Please don’t use the phrase “CP” but instead the correct term ‘CSAM’.

‘Porn’ suggests consent

“The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them,”

~ Julius Nyerere.

More recently there’s a mayor of some town (in Texas, iirc Kansas) that’s facing deportation and multiple felony charges for voting in elections as a non-citizen.

I’ll link to the story posted on lemmy if I can find it!

Found it! https://lemmy.ml/post/43029958

The pair of you need to check out Newen Afro Beat that do Fela covers as well as their own material.

This is ‘Opposite People’ with Seun Kuti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSRCG4DrmI

Riot In Lagos is still an incredible piece of electronic music by Ryichi Sakamoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPuBOYsl--M (apologies for the yt link)

I find with no lube, one invariably results in the other

That’s only 2 characters and wouldn’t even get past the password policy set by my office security team

he seemed quite fair and principled.

Scratch a bit beneath the surface though…

He was sacked from govt for tax fiddling

He is a bit murky in his dealings

He likes being heavy handed towards critics [The Time article but behind a paywall so link is archive.is]

Ive not even touched on his time on govt and some of the decisions he was involved in or things he said

Did you have much respect for him to start with? As far as politicians go, hes a right shithead

Make it compulsory for EVERY driver annually and enforce it through insurance companies levying an additional tax on a policy for failure to supply an eye test certificate when renewing.

There have been various incidents where drivers with defective eye sight who were well under 70. The death of Eilidh Cairns being a prominent one where the police failed to do anything about the driver after he killed her on her bike and he later killed a 98 year old holocaust survivor while she was on a zebra crossing

The BBC’s job is essentially “here is some newsworthy information that our audience might find interesting, and they can judge it however they wish”.

And yet…

I moved a few domains to them in the middle of last year because my other host had raised their prices ridiculous amounts. Looks like I’ll be moving them again!

These are the main reasons given as to why politicians are doing Israel’s bidding but the simpler fact is that a lot of them just love colonialism and apartheid.

They were never good people that were bribed or compromised. They were absolute cunts from the very beginning.

what’s the helmet situation in other countries, especially around ad-hoc rental scooters? I see scooters and bikes for rent here, but no buckets to wear, and I wonder the legality of that too.

Outside of Australia, helmets are not mandatory and data from there shows it has had a negative effect on not only the numbers of cyclists, reducing “safety in numbers” but also an increase in children with head injuries, because drivers are less risk adverse (“Mary Poppins effect” - drivers give more space & make less dangerous passes around cyclists in everyday clothing).

The most simple solution to increasing cyclist (and pedestrian) safety is to build better infrastructure. Design roads so that vehicles have to slow for junctions and roundabouts, especially where there’s mixed modal traffic. Prioritise active and public transport over inactive modes. Make cycle, walking & bus routes more direct and make driving routes more circuitous. Discourage driving into town centres and stop building out of town retail parks.

Back to the topic in hand:

If anyone wants to claim that “helmets save lives” then why aren’t they advocating them for vehicle passengers, who experience greater numbers and severity of head injuries than cyclists, or for pedestrians who have about the same number, possibly slightly more than cyclists?

Oh no! Won’t someone think of the children!

They really don’t see how their calling everyone an antisemite for opposing their genocide puts Jews outside Israel at risk

That’s their aim. It will then force those outside Israel to flee there as the only “sanctuary” safe for them, despite the numbers of Israelis bolting from the country and applying for citizenship elsewhere hitting new highs.

Also largest owner of arable farmland in the US

As well as emotional regulation from an early age (would massively reduce male violence)

It smacks of “we’ll get him to lean more left after the election!”