mjr

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[–] mjr 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

How can you tell? It looks like a bad edit. This is not like the 2007 incident of editing things out of order to fake someone leaving an appointment angrily, then making an indiscreet comment on the faked event.

[–] mjr 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But also, the faster you ride, the more tiring it is, the more stressful it is, and the more severe the consequences when anybody - especially nearby drivers - makes a serious error.

Cycling doesn't have to be that way. No matter what Forester and other ableists say. If you remove most of the motorists, it can be fun! And proper fun, not the 'I jousted with drivers and survived' type.

[–] mjr 10 points 4 months ago

'We fight like hell' isn't much of a code!

[–] mjr 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Diana's Drove is named after her. Look at the nearby street names. It's in the next town north from the royal estate at Sandringham.

Edit: this is the first one I found. I'm pretty sure there are more.

[–] mjr 10 points 4 months ago

"alarming analysis by consultancy Barnett Waddingham" is saying this, not Labour. It's basically think-tank fantasy.

[–] mjr 52 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Naughty CNN! Trump did indeed say to 'we fight like hell' as you can see in the full transcript on news sites that haven't surrendered yet, such as AP: Transcript of Trump's speech at rally before US Capitol riot | AP News

Any one hour documentary pretty much has to edit that rambling dumpster fire of a speech. The BBC's main mistake was not to make the edit clearer.

This was probably worth an apology. Was it worth the leader resigning? Probably not. The right-wing media succeeds in hunting another witch. I hope it backfires and Labour appoint someone further left.

[–] mjr 43 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Blimey. I was expecting it to be stolen but they say the bars had unique numbers, so it seems its owner buried it and then someone sold the property without realising what it contained.

[–] mjr 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I might have upvoted that except how do you define "run by"? Who is the fediverse "run by"?

[–] mjr 5 points 5 months ago

How can you call this good? While I agree there are problems needing tackling, this proposal does nothing to help young adults and the parental consent option seems very likely to create a have/have-not split in child groups which will also have negative impacts.

It looks rather like the "we must do something, and this is something, so we must do this" fallacy being used to exploit child protection to start compulsory ID checks.

[–] mjr 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this does smell a bit like fixing the wrong problem mixed with a possible trojan horse for compulsory ID-verification (and the dodgy businesses often claiming to provide it). Surely if social media is too corrosive for young people, there are a lot of adults who also won't be able to cope, so the corrosive bits need to be tackled?

[–] mjr 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which lines do these run on? I might have ridden one in daytime without realising!

[–] mjr 7 points 5 months ago

Great, aren't they? They have "hopper" transfer fares, so you pay only once for tram or bus connections made within about an hour. And like Paris, TfL trams are charged at the lower bus price.

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