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I was thinking the same, like I know of a few wealthy landowners (likely Tory voters) who do not have a driving license or passport.

Exactly. This is not gerrymandering.

However it is also unnecessary. You say it's hard to detect in person voter fraud, however every professional analysis of voter fraud has determined that it does not happen in any significant manner. The sole purpose of this is to prevent voting, not to prevent fraudulent voting.

Private vehicles are owned by members of the public. The public pay taxes.

It not being "geometrically sustainable" is the result of poor planning - which the city council is responsible for.

Sure, and the government needs to regulate the public transport industry such that they stop structuring their businesses so they can squirrel their profits away using Hollywood-style accounting. But, failing that, councils need to plan cities appropriately.

Even London, which has decent public transport, has decent space for parking.

Because the private vehicles are owned by members of the public, and the public pay tax to the government. They're also obligated to plan cities appropriately, rather than blame the problems on mistakes of past governments.

Said councils need to provide adequate parking, and ensure that future developments have such.

Also we tend to hover around the freezing point, where snow melts and then freezes to ice. It's often easier to deal with proper sub-zero temperatures.

you get to decide what’s worth it to you!

You also typically agree that you have the permission to use the likeness of anyone that walks in front of their cameras for their commercial purposes. The liabilty is shifted onto the user, just like when you share your contacts with WhatsApp.

You get live view for free, they get information about your comings and going, and your face, and your gait. All valuable information that you aren't being fairly compensated for.

Meanwhile they still sell the data of you and anyone unfortunate enough to walk in front of it.

All in the name of security and "legitimate interest".

Lmfao that's one hell of an image.

It's not a secret browser, it's the system browser. Most apps do not have a browser to view web pages, they use the system one (eg to display terms and conditions pages). The exploit here involved someone accessing such a page and sidestepping into another, because the page had links away, allowing a Google search or something and avoiding restrictions that were only applied to the main browser app.

This is more of a failure in parental control features not being fully comprehensive. The story is also much older than a couple days.

Also, who would be held responsible for the child circumventing the restrictions? You can't hold the child responsible, so that would fall to the parent.

Is she accepting responsibility here for not better protecting her child? No, she's blaming others, and telling other people they should take responsibility.

Not that any of this would have made any difference here. These two murderers were absolutely demented, and keeping them off social media wouldn't have done much to prevent that.

It's not the only way, they could operate at a loss to make up for their mistakes.

Yes, this is the thing Manny fails to understand. While local government behaves a certain way, often it is dictated by policy from the government in Westminster, such that if they didn't behave that way they wouldn't get the meager funding they do have.

I'm sure Bristol council are corrupt, but not much more so than others. Meanwhile, the biggest corruption comes from Westminster.

But hey, Bristol aren't Tory, so Manny will criticise them first.

Sack the fucking lot of them, I say.

What it says most is that Suella Braverman wants to continue her father's business of running concentration camps in Africa.

Her dad, who for some reason has a Hispanic name, is of Goan Indian descent but born and raised in Kenya. In 1960, during the Mau Mau uprising under which Kenya gained independence from the UK, he somehow was granted a UK passport - while the rest of his family fled back to India. Upon arriving to the UK, he landed a job as head of a housing association. Now, his daughter is an MP.

I've struggled to find hard evidence to confirm anything beyond the last paragraph, but it seems like there is a massive evidence-shaped hole that points to Braverman's father running a British concentration camp in Kenya, one of many with horrible conditions that prompted Kenya's revolution for independence.

Lately, the Tory government have neglected in processing migrants from the UK, instead opting to house them in hotels (often owned by party donors, and at UK taxpayer's expense). Many of these people could have long been deported from our shores, but doing that would reduce the potential stockpile of people they could put into the proposed Rwanda concentration camps.

These are for profit businesses, run in a foreign country, which the UK taxpayer is paying to set up and accommodate. Furthermore, section 16.1 of the Rwanda deal says "the UK will accept 'vulnerable migrants' from Rwanda in return for those sent to Rwanda". When pressed on the House of Lords, the government has refused to comment on how many migrants the government will be taking in return. Is it 1 for 1? More? Less? That is not defined.

They're still fucking stealing from us. We're paying their court bills and their salaries while they set up their tax haven businesses that the UK society will see a significant net cost from, with very little benefit.

Did they think twice with Rwanda?

Yeah the WHO comment is highly questionable, even with the vague uncertainty towards long term effects it's very apparent that vaping is less harmful than smoking. If anything, the biggest concern should be what exactly is in the liquid you're vaping - but then, no one ever paid much mind to there being cyanide and other nasty chemicals used in processed tobacco for cigarettes.

I'd support some legislation about where vape products should be, generally they should either be behind the counter or in 18+ only shops. Obviously you can't trust a business not to use scummy selling practices, as evidenced by major petrol stations having vape stands right next to the tills.

A similar one, biodegradable plastic is actually worse than regular plastic.

Plastic is poly-ethylene (or some other poly-something), which means you basically have a repeating ethylene molecule over and over. Biodegradable plastic simply has starch inserted in the chain every so often, which is then digested by bacteria and broken down into small plastic pieces - also known as microplastics. Instedad of having a big piece of plastic you can see, which isn't great but at least it's all in one place, you have a lot of tiny microscopic plastics you can't see being spread through the enivornment and into food chains.

Disposable vapes are arguably not better than cigarettes, if only for the type and amount of waste they produce (lithium ion batteries). Obviously they're better for the individual consumer, but they're worse for the environment and everyone who lives in it.

However, this is what the reason for banning them should be, rather than the "think of the children!" nonsense which actually is more to do with a complete and total lack of enforcement - shops shouldn't be selling them to children, that's already illegal, and yet it is being allowed to happen with impunity. Banning disposables won't suddenly end this.

Reusable vapes aren't that much more expensive at the entry level, and they represent a far better option for everyone. But dealing with child vaping requires enforcement against shops and dealers.