@cferdinandi@clacke@yogthos I can’t believe the complete lack of respect that would allow them to go in and steal what few possessions somebody has. It’s on a level with removing their tents and their sleeping bags .
In Scots Law, it is a crime - called hamesucken. (similar in essence to breaking and entering a property to steal, but in a situation where the door is not locked)
@CelloMomOnCars@breadandcircuses in many Scandinavian towns the carriageway is not cleared of snow until the sidewalks and cycle routes have been dealt with.
@12thRITS@CelloMomOnCars@breadandcircuses “Three times as many people are injured while walking in icy conditions in Sweden than while driving. And the cost of those injuries far exceeds the cost of snow clearance.”
@12thRITS@CelloMomOnCars@breadandcircuses well they concluded that it was actually to address feminism because in one-car households, the male usually drove, leaving the female to take the children to school and then go to work. And that journey was done entirely on the sidewalk. Furthermore, in order to open schools, factories and other buildings, there first need to be janitors and cleaners on the premises and they walk to work. Cars just bend, people, especially older people, break bones.
@LALegault if no action results against Israel the message is that might is right and rule of law is not worth the paper it’s written on. Carte Blanche for Russia, China and of course Israel.
@ChrisMayLA6 in contrast, the Scottish Government has removed peak fares for a trial period to increase usage. But the media are absolutely silent about it because nothing the Scottish government does can ever be portrayed as good.
The consistent narrative is that Scotland is shite.
@CloudyMrs@simon_brooke@therightarticle well the owner of Lego is a massive landowner in Scotland, but we can’t buy land in Denmark because non-nationals cannot own land there. It’s not an uncommon law, and it’s something we should maybe actively consider.
@CloudyMrs and the time when he said the EU had destroyed his father‘s company, and a journalist went to speak to his father and discovered it was a complete lie.
@thomasfuchs@clive less safe? Yes, cars were. And cars nowadays are subject to very tight safety regulations.
But anything over 1 1/2 tons is exempt from all these regulations, so in fact they are less safe nowadays. They do not need to be crash tested, they have no crumple zones, and they are more prone to rolling over in a smash. They not only kill cyclists and pedestrians with greater frequency because they can fall underneath the vehicle, but they also kill their users when they roll over.
@CloudyMrs and having made the appropriate selection for a family member, wait a week to be told your order has now been refunded because they’re out of stock. so you have to start all over again 😑
@freemo perhaps if you tried to get away from the binary divisions of Republicans and Democrats, your politics would become much more mature and stable.
Scandinavia is quite clearly a capitalist economy, but quite clearly operates a more socialist welfare program. They are neither socialist not capitalist. Time for some nuance
“The first thing I would say is that we’ve now lived in the deregulated system for 40 years. What we ended up with was a system that failed to achieve the things that the deregulators said it would. We now have a system that is less competitive than it was even during regulation. The top four airlines collectively have a larger market share now than the top four airlines did in 1977. This system of markets and competition has led to massive consolidation and concentration”https://hls.harvard.edu/today/airline-deregulation-may-be-why-flying-is-such-a-miserable-part-of-holiday-travel/
@markmason@MarkHoltom The best service is a universal service. In the same way, as Finland does not allow private education, so has the best education in the world, Canada does not allow private healthcare.
When everybody has to use it, politicians vote to spend money on it, because they can’t escape. That is the future.
Volunteer director of community wind company and new community distillery. Locally owned businesses are the drivers of development in the Hebrides. También soy guía turístico en Escocia desde hace muchos años.