No where in this text can I see a quote from him saying that he’d legalise all drugs. This “public health approach” sounds like decriminalisation, which is what I’d advocate for, but not legalisation, I don’t want to be seeing Tesco value acid available behind the counter, right?

Have never had it, never will. Social media for work? No fucking thanks.

And yet in Notts I’ve now been seeing police on the tram stops with like 10 tram staff making sure people are paying their 2 quid for a tram ticket. I really don’t understand why the police really care about a 2 quid tram ticket but won’t look for a stolen bike that cost 700 quid.

It’s the brain worms, it’s always the brain worms.

Controversial comment: Bring back the headphone jack.

A mate of mine calls them bicycle Tories.

I’m a web Dev and I use LLMs a lot, one of the best uses I’ve found is to make small tools, for example, I have a tool where I can specify a name and a list of variables, and it will output a stored proc template with my preferences, and some code that I can use in my chosen language to call the proc.

If I need to use a code library for a single task but it’s 3rd party and I’m not going to use it again, I’ll get an LLM to write me some examples so I can understand how to call the thing, saves me a lot of brain power.

I also use it to write me functions that I don’t have available but I know have been written a million times before, like an LPAD function.

I’m also using it for music recommendations, new version of chat can search the web and amalgamate multiple sources like Reddit, last.fm and give me a neat little report on bands I might like to listen to based off artists I give it, I’m currently using it to explore psychedelic music from places like Turkey.

I also used ChatGPT recently to generate me 2 images of a guy to get around discords age check so I didn’t have to give them my actual face.

I did try and get it to help me write a dating profile but everyone could tell it was LLM written so I binned it.

I’ve literally been saying that for years, like, no shit Sherlock this should be common knowledge.

Nearly half the right to buy houses in Notts are owned by landlords too, and it was obvious that was going to happen.

Why are our politicians so fucking short sighted?

Let’s go dig up Maggie and ask her where that milk went 🎵

I still buy cassettes! New ones too!

My last phone before this one was an HTC, and it needed a proprietary dongle, if I used a cheap one I’d only get sound out of one ear.

The proprietary dongle for the HTC at the time was like £16.99, which was close to what I was paying for headphones. (I’m still using a 20 quid set now).

I tried wireless earbuds but they’re quite heavy and my ear canals were getting pretty sore, I just don’t get on with them much. I know there’s one with clips that go around the ear, but I’m not a fan of that either, especially if I’ve glasses on.

To me, yep, absolute deal-breaker.

I’ve broken too many dongles and a couple of charge ports, I prefer to keep it simple.

Also the whole “if you need to charge your phone you can’t listen to music” thing is incredibly frustrating.

Massaclaim is a great word for a class action.

I’m not sure a license is the best way to go about it, but I certainly do think something needs to change.

I believe there should be some sort of minimum commitment to training if a person gets a new dog, i.e. you can have a puppy but you must have already booked up x amount of training sessions, and have vets appointments booked in.

And with cats, it’d like to see pre-booked appointments for neutering/spaying and microchipping, because apparently according to my neighbours, you can buy kittens, not do any of that and then just let them be feral around your neighbourhood and not really have to take care of them at all.

I’d actually like to see legislation on new cats not being let outside unless contained in a catio or something.

Dropped my fairphone 3 yesterday, smashed the screen

Really annoying I’ve dropped this loads and never broke it.

~35 quid for a new screen isn’t bad

Just wish the later models had, you guessed it, a headphone jack.

When I was a kid, if I wanted to ride to school, my school required that I pass a cycling proficiency test, which taught me about road laws and where and how I was supposed to position my bike on the road to stay safe.

I’d love to see a cycling and small electric vehicle proficiency course be part of our school curriculum.

There are always going to be people that ignore the rules of the road (I nearly got hit by a car today who didn’t give way to the right on a roundabout, I was watching him, he didn’t even look!), but I don’t see how adding this in schools could cause harm.

Check out how Bicing in Barcelona works, problem is already solved there, no need to start fining lime, just change the legislation so that these services need to have physical locking racks where bikes can be both left and retrieved from, that way they can’t be stolen and they’ll be kept in better condition because they aren’t being pinched constantly.

Check out how bicing in Barcelona works, no cameras and surveillance, but you literally cannot retrieve a bike without an account and the app because they are physically locked in racks. It’s a brilliant system and ours can be easily fixed with a little legislation.

You just bump start them, there’s nothing to break from the outside, you just lift the back wheel and start moving, then drop the wheel and it’ll keep going, but with an alarm and a clacking.

Yeah there is, they can be bump started really easily, you literally just lift the rear wheel then start moving forward, then put the wheel back down and jump on, I’ve seen kids do it, it takes zero skill. In the meadows these days I hear a lime alarm pretty much every day.

This is a problem that’s already been solved, check out bicing in Barcelona and how that works. This really is a problem of legislation.