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Quakers were

Are. They're still around. Still a relatively big minority Christian group in the UK.

Still everyone's favourite Christian denomination. Cool bunch.

Local/national banks with their bankcards and payment platforms

I don't know what it's like where you're from, but here in the UK all banks use Visa, MasterCard or Amex for their bank cards.

Trams can generally hold more passengers per vehicle, and are more energy efficient (because steel rails are much lower resistance than rubber tyres on asphalt). They're also much easier to electrify (battery buses having lots of drawbacks, and overhead line driven trolleybuses being a complex and niche technology which nobody wants to deal with).

Not an inherent advantage, but the nature of them means that they often have much larger segments of exclusive right of way (i.e. tracks which aren't shared with road). Whilst there's nothing stopping you building loads of grade separated bus lanes, politically and practically it's much harder to do.

There's also an argument that people are more likely to use a tram than a bus just because they like them better, and that the presence of the tracks makes it easier for people to visualise the routes making the journeys easier to navigate.

The downsides are that you have to build a load of expensive infrastructure up front, and that they're more vulnerable to disruption such as obstructions on the track or road/line closures which they can't route around.

The only mass scaled alternative

The only mass scaled alternative with an identical look and feel. There are plenty of alternatives if you don't need it to look like leather. Like the infinite variety of fabrics.

Agreed. My mum's car and my boss's car have leather seats and I hate it. Both of my cars (and almost every other car I've ever driven in) have fabric seats, and they're infinitely more comfortable. And I presume considerably cheaper.

The manufacturer calls it a bus. It looks like a bus. It's a bus.

What a weird hill to die on.

Looks like a very nice bus, anyway.

He added: "We want some dedicated road space – not for the whole route, because that causes difficulties for cars, but we want it to have some space where it can make rapid progress and shorten the time people spend on public transport."

We've got a word for that too. It's a "bus lane". Should probably have some of those anyway, bendy-buses or otherwise.

Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It'll be interesting to see if many do.

Not that that's a solution, as UK users can join any Lemmy instance (and non-UK users can join feddit.uk), but I can see some going for it as a quick fix.

How the fuck do you know my PIN number?!

That's pretty lore accurate, though, right?

Most Links are portrayed as being either kids/teenagers or very young-looking adults, and Zelda is often portrayed as being a more experienced character, still young but often already embroiled in the politics or conflicts that are core to the story's initial setup. Link usually shows character growth as he rises to the challenge, but Zelda is often a more static character, who starts the story fully fledged.

I've never heard of either actor, but a cursory Google to look at their various photos and I can see them working in the roles. Obviously assuming they can act, too.

If only the biggest problem was messages starting "I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said:"

A far bigger problem is people using AI to draft text and then posting it as their own. On social media like this, I can't count the number of comments I've encountered midway through an otherwise normal discussion thread, and only clocked 2 paragraphs in that I'm reading a chat bot's response. I feel like I've had time and braincells stolen from me in the deception for the moments spent reading and attempting to derive meaning from it.

And just this week I received an application from someone wanting work in my office which was very clearly AI generated. Obviously that person will not be offered any work. If you can't be bothered to write your own "why I want to work here" cover letter, then I can't be bothered to work with you.

Unfortunately it's a combination lock, and the code is written on a post-it stuck on the front of the drawer.

They have some valuable IP (patents and designs around their battery and charging systems, mostly), but none of their physical assets are really worth any more than face value (at the end of the day a battery factory is a battery factory).

Potential buyers would be far better off waiting for them to collapse and then snaffling up the IP on the cheap. Paying their current meme stock price is just throwing money away.