Not “might”, “would”. Although they didn’t specify a timeline, so we could be waiting for decades.

I’m a bit confused my this article. I’m pretty sure Novara are pro-wealth tax, and the article itself just seems to be an advert for some podcast. I’d like to see what they’re proposing, but I don’t like podcasts.

Technically IP law covers patents, trademarks, copyright, and designs (sometimes also called design patents). Patent protection is 20 years (plus a little bit extra under certain conditions. Trademarks is indefinite in theory. Copyright (in many jurisdictions) is 70 yrs after death or 50 yrs for certain works (e.g., music recordings). Designs, I’m not really sure.

The new “BritCard” would be used to check on an individual’s right to live and work in Britain, with senior No 10 figures examining the proposal, The Times has reported.

The card, stored on a smartphone, would reportedly be linked to government records and could check entitlements to benefits and monitor welfare fraud.

I’m not against what it’s trying to achieve, but will it achieve that and isn’t there a less expensive or better way to do it?

Not sure what your point is here? We all know what the Southport attack was.

Why do you think all knife deaths are due to mass murderers on a mission?

If you ban all potential weapons, deaths due to weapons would fall, yes.

If someone really wants to kill someone else, of course they’ll find a way. The idea is to raise the barrier to make it more difficult, maybe prevent those deaths where the killer lose their head for a moment.

It’s not expecting to stop all murders. It’s about reducing deaths.

No chance to save lives unless sharp-tipped knives are banned and they’re all destroyed.

She’s asking for half of this. Probably she only stops short of asking to to destroy existing knives because she knows it’s impractical. But if you stop creating new pointed knives, they’ll slowly get phased out. You wouldn’t save lives day 1, but decades down the line when nobody owns a pointed knife any more, you will.

It’s a difficult one - inconvenience some chefs or have a chance to save lives

I would assume it’s a spam email and delete it. Are they really deporting people over email? Seems more like a postal letter kind of thing.

Why are they banning knives and swords category by category (e.g., zombie knives, ninja swords) instead of a broader ban?

I remember seeing that meme, I just didn’t get it at the time

This seems like such a useful feature and I hope lemmy brings it. What else does piefed do?

30mph

The thing about the lamp posts doesn’t really have any significance. Roads in the UK have a default speed limit that doesn’t need to be marked with the speed limit - it’s 30mph for “normal” streets with regular lamposts, 60mph for other roads, 70mph if there’s an embankment thing in between each side of the road. 180m spacing must just be the technical definition for what makes a road 30mph. In Wales, they made default 30mph roads 20mph.

The article says it’s not poisoning the AI data, only providing valid facts. The scraper still gets content, just not the content it was aiming for.

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It is important to us that we don’t generate inaccurate content that contributes to the spread of misinformation on the Internet, so the content we generate is real and related to scientific facts, just not relevant or proprietary to the site being crawled.

It took me a while to work out why they were so critical of Canada

This mostly seems pretty achievable in my eyes. Meat consumption is apparently trending down anyway, even without government intervention. The difficult part may be turning farmland into woodland, because how do you get farmers to convert their source of income into land for trees?