About £1.4bn worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been destroyed or written off in what is understood to be the most wasteful government deal of the pandemic....
April 2020 - wasn't this when bidding on as much PPE as possible was basically the government's only hope?
These were the headlines at the time. Any minister worth their salt would have been on a Turkish runway with a suitcase full of treasury bonds and instructions to buy whatever is available.
From 2005: "The Israeli Defence Ministry will appeal against a supreme court ruling banning the use of Palestinian human shields in raids, officials said." - it used to be policy. They wanted to continue.
That, and hosting & domains got expensive. It used to be a trivial cost to have a website, now the prices are all "introductory offers" with asterisks.
Although Lemmy's userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.
A man who narrowly survived an ebike battery fire that killed his partner and two children says he is tormented by grief and guilt but determined to fight to change the law to avoid similar tragedies....
Coming just after Project Farm's video about most of the power tool batteries sold on Amazon Ebay being hard-to-detect counterfeits, missing their safety features, and containing unlabelled cells which are also missing their safety features.
that'll be my lesson about posting videos from memory! updated. The youtube comments did mention Amazon and other shops too.
Yeah, the takeaway did seem to be, at the very least, to check whether the cells inside are branded - although in many cases they were packed in a way that you can't tell without destroying the internal plastic structure.
obviously wouldn't have helped the poor cyclist, who could only afford the non-genuine batteries.
A friend cycling in London was stopped for turning right at a "no right turns except cyclists" junction - police didn't even want to go read the sign that they were told to enforce!
Create the special bookmarks with %s to take you directly to documentation pages for whatever you type - e.g. bookmark doc.qt.io/qt-6/%s.html and give it a keyword.
Same with Wikipedia (this one might be easier via search engine keywords) - so typing "w test" would bring you straight to the disambiguation page for the River Test
Same for anything with reference numbers - e.g. RFQ numbers - create a bookmark that lets you type a number into the URL bar and go straight to the official page.
Or even Ami Pro's keyboard settings, where each function key was mapped to a paragraph style. F2 = body text. F5 = bullet list. F6 = number list. F8-F12 = heading levels 1-5 (from memory, it's been a while). Function keys in Word are so useless that I can't even remember what they do (except for F9 which is super broken).
It's probably door dash, uber eats, etc. - our city is quite swarming with "gig economy" riders who have standardised on relatively high speed electric bikes.
The combination of time pressure and the variety of places where they need to ride (busy pedestrianised city centre areas, park paths, roads with cars) probably doesn't help the safety.
They are also out riding way more hours each day than someone commuting or on rental bikes.
AFU destroyed new Russian S-500 air defence system ( news.online.ua )
UK: Government lost £1.4bn on PPE contract with Full Support Healthcare ( www.bbc.com )
About £1.4bn worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) has been destroyed or written off in what is understood to be the most wasteful government deal of the pandemic....
This sounds a bit like how "time blindness" feels ( lemmy.world )
A thunderstorm in Guatemala began simultaneously with the eruption of Mount Fuego ( i.imgur.com )
Israeli army strapped wounded Palestinian to jeep ( www.bbc.com )
Corpos being corpos ( sh.itjust.works )
Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. ( www.xataka.com )
Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?
Although Lemmy's userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.
Man who survived ebike fire that killed his family fights for change to UK law ( www.theguardian.com )
A man who narrowly survived an ebike battery fire that killed his partner and two children says he is tormented by grief and guilt but determined to fight to change the law to avoid similar tragedies....
if this post gets 1024 upvotes, i will post again with twice as wide en passant ( lemmy.world )
When do I get a home studio? ( lemmy.world )
Commuter baffled after being interrogated by police for riding his e-bike at night: 'They then tried to find more reasons to confiscate my bike' ( www.thecooldown.com )
One Redditor shared their confusing and frustrating story of being stopped by local police while riding an e-bike.
What are you currently excited for?
The birth (or death) of a relative, the release of a new program, game, series, movie, the date you were dreaming about, could be anything
Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand ( newatlas.com )
[Steve Wallis] Custom camper towed with an e-bike ( www.youtube.com )
Now that google is going all in on ai what are some sites you plan on bookmarking. ( kbin.social )
Just curious since I think it is about to get a whole lot harder to search using google. hopefully this will signal the end of their monopoly.
Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option ( www.theverge.com )
Chinese climbers stuck on cliff for more than an hour due to overcrowding ( www.cnn.com )
The easiest problem ( discuss.tchncs.de )
https://mastodon.social/@lovegame/112402050452885908
Google searches for 'en passant' by state ( lemmy.world )
Which are the most fucked up books you've read?
I realised this today ( lemmy.world )
How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement)
I still don't know if it goes ground floor, second floor or ground floor, first floor, second floor
It's just a matter of perspective ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
E-bike riders aren’t wearing helmets — and head trauma cases are through the roof ( www.tomsguide.com )
Me after I got fired ( feddit.de )