Notices by Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)

@skinnylatte we have the same prejudice here in England - where there are now a lot of social care workers from Commonwealth countries driving to/from work, many of whom tend to use "P" plates as they are new to the country (even though they are not yet required here, I try to tell them "don't put these things on your car, you paint a target on your arse doing so").

I was in Mid Essex yesterday for another job (one of the whitest areas of the region) and there was way more bad driving..

@Rycaut @inthehands in contrast you can climb straight out of the boot of a 2015 Volkswagen Polo 6C (a popular European supermini) using a hidden catch that can be sprung open either with the key or any suitably sized object, this is deliberately intended as an emergency exit (and I've seen a video of a middle aged Indian chap of fairly large build successfully do this as a demonstration)

distances for overtaking #cyclists when #driving

#cars #bicycles #transport #RoadSafety

@aral @skinnylatte often it works the other way round, the high salaries make people hold their nose and accept what their employer does (saw it happen with my old former high school friends way back in 1980s, before the Internet was widely in use, a lot of them got work for defence/aerospace/nuclear contractors (of which there are many in SE England) and are still working there..

@obiwankimberly @augieray

ICE are now targeting middle class European visitors (not even long term migrants!) on spurious grounds and locking them up in immigration detention..

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

Its good they are setting this up for the teens and their parents, but why the fuck did we import the high school #prom into this country in the first place? It also imports the dysfunctional culture wars of USA #highSchools on top of our own social problems (such as youth seeing #TOWIE and #LoveIsland folk as role models)

#Essex #Brentwood

https://www.essexlive.news/whats-on/shopping/pop-up-store-open-brentwood-9968365

@bmacDonald94 @deepmud also amongst those in charge, neither the Taliban nor the GOP are intellectually lacking/backward (even if they might stereotypically look like that at first glance) - they also look after the "bros", especially those with physical fitness, tech and trades skills (hence why they remain particularly popular with young men even though they seem medieval in their views)

@tfiebig @burningTyger @bitboxer

35 years ago, when I finished high school I drifted apart from my friends/classmates who were into tech and science as they had 0 problems with bootlicking Thatcho and working for big USA tech companies, including the military-industrial/surveillance complex (which was a major employer in UK even decades ago, our tech industry is built on it). I see some of them on LinkedIn, they are still working for those corporates and are unrepentant..

@br00t4c guess he's got another one to use as a human shield, when he gets bored of hauling the other kid/s around with him at public appearances..

A man from #Derby in the East #Midlands of #UK learned to #read at age 58, having been unable to do so due to #dyslexia and a lack of specialist help over the years. He was overjoyed at being able to read a #Speedway magazine he had kept since the 1980s!

#literacy #AdultEducation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8ypvrnm2go

@nat its also dangerous as it leads folk to overlook and understimate the fash who *are* well educated and articulate and there's a fair few around..

Brand new episode of #Pipkins (a #British #kids #TV show from the 1970s and early 1980s, intended to be a domestic version of #SesameStreet (a coincidence - the original was made at the same studios in #Elstree (now used by the BBC) used in 1970s/80s for the #Muppet show)

This 2025 remake is 100% authentic to the original (all the same actors and even the human presenter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmhf98TXc5M

@bazkie @selzero this technology was also used in early TV remote controls (these things had the disadvantage that they could scare / annoy cats and dogs)

By the 1980s, small RF circuits and IR LEDs became more affordable and displaced ultrasonic remote controls..

@CelloMomOnCars I was intrigued by the involvement of the Swedish researchers (as its not a country I would associate with rice-growing!), but it also appears that they are indeed trying to grow rice in Sweden (its very likely this research is linked to the project reported in SCMP) #rice #Sweden #China

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.00329/full

@Melissabeartrix I was checking over my car and topping up screenwash (as I'm visiting relatives 300 km away for Chinese New Year) - finding an unusual dead bug in the car was bad enough (the spiders web didn't bother me as we don't have very venomous spiders here) - I dread to think what Australian drivers might find when doing their vehicle checks..

@ArneBab @LeanderZeichnet

interestingly the German car detailers (Detailing School) are still fairly decent - but I suspect its because the lad in Brandenburg has at least one professional detailing garage as his main business and works with some lads of Turkish ancestry in Hesse who sell the products, the other in Switzerland genuinely does it just as a hobby (and cars will of course get dirty anyway, whether or not Youtube existed 😁 )

@dtauvdiodr @josh @bmacDonald94

Doggo / cat dryer uses less power, is quieter (to avoid scaring the pet) and is less harsh on the clearcoat..

@ArneBab @LeanderZeichnet

I watch YouTube for stuff like car maintenance videos, but increasingly I find I have to watch about 3-5 of them (in both English and German) to get a decent amount of info, often fast-forward the self promotion stuff, remember that if its interior items everything is swapped round between left and right and *still* read my copy of "So wird's Gemacht" (Haynes in UK stopped making paper workshop manuals for my car)

@TheVampireFishQueen @dalias @mhoye @interpipes for years I was a moderator on one of the worlds most popular rave, lifestyle and drugs harm reduction advice forums - but from 2010s onwards it was widely blocked to <18 users by all UK ISPs and mobile providers on "family friendly" settings - we lost about 80% of traffic from young people (and a whole new generation is getting the same health problems from ketamine use that Gen X/Y did, as they didn't see the harm reduction info)

The #meme (nicked from Meta) is amusing especially to those of us who were teens in the 80s, but its also easy to forget folk were still divided (out of my high school classmates they seemed to be either full-on anarchists/lefties or Thatcho bootlickers if not actual fash) #80s #GenX #popculture