My local library gives me access to newspapers and magazines delivered to my devices electronically every morning; movie streaming services; audiobook accessibe on my phone and - my favourite - they even have equipment loan, so if you want to borrow a hedge strimmer, rice cooker, embroidery machine, car jack, wallpaper steamer, etc, you can. That’s to say nothing of the services I don’t use, like arts classes, training courses, yoga sessions, etc. People pay hundreds every month for services freely available at the library.
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Would a red light camera have saved her from a speeding car? No. Would a red light camera have stopped the speeding car from being a factor at all? Maybe.
Cars have to interact with pedestrians at some point. For every reckless act by a selfish driver that results in a child being murdered, there will be hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of similar reckless acts carried out by similarly selfish drivers that - purely by chance - don’t cause a child to be killed. If drivers were caught and punished acting like this the majority of the times it doesn’t result in a death, they’d be less likely to be in a position to slaughter pedestrians on the unlucky days in the first place.
Fucking hell, so much this. They’re so goddamn proud of their ignorance. This is why I enforce a very strict “we’re mechanics, not chauffeurs” policy in my team. We’ve got no duty - either literal or moral - to make up for incompetence.
rmuk@feddit.ukto News@lemmy.world•Luigi Mangione prosecutors violating his health privacy rights, defense saysEnglish1·3 days agoYeah, fuck due process. Enemies of the establishment don’t deserve to be treated fairly.
rmuk@feddit.ukto World News@lemmy.world•An American father who moved to Russia to avoid LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” is being sent to the front line against Ukraine despite being assured he would serve in a non-combat role.English7·4 days agoBack in the eighties my parents (British) bought a villa in Spain, all on it’s own on a mountainside. Over the following ten years fifty - yes, fifty - other villas were built, all independently, all by Brits, all on top of each other, most without planning permission. A group of busybodies formed a HOA-style association and took over the area, building an English Shoppe with a red phone box outside where you could buy the Daily Mail and Tetley Tea, an English pub, replacing the road signs with English ones, even an English radio station. The last time we visited and decided to sell, we arrived to find they’d illegally installed a gate across the road - the PUBLIC road - and were only giving the remotes to certain worthy residents, which apparently we weren’t.
But it’s okay. Because they weren’t dirty migrants forcing their culture on others and refusing the integrate; they were expats just looking for a little bit of sun.
Holy shit, cheques (as we spell it in the UK). I’d not seen one in decades, my bank stopped issueing chequebooks more than 20 years ago but they’ll still print a one-off cheque for you if you ask. Then I spent some time in France and they still use the goddamn things and it is an absolute ordeal - I swear they spend two solid minutes passing the thing back and forth between the customer and cashier, taking turns to make little amendments. I understand that in France a cheque has a lot more legal clout than in the UK.
That the saving grace of self-checkout lines; it tends to be one line for a dozen checkouts. So the dense fucker clasping their block of cheese to their chest - in the manner of fleeing refugee carrying a child - while the machine repeatedly begs them to “please place the item in the bagging area” only slows down the line a little bit, but the Hutt going supernova at the cashier because they can’t use a different supermarket’s app’s discount code for 15% off Kleenex on a 3L bottle of Pepsi and demanding to see the manager grinds everything to a halt until they’re adequately soothed.
I have a bunch of mid-century Roberts radios that I’ve convert to smart speakers (using the original speakers and, where possible, the amplifiers) if that counts.
rmuk@feddit.ukto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesignEnglish4·5 days agoMicrosoft changing Outlook from gold to yet another blue blob. Google changing every single goddamn app to use the same red/yellow/green/blue pallet. And now this bullshit.
rmuk@feddit.ukto Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costsEnglish422·5 days agoA boomer coworker recently said something that made a lot of sense to me: Netflix is for 2020s TV what Motown was for 1960s music. They’ve turned the artform into a production line, constantly optimising to shovel out as much content as possible, hunting the minimum viable product, and occasionally, very rarely, producing something good almost by chance. L
Like most Brits, a Vauxhall (Opel) Corsa.
Mirth! Imitate not replicate. 🥄🥄🥄
rmuk@feddit.ukto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind cannot comprehend this.English21·6 days agoOr the size of your Mom’s big butt.
Beep boop I’m a bot that translates British English to American English. To opt out, reply ‘ligma’.
rmuk@feddit.ukto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind cannot comprehend this.English16·6 days agoPrices tags are normally prepared using computers which are famously good at maths. Here in the UK, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have different rules for tax on certain products and yet everything is advertised with the final price.
rmuk@feddit.ukto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind cannot comprehend this.English10·6 days agoParliament.
*Apple * and giving their own software priviledged access and denying/revoking that priveledge from their competitors. Name a more iconic duo. See also Tile, Pebble, Spotify, etc.
rmuk@feddit.ukto Buy European@feddit.uk•Consumer Study Shows Yeast Oil Surpassing Palm Oil in Consumer Appeal Across EuropeEnglish16·9 days agoI have no relevant opinion on the story, but why is the photo of a slab of butter on a chopping board beside a small pile of fudge squares and chocolates?
rmuk@feddit.ukto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do people calculate pi to the hundredth+ decimal place?English3·9 days agoIt’s true! I just drew a circle and measured it. Turns out π≈5.
Grammar. It’s the difference between knowing your shit and shitting your pants.