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Free speech innit? And surely smart and industrious people should benefit from their labours? Or are you some kind of commie who wants to requisition all the stored nuts for the collective drey? That will just drag everyone down down to a subsistence level while rewarding a small cadre of squirrels who devote their time to getting ahead in the committees and keeping everyone else fighting.
We know how that ends – increasingly cynical and apathetic squirrels, growing corruption, worsening leaders, until the system falls apart. And then the capitalists will pick the bones clean anyway!
Smart and industrious? Sounds like you’re a believer in meritocracies, but I think we’re in more of a hereditary aristocracy.
I pity the poor squirrels that have to hunt for acorns in trees that “belong” to the squirrel lords and pay their tithe of tasty treats over to them
Thermae Bath Spa cordoned off
Thermae Bath Spa cordoned off after pillar damaged
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/live-roman-baths-cordoned-after-9766332
Pictures from the scene show a pile of rubble and dust around the pillar, which appears to have a crack through the centre. A witness has said a lorry reportedly reversed towards the spa and crashed into the pillar.
Person seriously injured as
Person seriously injured as car drives through road closure and crashes into bridge:
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/person-seriously-injured-car-drives-9765993
The bridge was damaged during Storm Bert and was waiting for repairs to be carried out. However, a driver crashed into the bridge yesterday morning (Tuesday, December 3) causing sections of the bridge to crumble away.One person was seriously injured during the incident and has been taken to Southmead Hospital in Bristol. The driver of the car has been identified and investigations into the incident are ongoing, police have said.
Lots in the news at the moment about Musktrying to buy the UK toowanting to donate massive funds to Reform UK…With all that money, he could wipe out hunger/homelessness/diseases, but instead he’s trying to promote fascism wherever he can.
Billionaires are mainly (with maybe one or two exceptions) thoroughly evil people who gain their money by exploiting people around them or who work for them. It’s like some kind of hoarding disease, but instead of treating them in hospitals, society elevates them to some kind of deity to be worshipped/emulated etc.
I wonder how many billionaires we’d have to kill to get the rest of them to behave?
On BlueSky, I searched for
On BlueSky, I searched for “bollards” to find WorldBollardAssociation and also found a post by Emily Kerr (Oxford City Councillor), celebrating new/old bollards in Bristol’s St Michael’s Hill (I didn’t know they were there – time for me to struggle up that hill and have a look): https://bsky.app/profile/emilykerr36.bsky.social/post/3lcfw7rdyhj2n
(sticking to Christian examples for fear of being smitten).Well, there are relatively few religious DIY enthusiasts in the “West” – or at least they’re mostly doing their own thing locally and few others join them. Most find it convenient to employ professionals. The more successful groups are either old (so have traditions which don’t necessarily fit current fashions), based on same, or making it up as they go along (revelation / charismatic leader) in which case it does seem you get their personal quirks emerging as the Word of God.
And as to “picking and choosing bits of religion” isn’t that … most religions, as they go? Even the “original” generally grows out of some existing tradition, and ones which stick around go through at least one phase of “now let’s get policy straight” (see Council of Nicaea, the Diet of Worms etc. – sorry, the latter much later I just like the name). Not infrequently in conjunction with some old-fashioned politics. At least that’s how Christianity as we knew it more than 1700 years ago got its start…
By “picking and choosing”, I mean they disregard all the numerous mentions of hoarding wealth to be a sin and instead put a lot of their focus on demonising LBTQ+ people.
Not to mention their disregard of certain commandments such as making no idols, bearing false witness against your neighbours, taking the name of God in vain (e.g. saying that God is against something when that’s just their personal opinion), adultery, stealing, coveting etc.
Pro tip: if you see a wealthy Christian leader, then they’re only Christian in name and are looking to exploit people.
It’s a veritable war on
It’s a veritable war on parkers, don’t you know!
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/cameras-plan-catch-parents-parking-9764409
Cameras to catch parents parking illegally while dropping off their kids at school could be installed across Bristol under city council plans. Councillors will meet on Thursday, December 5, to decide whether to introduce a trial of CCTV that can automatically read drivers’ number plates.A report to the transport and connectivity policy committee said enforcement was difficult for many reasons, including the fact traffic wardens could not be at all 160 schools in the city and that drop-off and pick-up times were very short.
It said: “Increasing the number of civil enforcement officers is not a cost-effective solution, so officers have been exploring other technical opportunities. Camera enforcement is heavily restricted by legislation, but parking on ‘school keep clear’ markings, providing they are supported by a traffic regulation order, is one of the few [interventions] which can be enforced using camera technology.
Christian right will continue doing their thing. America was in part founded by groups of “sectarians” (in the most neutral usage of the word) and is apparently overall more religion-professing than the UK FWTW.I prefer to not outright call them “Christian” as their politics are almost completely opposite to the teachings of Christ (e.g. love your neighbour, welcome the poor and needy etc). They’re picking and choosing bits of religion to justify destroying education and women’s rights.
When we’ve been on holiday in the U.S., we were surprised at how religious they are. We visited a relative of a relative and they were very nice and welcoming, but when we out to a meal, they insisted on saying Grace. We were forewarned that they’re like that, so we just went along with it as we didn’t want to unnecessarily insult them (as an atheist, I see it as just a meaningless tradition). The UK is very much less religious than the U.S.
