@Miaou @ZkhqrD5o not the UK either. The Conservative party is nuts at the moment - and most right wingers are currently more in favour of Reform (aka Nigel Farage Ltd) who are even worse.

@Xenny @frongt it's definitely not good for words with any technical meaning, because it creates references to journal articles and legal precedents that sound plausible but don't exist.
Ultimately it's a very expensive replacement for the lorem ipsum generator keyboard shortcut.

@youareacooldude @Mrkawfee Loops

@duncanbayne @Zaktor can someone tell Keir Starmer as well

@return2ozma so they crash 12 more than human drivers, even though they currently have human drivers?! The AI makes human drivers 12 worse. Cool.

@Zombie @pasdechance of course it wasn't entirely scrapped - two of my friends (both also teachers) have children in the Wirral and Bucks, both of which still have grammars. They hate it for the psychological pressure, the financial burden (it rewards rich kids who get tutors) and the difficulty for local non-grammars to meet targets without a normal mix of students.
Anecdotally: my mum passed and my uncle didn't, and I suspect it's affected their sibling dynamic ever since.

@JensSpahnpasta in the UK: national flags.

@Telorand @finitebanjo also Russian interference in the Brexit referendum is pretty much assumed at this point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian/_interference/_in/_the/_2016/_Brexit/_referendum

@G4Z yeah in principle I agree but in practice "the internet" is about 4 companies. Until there's more competition your data is being consolidated anyway. And the only way to get competition is to enforce regulation. I don't think this is good regulation but I don't see why we should have to do what Apple want just because they're big.
Interestingly this comes at the same time as the smartphone-free childhood thing is gaining steam so there's probably a real-world solution anyway.

@oeuf @G4Z I realise it's never going to happen and there would be loads of other fallout I haven't thought about, but I think governments should be allowed to. They can in every other field - our booze laws aren't the same as the US's, why should our dick pic laws be?
It might de-monopolise the industry a bit.

@mjr @plyth and of course Boris Johnson is bezzies with Lebedev, and likes to go drinking at his parties after shaking off his companions. And Boris has his own unique history with EU disinformation. https://archive.ph/qMEQo

@cabbage @LittleProtection434 yup, everything talks to everything else. I'm reading/posting this from mastodon.

@IronBird @mirshafie did you use a comma where you should have used a semicolon there on purpose

@boonhet @0x0 they've got ten years from now in which they just need to remember not to buy a non-compliant one. The number of people still driving the same car they have now in ten years is small, surely.

@HermitBee because that's why Reeves said electric vehicles should pay per mile. She announced it by saying "Because all cars contribute to the wear and tear on our roads, I will ensure that drivers are taxed according to how much they drive, not just by the type of car they use.”
I'm not saying this particularly carries through to how roads are funded; I'm saying if this claim is the reason to tax EVs then the tax should be structured differently.

@BlasterM @LodeMike "a pedestrian or cyclist is 44% more likely to be killed if they’re struck by an SUV rather than a passenger car. The situation is even worse for younger victims – a child struck by a SUV is 82% more likely to be killed than a child struck by a passenger car." https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2025/05/07/suvs-make-traffic-worse-and-are-more-dangerous-than-cars/

@frankPodmore @Jrockwar cars should be taxed according to size and weight, imo, if you're bringing road maintenance & wear and tear into it. Then beyond that fuel source can be taxed according to pollution levels, as it currently kind of is (especially if they actually do unfreeze fuel duty).

@TIN I agree with your last point: the per-mile setup should apply to all vehicles according to size and weight if it is truly for road wear. Pollution can then be captured separately according to fuel source. Unfortunately the government has been too toothless to increase fuel duty for years.
Regarding your other point: yes! I think councils should run permit charging like resident parking: if you have a resident permit you can charge in council car parks for £x.

@Rooster326 @xenomor not just SEO; also the blogs are paid for with inline ads so you need enough text to fit the ads in and a forced scroll through them to satisfy the view counters, plus you can't copyright a list of ingredients but you CAN copyright the text around a recipe so this is all a method of claiming authorship (not that that will stop the AI scrapers).