[–] 6 points 6 hours ago

Once idiots feel empowered to become the Pants-contents Police, this is where it leads.

Why has a company as rich as Tesco still got mostly gendered toilets anyway?

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  • [–] 4 points 21 hours ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, co-op are likely being all ethical again. Or trying to.

    Look at the checkout conveyor dividers in Morrisons some time: they literally say "Morrisons More Card: more conveyor snooping" or something similar. People just don't realise the cost.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I agree we should all hate driving but because it's a waste of so many people's time when mass transit exists and it's ludicrous that driving is so heavily subsidised and marketed that so many think it worthwhile. It is possible to drive safely, even if many (most?) drivers don't.

    No variance is stated in the standard, if I recall correctly, so you could go as far under the limit as you like but never over, but going way too slow (if your vehicle can go faster) would fail a different point in the standard so in practical test, you probably want to stay within 15-20% unless there's good reason to slow further. Yes, hills are included, so you have to know how to cause regenerative or engine breaking, as well as mechanical, but this is rarely tested.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    It's not pretty cool. Hglding a speed is a basic driving skill we have to learn to meet the UK National Standard for Driving Cars and it's shocking if it's not elsewhere.

    Maybe I'm being an asshole, but not as much as someone speeding and massively increasing the probability of killing anyone they may hit.

    Others have answered about HUD in detail.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (5 children)
    1. brake earlier!
    2. get a head-up-display so you can see your speed while looking at the road,
    3. learn how to judge constant speed by sight better,
    4. if someone really can't hold a steady speed downhill, maybe it's time to surrender their driving licence because they don't meet the standard.
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    Sometimes, I think my nearest town is doing pretty well at providing for active travel like cycling and walking, with a pretty good but incomplete greenway network. Other times, local government does stuff like this: keep pushing ahead with a large 236-space car park with a small 55-space bike shed apparently so they can say it's "active travel" and have an active travel budget pay for it, but with an "avoidable safety risks" crossroads between the bike shed (numbered 2) and the access to the greenway towards town (numbered 8).

    This crazy plan was approved at an irregularly-timed planning committee meeting this morning, with no notification to objectors (not even ones who had registered on the very error-prone self-service website) so I missed any chance to speak during the meeting and few councillors spend much time in the lobby before the meeting any more. I'm also pretty sure that councillors were told the road layout had been approved as safe, or words like that, but I need to watch the video recording because surely I must have misunderstood that???

    Help me find any good in this. I guess it might be slightly nicer to wait out a rainstorm in this building instead of the bike shed of a nearby building?

     

    Sometimes, I think my nearest town is doing pretty well at providing for active travel like cycling and walking, with a pretty good but incomplete greenway network. Other times, local government does stuff like this: keep pushing ahead with a large 236-space car park with a small 55-space bike shed apparently so they can say it's "active travel" and have an active travel budget pay for it, but with an "avoidable safety risks" crossroads between the bike shed (numbered 2) and the access to the greenway towards town (numbered 8).

    This crazy plan was approved at an irregularly-timed planning committee meeting this morning, with no notification to objectors (not even ones who had registered on the very error-prone self-service website) so I missed any chance to speak during the meeting and few councillors spend much time in the lobby before the meeting any more. I'm also pretty sure that councillors were told the road layout had been approved as safe, or words like that, but I need to watch the video recording because surely I must have misunderstood that???

    Help me find any good in this. I guess it might be slightly nicer to wait out a rainstorm in this building instead of the bike shed of a nearby building?

     

    Five-million Farage has flounced out of parliament in order to pause the investigations into his alleged corruption, but other major parties are refusing to contest the resulting by-election, potentially leaving him facing Count Binface as his biggest rival. With the British public's love of the underdog and refusing to do what's expected - remember Boaty McBoatface? - I wouldn't bet against it being Count Binface MP soon.

     

    Caroline Seton is the co-founder of the London bike share firm Forest.

    They’re in unambiguous second place to Lime, the great global bicycle behemoth - but, famously, being second makes a firm try harder.

    In today’s episode, we talk about the challenges of being a shared mobility firm in a municipal environment, the realities of whether cities actually want sustainable transport and the changes she would make to transport policy.

    Above all - more bike parking and less car parking please!

    Episode webpage: https://www.freewheeling.info/the-freewheeling-podcast/caroline-seton

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