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Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears
  • @roguetrick @thehatfox @aelwero @li10 @BlinkerFluid
    If I were looking for subtle trouble, I'd look at the brain, which might be influenced in its development by a psychoactive chemical in childhood.
    And at the wetware that runs on it.
    Not at the chassis.

  • Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears
  • @roguetrick @thehatfox @aelwero @li10 @BlinkerFluid

    Well, Peripheral arterial disease isn't, i think, from vasospasm.
    And the effects you point to seem to be acute, rather than chronic.

    The magnitude and frequency of effects are significant.

  • ‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank
  • @mackwinston @snacks perhaps one motor lane in the centre, with occasional unloading spaces.

  • Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears
  • @li10 @aelwero (do we not have long term data on use of nicotine by inhalation? )

  • Voter ID in England led to racial and disability discrimination, report finds
  • @Double_A @PunnyName Firstly, we don't do that.
    Secondly we vote where our neighbours are.
    Thirdly a double vote has a high chance of being noticed.
    Fourthly, there are few polls where ond vote would make a difference. The ones where it would/have get even more interest in advance and afterward.

  • Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year
  • @RaivoKulli (I don't need to think hard about it, I grew up with it running)

  • Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year
  • @RaivoKulli Why wouldn't they be? If they sell a thousand cans they've paid a thousand deposits.
    If they return a thousand cans they get back their thousand deposits.

    The cans, as with R White's lemonade bottles once upon a time, are fungible.

    They'll need a tin of pennies.

  • Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year
  • @TWeaK @RaivoKulli B12 consumption causing spinal cord degeneration is an issue.
    Also N2O is a greenhouse gas, and supports combustion more effectively than pure oxygen, not very bad in small quantities and controlle,d spaces.

  • Nitrous oxide: Laughing gas to be illegal by end of year
  • @RaivoKulli @TWeaK if someone hands you 10 cans, they've handed you 10 cans. How don't you know?
    They don't need tracking.

    (If a store hands you 100kg of cans, they've handed you 100kg. Audit would need you to weigh them and know their name, but little else.)

  • "Critical risk to life:" Sunak refused to fully fund repairs of England’s crumbling schools when he was chancellor, says ex-official
  • @tal @0x815 Or perhaps in some places when they build something in 1990 with a predicted lifetime of 30 years, say, they simultaneously write in the 2018 diary" get bids to replace X starting in next 2 years"?

  • Energy bills to tick lower this winter but will remain high
  • @bernieecclestoned
    Planning needs changing.
    (I like wind turbines on hills. Pretty.)

    Thing about solar is you keep putting up more panels, and by and by you halve as much power in the winter as you used to in the summer.

    Solve the society for the prevention of rural electricity, soon.

  • 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport
  • @wewbull
    That's categorical thought, which is an error with a continuous variable such as speed.

    That they break, or do not break, the law ("rule" doesn't quite describe it).

    You may also care to consider that if one driver does not exceed the limit, it moderates the speed of others behind - you've presented this as an individual decision, uninfluenced by others, but even taken as a guideline others have influence.

  • 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport
  • @wewbull @Syldon
    If by speeding you mean 35 in a 30 zone, then will the drivers who know their journey is urgent and important, as are try, and that they are more skillful than those around them, drive 15mph above the limit, or 5mph?

    They'll stand out rather more if the former, and have a likelihood of killing a hit pedestrian or cyclist reduced by the change if the latter.

    I suspect the chap recently apprehended for 61 in a 30 zone past children might not change, yes.

  • Energy bills to tick lower this winter but will remain high
  • @bernieecclestoned @hellothere
    Renewables are viable because they produce electricity cheaper than combustion, and because combustion will be restricted and banned in various conditions as time goes on.

    We used to think peak oil would be more of a problem, but previous oil is the compelling problem.

  • Energy bills to tick lower this winter but will remain high
  • @hellothere
    Definitely for baseload generators. Perhaps slightly different for peaking generators etc. Average for the sort of units you propose to sell, I guess.

  • Camera attacks and conspiracy theories: How Ulez became a vigilante battleground
  • @Treczoks London residents or workers may not regret that. If you do, in your newer car, or by train, you may find the air is a bit nicer.

  • Rachel Reeves rules out wealth tax if Labour wins next election
  • @JoBo @lasagna curious assertions. And I think neither correct nor clever.

  • Rachel Reeves rules out wealth tax if Labour wins next election
  • @lasagna @thehatfox A conservative government, socialist-flavour or otherwise, would be a vast improvement over the combination of radicalism, destruction, and theft of the recent governments, which whatever they might badge themselves have not been notably conservative.

    Until Johnson there were some actually conservative Conservative MPs, in post, but if there are any on the back benches still, they are keeping their heads well down.

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