vfrmedia

vfrmedia, 2 hours ago

@Jaden3 he's a far right wing politician who helped push Brexit (UK leaving the European Union) wants to be the British Donald Trump (he is actively trying to help Trump get elected in USA as well)

All that happened just about 45 minutes drive from where I live...

vfrmedia, 5 hours ago

@ProfLouiseL the large criminal damage fine the first guy got also exposed that Farage was wearing a hidden microphone concealed behind his rosette (if it were for normal broadcast it would usually be visible) so is very likely also covertly recording all his interactions with the general public for unknown reasons..

vfrmedia, 4 days ago

@btuftin @RickiTarr

Britain also only has limited NHS provisions for vision correction and dentistry (and that is often only a financial contribution to a private provider for a relatively small selection of patients). I get free eye tests and a contribution towards costs of spectacles due to being highly nearsighted since a young age, but contact lenses and the space-age laser thing that scans your eyes cost extra..

vfrmedia, 4 days ago

@onepict @sullybiker

younger folk in UK have already been conditioned to accept it for insurance (its not "compulsory" but made unaffordable without the tracker, although usually only for 1-2 years after getting their licence).

vfrmedia, 6 days ago

@stux beterschap!

(they are for connecting the electrodes to the equipment in the ambulance that monitors your heart rate, blood and other vital signs)

vfrmedia, 7 days ago

@HistoPol

Mein "deutscher" VW Polo enthält Teile aus der Tschechischen Republik, Südafrika, Südkorea, China usw..

vfrmedia, 12 days ago

@ubo @alex
@prplecake

I photographed two large trees nearby before it got too dark, and plantnet.org (filtered for Northern Europe) identifies one as a black poplar - so this must the source of all the pollen..

vfrmedia, 5 days ago

@christian @blinry @leyrer

even in my own lifetime growing up in 1980s Britain, I was taught both by Computer Studies teachers and when I did work experience at British Telecom about the work of Alan Turing, but warned that "some of this is still classified". It was only declassified well into the 21st century..

vfrmedia, 13 days ago

@AnnaAnthro @veer66 frozen and thawed they are £40 here (about 1856 THB). A lot of Malaysian folk were driving to Watford (a suburban town just North of London) to buy them around Chinese New Year

vfrmedia, 16 days ago

@Willow_Crow @futurebird >40 and I engaged with it IRL before it was Internet phenomenon, spending a lot of time in abandoned buildings either used as squats or for raves (or both) and spent a lot of time wandering through such spaces especially in the afternoons after the party was finished and there were few people around (although the squatters were sometimes followed around by an entire gang of local cats, a mix of pets and strays (one tomcat was later rehomed by a fish supplier))

vfrmedia, 17 days ago

@onepict this is literally the attitiude of a petty criminal / sociopath (not even an activist who generally openly says what act they are going to commit (or admits to it and accepts the consequences). I often suspect folk like this would have done actual crime in previous years (and perhaps some do, all the high tech methods used to nick cars and commit other frauds nowadays must have some tech muscle behind them)

vfrmedia, 17 days ago

@onepict whole tech industry is full of it, particularly from sales/marketing types and predatory behaviour is actively encouraged in adtech which quietly funds a lot of "FOSS" projects..

vfrmedia, 17 days ago

@Dianepatterson has a lot of parallels with whats been happening in London, England over last few decades (although at least Mayor Sadiq Khan was comfortably re-elected in spite of major opposition and serious threats to his safety (he has to be shadowed by armed police everywhere he goes in public).

I wonder when this "war on motorists" paranoia started? Its not something I see in old books I collect about motoring from 1950s to 1980s (but then again I guess cars had priority back then)

vfrmedia, 17 days ago

@StillIRise1963 @MaryAustinBooks I was never into sportsball and only a part of my family are, but I really liked music and was a DJ for many years (particularly on the rave scene), and there are unfortunately too many artists and fellow DJ's who got nicked not just for recreational drugs (which I consider a non-crime) but genuinely nasty stuff like domestic violence and I've had to cut those out of my life..

vfrmedia, 17 days ago

@MaryAustinBooks @StillIRise1963 the hardest part of it with the rave scene (as it was a partly underground subculture I was deeply involved in) was dealing both with the facts that even folk you considered friends or acquaintances were involved in abusive behaviour /and/ the realisation the cops/social services/health authorities had a point when they clamped down on the scene (as even partydrug use can lead to impulsive and unpleasant behaviour)

vfrmedia, 17 days ago

@Aviva_Gary @StillIRise1963 @crazybutable @LenW @_L1vY_

I wonder how long it will be before folk just start shooting at each other in the streets like in an action movie over trivial disagreements; or if it does already regularly happen but doesn't make the news unless more than 2 people have been shot...

vfrmedia, 16 days ago

@StillIRise1963 @thesquirrelfish @Aviva_Gary @crazybutable @LenW @_L1vY_

Over here this kind of thing only happens (very rarely) in big cities. Everything apart from long guns is prohibited (with very few exceptions) since late 1990s, and firearms licences are only supplied to folk who have a good reason for them (as expected they usually live or work in rural areas).

There have only been 2 shootings in last 5 years in my area, both in semi rural locations..

vfrmedia, 19 days ago

@atomicpoet @HistoPol @Lazarou

All the decent DIY / car accessories stores are gone in my region, the only one left is Halfords which has been mostly enshittified (and real life places rarely have any stock these days compared to Amazon or EBay). I did find a decent online tool store from SE England where you can even speak to real humans on the phone and they deliver on the promised dates, but they charge quite a price premium for this..

vfrmedia, 19 days ago

@atomicpoet @HistoPol @Lazarou

Also my experience of 1980s/90s/00s shopping was if you did get a defective or sub-par product, it wasn't always easy to return it without the shop staff quibbling (and local businesses were slow to sort out problems), compared to Amazon where (at least in UK) they just refund you with few questions asked

vfrmedia, 19 days ago

@fitheach where the sign is is just before a 4 way junction and a main route to the highway, its been put there for a good reason (as folk think they can get away with sending it through the village and it has ended badly before, in fact there have been worse incidents than in the large town)

vfrmedia, 20 days ago

@Jaden3 @DoubleTreble

a blunt is an American type of spliff, usually made from a hollowed out cheap cigar rather than cigarette papers and tobacco (more common here in Britain).

I have never had one, and stopped with cannabis many years ago as our varieties were getting too strong and just caused paranoia (and can't touch it now since I started driving as you can get nicked for DUI and banned really easily)