Notices by Peter Brown (peterbrown@mastodon.scot)

https://electrek.co/2025/05/15/company-returns-entire-tesla-vehicle-fleet-because-of-elon-musk/ Danish company returns entire Tesla fleet

Can’t decide if it’s #silentsunday or #thicktrunktuesday

@hellomiakoda @TheVulgarTongue @histodons well go for it! They’re intelligent animals so if you feed them regularly, they will become friendly

@hellomiakoda @TheVulgarTongue @histodons you can’t own it, it’s a wild animal. It might make friends with you. It might come and visit you in your house. If you have raised it from a chick, it will play with you and regard you as it’s parent.
But it’s still a wild animal, and it will leave as all children leave their parents, only coming back occasionally to show you their offspring.

@CloudyMrs all I can offer is a lovely wee road I found over the hills (sorry) between Abernethy and Strathmiglo.

Worth remembering

@lanodan @notjustbikes don’t be drawn into measuring it by kilometre because that just favours combustion engine travel.  That’s why the aviation industry use per kilometre statistics because it makes them look very safe due to the very large number of kilometres travelled, but passengers are really only interested in whether they are going to get there or not.
They do not sit on the plane counting the kilometres .

So perhaps better to measure by trip?

@Wen @CloudyMrs The majority of public transport radiates out from population centres. More difficult to get from Westhill to Peterculter than Banchory to Aberdeen city. Granted it takes longer to attend an appointment that’s not in the same village, but I can see the logic in having it in the centre of Aberdeen.

@CloudyMrs hmmm 🧐
I would be amazed at such a high transfer rate from the SNP to labour

@CloudyMrs presumably this is just the Scottish section of a UK survey?

@CloudyMrs regardless of the hype, I don’t think it will be the liberals. But I do think there is a serious possibility that the SNP could become kingmakers.

Fingers crossed 🤞

@CloudyMrs funny you should mention it, but motorways are the only roads built with an integrated cycle lane. So maybe cyclists should be allowed on motorways, on the hard shoulder?

@CloudyMrs apparently studies have shown that drivers tolerance to congestion is very high provided there’s a parking space waiting for them on arrival

@CloudyMrs yes, regular train users know the service is good and they make an effort to get people to their destination in the event of disruption.

Ferries don’t. They just dump you.

@gerrymcgovern I don’t see that as necessarily a problem provided the electricity generation is by renewables

@CloudyMrs not sure if it’s the English or just to BBC platforming him

@CloudyMrs yes there will be a steady drip feed of “new developments” to keep it on the boil until the 4th of July.
Sunak has categorised nationalists as “extremists”and that is a heads up to MI5 to focus on them, so we can expect more, much more.

@CloudyMrs all true. And once car drivers have say 10 years experience of driving a car, they should be obliged to sit a test for driving a heavy vehicle like a truck or a coach. It completely changes your perspective of the road.

“Remarkably, food production doubled under the agrivoltaic system. And because water evaporation from the plants cooled the panels, the solar system itself generated 3% more electricity during the summer, showing how both food and solar production can perform better when done in collaboration”.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/12/solar-and-crop-production-research-shows-multi-solving-climate-benefits/

@CloudyMrs doesn’t affect me directly, but I understand the community bus will be affected