GNSS isn’t really accurate enough for this, especially in urban environments where there is poor line of sight to most of the satellites.

There never was a sufficient separation of powers. This and the much-vaunted checks and balances, it turns out, only exist if the person in the White House consents to them existing, and consents to being under the rule of law.

This is a bit of red herring. From the POV of the driver of a petrol car, you’re paying tax to someone - it doesn’t matter who - you’re still paying fuel duty. If you don’t refuel abroad, you paid all the fuel duty in the UK. If you did refuel abroad, you’re not exempt from the fuel duty abroad, you still pay someone for fuel duty even if it’s not the UK - so from your point of view, you’re still paying roughly the same to someone (taxes on fuel aren’t that grossly different between countries a British driver may drive in).

So a mileage tax on electric cars, then you’re no worse off than the petrol car driver, you’re paying tax to someone, you don’t care who is running up the additional cost you have to pay, you’re still paying it. If significant miles are driven by UK drivers in France (e.g. a significant imbalance between how much UK drivers drive in France compared to French drivers driving in the UK) then the French and British governments can decide how that gets divvied up after they have received the tax money from their respective drivers without involving the driver themselves. If in reality UK drivers drive in France about as much as French drivers drive in the UK, then really there’s no need to worry about it.

Backblaze, for one (remote backup and storage service). They buy masses of spinning rust drives to provide large amounts of remote storage at low prices. (They also publish reliability statistics, and do a quarterly report on reliability of various drive types, which is useful).

Post-industrial depression landscape in the Cumbrian mountains? Or Yorkshire? The Pennines?

Cthuhlu. Why go for a lesser evil?

The UK isn’t going to extradite someone over a civil trademark case. (Does the extradition treaty even cover civil actions?) Reddit would likely have to bring a trademark case in the UK.

Why not just rename the instance, instead of creating a completely new one? Rename it, make sure feddit.uk still redirects there, job done. People are lazy and won’t migrate unless they have to - I think you underestimate the difficulty in migration (getting everyone to do it. Just look at migrating off reddit to lemmy - so many people declaring how they hated the changes at reddit but how many actually moved? 1% of them? 0.1% of them? 0.01%? I would expect the number is closer to 0.01% than 1%). Just rename feddit.uk but keep all the users and all the communities so it’s literally zero effort for the users and communities, even their bookmarks will just continue to work with a properly done redirection.

Also - I’m picking nits here - but “Feddit” isn’t infringing a copyright, you cannot copyright a word. It would be a trademark infringement not a copyright infringement. The law around trademarks is quite different to copyrights. Even if Reddit gets wind of feddit.uk, the likely outcome will be a “cease and desist”, and feddit.uk will have to be renamed, not some kind of catastrophe. Reddit’s only going to go to the effort of pursuing a trademark case in the UK courts if the feddit.uk admins are completely intransigent and refuse to take action.

Probably a clusterfuck.

Sigh. Yet another thing that must be sacrificed on the altar of the almighty motor car.

Looking forward to wave 3. Too bad but it has to be done.

One of the weaknesses with Lemmy I think is that communities themselves aren’t distributed - a problem solved by both Usenet and FidoNet decades ago (for instance, a FidoNet bulletin board ceasing meant that the community there would have to be moved to another BBS - the FidoNet echoes (“communities”) were themselves distributed so as a user you could just move to a new BBS and whole communities wouldn’t have to be moved. Similarly with Usenet - your usenet server get shut down? Just move to a new one and subscribe to all the same groups.

The OP is clearly using hyperbole. But only 1% of the welfare bill goes on unemployment benefits, so even if absolutely everyone on unemployment benefits is cheating and you cut them off, you don’t save much. In reality the majority of people on unemployment benefits are not cheating the system - a system that already sanctions the unemployed for not actively seeking work.

What’s CSAM? (I don’t want to google it, it sounds “risky” from the context).

Never. We had a work lunch and one of the guys a few days later said “I just tested positive for covid, better test”. About 2 days later I was testing positive, but none of us in the household ever had any symptoms other than testing positive (about 4 days in, the LFT was going bright red as soon as the liquid reached the test line). None of us ever had so much as a sniffle. The guy we got it off was really rough for a few days.

Not only that, but they will make an ungodly racket while doing so. Multi propellers all turning at a slightly different RPM, with all the annoying beat frequencies this will create. They will also likely be almost as expensive as helicopters (only a very small amount of a helicopter’s cost is its fuel, the overwhelming majority is maintenance and insurance).

They both do significant business in the UK. To continue doing business in the UK, they must abide with UK competition laws.

A road rage conviction should result in a lifetime ban or until a medical professional can certify that the person is mentally fit to drive.

I love the arguments about tolerances, how “having to stare at the speedometer will make things less safe”.

The average 17 year old is expected to be able to drive at a steady speed while dividing attention effectively and NOT staring at the speedometer, and demonstrate this skill on their driving test. So basically all the people going on about how they will “have to stare at the speedo” are saying: “Speed limits shouldn’t be enforced because I’m too incompetent to safely drive at the speed limit”. It makes me think that it would be a good idea that driving licenses really expire at their expiration date, requiring a new driving test.

Anyone who thinks driving at the speed limit needs to stare at the speedo seriously needs some remedial training from a driving instructor.

I’ve never forgiven that arsehole for what he did to Andrew Sachs.

It is inflation. Inflation is literally too much money chasing too few goods - if there’s sufficient supply of goods (or insufficient supply of money) price gouging literally cannot happen. Outside of illegal acts such as collusion, price gouging is a symptom of too much money chasing too few goods.