because apparently the constitution is detailed enough to specify things like that.

It’s impossible for laws to include every single possible detail. Lawyers and judges exist to apply generic laws to specific cases. In this case, a lawyer argued that removing bike lanes creates a saftey issue and since the constitution says the government must protect “life and security of the person”, removing bike lanes goes against the constitution. The judge agreed with the argument.

The UK has multiple political parties and free democratic elections. Just because the current government passed a law you don’t agree with doesn’t mean the country is authoritarian.

Your account is on lemmy.world. You can see the other instances that lemmy.world federates with and which ones it blocks by going to https://lemmy.world/instances. You will be able to see any content posted to lemmy.world as well as any instances in the “linked instances” list. You won’t be able to see content from the “blocked instances” list. Most instances get blocked for being the source of spam or trolls.

You’d only need to make an account on another instance if you want to participate in communities that are on instances that lemmy.world blocks.

The allegation is that the Minister of Police has ties to organized crime groups since the BBC is now writing clickbait headlines.

You should get a wall mount for the TV. Lot of people in the room? Need more space? Voila! Pushes right into the wall!

That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

These are all great questions for a lawyer and the answer is probably “it depends”. My understanding is that, if something has multiple licences, you need to follow all of them simultaneously. You can’t choose unless it’s clear that the author allows the choice by using “or” when listing the licences.

The best thing to do when something isn’t clearly licenced is to reach out to the author and ask them to clarify it. If they don’t write back then you shouldn’t do anything with the source material.

Definitely! But as another comment said, there’s no guarantee a teacher will actually reframe the problem into something interesting. They can just give you work sheets and have you do them over and over and over. Math then becomes a topic that relies heavily on the teacher’s ability to engage with students compared to other subjects.

I think it’s a topic that just doesn’t interests most people, especially children. Where I live, solving problems like 10 - x = 4, solve for x is taught to 10 year olds in grade 5. How many 10 year olds would think this is interesting?

In comparison, grade 5 science teaches cells are the building block of life, energy can exist in forms like electrical and light and can transform between them, and matter has states like solid, liquid, and gas. It’s stuff that ends up being naturally more interesting.

You can learn those things any time. Do you mean your goal is for your income to be from games/webdesign/art? In that case you can always join a company. If you mean you want to independently create and sell your works it’s going to be very tough. You’re essentially starting your own business and most business startups fail.

NASA has a webpage on aeronautics that says lift is the mechanical force created by a solid object turning a flow of liquid or gas. They also have an equation for calculating lift for any solid object/fluid combo.

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How often do petitions actually affect change?

Never. The government lists 3,319 total petitions and the most popular one has 387,487 signatures which is less than 1% of the population. The petition was to call an early election. I would hope the government doesn’t dissolve itself every time less than 1% of people upvote a post.

I pirated Paddington 2 the other day then deleted it. If that wasn’t available I would have watched something else. I get what you’re saying, but I also don’t take it that seriously. I mean, I watched Paddington 2. I’m not exactly a movie buff.

To offer another perspective. I personally don’t care. If everyone cared about owning the media they consume then movie theaters and libraries wouldn’t exist. I grew up in the era of VHS and DVDs but I never had a collection because I rented them from Blockbuster. I also rented video games. I chose to pay for temporary access. Even today, when I pirate a movie and have a DRM free file I permanently own, I will delete the file after watching it. I don’t want it.

I get that the streaming/licensing trend sucks for people like yourself who like having a collection of physical media they own, but it honestly doesn’t bother me at all.

Fun fact: “petit ami / petite amie” means “boyfriend / girlfriend”

American alcohol is on the list of immediate tarrifs as well as orange juice, peanut butter, clothing, and cosmetics. There will be further tarrifs on dairy, beef, poultry, fruits and vegetables, steel, aluminum, cars, trucks, busses, and boats after a 21 day delay to give time for Canadian companies to adjust supply chains.

Tarrifs are simple, easy, and can be implemented immediately by the Prime Minister alone. All the other things listed in that comment are fine ideas, but require parliment pass laws, which is going to take time since we’re approaching an election. I don’t think it’s appropriate to wait months before even starting the debate in parliment about what we should do.

There’s also no guarantee any of those ideas would even pass into law. I doubt many politicians are keen on tearing up patent and copyright protection so Canadian companies can rip off American innovations.

The Conservative Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, is already doing that. I’ve heard his ads on the radio calling for Ontarioans to give him a majority government so he “can stand up to Trump”. The guy spent his time as Premier standing up to nurses and bike lanes. This new stand up against Trump shtick is just more faux populism.