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age verification laws reduced porn use by 10% even though they're trivially easy to circumvent and extremely low cost we can regulate internet content. it's not even hard.

It was described as the “safest and most robust assisted dying legislation” by **supporters** of the Bill. Not a single Royal Medical College OR Professional Body in this country will say the Bill is safe. Let alone it being the “safest”.

This is a mistake. It’s a flawed Bill. The whips ought not to be pushing this. If the government wants this in legislation it needs to be in a manifesto so that the electorate, which is just as divided on the issue, as Parliament have a say. It will of course be blocked again.

It beggars belief that we’re back here again despite all the evidence. If we care about vulnerable people and if we care about being evidence led, we will reject this outright at 2nd reading, put an end to this nonsense and fix palliative care instead.

Absolutely dismayed that the Assisted Dying Bill is being re-introduced. Not a single one of our major medical or professional bodies support it. A deeply flawed and dangerous bill that poses a real risk to the most vulnerable in our society.

Impressed by the ITV World Cup Men’s team uniform. Nice polo shirts.

0.3% of the water consumed by US golf courses last year

Ulsteria

One shots are nonsense when the corpus is well documented. Try that again, but you can’t use the word Minecraft. x.com/shanselman/status/2019…

Soccer was so named by English public schoolboys to distinguish it from other forms of football. Rugby Football = rugger. Association Football = soccer.

The fate of the “assisted dying” bill now falls in the hands of Lauren Edwards MP. Her local constituency polls strongly against the bill. 📉 Residents of her area gathered outside her office to appeal to her not to resurrect yet another “assisted dying” debate 👇

Genetic data shows something similar. The key point: "Viking" culture (and religion!) was to a great extent an effectively new thing. Viking culture emerged contemporaneous and in contact with Christianity; it was not some deep ancient pre-Christian primordial thing.

"96% of drivers surveyed admit to routinely breaking the law in ways that could kill people" remember folks, Twitter is often just the most unhinged sociopathic drivers sitting in soul-crushing traffic vent-tweeting about how much they hate cyclists, pedestrians, and transit.

I can’t help thinking Russia has a lot of refineries and the UK has almost nothing. Big strategic imbalance. And I don’t think we have enough capacity in NATO if Russia attacked.

The real reason Lidl is opening a pub: a quirk of NI law. They bought a license to sell alcohol (from a closing pub) but the council said there were already enough off-licenses but they argued they could open a pub & use that license as an ‘off-license’ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze2…

"The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay." -- C A R Hoare, The Emperor's Old Clothes web.archive.org/web/20120419…

company: requires 3 approvals for a $40 lunch also company: unlimited access to AI with no spending cap

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism. One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled. The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy. Meanwhile, in Cheshire. A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain. She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco. To recap. 600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water. Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food. The shopper picks the almond. She has been told this is the ethical position. The aquifer would like a word.

Why did the premier league teams play in their 26/27 kits for the end of the 25/26 season? #EPL #newKits

Just throwing it out there that the lane is wiiiiiiiiide open for a tech company to get insanely rich by just replicating the 2010 version of big websites like Google while explicitly stating that they hate AI.