Lol. Do you really think only govts can track you via your phone ? Both the phone OS providers and the telcos can readily do so, and additionally many apps ask for access that allows them to do so if you're not careful. Refer the jogging app that compromised military security in Afghanistan & the middle east for example.

That doesn't make the flock cameras irrelevant though. It takes an additional step because a) you can't opt out of number plate tracking and b) it's facial recognition as well as anpr into a central tracking database.

It's a good explanation and would be logical if the council were acting in good faith, however the primary driver here is to reduce the number of people who are able to patronise these pubs and thus put them out of business.

A table and 4 chairs takes about the same space as a dozen people standing, and most of these pubs are on comparatively thin margins. Reduce the turnover by that much and they're out of business. Which is what this residents group wants.

They're pushing a lot of other restrictions not just the no standing, closing pubs at 10pm on weekends is clearly intended to make them less attractive to potential patrons for example

The council area is London's biggest night life area, the local residents have elected a council who is determined to kill that. Businesses dont get to vote. So the small number if residents get to kill thousands of businesses.

It is democracy but not as we know it it Jim

Good. The sooner the US pulls out the better, the newly fascist America isn't going to uphold NATO anyway, so the sooner the band-aid is pulled off the better

I suspect the families of the dead civilians in Kyiv are even less happy

It's a real word. And used correctly in context so unlikely to be a typo.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/backronym

https://www.wordnik.com/words/backronym

Acronyms were very rare prior to about mid 20thC.

A number of words sound like they should be an acronym or people searching for an explanation of them make backronyms out of them.

Posh and rap being turned into acronyms as per the first like are good examples of a backronym.

Fash and tankies aren't what I want to see in my feed, and I'm fairly sure there were a large number of (ShJW member) comments saying exactly that in the defederate exploding heads thread

After the painfully long time it took to deal with the defederate vote for exploding heads and imaqtpie's post on hexbear federating yesterday I doubt we're defederating, so I'll go find somewhere else to hang out. Lemmy world has blocked them according to another poster.

I've been on internet communities since the days of dialup BBS' and there's a really simple pattern. A swarm of bright eyed ideologues descends then every conversation becomes about their cause whether you like it or nor. I've watched the locusts swarm in and ruin so many communities it's a lay down misere what happens next.

No one has their politics changed by an online missionary it just annoys the recipents of the preaching and gives a little triumphant glow to the proselytiser "I told them the only one truth. MY truth"

As for the "just block them" proponents - that doesnt work where it's a swarm. It only works if it's a small number, because the swarm crowds out all other conversation killing the community.

Defederate hexbear. They're no different to Lemmygrad. Tankies and fash shouldn't be allowed at the table. They operate in bad faith.

Won't be responding to any HB comments so rollout your usual insults (we saw your methods in the thread yesterday). I won't be reading them

Fairly standard central bank activity, nothing unusual in and of itself.

Good.

Stealerships have been raping and pillaging for years. The sooner they go the way of buggy whip makers the better.

And before you ask: Direct purchase from manufacturers and licensed service centers is a much better model, if we can't have that then manufacturer direct service.

My dude I've been running Linux for literally 20+ years and I still don't feel like I know anything.

Carry on bumbling along doing your best, it's all everyone else is doing.

You've got this

OK, the conspiracy theory that Musk is deliberately tanking the company is starting to become believable. Given his insistence on people working in the office, refusal to pay the rent seems to be a little contradictory. He may have to reconsider that policy