thehatfox @ thehatfox @lemmy.world

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Another option is that we could eat less meat, which would allow for higher health and welfare standards to be implemented on farms.

Of course, one size does not fit all

I suppose that's the root of the issue with our approach to education. If schooling is mandatory then it should also be mandatory to properly meet each child's individual needs, but in practice that doesn't happen. As a result many children reject school and achieve poor outcomes from it.

For comparison, here is a link to the 2022 league table.

Apparently Royal Mail has gotten worse (2.75 overall down from 3), and Evri despite still being at the bottom of the table has actually improved somewhat (2 overall up from 1.75).

Yes, it's pretty poor that none of them managed even a 3 out of 5 overall.

There are quite a few couriers missing though, no Fedex, DHL, DPD Local, Parcelforce, UPS. I wonder how they compare.

Evri parcel gets lost or damaged.

Their service seems to greatly depend on the individual drivers in each area, the driver in my town is great but I've heard it's terrible in some of the surrounding areas.

Just what we need, a second round of swine flu. Thankfully in this case it seems to be mild.

There's also that mystery respiratory disease appearing in clusters in China...should I get the extra toilet paper in advance this time?

I’m not so sure. I’m in the UK, many parts of Europe have more liberal laws and attitudes towards alcohol than us, but it’s the British teens (and the British in general) infamously known for binge drinking.

Many of the smokers I’ve known started smoking at that age or younger. When I was at school there was a playground back market for cigarettes.

Banning cigarettes for younger people now won’t stop that. Just as banning cannabis for everyone doesn’t stop those who want to smoking it.

Many of the younger people in my family now however don’t want to smoke. There has been a significant shift in cultural and health attitudes against tobacco consumption, without a ban being required.

Yes, if prohibition has taught us anything it’s that it doesn’t work.

My country, the UK, is attempting to follow in New Zealand’s footsteps and recently announced its own “generation ban” on tobacco smoking. Despite the fact that tobacco usage has been declining here for many years and seems likely to all but cease naturally anyway.

I’m no fan of tobacco smoking, but prohibition does not seem the right approach to take. It doesn’t seem helpful or necessary from a public health standpoint, and is also an impediment of individual liberty.

Revoking such a ban for tax reasons isn’t a great angle either though in New Zealand’s case. However, from what I remember of USA history tax was a motivation to repeal alcohol prohibition in the 1930s, so maybe that’s an unpleasant taste we should be willing to swallow in this case.

That’s because of gradual shifts in culture and attitudes, not due to prohibition.

Prohibition has failed to effectively “ban” any drug, and often tends to encourage their usage and harm efforts to alleviate addiction.

Tobacco smoking is also declining in many nations in response to improved public health awareness and again cultural shifts. If those trends continue it could all but fade away naturally. Tobacco prohibition is arguably not necessary and could even become counterproductive.

The Magic Keyboard is a much more natural experience, iPadOS has good cursor support now and touchpad is decent too.

Trying to use the Pencil as a mouse replacement feels awkward when using the iPad propped up with a keyboard.

Logitech also make some keyboard+touchpad cases if you wanted an alternative to the Apple one. I used one for a while with an older iPad Pro and it was good, very robust and protective case as well.

“It was a bug” is the common excuse when an intentional feature backfires.

Loading screen ads seem like an obvious next step of enshittification. They are creeping back into video with ads breaks on streaming, only a matter of time before they are in games too.

China would be just as unreliable an ally as Trumpian America.

The UK should be rebuilding relations with the EU, and maybe strengthening them with CANZUK, not cozying up to the Xi regime.

This sounds rather dangerous. GPS was originally opened up to civilian use for the purpose of keeping flights on course, after the disaster of Korean Air Flight 007 straying into Soviet airspace and being shot down back in the 1980s.

I can't understand what is to be gained by deliberately trying to knock civilian airliners off course.

They use gyroscopes and accelerometers to measure the aircrafts movement from the starting position at takeoff. That can then be used to plot the course the aircraft has taken to show the current location.

There was a flat-Earther called Mad Mike Hughes who tried to build and launch his own rocket to see the shape of the earth for himself. He died in the attempt.

Still a giant masterpiece for all the greatest world newspaper nerds.

I’d love to finally find out who really pulled this off. It’s a mystery that’s old enough now to be complaining about its own piles.

Well even if I wanted to go back to Reddit, I couldn't use it without a decent mobile app, and all of those no longer exist.

Communities don't spring up fully formed, they grow over time with many rises and falls in activity along the way. Lemmy is still young and we can all do our part to help it.

We've got a Hetty and a Henry, one for the house and one for the garage. I haven't managed to get them to breed successfully, although they will both probably outlive me anyway so I don't really need another.

Marketing. Expensive over-engineered solutions to non-existent problems promoted as luxury.

Some of those hand driers turned out to be a health hazard, and a Henry is far better hoover.