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  • Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows

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  • And how many "minimum wage" jobs nowadays are actually full time?

    Most of them that I see advertised are pro-rata advertised. Under houred or zero contract. But of course if you take two jobs you'll eventually end up with rota clashes and lose one of those jobs. So good luck there.

  • Drivers over 70 to undergo eye tests every three years under plans to improve road safety | LBC

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  • 'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

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  • A cursory search and I couldn't find anything. I might have to go digging. But...

    I'm sure during the COVID lockdown years, as I was reading more into pandemics, there was a scientific conclusion that we'd not yet seen a major worldwide pandemic event that started in the Americas.

  • Farage will roll back gun laws and turn Britain into Trump’s America, Ed Davey claims

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  • A lot of the farming and hunting community are annoyed at the current state of gun laws. People who do actually use the limited range of guns in the UK for legitimate uses have to wade through paperwork, fees, wasted time and inconsistent rules to continue owning a gun. It's also hard to be sure that you are actually complying with the law, because it's so inconsistently applied to people.

    For those that care about gun ownership, "cutting the red tape" is an easy win. Cutting the red tape and not making a complete hash of it all, that is going to be hard.

  • "As a cyclist, you claim to care about the environment, yet you consume food. Checkmate libs!"

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  • I'm thinking more about a taxi company, that employs several drivers. It's not about being on-call, it's about bumping that person to the top of the list for a specified reason.

  • Meat from EU set to be cheaper as UK axes new border checks in Brexit reset

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  • Lol ... Brexit success

    All the rules from Brussels. None of the say. UK farmers backed themselves into a losing corner, yet again. Or left out to hang, depending on your viewpoint. Either way, they're taking another one for the team.

    Profits for major supermarkets set to rise, yet again at the expense of decent and local.

    Import v local. The green lobby loses that one too.

    Politics is fun, you can always make the argument you won or lost.

  • "As a cyclist, you claim to care about the environment, yet you consume food. Checkmate libs!"

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  • I wonder if in a society such as yours, where this is all more common.

    Could you have taxi companies that take a small fee up front to guarantee you a rapid taxi to hospital when the time comes. I'll assume ambulances are fine for accidents and emergencies. A regular taxi (and the wait) is fine for unexpected trips where you are unable to cycle for some reason.

    But a reasonable fee to say, I want a "rapid" taxi for this instance.

  • Any fitness trackers not sending my health data to the USA?

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  • Quick example, tracking if you were at a protest.

    Whatever your stance on Palestine/Iran, it's scary that a perfectly peaceful protest is resulting in arrests. And your location data like a fitness tracker pins you to that protest.

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  • The greens have shot themselves in the foot with my by strongly opposing nuclear power. It is not a tenable stance to take in a green economy. In my opinion anyway.

  • Any fitness trackers not sending my health data to the USA?

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  • Suunto ... sends your data to finland china.

    Annoying as I bought it to keep my data in Europe (better of multiple evils) but it's china now anyway. sigh

    I really want more F/OSS hardware to become a thing.

  • UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs

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  • you’re gonna need some evidence of intention

    We have a legal age of 18. Some people make porn that is "barely legal". The intention is to make that illegal. The evidence is in the article.

  • Influencers are pitching in

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  • As a content consumer ... none of those "alternatives" are alternatives to youtube.

    They all immediately take you to a "how to buy hosting on our platform, and why our platform is good for hosting" pages. Rather than just taking you to the hosted content. So as a consumer, I now need to work out how to consume the content there. And ... I ain't gonna bother.

    youtube.com the content is right there.

    Youtube is a platform for consumers, that creators have to work for.

  • Nissan unveils new electric car to be built in UK

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  • In a world of fuel efficiency (and range) being a prime seller ... I cannot fathom why low profile saloons (and estates) are not more of a thing. Surely a lighter bodied lower profile vehicle has less drag and therefore better range and efficiency. Surely.

    We're just marketed and, more importantly people are still buying, these bloody great big heavy SUVs with bugger all space inside.

  • NATO ally (Sweden) reveals mass act of unexplained sabotage

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  • The thing that says "click to rate" and has the pointer arm off the chart in it's default "rest" position.

    Right, it's right there

  • Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban

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  • Performance art.

    Anything in the UK carried for the intent to harm another person is a weapon. I do lots of low impact woodland/forest work. Axes, saws etc. in my bag. If I carried them to a Birmingham park to murder someone they would be weapons and not allowed. If I carry them into a woodland I have a contract to manage, they are tools and allowed.

    These extra rules/laws don't change the above. The swords could still have been outlawed as weapons by the legal system.

    But... doing this means the perl clutches can sleep easy knowing "something is being done"

  • Government should “urgently” legalise e-scooters says shared transport charity - says serious safety incidents are rare

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  • There are some great examples of cycle lane design out there. And some atrocious examples of cycle lanes that have been built. But that's a separate rant.

    If we had a quality cycle lane network, we could have adapted that to support "more than walking, less that driving" lanes without much issue.

    The earlier we invest in this new class of highway the cheaper and easier it will be.

  • Inside Labour's plan to build 'mini' nuclear reactors around UK

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  • It's almost as if we don't all have to pick a team and support everything they do. This isn't sports all, this is politics.

    I can support trans-rights, hate the Rwanda plan and like nuclear if i want to.