NotJohnSmith
@NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 days ago:
Fantastic point, I’d missed the nuance of this. That gap would be a significant concern without all of the more heinous implications of this action.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 days ago:
Oh wow, that’s a really good point that I’d missed. Thanks for helping me understand the full threat from this.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 days ago:
I’m not trans and keen to understand how this impacts a trans person.
My. Immediate thought was it’s intentionally leaving out the part that says you’ll be issued with a replacement so won’t stop you from driving so no biggie right?
However, that’s diminishing the cruelty of it - it’s about the emotional trauma from a government forcing you to officially identify as something you’ve fought your whole life not to be.
- Comment on Correlating Electric Cars With Better Air Quality 2 weeks ago:
Is there an argument that with regen in EVs there is a smoother transition in speed continuing to less wear to tyres/roads?
I certainly drive my EV more calmly than ICE due to the relaxed vibe of an EV
- Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. 2 weeks ago:
I’m at the uncool end of that trend in the UK. I dumped my car 4yrs back and got an electric vespa-shaped vehicle. I already had my full bike licence which helped make it an easy decision but even in our weather really enjoyable and nsanely cheap motoring
- Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. 2 weeks ago:
You’re right but the word “moped” has lost meaning in most countries.
Here in the UK I suspect the majority of people asked wouldn’t appreciate it originally had pedals and would point to a vespa image if asked.
I have an electric vespa-shaped vehicle (goes about 80kmh) that as you can see i really struggle to name as “electric scooter” most people think of one of those stand on things so I’ve landed on calling it an “electric moped”. It works as equally in no way can someone accuse me of trying to make it sound cool :)
- Comment on Switch from American tech companies !? 5 weeks ago:
You blew my mind twice on your comment.
I’ll have to take a look at both. Thanks
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 5 weeks ago:
I’m guessing so too as I read (albeit I don’t recall where so could have been an unreliable source) that its the other way around - Tesla utilise BYD for some of their cars destined for the Chinese market
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 month ago:
Ah, yes, of course. Sorry not to do a simple click to see that.
It doesn’t bother me particularly but was just interested if it was an interface thing
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 month ago:
Just one question Op. Did you sensor the word Fuck or is it the app you’re using to access Lemmy doing it automatically?
Interested, as I’m seeing it alot
- Comment on who is searching this 2 months ago:
Haha, bless you for being concerned but this was months ago. He got back out there killing things less than an hour later so must have only had a half lick.
Thanks for caring, don’t change
- Comment on who is searching this 2 months ago:
I fear I contributed to this as I woke up to a frog on my pillow and my idiot black cat staring off into nothingness for 30 minutes.
I’ve done enough drugs to know he’s high af but needed to check!
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 2 months ago:
Lol, what tourists
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 3 months ago:
Ah ha, dis stain is something very different. Thanks for the correction
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 3 months ago:
This is wild and deserves a down vote. A 60 second look on Google would show everything you’ve said is wrong. It’s 14, in China it appears it’s never been 12.and there are many laws covering women’s right to consent.
p.s. I’m not a tankie BTW or whatever the phrase is, I have equal distain for all governments, including my own
- Comment on snail lyfe 4 months ago:
That’s an adorable answer
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 4 months ago:
Everyone pays central government taxes also yes! (is that what “Federal” means?). It’s a shame something like you suggest can’t be pushed through pragmatically at that level but like you say, you can’t lob firefighters out of plans at people :)
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 4 months ago:
That’s really interesting, thanks. Incredible that it’s a political stance, why do Republicans vote against it can I ask? - is it seen sort of like a socialist provision?
- Comment on American cops think they're what American firemen ARE. 4 months ago:
Do you guys pay really low taxes in the US? I just wonder why this isn’t a critical public service and therefore something that is funded through tax by the government?
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 4 months ago:
I’m still fucked off that this is where we’re headed as a society - computers deciding what obscenities we can handle
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 5 months ago:
Ah, got you, apologies - I thought they were all capae go sharing a video
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 5 months ago:
Genuinely, how would it be any different to Twitter and Truth Social then? I’ve not used any of them so maybe I don’t understand the distinction between each
- Comment on UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows 5 months ago:
I’d been bullied into renting a small SUV as we were 4 friends travelling abroad for a wedding. Thankfully the rental car lady had more sense and seeing all our bags threw a Fiat Tipo estate at us. That thing swallowed bags, very impressed.
We’re sweating our 10yr old SUV and then moving to an estate… as long as my wife agrees :)
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 5 months ago:
You’re right, I wasn’t clear but no - 3 days working from the office minimum but then they stipulate it can’t be a Friday!
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 5 months ago:
Not heard of that phrase before but 100% this is what will happen in my Co; the talent will leave so they’ll make their redundancy savings but at the cost of retaining all the life’s that put no effort in.
p.s. I’m salt in this analogy
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 5 months ago:
It’s a little like my council saying "research shows you’ll recycle more if we collect your rubbish bins only once in 3 weeks.
Wtf, no way the data shows that
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 5 months ago:
I’m hearing more of the “3 days a week but Mon and Fri don’t count”. You can’t make this shit up
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 5 months ago:
Wow, that’s insanely unfair (25 miles), never heard of that. Either there is value that everyone is in, or not.
Im waiting on my Co to pull this trigger too, jokes on them I’ll just pop in for breakfast and then leave again
- Comment on Good news. :) 5 months ago:
I like how you present information, thanks. Ever considered being a human AI? 😉
- Comment on Good news. :) 5 months ago:
Jesus, you learn something every day