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  • 20% of american buyers are spending over $1000 a month on car loans. 22.4% of new loans were 84 months or longer. It means someone who buys a car today will be paying it off until July of 2032

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  • Seriously? I'm almost impressed with how they're managing to help richer people out, encourage unnecessary consumerism and hurt the environment in so many ways that the average person can not understand or keep up with

  • BBC News - BBC senior staff told to 'step back' from duties following row

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  • I could only watch 25 minutes (so far) of the doctors in Gaza documentary the BBC refused to show, because I cried at least three times. The multiple children being carried to try to get help with serious looking injuries. The solar panels being destroyed which meant premature children died. The blood soaked floor around the ambulance. The absolute pain of the doctor talking about when a nurse brought in his daughter who was killed. The people watching the bombing of Gaza through those fucking telescope things you get at the beach or from tall buildings like it's a tourist attraction. The guys being stripped naked, blindfolded and led about in a stadium.

    An artist said a few words at a concert that is crazily expensive to go to, which doesn't even meet the threshold of hate speech (in my view).

    Where should we focus our attention and outrage I wonder?!?

  • 12 of England’s regional mayors back plan for ‘national active travel network’

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  • Yes please. At this point, we need local councils to lead this as it's just impossible at a parent or school level. We need the infrastructure changes too as I can't see us getting there without it. It takes just one car driver to enforce their right of way on a road if it's just open

  • Why are Dutch children the world’s happiest? A teenager weighs in

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  • I really resonate with this article as a parent and really want to give more independence but I think car brain really does get in the way. We cycle to school and people have bigger cars on smaller roads, don't give enough space, park dangerously and just don't seem to care about cyclists or pedestrians. Even cycling home today by myself I almost got knocked off so how can I let my child face that by themselves? It's a vicious circle them that more people drive and the problem gets worse. Even going to the local park we have to cross or cycle on roads at some point. Most of the other parents drive, even if living really close. I've also had parents "telling me off" or commenting for letting him cycle on the road in front of me. Feel like I can't win.

  • Temperatures reach 46C in Spain as Europe heatwave continues

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  • We're very aware in the UK but it's not too easy. We have some the oldest housing stock in the world. We don't have central air with no real way to retrofit so it would have to be one room at a time. Our windows aren't designed to house those units I see in NY. We have to rely on very inefficient portable units so I only use it on the really hot days. Energy prices are still high after Russia's invasion. People are adding proper units when extending but only the rich can really afford that.

  • Channel 4 to show Gaza war crimes documentary rejected by BBC

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  • This is why I happily pay for channel 4 plus, even though I don't use their app for viewing all that much

  • Son of Norway’s crown princess suspected of 23 offences including rape, police say

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  • Wait, the police are going after a royal, I thought that was impossible?!? (speaking from the UK where we clearly have a rapist and paedophile...)

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  • Who said it was a problem? It's funny because you could be saying that is too low or too high, who knows!

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  • It was more of a class and misogyny problem, which due to cultural reasons these groups of men were able to take advantage. There's a story of police being called to a disturbance and found a group of older guys (mostly south Asian but there was a white guy too) with two teenage (I think about 15) drunk, working class girls. Instead of stepping back and thinking there's something very strange going on here and seeing those girls as victims, who were vulnerable, potentially being groomed and obviously being taken advantage of, they arrested the girls for drunk and disorderly, were apologetic to the men and didn't even record the names of those men.

    Statistically in the UK, most grooming and sexual violence is some by family members or family friends, against both boys and girls, and are perpetrated by white people simply because the UK is still 83% white! If any of these people truly cared about vulnerable children, they would focus on more than just these grooming gangs but that doesn't rile up their base, get more likes and give them more support. Yeah, these horrible men need to be arrested and put away but let's set up systems that try to prevent these children being harmed in the first place.

    This article is talking about the wider problems of children not being seen as victims, and agencies not communicating with each other. Whether it's a black boy arrested for carrying drugs or a white girl ignored as being "promiscuous", there are systemic issues in our system that need to be addressed.

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  • It was illegal but not enforced at all or followed by the locals, so not followed by anybody else either. During the day was fine but in the evening and night it was like there was no law

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  • Really? And did they self regulate their fees? Oh wait no, it took EU enforcement to cut down their fees and stop businesses passing them onto customers. The EU also enforced more security regulation, and more use of those by the banks themselves using these credit card processors who washed their hands of levels of security

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  • Yeah, went to Spain, and woke up with a sore throat and really smelly clothes. Took me back to before the ban and realised how good that was for everyone

  • Google pay alternatives

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  • I use a curve card which links to existing credit cards. Their app allows me to add it as a payment option for NFC on my fairphone with /e/os

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  • Honestly, it's so much better. The main roads are clogged up but can see no difference to before with those, they were always bad. I haven't seen any difference in driving times. Our road is so much quieter so seen kids playing on the street (not often at all but the roads are still setup for cars of residents), and the drop constant noise that I didn't notice until it had gone.

    I think the next step should be to flip from it being a road with a small pavement to a shared communal area with priority for people, space for kids to play properly and actual green space. There could still be enough road to get to houses and car spaces. When the road was closed for that jubilee party it was so nice! Saw way more of my neighbours and all the kids were out playing together. Can't see it happening though...

  • American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander freed from Hamas captivity

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  • Are US citizens allowed to join the armies of other countries? I'm surprised by that

  • Low-traffic neighbourhood scheme ruled unlawful in landmark decision

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  • Anything on social media or news gets shared here. Most of our media is biased and owned by the ruling / capitalist class. This is not new at all (see: Brexit and Nigel Farage).

    However, in reality there are multiple LTNs across cities in the country, especially in London. They are generally well accepted by local people but they aren't very vocal about it. I think most of the cities have charges to drive in for higher emission cars. They're here to stay but doesn't make a good headline that they continue on.

    Even in my heavily pro-car, suburban area, roads are finally being dropped to 20mph and they're introducing school roads / other restrictions. There's long term plans to reduce roads and introduce more cycle lanes (several years behind London Boroughs but going in the right direction...)

  • WATCH: Furious Residents Surround ICE Agents Trying to Arrest Mom Clinging to Baby

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  • I completely agree and think you can't arrest everyone but I don't see that happening though. Look at the numbers on the street. If more people surrounded them so they could not physically leave, it might be different. What I see is a few brave people trying to stop them and not succeeding, and everyone else staying inside or filming from afar

  • WATCH: Furious Residents Surround ICE Agents Trying to Arrest Mom Clinging to Baby

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  • They won. They got exactly what they wanted, plus anybody who tried to intervene got arrested along the way. From the headline I thought it would be more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZcoXdZeabA . There's still massive problems here and our version of ICE have got away with a lot but thankfully nowhere near this stage

  • Morning-after pill to be made free in England pharmacies

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  • Prescriptions are just under £10 and this pill was £25-£30 without one, but you could just turn up at a pharmacy and get one with no fuss