And yet in Notts I’ve now been seeing police on the tram stops with like 10 tram staff making sure people are paying their 2 quid for a tram ticket. I really don’t understand why the police really care about a 2 quid tram ticket but won’t look for a stolen bike that cost 700 quid.

It’s the brain worms, it’s always the brain worms.

I still buy cassettes! New ones too!

I’m not sure a license is the best way to go about it, but I certainly do think something needs to change.

I believe there should be some sort of minimum commitment to training if a person gets a new dog, i.e. you can have a puppy but you must have already booked up x amount of training sessions, and have vets appointments booked in.

And with cats, it’d like to see pre-booked appointments for neutering/spaying and microchipping, because apparently according to my neighbours, you can buy kittens, not do any of that and then just let them be feral around your neighbourhood and not really have to take care of them at all.

I’d actually like to see legislation on new cats not being let outside unless contained in a catio or something.

When I was a kid, if I wanted to ride to school, my school required that I pass a cycling proficiency test, which taught me about road laws and where and how I was supposed to position my bike on the road to stay safe.

I’d love to see a cycling and small electric vehicle proficiency course be part of our school curriculum.

There are always going to be people that ignore the rules of the road (I nearly got hit by a car today who didn’t give way to the right on a roundabout, I was watching him, he didn’t even look!), but I don’t see how adding this in schools could cause harm.

Check out how Bicing in Barcelona works, problem is already solved there, no need to start fining lime, just change the legislation so that these services need to have physical locking racks where bikes can be both left and retrieved from, that way they can’t be stolen and they’ll be kept in better condition because they aren’t being pinched constantly.

Check out how bicing in Barcelona works, no cameras and surveillance, but you literally cannot retrieve a bike without an account and the app because they are physically locked in racks. It’s a brilliant system and ours can be easily fixed with a little legislation.

You just bump start them, there’s nothing to break from the outside, you just lift the back wheel and start moving, then drop the wheel and it’ll keep going, but with an alarm and a clacking.

Yeah there is, they can be bump started really easily, you literally just lift the rear wheel then start moving forward, then put the wheel back down and jump on, I’ve seen kids do it, it takes zero skill. In the meadows these days I hear a lime alarm pretty much every day.

This is a problem that’s already been solved, check out bicing in Barcelona and how that works. This really is a problem of legislation.

I don’t like the idea of MPs having private meetings with corpos at all. Unless it’s discussion of something that would be a national security issue, I don’t see why any meetings shouldn’t all be on public record

If you see someone stealing food, no, you didn’t.

The problem with Amazon is they will list and deliver any product under the sun, the organisation as a whole should have been forced to split by the Competition and Markets Authority years ago, but it wasn’t and now they basically have a monopoly on online sales. So it depends on what you’re after. Groceries? Try a supermarket like Tesco. Books? Try Waterstones. Electronics? Currys (awful though). Weird cables and adapters? Maplins still have a website.

Time to bally up for trips to the pub, the supermarket, a nice walk in the park, etc.

Hiding that racial slurs exist isn’t a way to stop racism.

After reading the article, I still think these books are important, but it made it seem they were reading these books out in the class like we did with harry potter and stuff.

So… Firefox apparently blocks all fingerprinting. I’m sure others do too.

It has everything but in my experience, you’ll need to wait a few weeks while whatever it is comes in from China.

They’ve been hollowing it out and privatising it for years. It doesn’t work on the railway which is why we’re looking at nationalising failing services, but for some reason when it comes to the NHS, the answer is more privatisation? If you privatise, it doesn’t matter how much funding is thrown in because there are always people skimming off the top.

IMO all private interests need to be kicked the fuck out, and their businesses nationalised. Forcefully if required.

The loss of maplins has made my Amazon boycott somewhat difficult, though not impossible, but there’s just no way to get small parts and adapters same day now, always have to wait for delivery. PC world used to have some stuff, but now it’s rolled into Currys you only get packaged stuff and peripheral cables and such. Sometimes Screwfix has what I need but it’s somewhat rare. They did have a bunch of audio a networking stuff last I looked though.

I can’t believe Americans would go for that after hearing how trump ran his businesses.

Yeah, the article doesn’t say “loads of”, just “scores of journalists”, so at least 40