Bikes obviously have their place. For the time being, so do cars (although cities could certainly benefit from being less car-centric).

The operator of neither should be pissing about on their phones, both for their own safety and the safety of others.

I’ve had my jaw fractured by a cyclist who knocked into me due to not paying attention. I now have an ugly scar because of it.

There’s all kinds of obstacles in cities. Including hundreds of thousands to millions of people. I can tell you from experience that a bike going into you at 30-40 km/h will hurt.

It’s not at all unreasonable to be against people pissing about on their phones while cycling.

The issue is compounded by cyclists who ride through pedestrian areas, cyclists who seem to think red lights don’t apply to them, and people getting electric bikes and whizzing around effortlessly at a high speed.

If I need a shit in the morning, I try to wait until I start work. May as well be paid for it.

It’s not highly debatable, it’s been studied to death. Sweeteners have existed for a long time.

There were rumours they cause cancer, this has been proven false. There were rumours they cause headaches, this has been proven false. There were rumours they cause infertility, this has been proven false. There have been rumours they stimulate your appetite, this likewise has zero scientific backing.

Aspartame, the most common sweetener, does cause issues for people with phenylketonuria, a rare genetic disorder, because it contains stuff they can’t metabolise. But so does a long list of foods people eat every day.

Some polyol sweeteners have a mild laxative effect if consumed in very high quantities, but the same is true for stuff like tea, coffee, most fruits, etc.

Sugar is far worse for your health.

They’re nowhere near as bad as consuming a huge amount of sugar.

They only cause issues for a vanishingly tiny amount of people that have pre-existing genetic conditions.

It’s because the drink manufacturers mostly just stopped selling the full sugar versions

Which was a result of the sugar tax. They didn’t just suddenly drop the sugar content for no reason.

Oh no, won’t someone please think about the religious LGBT-hate organisation 😭😭

As a religious organisation, they are allowed to hire based on characteristics that you usually aren’t allowed to discriminate with. They’ve repeatedly supported legislation that would allow them to refuse to hire LGBT people.

Across several countries, they’ve campaigned against the right for homosexual sex, marriages, inclusion in media.

They refused a $3.5m contract from the San Francisco city gov because it would’ve included giving the same domestic benefits to same-sex couples.

They said they’d leave New York if they were forced to offer the same domestic benefits to same-sex couples.

They campaigned against UK local councils including gay people in media like leaflets and the like.

High ups in The Salvation Army has said if you support gay rights you shouldn’t donate to them.

They’re extremely transphobic too, of course.

They did a bunch of child sexual abuse in Australia.

In the UK they own a lot of property that poor people stay in, and the conditions have been so bad that it was unlawful.

For the most part it’s just that they’re homophobic as fuck.

Same as you would with any other data.

Although it’d matter much less if you know you can just pirate it again in the event of you doing no backups and losing the data.

I disagree. Piracy is the answer IMO.

• as someone else said, invasive DRM exists on discs too

• discs can’t store enough data for a lot of modern games, necessitating downloads anyway

• discs can be damaged, lost, or stolen

The only way to ensure we still have access to this stuff in the future is a healthy cracking and pirating community.

That would be such a mistake and only serve to cause more division, because as you say, the UK would never accept it. Neither would multiple countries already in the EU that also use their own currency.

The EU, generally, are pragmatic. They’d much rather get other concessions than wasting political capital on trying to enforce the Euro on the UK.

E: downvote all you like, but that’s realpolitik. The EU isn’t going to pass up the second largest economy in the continent over something so trivial that they don’t even pressure much smaller countries into it. Pure fantasy from people who don’t have a clue.

And even the “they don’t pay the artist thing” is somewhat defensible in that the record labels take a much larger cut than Spotify.

They’re the main ones taking the money away from artists.

By far my main issue with Spotify is for giving massive paycheques to the likes of Joe Rogan

Is it just me or does that building look nowhere near even 60 years old, never mind 600?

E: people are interpreting this as me condoning destruction of historic buildings. It is not. I’m merely saying that I’m shocked the building is old, given the appearance.

It’s not the full force. I shared my account and for a while it was the same, you had to dismiss warnings and say “yeah I’m totally in the same household”, but about a month ago it stopped working entirely.

I stopped paying. I could justify sharing my netflix account, but £18 for a single person household, with me not being much of a TV watcher in the first place? Nah.

If they had just been slightly less greedy, I’d have happily continued. Shit company.

Considering it uses day then month, 24hr clock, and distance in km, I’m guessing the reason why it’s not “human readable in American” is because it’s intended to be “human readable for pretty much everybody else”

The date format isn’t incorrect at all

Exactly, all these redditors and lemmyers (lemmings??) keep saying “oh he should be working for MI5 or a cyber security firm, not getting court-ordered mental support!”

And it makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Even if we ignore him purposely breaking the law while on curfew from breaking the law previously, has been violent, and straight up said he wants to commit more crime, even if all of that is ignored, no company would trust him.

His application would be thrown straight into the bin in my company, and we don’t even deal with stuff that’s that sensitive.

Like seriously, have these people ever heard of the concept of insider threats?

And people keep making up bullshit about him.

He’s not in prison, he’s in a mental institution getting therapy because he has issues and was violent. He straight up told the judge he intends to commit more crimes.

I have zero love for Rockstar’s bs and I do have admiration of this young man’s skills, but he clearly presented himself as someone who can’t just be free without any further intervention.

Mac is pretty far behind Windows and Linux in terms of gaming. But there are signs that Apple is slowly waking up on that front.

Whether you want to play it on Mac or PS5 imo primarily comes down to whether you want to play with a controller or a M+KB

Steam will refund you as long as you’ve played for less than a couple of hours, so there’s no harm in buying the game and doing a little test before committing one way or the other.

Literally the comment you replied to and agreed with lmao

It’s an extremely unplausible scenario as it’s nothing like Covid and more like a flu except it basically can’t spread between humans.

And now you’re trying to play off criticism of your take as some kind of nationalist defensiveness lol