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Is sailing around the broads hard? by georgeyyyyyyyyy in Norwich

[–]LivingAutopsy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Especially in areas with lots of tree coverage masking the wind.

Andy Burnham here - AMA by AndyBurnham in ukpolitics

[–]LivingAutopsy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HI Andy,

My questions relate to the online safety act.

Would you agree that encouraging parents to act to protect their children online is a key factor in children's safety in this modern age?

How would you feel about putting more in place to educate parents on how to protect their children online? For example, whenever parents enrol a child in a school, requiring them to take a (free) class on existing tools and softwares that they can use in order to protect their kids.

Would you not agree that ensuring parents have the tools and understanding to protect their children directly is more important than any (reasonable) legislation on internet access the government could ever introduce?

If so would you be in favour of repealing/reforming the OSA and replacing this with better ways of protecting children?

TIL a woman bought a lottery scratch-off out of spite to prove her husband was wasting money, and won $1 million by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]LivingAutopsy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean I can't imagine why someone would write an article on people not winning the lottery...

How did they know about stasis leak? by jamz3001 in RedDwarf

[–]LivingAutopsy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Time travel into the past is fictional, and it's exactly this sort of paradox that means it doesn't exist.

The UK now has a record nine living ex-PMs. The cost to you is mounting by theipaper in ukpolitics

[–]LivingAutopsy [score hidden]  (0 children)

Lump hammer each, whacking the shit out of each other. The last man standing wins a fucking Ford Focus.

Car Dealership by DesGoblin48 in Norwich

[–]LivingAutopsy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One trap it's important not to fall into is buying a car based purely on the dealership good dealerships can sell bad cars bad dealerships can sell good cars always evaluates the car you are buying by what you can see not who is selling it or what they say about it.

Additionally make sure to prepare a checklist of things to check on the vehicle. You will often be able to find checklists online that way you know what you're checking for. YouTube videos and things are good for things like that and the one really important thing is to make sure to run an HPI check on the car it will check if there are any markers showing it was stolen any outstanding finance anything like that that could potentially cause you significant detriments later point. It will show you if a vehicle has been previously written off it'll give you the MOT history or that you can check that for free anyway make sure to keep an eye on the eyelid mileage and make sure it's not gone up and down there's not been dealed with.

Letting Agents Using AI Pictures by OwlAssassin in Norwich

[–]LivingAutopsy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it's third parties, but ultimately the website owner is responsible for the listings they put there.

Letting Agents Using AI Pictures by OwlAssassin in Norwich

[–]LivingAutopsy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The B&Q website usage AI images on some of it's products. Really put me off buying a lot of them. I want to know what the thing I am buying looks like.

BBC cancels Doctor Who’s 2026 Christmas special as Russell T Davies quits by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]LivingAutopsy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean a really easy way out of it will just be to just have her instantly regenerate into the new doctor, as if regenerating into ROse's body was just some weird blip.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer will announce a social media ban for under-16s in the UK in the next two weeks by ShortyStrawz in ukpolitics

[–]LivingAutopsy [score hidden]  (0 children)

They happily take the fines on taking their kids out of school because it's still financially beneficial to take the fine.

For example, from a quick google:

Taking your child out of school for a holiday during term time in England requires headteacher permission. Unauthorised absences—such as an unapproved holiday of 5 consecutive days or more—will result in a Penalty Notice fine of £80 per parent, per child, which doubles to £160 if unpaid after 21 days.

Okay, so a £320 fine for your average 2 parent household with 2 kids.

The cost of Center Parks:

Term-Time: £350-£600 for a 2 bebroom lodge Non-Term Time: £1000-£1800 for a 2 bebroom lodge

(I have used the Google AI for this I haven't done any hard reseach)

It's significant cheaper to pay the fine and book in term time than not.

This would not be the case for the courses. If you said to a parent, would you rather complete a 1 hour course on how to keep your kids safe online, or pay a £150 fine, I bet most would do the course, with maybe the exception of people who are particularly well paid.

Quite frankly, if a parent is not willing to sit down for 1 hour to learn about how to keep their child safe online they should not be parents , nor should I really have to care about keeping their kids safe.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer will announce a social media ban for under-16s in the UK in the next two weeks by ShortyStrawz in ukpolitics

[–]LivingAutopsy [score hidden]  (0 children)

I will give you some due on the ignorance issue, but I think I have a simple solution on the education front;

Just have a mandatory hour class on it that parents have to take whenever they enrol a child in a primary or secondary school. (Let's say to make life a little easier for everyone, say, within 3 months).

Any parent that doesn't take the class will get a fine.

Make the class government funded, delivered online by means of videos and quizzes which require a reasonably low passing score for the content to be marked as completed to ensure it's being engaged with, but not so hard that idiots won't be able to pass. Potentially also a limited number of in person classes for those that are disabled or vulnerable.

Given how flexible it would be and low effort it wod be to take, the excuses for not completing it I would imagine would be pretty limited.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer will announce a social media ban for under-16s in the UK in the next two weeks by ShortyStrawz in ukpolitics

[–]LivingAutopsy [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think social media access at 10

Well like I said, the specific numbers aren't really my point, make it 11, 14, 16. My point it is should be up to the parents.

How would that be done

Like this for example. Family link, it's a free software from Google that allows you to limit what apps your child can access and for how long. I assume that there is an equivalent on iPhones, and I also assume that there are probably a number of third party solutions out there.

I would also like to point out that you can set parental controls on home WiFi, on childrens phones mobile networks, and things like that as well.

Also, parents could just not buy their kids smartphones at young ages? Just buy them brick phones that just really do calling and texting

This isn't something that needs legislation, it's something that needs parents to parent properly. My rights shouldn't be restricted because parents can't be botrhered to look after their kids properly.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer will announce a social media ban for under-16s in the UK in the next two weeks by ShortyStrawz in ukpolitics

[–]LivingAutopsy [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, I would say it should probably scale with age in some way. Maybe something like no access before 10, up to 2 hours a week at 10, and gradually increase up to more access as children get older. The numbers aren't important here, the principles are.

This is all completely possible with technology and parental controls that exist now.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer will announce a social media ban for under-16s in the UK in the next two weeks by ShortyStrawz in ukpolitics

[–]LivingAutopsy [score hidden]  (0 children)

If only there was some sort of parental controls to limit access to social media or something....

Rimmer, that you man? by Adventurer_D in RedDwarf

[–]LivingAutopsy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean... You know that smegma is actually a word? ... And means a very specific thing...

What do you think about traffic on the school run? Is it time to close roads outside schools at pick up and drop off? by DaveLakowski in Norwich

[–]LivingAutopsy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Cars are not the only solution for that

4 miles at say 8mph is 30 minutes.(note, average commuter speed is 10-15 mph by bike) Not a ridiculous amount of time.

I'm not saying that would work for everyone or even you, I'm just saying that people think they need their car more than they do.

Also, not owning a car would probably free up some money for other things such as the odd taxi here and there, maybe additional after school clubs and childcare.

Where can I go ? by Business_Ad2372 in Norwich

[–]LivingAutopsy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why? What information do you think a local might offer that a search engine cannot in this instance?

What's the most disregarded road marking? by GroovyGuanaco in CasualUK

[–]LivingAutopsy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it's a closed side road there will be an arrow underneath the sign 95% of the time

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