ALiteralCabbage

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[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

Exactly! Seems like this lot buy into the myth of the English/British landscape as envisaged by 19th century pastoral romantics and Capability Brown. Don't get me wrong, the Cotswolds is beautiful, but it's almost in spite of humans rather than because of us.

Bring back foreboding forests!

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago

I think a good number of "those people" fully expect to either be able to weather storm, or be entirely removed from it. They go to countries ruined by inequality and environmental disasters but they never see the results so they think everything is going to be gravy.

They don't get affected by anything else, so why should this be any different?

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago

I love open worlds. I hate crafting. Just let me buy what I need; it feels more immersive to me. Same with games like the Assassin's Creed series - there's no way some fake Irish pirate is making leather holsters in his ships bedroom out of rabbit hide and bearskins.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

This. Solar is almost never being installed on land that's any good for arable crops. People don't want their made up rural idyll made unsightly typically.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago

I use Boost for Lemmy (paid for, so no ads etc.). It's what I used for Reddit, so the transition was super easy, but there's lots of FOSS Lemmy clients on F-Droid that are good too.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hundreds of people have had their train fare evasions quashed after they were prosecuted unlawfully.

The cases were the last 500 to be declared void after a judge ruled last year that railway operators were not allowed to use the controversial single justice procedure (SJP).

Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring's ruling in August paved the way for thousands of train fare evasion prosecutions to be quashed.

The SJP was introduced in 2015 to allow magistrates to rule on minor offences - such as watching TV without a licence or driving without insurance - without the defendant being present in court.

They were extended to private rail fare evasion prosecutions in 2016 - but many train companies have used them citing the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, which they are not permitted to do.

In a three-minute hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, Mr Goldspring quashed 350 Northern cases, 180 TransPennine Express cases, and 36 Great Western Railway cases.

He said it should be the final hearing dealing with these kinds of prosecutions - after more than 28,000 were quashed in November.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago

They're a great source of fibre too

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago

And why does where you swipe down on the notification bar change what's shown?!

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 6 points 6 months ago

Thailand has some of the strictest laws of this kind.

Typically you're looking at serious jail time if found guilty.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm British - he regularly appeared on a wannabe Fox network "GB News" alongside a similarly "anti woke activist" Lawrence Fox (who is his own flavour of unseemly), was (is?) a spokesman for UKIP - the party which drove us to Brexit. I've taken an interest in him when I saw his dog collar and questioned his church membership, so I occasionally check in on him to piss myself off and generally increase my blood pressure.

I also used to be a practicing Christian so I'm very into denominational splitting and infighting - he studied theology, didn't get a job with the Church of English and was then ordained into the "Free Church of England", where he became a bishop. He's bounced around a few other denominations since; the Nordic Catholic Church, a Lutheran denomination, and now the Anglican Catholic Church.

Him being blocked from entering the Anglican Church of England (the real actual one which is linked to the royals) was reported in fairly mainstream news here. It seems like the church was actually pretty tight lipped on their reasoning for him not taking a position with them, and he's basically outed himself as too bigoted for the church by handing over to the press internal communication regarding him he secured through an effective FOI request.

He's an interesting chap.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

There's an ingenious machine the french used to stop individuals producing CO2. I don't recall her name though.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago

"I'm being persecuted which proves I'm right"

A common sentiment in Christian circles.

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