j4yt33
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- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 2 hours ago:
My parents recently bought a couple and put them on the shed, you plug it in and magically, it feeds electricity into your home power network. No idea how bit it definitely works!
- Comment on Verizon is charging extra to limit spam calls and texts: Scam calls and texts have surged, yet Verizon continues to charge customers extra for essential protections. 3 hours ago:
I think there’s a word for that…
- Comment on A Medicaid researcher attacked by Elon Musk's DOGE just killed herself 3 hours ago:
Johns Hopkins University is one of the most famous medical research institutions in the country
- Comment on Opinion: Just ignore all the myths about low-traffic neighbourhoods. They’re popular, effective and here to stay 4 days ago:
Yeah, I work somewhere else now and cycle/take the bus but my partner for example has a medical condition that means she has to drive to work.
What I’m mainly annoyed about is how the council have acted. They asked for people’s opinions beforehand, and then decided to go ahead with the scheme anyway. Then they measured air quality in the newly installed LTNs, which was obviously better with no/fewer cars around but have completely ignored how the air quality has gotten dramatically worse in the areas of the city that all the traffic now has to go through. Protests from people living and working in these areas have been ignored.
- Comment on Opinion: Just ignore all the myths about low-traffic neighbourhoods. They’re popular, effective and here to stay 4 days ago:
Yes, I do. They’re nice enough in theory, in practice they turn half the city into a gridlocked mess for 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon. It might work better if there was better public transport available but the idiocy of the LTNs here gets especially apparent when you see bus after bus after bus getting stuck in the same massive traffic jam. It’s so obviously not fit for purpose that I can only assume the council members that approved this shit don’t live anywhere near an LTN. Add to that the lies the council have spouted about air quality. A car journey that used to take me 7 minutes now turns into at least 15 with no traffic and into 45-60 minutes during rush hour. It’s absolutely inane
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 6 days ago:
But not Ubuntu. We don’t like Ubuntu here, I feel like
- Comment on ‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year 1 week ago:
Reminds me of that Seinfeld episode with the bookstore
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 week ago:
And yet, weirdly, it works in other parts of the world
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 1 week ago:
That’s fine, we can just take some clean water from our rivers… Oh wait
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 1 week ago:
Does that also work with a VPN?
- Comment on Dracaena angolensis flowering [OC] 2 weeks ago:
Mine’s starting as well for the first time ever! :)
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Amazing, thank you!
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 3 weeks ago:
Yep!
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 3 weeks ago:
Not for me. Weird. Maybe there’s a setting I’ve missed?
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 3 weeks ago:
Does ublock remove the in-video ad Breaks for you? Never worked for me
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 weeks ago:
And my axe!
Sorry
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 3 weeks ago:
I think that’s a great phrase!
- Comment on Heat pumps to be sold ‘smart-ready’ in plans to save households money 3 weeks ago:
I know, I’m not saying that that makes any sense 😅 just seems to be a common thought here
- Comment on Heat pumps to be sold ‘smart-ready’ in plans to save households money 3 weeks ago:
As long as people think it’s too cold in the UK for them to be working or that you need to insulate your house to a level that’ll make you drown in black mould, I don’t have much hope
- Comment on ME sufferers ‘feel invisible and ignored’ amid lottery of NHS care 3 weeks ago:
Even if you get a diagnosis, there is no useful medical care available for it
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 4 weeks ago:
Yes, why? A lot of spaces have unisex toilets, no problem at all
- Comment on How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims | Novara Media 4 weeks ago:
British voters aver fucking lethargic. Also, what’s the alternative?
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
And so it begins
- Comment on Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money 5 weeks ago:
Ours is an independent clinic, they’re staffed 24/7 and have always been lovely. Never ask us to come in if they don’t think it’s necessary, ask us to send pics before we come in out of hours so we can potentially avoid the extra fees etc. They’re quite a while away from where we live but we’re happy to travel a bit
- Comment on For Sale on Facebook: Fraudulent Uber Driver Accounts. 5 weeks ago:
If you’ve ever tried selling used branded items on marketplace you might have received random bans from whatever AI system they’re using. So legitimate sales are being removed but things that violate their own terms are not. Great
- Comment on Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money 5 weeks ago:
On pet insurance?
- Comment on Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money 5 weeks ago:
Okay. We had insurance for our dog and we maxed out the full 15k/year twice. Definitely was worth it
- Comment on Vets tell BBC they are under 'consistent pressure' to make money 5 weeks ago:
This is sad and scary, and unfortunately very common. Be careful when you go to these big chain referral centres and when a vet asks you how high your insurance cover is
- Comment on Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’ 1 month ago:
Not surprising, since she was a big figure in the German conservative party. They’re all terrible human beings
- Comment on 4chan's DOGE-inspired April Fools' prank leaves posters seething: ‘This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency.’ 1 month ago:
That cookie banner is absolute cancer