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Thing is that delivery robots are quite an efficient way to get stuff moved. Getting a robot delivery from a store is better for the environment than driving there.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    Especially when it's the world's richest narcissistic psychopath being wrong at elementary school level. This is not forbidden knowledge - a majority of the people on the planet probably know how a thermos flask works.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (12 children)

    Her think tank's research found that 41% of homes sold through Right to Buy are now privately rented out. "Homes that were built with public money, and with the aim of providing an affordable and secure path to home ownership, have since been turned into assets," Harris says.

    This was the real aim of Right to Buy - turn low-rent council housing into money-making assets for the rich.

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    The UK could rejoin the European Union without adopting the Euro but must accept freedom of movement, the bloc’s former chief Brexit negotiator has said.

    Michel Barnier said it was “perfectly possible to begin such a negotiation [on membership] without any kind of obligation to take part in” the EU’s single currency.

    But what remains “unnegotiable” is “the condition to join the single market”, he said. That would require accepting freedom of movement of people as well as of goods, services, and capital.

    “As far as the freedom of movement is concerned, I can only repeat that the four freedoms are linked together and are not negotiable,” the former French prime minister, once dubbed the bloc’s “Mr Brexit”, told Sky News.

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    A leading figure in the Oxfordshire's Raise the Colours movement is due to stand trial accused of making indecent images of children.

    Ben Cullen is due to appear before a jury at Reading Crown Court on July 1 having been charged with three counts of the offence.

    Court documents say the 45-year-old is accused of making 22 indecent category A photographs, including one moving image, in Wallingford on March 25, 2021.

    He is also accused of making indecent pseudo-photographs, namely 36 Category B images of children at the same place and on the same date as well as making 20 Category C images of children.

    Cullen, who lives in Wallingford, has been a leading figure behind the Raise the Colours movement, which gained more than 4,000 members of its Facebook social media page but appears to have since been deleted.

    The group has been putting up flags across Oxfordshire, from Wallingford to Wantage and from Oxford to Witney.

    Motorists will have seen the flags flying from lampposts since last summer. And most of them were put up by the small group of people.

    Key figures have said they are motivated by patriotism, but it has received criticism from others.

    Earlier this month, Oxfordshire County Council won an injunction against the group and four members including Cullen to stop putting up flags.

    Oxfordshire County Council said it brought legal action to stop people raising flags near highways, saying it involved safety risks, as well as trespass and obstruction.

    After a short hearing at the High Court where the group represented themselves, the group members agreed not to put up more flags, not to encourage others to do so, and not to obstruct any council worker or contractor taking them down.

    Cullen, of Wallingford, is due to appear at Reading Crown Court on July 1.

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