Mastodawn

I have a proposal to prevent this.

1. The most senior UK google exec takes the ponts and fines for any offence.
2. The fines are proportional to income.
3.once banned from driving, the next most senior exec has to take the points.

https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

#Cycling #BikeTooter #VisionZero

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists

Waymo, the autonomous driving tech firm whose so-called ‘robo-taxis’ are now roaming the streets of London, has told cycling campaigners that expecting their driverless cars to respect cycle lanes is “too high a bar” – because their customers want to be dropped off in them.According to the Highway Code, motorists “must not drive or park ... Read more

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Ben Curthoys 1d ago

Adrian Hon 1d ago

I have the softest of spots for the game it's based on, but I was hooting and hollering at Exit 8.

This is the most video game-ass video game movie I've ever seen, and even more than that, it's a Twitch-ass movie: you're basically watching someone "play" the game, and you can even play along!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_8_(film)

Exit 8 (film) - Wikipedia

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Chris Trottier 2d ago

Listen, it’s one thing to dress up to impress other men.

It’s quite another for a man to eroticize male beauty, be openly misogynistic, and then claim that enjoying sex with women is actually gay.

That sounds ridiculous, but it is something Andrew Tate has said.

If your goal is to be beautiful for other men, while constantly saying women are ugly, and while insisting that attraction to women makes a man homosexual…

I’m just saying you may not be as straight as you claim.

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/83f3bd91-0d2f-447f-b6d1-1a832c1bc922

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Mick Garratt 2d ago

Hareshaw Linn: The Waterfall That Forgot Its Past

Standing here at the foot of Hareshaw Linn, I would swear nothing had ever disturbed this place. Dripping rock. Ancient ferns. A waterfall cascading thirty feet into a rust-brown pool. It feels, as one writer put it, like “an ancient rainforest.“

It is not. Not even slightly. As we discovered from the inf ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/24/hareshaw-linn-the-waterfall-that-forgot-its-past/

#Northumberland #19thcentury #history

Ben Curthoys 2d ago

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ʙᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴇяɪʟʟ 2d ago

@Nickiquote I remember years ago The Big Breakfast gave away a holiday to “a new holiday park outside of Paris”.
The winner exlamed on TV they were incredibly excited to go to Disneyland Paris.
It was Asterix and Obelix land. My cousin was their tour guide for a very grumpy family.

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/\w*(bim)\w*/g 2d ago

retooted with alt

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Lord Businessman II 2d ago

Stalin and tankies is just a constant things that I'll never ever understand. The USSR is dead. Its over. We didn't conquer it, it just fell apart in a nasty, corrupt mess after a nasty, corrupt existence wherein it mostly suppressed and murdered people to no great effect save regime survial

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Ronan 2d ago

Waymo, a Google-owned company, which officially launched its self-driving taxi fleet in London earlier this month, has told cycling campaigners that it is “normal practice” for their taxis to veer into and block cycle lanes
#cycling #roadSafety
https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists

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Ben Curthoys 2d ago

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Paul Nicholls 2d ago

@davidtheeviloverlord @cstross Ah, a true clbuttic!

Ben Curthoys 2d ago

David Gerard 2d ago

from SAclopedia:

> On January 1, 2020, Lowtax changed a setting so that unregistered users could not see the forum index. Anyone not logged in would be given the banpage because of '=' in place of '==' in a section of the code. This led to discovery of an ancient bit of radium code that changed 'unregistered user' to a homophobic slur. Jeffrey fixed the bug, but this load bearing slur will live on forever.

anyway I FOUND THE LOAD BEARING SLUR here you are, internet legend preserved for the world

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