I understand the poll is misrepresented but I find the proposition to be extremely anti-human in the first place — climate change is a real threat, but any directives need to take in to consideration the death and misery caused by restricting the opportunity to travel freely.
The focus should be on reducing the average emissions for each mile travelled — reducing private flights, improving electrified road and rail networks and improving the economy of commercial flights.
I would also wager that the political and high business class would also not face this restriction should something like it ever come to exist.
My first employer had this rule — reverse parking only. If you parked the wrong way then reception would send you back out.
Their argument for it was basically the same as the Army’s — with so many people working for them it became significant enough where it prevented a tangible number of people getting injured.
The other argument was that if you were getting attacked / mugged you could get away faster!
I recently had laser eye surgery and subsequently re-evaluated my relationship with glasses over the previous 15 years — obviously I was frustrated enough to get the surgery but hadn’t considered their impact holistically over my life.
My feeling is that glasses are annoying from -1, but their impact is tolerated as being able to see is a net gain.
If I had known of their existence beforehand I might have sought out Ortho-K lenses — you wear them whilst you sleep and then take them out for corrected vision during the day. They are more expensive than surgery in the long term (10+ years), but they are less invasive and might be something worth considering.
I don’t think it’s as trivial as you suggest, but yeah they could do that – they always could have made changes to flag crime or give access to criminal’s devices but they still refuse to do so.
The barrier for being accused by someone who matters is quite high, you’d need to breach a certain threshold of material. That material is then manually reviewed by a human and only then if it appears to be CSAM do they refer your details to the police. The police would then presumably also check the material is bad before arresting you and ceasing all your devices.
> If I go on 4chan and an illegal image loads and caches into my phone before moderators take it down or I hit the back button, will Apple’s automated system ruin my life?
No, only if you save multiple CSAM images to your photo library and have iCloud Photo Library turned on.
The CCP can already scan everything server side – iCloud encryption is weaker in China and the servers are controlled by a different entity than Apple. Getting iPhones to scan for illicit content doesn’t help the CCP.
You can opt out of your pension contributions. You can’t opt-out of paying student loans, which is an available option with other debts.
Student loan deductions reduce a balance that doesn’t impact your credit score, can’t chase you for repayment (unless you do something stupid like move country and fail to inform them) and doesn’t impact lender decisions. Most people have no hope of repaying their ‘loan’ in their lifetimes and instead expect the loan to be written off after 25 years. U.K. student loans being debt is a technicality, it’s a tax with a countdown timer that might be shorter if you’re baller.
You aren’t wrong, but hitting 6 figures at age 30 is very far from the typical experience. Outside of London it’s not guaranteed you’d even hit £60k.
Plan 2 students are screwed, with the high interest rates and slower repayment schedule I wouldn’t even be sure non-London devs would finish paying it off.
I don’t disagree with you, but I suspect learning to write single characters accelerates learning to read. Joined up writing is totally bogus and most of the time I encounter it it makes the author harder to understand, not easier.
Well you have 6 numbers and only 5 seconds to show them in. You could show 0 only when the timer has fully completed.
I think either rounding up, or rounding to the closest integer is fine. The authors expectation of always rounding down is the only option I would never expect.
The focus should be on reducing the average emissions for each mile travelled — reducing private flights, improving electrified road and rail networks and improving the economy of commercial flights.
I would also wager that the political and high business class would also not face this restriction should something like it ever come to exist.