jtb

joined 2 years ago
[–] jtb@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

I don't think everyone always breaks the speed limit, but probably they do at some point during every journey. They knew this went they introduced the 20mph speed limit but they introduced it anyway because they thought it would reduce the average speed by a few mph.

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/365789/do-20mph-speed-limits-save-lives-100-fewer-casualties-wales-sparks-uk-debate

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Because the government has to pay her legal fees perhaps.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

Scone should be pronounced scone. Scon is unacceptable.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I never thought I would find myself living in Dickensian England.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

That's how far democracy has gone down the drain, that even criticising cancel culture is 'brave'.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Careful with that pitchfork, Eugene. Free speech is a civil liberty, not right wing.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/civil-liberty

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Take it to a witch-burning.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk -3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Perhaps he can get a job at the Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12636545/cartoonist-steve-bell-refuses-apologist-anti-Semitic-Netanyahu-sketch.html

The Guardian was started by Unitarians who are supposed to be open to ideas, but now it fully embraces cancel culture and censorship, like any orthodoxy.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago

Let's make farting in public a crime.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

Cancel culture is fine as long as the majority is right. But gay people were once a victim of cancel culture.

[–] jtb@feddit.uk -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This is old news.

But what browser should I use? Do I have to check the politics of every employee or volunteer?

[–] jtb@feddit.uk -1 points 2 years ago

How do you make steel for wind turbines without fossil fuels? How do you build a nuclear power station without fossil fuels? How do you replace all the petrol and diesel cars in the country with electric ones, without using fossil fuels? Where is all the electricity going to come from? It's complicated.

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