If there’s Nazis on the
If there’s Nazis on the platform and they’re not being removed, then it’s a Nazi platform.
I can understand that people may have had an account for a while and not want to lose it, but remember that there were a lot of people not taking a stand against Nazi Germany and look how that worked out.
I suspect that Trump is just
I suspect that Trump is just trying to avoid jail and will probably aim to just play golf during his presidency – he does seem to be showing signs of dementia.
I doubt that Musk and him will be friends for very long as you’ve got two narcissists vying for all the attention, although Trump desperately wants access to Musk’s money so their dance could go on for a while.
I imagine the ChristoFascists that are being installed into positions of power will do more harm themselves as they attempt to make The Handmaid’s Tale become reality. However, I can see there being sturdy opposition to them, so time will tell.
The big businesses “running” the country will do a LOT of harm as they’re looking to create an underclass of workers that have no security apart from their employment. Get ill – lose your job, wages, house etc. The lack of regulations will allow them to pollute wherever they want and that’s going to lead to a lot of sick U.S. people (more profit for their healthcare providers).
slc wrote:
Maybe a problem we would like drivers to have. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx28wr7lge1o But also an opportunity to float my geometric council tax for cars plan. £512 per tonne per year for the first motor vehicle registered to an address. £1024 for the second, £2048 for the third, £4096, … . Rising with RPI of course.However, Selin Akdenez, who is a single mum and drives an SUV, says parking in London is already expensive, and the prospect of paying more for residential parking is something that she couldn’t afford.“I disagree because I have a child so I do have to have a bigger car,” she says. “My mother is really old. If she needs a GP appointment or dentist, I have to take her.”
I thought that a child is typically smaller than an adult, so why do you need an SUV to fit one? I’m fairly sure from my failing memory that I’ve seen families going on holiday with MULTIPLE children in just a standard car.
slc wrote:
Agreed, largely. I have a bit (not too much) of sympathy for the ‘not consulted’ claim. I replied to the original consultation as did many others and the top items were improved crossings and junctions. These were ruled out as impossible for a trial – too expensive – but they are needed. Working on those and a smaller LTN might have been less contentious and increased the chances of acceptance across Bristol. Or maybe drivers would moan about even the loss of the odd parking space.I definitely agree that we could do with better crossings and junctions.
Obviously I’m very firmly on the pedestrian/cyclist side as I don’t drive, but I do think that drivers will complain about any changes as they’ve currently allocated the maximum possible amount of space, so changes are bound to have a negative impact on them. Ultimately, we have to make driving more difficult as there’s far too many cars/drivers on our roads and it’s ruining people’s health.
slc wrote:
[quote=slc]How about this one in the cable? I have not really paid attention to the cable before (not enough cycling clatch, I guess) but it seems to include both balance and some information. https://thebristolcable.org/2024/11/traffic-jams-on-roads-around-east-bristol-liveable-neighbourhood-spark-opposition-as-council-calls-for-patience/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=traffic-jams-on-roads-around-east-bristol-liveable-neighbourhood-spark-opposition-as-council-calls-for-patience%5B/quote%5D
That’s a better article, though it is quite long.
I was thinking about the LTN opposition and maybe we should come to some kind of compromise. We’ve had the traffic and rat-running for multiple decades now, so how about we just give the LTNs 5-10 years to see how they fare?
I do think the long traffic queues along Blackswarth Road are not what we want when there’s a school along there, but the LTN opponents don’t seem to realise that it’s all the drivers that are causing it – not the LTNs. I do think it’ll take a few weeks for behaviours to change and the traffic to reduce a bit, but I certainly notice the poor air quality along Church Road.
I don’t have any sympathy for the people complaining about there not being enough discussion of the LTNs – the scheme was delayed for years whilst talks and responses were gathered. New roads don’t seem to have any consultations and they usually bring bad air and a much increased chance of injury or death. LTNs have an obviously positive effect on the small roads in the areas and people are foaming at the mouth because their journey takes a bit longer? So the choice is between widespread lung disease or they get from A to B a bit quicker?
(In an article on there about trans-majority drag spaces, there’s an excellent name for a performer: Bellend Lugosi.)
slc wrote:
To be fair, I thought the original was poorly written too, though in a different, high-jargon style. I’m not surprised that someone found it condescending. road.cc’ers will no doubt enjoy the final argument of the rebuttal:
Seems as though Helen Hughes might have missed something from that list of discouragements, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.Bristol’s hills, narrow roads, pot holes and weather patterns do not make cycling conducive…Agreed – I didn’t think either opinion piece was worth reading.
Opinion piece on B24/7. I found it a bit placatory towards the people against LTNs, but then I’m just sick of motornormativity driving city and neighbourhood designs. Nobody cared about people not wanting cars polluting our air, blocking pavements, maiming and killing people when building new roads. It’s time for change.A retaliation in B24/7 against the previous opinion piece: https://www.bristol247.com/opinion/your-say/begrudging-acceptance-among-unhappy-residents-not-sufficient-justify-permanent-liveable-neighbourhood-scheme/
I didn’t read all of it as it just seemed to be slagging off the previous author and I couldn’t see it getting to any serious point. (I don’t have much patience for poor writing)