Notices by Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green), page 4

@inpc @ChrisMayLA6 It strikes me that the US is a poor market for judging the uptake of education. UBI is not going to pay the fees is it. A study requires more thought about what counts as self improvement. I’ve been retired over 11 years. I self teach in anything that grabs my interest. Everyday is a study day. But none of it would be counted as formal self-improvement education even though it has enabled me to hold my own against formally trained experts.

@inpc @ChrisMayLA6 @zzypt I fondly remember documentaries in the mid to late seventies fretting over how we were going to use our leisure time because of (a) microprocessors and (b) general purpose assembly robots. As I was introducing companies to office automation back then I smiled wanly then and I smile now, seeing exactly what employers wanted from the shiny tech that changed the nature of work.

New York Times writer has unsurprising advice for Kamala Harris: Target trans people.

It’s so tired and predictable by now you’d think people would’ve caught on.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-york-times-writer-has-unsurprising

Yale Law School: White Paper Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Care

https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/white-paper-addresses-key-issues-legal-battles-over-gender-affirming-health-care

Media Boosted Anti-Trans Movement With Credulous Coverage Of ‘Cass Review’ — FAIR

https://fair.org/home/media-boosted-anti-trans-movement-with-credulous-coverage-of-cass-review/

Elon Musk says in a hissy fit that he’s going to move Space X from Hawthorne California to Texas because he doesn’t like a new law that doesn’t affect him. The law in question protects the identities of trans kids who come out at school but don’t want their parents to be told (because, y’know, the parents may yank them off to conversion therapy). Musk had a trans kid. The kid, now grown up, wants nothing to do with him.

@goatsarah @rosschie It’s America. Everything’s more stupid there.

'All' petrol and diesel drivers in England given 'five year' warning - Birmingham Live

The ban on the sale of NEW petrol and diesel cars is back to 2030 says the new government.

In fact nothing really changes here because, in spite of Rishi Sunak chasing headlines, the Zero Emissions mandate had not changed for manufacturers, who face an escalating requirement for how many EVs they sell every year. This year they need to hit 22%

https://apple.news/Amr44i0lNSZKK6Eanpvleug

The way the ZEV mandate works is that, by 2030, manufacturers will be obliged to exceed 80% EV sales. So, although theoretically Sunak’s gimmick could have extended the period when you could buy a new petrol or diesel, the industry would have switched already, because who wants to keep selling two competing types of car. And, of course, people will go on selling secondhand petrol and diesel cars for as long as they are roadworthy and you can find a filling station.

Oh and congratulations to Birmingham Live for cramming so many negative oil-lobby talking points into one brief piece! 😂

@thelocalecho @goatsarah @zoe Thank you for the update. Glad to see you’re moving on. I was starting to think you’d bought a chateau and would be settling down to make renovation YouTubes like all the other ex pats dans les pays.

Suddenly less subversive. I hope departments reorder progress flag lanyards. The more colours, the smaller Suella becomes until she finally disappears in a nasty smelly puff.

One really easy ‘win’ this week is for the government to cancel the order that stopped Scotland’s democratically passed bipartisan Gender Recognition (Reform) Bill from receiving Royal Assent. If people seriously believe that genuine GRA reform would be problematic then there is an actual controlled trial waiting right there.

Another chance to enjoy 20% discounts on EV rapid charging this afternoon, if you operate these networks with an Electroverse card. The logic for this is similar to that behind Octopus’s Agile domestic tariff, which brings the benefits of low electricity wholesale prices to consumers. Of course I’d prefer these networks to be dropping their prices in general. EV rapid charge networks were quick to raise their prices when power prices went up two years ago but slow to respond the other way.

A timely review of evidence finds no grounds anywhere to believe that trans women pose a danger in the toilets.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-018-0335-z

Wakey wakey America. Out of bed. You don’t want to be missing your last Independence Day do you?

@zoe @goatsarah @ajlanes Ah.. I was thinking more along the lines that you take buses to Cherbourg and send one over to collect the car whilst the other two get an Air BnB to await their return. See? In my head it’s much more like ferrying snakes and rabbits and lettuces across the river 😂

@goatsarah That sounds like one of those mind puzzles involving snakes and rabbits or lettuces. Could it be worth getting a ferry from Cherbourg to fetch the car?

@goatsarah Using two fingers as dividers to extrapolate where you’d got in three hours I was thinking it was probably too far but I couldn’t see much evidence of mariners in other places. Brest tomorrow?

Having fun watching the continuing seafaring adventures of @goatsarah and her crew thanks to the boating equivalent of FlightRadar. Yesterday they left Cherbourg at lunchtime and were moored up in St Peter Port Guernsey in time for tea. Today they’re headed south west towards the French coast (somewhere like Roscoff I guess). It’s like following Greta all over again https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:3886856/zoom:11