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I don't like seeing this guy's dumb ugly face even in memes making fun of him. Bad vibes weirdo

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are both American companies so what standing does the UK's CMA have to block this? The article doesn't mention it at all

Sorry I would love this to be true but this is just PR bollocks isn't it?
The claim: "Millions of workers will have a say over their working patterns".
The reality: "If a worker’s existing working pattern [...], they will be able to make a formal application to change their working pattern [...]. Once a worker has made their request, their employer will be required to notify them of their decision within one month.".
So you have the right to ask (as if you didn't already), and your employer has to respond within a month (but they can still just say "no"). What am I missing here?

I think it's common knowledge that they recommended this back in about 2009, and I think the government notoriously sacked their own scientific advisor rather than listen to reason, perhaps it's a new leak that it was recommended again in 2016? (Although not at all surprising that they did so!)

Honestly I'd be more surprised if the government managed to find someone with any kind of scientific standing willing to say criminalisation is a good idea

Current UK streaming platforms are absolute dogshit in my experience so hopefully this improves things

Here are the 10 recommendations (there's a lot of text surrounding these explaining and justifying them which I've trimmed out):
A1) the Government consider the introduction of escalating penalties for repeat traffic offences.
A2) the Government seek consistency by requiring re-testing for anyone wishing to drive following any period of disqualification.
A3a) the Government increase the maximum sentence for dangerous driving to four years.
A3b) the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) guide police forces to bail drivers whom they arrest for dangerous driving with a condition not to drive.
A4) the Sentencing Council revisit its 2020 guidance on the totting-up disqualification, to reinforce that exceptional hardship should only be granted in truly exceptional circumstances.
A5) tolerances in the enforcement of speeding be removed.
B1) the development of guidance based on best practice, with the intention that it is adopted as widely as possible by Police forces.
B2) the implementation of a standardised system across police forces for submission and processing of third-party reporting, based on best practice and supported by adequate resourcing.
B3) the Government appoint a UK Commissioner for Road-Danger Reduction.
B4) Police and Crime Commissioners should consider all crash victims as victims of crime.
B5) the Government launch a very extensive and ongoing communications campaign designed to increase greatly both understanding of and compliance with the changes

I appreciate the concerns around body-image and especially consent are important ones. Nonetheless I find it slightly odd that an article about how happiness has declined since specifically 2009 doesn't mention the 13 years of Tory rule and austerity we've had in that time.

Basically it sounds like an utter fucking shit show for something so safety critical, and the report from NATS unsurprisingly but disappointingly tries to spin it as positively as possible

This is overly dense and could do with editing but is pretty interesting imo. Here's my attempt at summary:

• NATS gets the flightplan in ICAO format
• they need to extract just the UK part of that flight plan
• they convert the ICAO flight-plan to ADEXP format, which contains additional waypoints
• they find the UK section of the ADEXP
• they now need to convert back to ICAO
• they try to match the start and end of the UK ADEXP to ICAO
• duplicate waypoint names exist! The end of the ADEXP route gets wrongly matched with the start of the ICAO route (cos they have the same name)
• the software recognises this doesn't make sense, but instead of rejecting this flight plan shuts the entire system down
• the backup system comes online, and reprocesses the same data, hits the same bug, and shuts down as well

Headline is a bit misleading imo, "military truck" sounds like a truck owned and operated by the MOD, not a former military truck that is now owned by some weirdo

The UK government was still paying off former slaveowners as recently as a few years ago

"This whole thing has broken her,” Mary’s sister said. “She has expressed suicidal thoughts. She cries daily. She does not sleep. She is really fearful.”

Cannabis is being legalised across America and in Germany. Meanwhile Tories are trying to expand the failed war on drugs

There was a story recently about all the sexual abuse by guards at HMP Berwyn. I don't have a source to hand but I think there have been 6 suicides and a murder just this year at HMP Bristol. So it doesn't surprise me that much.

Meanwhile what are the Conservative's priorities? Making offenders attend sentencing. And making possession of laughing gas illegal - so we can waste more police time and send more people to prison over something that doesn't matter at all.

"There will be exemptions for legitimate uses of nitrous oxide" Legitimate just means legal so this sentence is saying it will be legal to use it in a legal way... Pretty stupid

My understanding is the whole court system has like a multi-year backlog. Forcing offenders to be present for sentencing seems like a complete non-issue and in fact a distraction when compared to this much greater impediment to justice

This is a self-evidently dumb take, but also

I thought Europeans all kiss each other constantly.

Hermoso was the only one he kissed on the lips