Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)G

GMac

@ GMac @feddit.org

Posts
1
Comments
115
Joined
5 mo. ago

  • Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"

    Jump

  • What is being pushed for implementation is better described as identity verification, not age verification.

    I would have little issue with a solution that purely gated services on age in a secure and privacy respecting manner. This OS level garbage is not that, its creating an oligarchy run identity gate to control access to personal computing.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • I'm not convinced this is adding a problem to anyone but its an opinion, we can differ.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • Sorry, you're still not making any kind of sense. In no way does sugar compare with a product which, in use, actively damages the used and spreads toxic chemicals into the air for all around them. Nothing in my comment would make any stance against sugar remaining legal.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • Turns out you are right. Formalisation of that ban as an offence was much later than I thought. https://www.gov.scot/policies/smoking/smoking-around-hospital-buildings/ gives some dates and context for Scotland to add to your Wales info.

    That said, the practical difference between a policy ban vs a legal offence is mostly an enforcement question. In all practical terms on private property a policy ban is still a ban.

    To my own personal experience, policy bans across the whole UK (having lived in several cities over the past 20 years and visited more hospitals than I'd care to) have been a consistent thing. Though I won't dispute there will always be arseholes like the one you encountered just being arseholes...

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • Most shops in the UK selling booze already operate a policy of asking for ID from anyone who they think looks under 25, even though the legislation is 18.

    Likely as not they'll roll that policy on to cigarettes (in the few rare places that don't already) and that would mean the subset you're speaking about would have to be firmly addicted by the age of 11. At that point, I think this is not so much a tobacco problem, as a child welfare and protection issue and we have social care and protections that should already be addressing those cases.

    I don't see anyone in that frame getting to middle age and ID for ciggies ranking in the top 10 of problems in their life.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • You forget we are not talking about the USA here. The article is about the UK where we already have a lot more food regulation than you do in the USA.If you really want to go down the road of things proven to work, maybe start within the USA and introduce the effective firearms legislation and regulations that most of the civilised world has proven reduces per capita gun deaths and almost entirely negates mass murder of schoolchildren.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • be fair, you also got the failure part wrong too.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • no different to the fact that my father got state pension at 65 but I wont get this till I am older than he was....

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • UK based here. sorry to tell you that your sources of information are really poor.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • Smoking is banned outside hospitals. has been for 20 years.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • Smoking IS banned in public places. Has been since 2006 in Scotland and 2008 across the whole of the UK.

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • You might need to explain that one a bit for me.We have a lot of food regulation, sometimes to enforce quality (e.g. no chlorinated chicken), in other cases to encourage better public health (e.g. higher rates of tax on high sugar drinks).What do you think my statements would make illegal?

  • UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008

    Jump

  • Going to get down voted to hell and back for this I expect, but hey, different opinions generate discussion right?

    This is good legislation for the environment, for non-smokers, for the NHS, and has zero negative impact on smokers. The ONLY parties I see really hurt by this are tobacco companies, since retailers make minimal margins on tobacco.

    The constant use of the word freedom in the thread comments just seems odd to me. This isn't a question of freedom, and the comments mostly seem to ignore the paradox of tolerance as it applies to antisocial activity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance. Individual freedoms have limits and must end at the boundary of another persons personal space and freedoms. That's why smoking is banned in confined public places.

    Its all very well to say tax the shit out of it and fund the NHS, but that will feel pretty shit when your parent/partner/child has to wait for an operation because the queue is full of smokers who are entitled to that spot by having paid for it. Which also veers dangerously close to creating paid tracks within the public national health service.

  • ‘Fuel theft has cost my petrol station £2,000 since Iran war started – my family can’t carry on like this’

    Jump

  • For years, fuel stations have been putting their forecourt price up the instant there is a hint of global supply cost increases, making a shitload of extra margin on their existing and contracted stocks. Then when global prices reduce suddenly it takes months for those reductions to filter even partially back to the actual pumps.

    No sympathy.

  • What's a gadget or appliance that you purchased that you would wholeheartedly recommend to others?

    Jump

  • You should take a look at Suri. I had the same annoyance and objection fo oral b and philips and their lazy lack of any form of effort to improve or innovate or be environmentally responsible. Been very happy with a suri for a couple years now, I send heads back for recycling and the battery lasts months at a time. https://www.trysuri.com/

  • UK NHS chief champions Palantir’s 'outstanding results’ in England, pushes for deeper rollout despite growing staff concerns

    Jump

  • Fuck palantir and the arseholes in charge of it.

  • Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next

    Jump

  • Reckon we are gonna need to see some how to guides for adb. I presume its like the linux terminal?

  • Is the bards tale (1) really hard or am not good?

    Jump

  • I think i remember getting money for each party member so instead of just rerolling stats, create, pool gold, then delete. Gives you a good start and you get something for all the poor stat rolls.