Even then, why the ministry and not the infrastructure company?

I wished our lawmakers were of a less senile age so we can write and pass more appropriate laws for this stuff…but not much we can do.

Talk with them. Explain stuff. Vote for better ones. It’s still not much, but it’s better than doing nothing and letting them keep on blundering unchallenged.

Thanks for the info. How might culpability go back to the transport minister and the whole government? Did they create track company Adif? Did they refuse to reform it?

It’s almost like this law is more about shutting down small online forums that might organise and agitate against governments than it is about safety online, isn’t it?

Council councils in the East of England have been putting out plenty of news releases about the numbers of trees. 🌳🌳🌳 Cynics have been pointing out how many council planted or council required developer planted trees have died over the last few years due to inappropriate species, or simple failures to water during heat waves after planting thirsty young trees in a drought area. 🍂☠️😧 They still get counted as plantings and sometimes so do the replacements 🤦

That’s really unusual because GoVia usually settle out of court (costs them less) and if not, only charge for the offence where the evader was caught red-handed. Loads of examples of that on rail forums, even for repeat offenders. Multiple prosecution on that scale is rare.

archive.is is not related to the internet archive and I believe is run by a solo dev with private funding.

I looked into who runs it a bit and oh wow, it’s far far worse than that. If you get a captcha from archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today and allow it scripting permission, it seems to use your browser as part of a DDoS attack. See https://infosec.exchange/@iampytest1/115902693235671566 and linked pages.

It’s really not. Bluesky is just a twitter repeat, another centralised service ready to be subverted when it helps the far right.

Not every time, but far too often. They don’t seem to care that they’re discriminating against people with AV impairment, plus locking out some secure browsers.

Didn’t nextcloud fork from that because reasons?

edit to add: no, that was ownCloud. You are in a twisty maze of project names, all different.

If I’d seen this earlier, I would have congratulated their chugger at the shops! I wonder if that would have gotten back to HQ. Now, are they in the fediverse yet?

Reform, Re-use old Tories, and Recycle Putin’s money. No thanks!

Arte is available free on some streaming boxes even in countries where it’s not broadcast freely.

instead of recognizing them as a safe, sustainable alternative to cars, the bill reclassifies them as ​“motorized bicycles” and imposes requirements usually reserved for motor vehicles. If signed into law, NJ would require operators of low-speed e-bikes to hold a driver’s license, register their bikes with the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC), and carry insurance.

That’s just wild. As in: the legislators seem to have gone feral. Does anyone know their reasons, or does the mention of “lame duck” imply it slipped through something like the “washing up” at the end of a Westminster session, with the parties doing deals about what to pass unchallenged?

Such as?

Northern Ireland is not reachable with 4 hours to hide. Even if someone hid literally in Ayr station and was found at the optimal time, it’s about 5 hours to Belfast on the rail replacement bus and the ferry. The Liverpool ferries take longer.

Even the old High-speed Sea Service from Stranraer would have been difficult, taking 2h10 plus check-in at the end of a branch line, plus time getting away from the port in Belfast.

I don’t think this is much of a spoiler when it’s known to anyone who’s done it, or just looked at the timetable.

The public aren’t still allowed to ride school buses there, are they? Child protection duties have ended that in many places.

Maybe, but at least there is enough public transport to lock up. There’s not enough in most of the USA to be noticeable.

Westminster can overrule the very existence of Scotland and Wales as anything other than an idea in people’s heads. Canberra cannot do that. It’s not even remotely similar.

I think Westminster can’t stop Scotland and Wales existing as physical realities any more than Canberra can. Trying to snuff either of them out as political entities would now probably provoke a constitutional crisis. It’s not the 1700s any more.

As it is today, the UK operates under the idea that the “British” are a single unified nation

Yeah, no. Most of the people who pretend that British means any unified thing are in a few right-wing parties.

In a London or Sydney–based game, I would probably use the city councils as the 3nd administrative division and suburbs for 4th, but maybe someone with more knowledge could address it better.

I wouldn’t in London. The only city council is Westminster, so it would leave big gaps in the map. The City of London has a Corporation rather than a city council as such. You’d probably want cities/boroughs (1st-level) that contain parliamentary constituencies (2nd-level) that contain districts/liberties/communities/parishes (3rd-level) that contain wards (4th-level) but even that is imperfect and probably subject to variation in some area or other.

You mean by blocking the pedestrian or pedestrians (including bicyclists) from crossing?

No, I mean by reconfiguring (if an officer) or ordering the reconfiguring (if an elected politician) of the crossing to give a longer “WAIT” sign duration after the button is pressed, maximising the theoretical vehicle throughput, at the expense of the theoretical people throughput.

We do also have “crossing creeper” red-light-jumping drivers too, of course, but we also have some militant types who photograph, punch or slap any cars stopped blocking crossings. I keep hoping to see someone walk or slide over the hood of one, as I’ve heard about, but I haven’t yet seen!

Then obviously those drivers would be given tickets, problem solved. While I hate those Red Light Cameras, they do solve do automatic ticketing by license plates.

We don’t have Red Light Cameras. Well, not many. There used to be a few, but I only know of one in my borough that might still be working. The motoring supremacist in charge of the transport department puts a zero budget for red light camera maintenance every year and just waits for them to fail, then says there’s no money to fix them. We have a few bus lane and speed cameras working still and that’s about all.

I’ve been watching this stuff long enough to have realised these dirty tricks.