[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That's good. I went for a walk in the Wye valley in Wales many years back and I'm happy it's getting some protection.

Rivers in Ecuador, Canada and New Zealand have been granted legal personhood in recent years, and the House of Lords is considering a proposal by the former leader of the Green party, Natalie Bennett, to change nature’s legal status from objects, property and resources to subjects with inherent rights.

I'm not sure why you'd need rivers to have personhood to be protected. I guess that might just be a result of weird legal frameworks.

Last year, the Ouse, which runs through East and West Sussex, became the first river in the country to have its rights formally recognised.

Is this really a UK first then? Maybe I've just misread.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I reviewed the original guidance and while this is a miniscule bit better, its still basically saying "ban trans people from single-sex spaces".

They're saying that businesses and whole hospital wings will need to be built just to house them, but of course there is no legal requirement to do so and no funding from the government will ever be provided for this.

What theh really want is for trans people to vanish from public life.

“The supreme court was very clear … if you are providing separate toilets for women and men, that has to be on the basis of biological sex.”

Wrong. An obvious lie.

I know someone who has researched this extremely deeply, and they will tell you that the EHRC has been infested with transphobes since around 2020. Most non-transphobic staff has left since then, leaving a thoroughly rotten organization.

An FOI they filed found that while they communicated thousands of times with anti-trans hate groups like Sex Matters since 2020, they didn't record a single set of meeting minutes with trans advocacy groups since then. Not once.

The current goal for some trans activists is to get the EHRC to lose its accreditation as a human rights organisation with GANRI, and there's plenty enough evidence to do that. I just hope it will happen in time before this guidance becomes law.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

We need more people to drop Labour, as although more Labour defectors went to Greens, significantly more councilors elected were Reform. That's presumably because the vote was split.

(The above numbers may be a little out of date)

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

You can filter by audio and subtitle languages. Most of my movies have more than one language track and it identities them correctly.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

❤️Columbo my love❤️

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[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 78 points 5 days ago

The obvious answer to the problem no one seems to have mentioned yet:

Pay the drivers by the hour, not by the amount of orders.

Performance-based pay has never worked, and always incentivises bad behaviour. They wouldn't try to batch so many orders for a single trip if it wasn't the only way they could make passable money.

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Chart of seats up for election and how many were gained and lost by party.

As the remaining council votes start slowing down, we see that the greatest growth and numbers go to Reform council members, but the Green Party have gained significant ground.

Meanwhile, Labour have lost over half of the seats up for election this May.

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Basically, they're all horrible people, to no ones surprise. And these are the ones who have not been recently arrested for being Russian shills

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yd878ejqko

Maybe this will be the thing that finally gets your weirdo uncle to reconsider voting reform.

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Not sure if this qualifies for this community, but given Lemmy is the primary source of news for many I thought it was important enough news to share.

This is a developing story, and it's not even clear yet that Trump was the target.

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[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 215 points 1 month ago

Both. Both is true.

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Alt text: Picture of E.T. laying back on a Sinclair C5

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To the surprise of no one at this point, Kier Starmer's Labour prepares to squeeze more money out of poor people. Anything to not tax billionaires.

The (Forced) Labour party seem to earnestly believe that disabled people are just too lazy to work, and cutting their benefits will incentivise them to do so. In reality, what will happen is that most will sink into deeper poverty and many will become homeless. Homeless people are a lot more expensive to the state than people on benefits, and their health will only deteriorate, causing them to be even less likely to work and costing more to the NHS.

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EDIT: Changed the article from Guardian to Independent as it was a more complete, less odd article without a cookiewall.


The numbers are still unconfirmed, but having been there I can tell you it was massive and fantastic.

The police estimates of 50 000 are comically false. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle. Most likely in the multiple hundreds of thousands.

Either way, it dwarfs any of the half a dozen protests I've seen in London over the last year, and some of those were really big.

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To be completely precise, some she reverse engineers herself, others she finds an implementation someone has already done and just creates a UI for them. Still very cool.

In the video, she then describes how she did it, tools and all.

It's a shame people in the US (and possibly UK?) would be putting themselves at legal risk if they did the same. See Louis Rossman's videos on the DMCA if you are curious.

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The news first came in 2024, but it's been very quiet since.

I've been waiting this whole time to jettison WhatsApp from my phone.

Is it available only in some parts of the world? If so can I spoof it?

We know that adversarial interoperability works, so why have we not been able to make this work?

All else failing, are there any unofficial WhatsApp clients I can use to preserve my privacy?

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Sorry for the YouTube link, I realise Lemmy doesn't like that format much.

This is a video trying to explain the bathshit crazy views of Pete Hegseth, the GOP and the rest of its Christian Nationalist followers.

Not to excuse them, but to help understand what they will do next and what their goals are. As to many of us, myself included, it sometimes seems like random chaos.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 164 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Source is a 2015 xkcd comic:

https://xkcd.com/1599

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 229 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, calling the only black dude Shacklebolt as well. The more you look the worse it gets.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 176 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Controversial take (though maybe not in this community):

If it's needed for survival, it should be free. No exceptions.

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 177 points 9 months ago

The company should be sued into the ground. This is horrendous

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