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It’s sad that the letter from T Mobile is clearly a template. This isn’t some one off, they get so many they have a standard response.

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Someone must be, if the UK is banning them.

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Huh, I must have got the wrong impression from the angry lemmy comments that were my only source of this information.

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I don’t quite understand. Why is the third point necessary if the second point exists?

And what do gender neutral toilets looks like in the UK currently if having self-contained toilets isn’t it? I’ve never seen gender neutral toilets with American door gaps.

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This is dumb. I can’t think of any way to enforce it, and although this obviously won’t pass and is just grandstanding I still pity the people having to think of how they can write guidance for the hospitality industry.

We already issue IDs to people in the sex they want. If you want a passport in a different sex than your birth certificate, you can have it, all you have to do is fill in a statutory declaration at the time of applying for your passport.

So if a trans man wants to go to the bathroom, do they use the women’s since they were born female, or do they use the men’s since they look male and have male ID?

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Do we get some aurora to go with it?

Edit: oh I missed the other post: lemmy.nz/post/10193186

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The best part is how the original comment is on a post about AI.

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I’ve seen these around a bit. I think the idea is you walk through the side while pushing your bike through the middle. But you can ride through if you’ve had a bit of practice.

They want to keep out motorbikes, though, so they need to be pretty skinny.

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Once you’ve had a bit of experience pushing prams something like this isn’t an issue. They are pretty common around the place. They are needed because there are idiot motor bike riders that drive at speed on the walking/cycling tracks.

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It’s a very common design on shared walking/cycleways. A bike will fit through the middle, they are pretty skinny. And the one in the OP isn’t finished, then will fence up to the sides so you have to go through it.

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They haven’t finished. It will be fenced to the edges.

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Nah most bikes are much higher than those rails. If a bike isn’t (like a kids bike), they can go under the rails on the sides since there’s a sufficient height difference.

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I think “they want to keep out motorbikes” is an incredibly lazy reason to have such a terrible and inaccessible design. Police enforcement is the appropriate way to deal with rare cases where someone takes their motorbike onto a clearly illegal path.

I have lived in areas where people ride motor bikes in areas supposed to be for pedestrians and bikes. They did it all the time. Some would ride recklessly, others were just riding their mopeds as a quicker path than using the road. It’s not the intent of the path and as a pedestrian it definitely puts you off using the path.

When I’m riding a bike, I haven’t had any issue with these types of bars, you can ride through them once you get some practice. So long as they are only used at entrances and not staggered along the path like your banana bar example then I would rather have them than not.

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I don’t think this Woolworths is related to the American Woolworth’s. They seem to have different histories. This is an Australian company that is one of the duopoly of supermarkets in NZ.

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I was thinking about this. And under the rule of “if doesn’t matter what they are saying about you as long as they’re talking about you”, perhaps the marketing power is higher to deny it and make front page? It wouldn’t have been as big of a big news story if they had just paid it.

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Well I guess they have to decide what that bad publicity is worth.

$30*1,000 = $30,000 planned to give away.

They accidentally emailed an extra 79,000 people, so paying out would cost $2,370,000 (on top of the $30k already budgeted).

It’s a pretty significant difference so I can imagine they got together a committee and decided paying out wasn’t worth it.

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In NZ we have names for cheddar based on age.

Cheese, colby, edam, mild, tasty = NOT WOKE

In this list, mild and tasty are both cheddar. In the UK tasty may be called “sharp”, though in NZ you can get a pretty wide range of sharpness between brands all labeled as “tasty”.

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Macros are one reason for me as well. LibreOffice actually supports VBA! But only a subset, so YMMV.

If it’s for work then probably also best to avoid converting back and forth between Word and LibreOffice as well.

I’ve been pretty happy with Linux though. I’m currently running the Gnome version of Nobara but have been through a few distros to get here. I ended up keeping my files on a separate partition to make it easy to install a new OS so I could test out a bunch.

None were perfect but I’m pretty happy with what I have now.

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It will be interesting to hear what you decide to go with and how it works out. Good luck!

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That looks good! 50+ reviews and an average of 5 stars, that’s pretty impressive!

I’ll have to give it a go some day, unfortunately I almost never go down that end of town. I used to work near there about 5 years ago but now work closer to the train station end of town, or actually from home most of the time, in which both have less interesting food choices than the Manners St area.

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I haven’t heard of them, but if someone advertised unlimited internet and cut you off for 400GB of data then I think they would get in trouble for false advertising. If you average 400GB a month and occasionally hit 700 or 1TB I wouldn’t expect to have issues.

I often hit 5TB+ and never even considered I might hit a fair use policy. 1TB or less is well within the “I just watch a lot of Netflix” defence and so I wouldn’t be too worried about it.

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Yeah, you usage is pretty normal these days, for the reason you describe. You’re not the only one having to download 80GB updates or 150GB games off Steam, pretty common these days.

Here’s our usage for the past few months. Just changed to this ISP in December which is why that’s so low:

graph of internet usage showing over 6000GB almost every month

It did actually surprise me to learn how much we use. At the last ISP they didn’t tell you how much you used, so I never knew. When we switched to this ISP I thought something must be wrong 😆

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Woah the colours! That looks awesome!

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