expect from a Lib ? Heart and empathy removal is a pre-requisite to join the party.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 6 months ago:
I have considerably more characters than 6 at lloyds
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities 6 months ago:
Am lawyer, “beyond reasonable doubt” is for criminal charges. “Balance of probabilities” is for civil cases ie where jail is not a penalty option.
Defamation is civil.
- Comment on Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks 9 months ago:
The NHS is on its knees due to 14 years of deliberate Tory underfunding and sabotage. Asking for a reasonable wage is not a unreasonable act.
- Comment on PSA: The Docker Snap package on Ubuntu sucks. 10 months ago:
Lol. Yeah that was my reaction to the headline as well. “You did what ?”
- Comment on No excuse for shoplifting because UK's benefits system is very generous, policing minister says 10 months ago:
The French had a cracking solution
- Comment on 13 Feet Ladder 10 months ago:
1ft.io also seems to work and by the branding seems unrelated to 12ft
- Comment on Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat 10 months ago:
Under threat ? That boat has already sailed. We no longer have the right to protest
- Comment on King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations 11 months ago:
What on earth makes you think I’m OK with it ?
- Comment on King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations 11 months ago:
As per article only in Lancashire and Cornwall. The rest of the UK goes to treasury/exchequer
- Comment on Discussion on Concerns over Auto tl;dr bot 11 months ago:
It has about a 60% usefulness ratio in my opinion but I’d suggest option 2 an auto comment disclaimer that it often leaves relevant stuff out AND to downvote it when the summary isnt useful.
The latter because a) it’s a signal to later readers that the summary is misleading and b) if the maintainer is monitoring (prob not) that’s a clue as to which summaries need to be looked at
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
Did you actually read the article? It specifically calls out “overtaking on double white lines” which is ILLEGAL for a very good reason. It’s not calling ordinary overtaking dangerous.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the road rules in UK, Europe where the US has double yellow lines to mark a centre line that is illegal to cross, those lines are white here.
They indicate that it is unsafe to overtake (lack of visibility due to bends etc)
Anyone who overtakes on a double centreline is an utter twat and well deserves to be called dangerous
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
I don’t believe the article anywhere tried to claim that buying a BMW turned you from a safe driver into an arsehole did it ? Therefore your causation comment isn’t really apropos.
It’s a clear case of effective marketing selecting a sub demographic: drivers who have self perceptions around their driving and certain innate traits (selfishness, lack of concern for others) will prefer to buy cars that are advertised in a way that boosts their ego or enhances their self perception.
Or to quote an (Aussie) friend of mine "maybe not every BMW owner is an arsehole, but every arsehole I know owns a BMW "
Interesting (to me anyway) anecdotal aside, here in the UK it’s usually Audi drivers who are stereotyped as the aggressive drivers not so much Subaru WRX and BMW owners (source: reddit sub discussions and pub/work conversations, not scientific of course)
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
You’d be right. Ram sized trucks literally don’t fit down London streets sized for horses & carriages from centuries ago, they’re very rare here.
- Comment on England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards 1 year ago:
Starmer can’t be worse, I’m just praying he’s at least a little bit better.
- Comment on What did you pay for your democracy sausage? 1 year ago:
Definitely not subsidised in any way. This is roughly equivalent to a US “bake sale” where the school P&C or a sporting organisation sells them as a fundraiser. The govt has zero involvement. It’s purely citizen driven.
Yes they’re usually fairly cheap/low quality snags though
- Comment on Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News 1 year ago:
Great analysis, very readable and a clear message
- Comment on What did you pay for your democracy sausage? 1 year ago:
$3.50 aussie is about $2 US so it is a pretty cheap sausage sandwich
- Comment on What did you pay for your democracy sausage? 1 year ago:
As I was witheringly told by an American lecturer a decade ago when I bitched about Oz becoming the 51st state.
“Don’t get too big for your boots son. The 51st state is Canada and if you’re lucky you might squeak in at 60 after we’ve sorted Puerto Rico, Guam Mexico and whichever Middle Eastern countries seem like a good idea”
- Comment on Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here’s how they get away with collecting and sharing your data 1 year ago:
1 Varies by brand and model, but usual a cellular connectivity module, aka telematics. Some cars you can simply pull a fuse, some make it hard
2 Killing the telematics by pulling a fuse can cut off inbuilt navigation functions or the entire display and control system depending on how integrated it is. Work arounds can include pulling the GSM module or faraday caging the antenna.
Need specific models for more specific answers.
- Comment on Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in Great Britain ‘bribed’ by sellers to offer good review 1 year ago:
Probably a combination of what you buy and how often you buy things. I’ve been offered bribes for reviews at least a dozen times. Never taken them because they weren’t worth the effort (offering gift cards for small amounts or a discount on other stiluff from them). It’'s always chinese vendors and usually stuff like torches and bike accessories that are fairly generic in my experience
- Comment on Rishi Sunak axes northern leg of HS2 in flurry of ‘radical’ decisions 1 year ago:
The Tories happened. They’re a disease
- Comment on ‘The quotes were £5,000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance costs 1 year ago:
Except car insurance is dearer in the UK than Florida, in fact I was shocked by how expensive insurance here was compared to the other countries I’ve lived in (including the US).
I’m not an actuary but I do know there are a lot more parameters to come to an insurance cost than “number of hurricanes”
- Comment on ‘The quotes were £5,000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance costs 1 year ago:
Errm Florida prices aren’t particularly relevant to the UK ? No ?
- Comment on Major car brands accused of trying to write 'loopholes' into Australia's looming fuel efficiency laws 1 year ago:
You’re not wrong that more chargepoints help, it reduces EV resistance and range concerns, and hence helps consumers be willing to buy EVs.
It won’t stop legacy ICE lobbying to delay mandatory cutoff on ICE sales.
They (collectively) have $trillions invested in ICE factories and engine designs etc that become valueless when ICE are banned. As VW found out leveraging existing factories is ineffective, you need to build for EV manufacture, which means billions in written off assets and years of delay for legacy auto.
If they can convince any market to delay the ban that’s literally dollars in the bank and bonuses in pocket.
- Comment on Major car brands accused of trying to write 'loopholes' into Australia's looming fuel efficiency laws 1 year ago:
Unlikely. Car manufacturers don’t particularly care how you’re going to charge it. That’s a you problem not a them problem.
They’re resisting because Oz has been a place they can dump polluting cars that are cheap to make. The big markets like EU and California have mandated EVs, if they can delay the cutoff here it buys them time to do the ramp ups they should have been doing for a decade.
Toyota in particular is the worst culprit, they spent a lot of money in the US trying to prevent ICE being banned, doing exactly the same here.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak considering weakening key green policies 1 year ago:
The Tories have never had the interests of the UK population in mind let alone that of foreigners. They exist for one reason, to line their pockets and those of their donors. They get votes the same way the US GOP does: channeling hatred of “other” and promising things they rarely deliver.
- Comment on Tories and Local Governments Refuse To Approve More Homes 1 year ago:
You post a lot of links from “stop population decline” is this your website ?
- Comment on Brexit: Labour will seek re-write of deal, Starmer says 1 year ago:
Yep, the vast majority of press in the UK are unequivocally still for Brexit for various reasons, and pro Tory. Starmer is playing the “give them nothing to get hold of” game.
Doubt it will work when they managed to turn eating a bacon sarnie into a drama, they’ll make something up.