Staff at Network Rail will also be equipped with specialist kits to defrost frozen points and signals to keep the railway running safely.

So a can of Lynx and a lighter?

Gen Z will know when they start to feel old when the next gen start taking flack in the press.

AKA, The Daily Heil

“Uncritical support for brave socialist comrades giving their lives in defeating Nazis and NATO” or something on those lines

No? You need to drive at the speed limit when it’s safe - not over it or under it.

It annoys me on toasters like this that you can’t activate just one side. If you want to toast a single slice then you still have to have all the elements on instead of just the ones where the bread is.

You can go slightly under the speed limit but going much slower for no reason could get you pulled over. It’s also something you would fail to pass your test on if you were driving under the limit for no reason.

Onto the struggle point I don’t really understand the foot pain thing, there’s barely any travel on the accelerator between 20mph and 30. Personally I find the struggle is finding the right gear to stick to 20. It’s too fast for 2nd gear, but a bit too slow for third, at least that’s the case for our car.

I’m getting ET vibes from her.

You’d also need a separate type of sign for kph, but one that still adhers to the current standard (white cirle with a red border and a black number). Or put a separate rectangular sign under it with “kph” to denote that the number in the circle is kph rather than mph.

The problem is that you can’t just replace one, you’d need to replace them all on the road due to the repeater signs. It would be confusing to see some say 60 and others 30 on the same stretch of road as some repeater signs have been replaced but others haven’t.

There’d also be the issue of cars understanding the signs with their sign recognition software, and drivers having to switch their digital spedo, as you usually only see one unit rather than both like on older anaologue speedos.

Not just the speed limits that need changing, basically any sign with a distance on it too.

We and the US are just too stubborn to use the better units.

And expensive. Imagine the cost of changing the entire road network over to use metric.

I’d love to see it but the money could go on far better things.

As a Brit, the word fanny packs will always be hilarious.

Why did they write “to” as 2, but then the actual number 1 as “one”?

This is one of my all time favourites, it never fails to make me laugh!

1,500 dead and injured “every single day

No idea how many of those are dead vs injured, but to put that into context, the UK lost 457 people in Afghanistan in a 20 year period, and 179 in Iraq. 255 were lost in the Falklands.

I’d take the figures coming out of Ukraine with a pinch of salt but even if they’re half of what’s being said, these numbers are crazy. Such a crazy waste of life on all sides.

Ah right fair enough.

It is. Go into your account settings -> blocks and at the bottom is a section for blocking instances.

I’ve got Lemmy.ml in there. You’ll still see comments from their users and posts from users in other communities but you shouldn’t see any of their communities in your feed.

Why not block the entire instance in your settings?

I’d doubt the NHS would go for this. Our experience is that they heavily promote breastfeeding and seem to put as much resistance into using formula as possible.

This would seem at odds with their current approach of trying to get more people to breastfeed.

Has there ever been a single one that’s worked?