jafffacakelemmy

joined 11 months ago
[–] jafffacakelemmy@kbin.social 18 points 6 months ago

we need car parks with height barriers that exclude the suv's. people in range rover sports SUVs worth 80k aren't worried by an extra tenner on the parking fee. now imagine their 'car' won't fit......

[–] jafffacakelemmy@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We've had this system in the uk for a few years now and it's excellent. You can set up an overdraft amount with the bank. If it's nil, all transactions that would send you overdrawn would not be paid. Payments that take you below zero but within the agreed amount cost interest of 40% (so it would cost 400pounds to borrow 1000 for a year). That's a steep rate of interest, but there are no fees. If i borrow 1000 pounds for a day, the cost is 1pounds10p. I can take 100 pounds out 10 times in a day, pay it all back the next day, 1.10 in interest. I've no argument with that!

[–] jafffacakelemmy@kbin.social 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It'd be called 'obstructing traffic'. Police sometimes grab boy-racers along the sea-front near my home for it. There's no specific law saying you can't wait at a T-junction indefinitely, and i usually get stuck behind the ones that do. :-(

[–] jafffacakelemmy@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago

if the 500 million was spent putting up wind turbines and solar panels you'd save more gkaciers melting overall and make a profit.

[–] jafffacakelemmy@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Yes, it's nonsense. In 2050 if they aren't carbon neutral, they haven't broken any laws so there'll be no punishment. So why not announce lofty goals?

[–] jafffacakelemmy@kbin.social -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gosh, she really dodged a bullet there. Oh, wait; maybe she didn't........

[–] jafffacakelemmy@kbin.social 59 points 10 months ago (5 children)

See, you may laugh but the landlord now knows that the water is still flowing, so the cause isn't an area-wide outage or a burst pipe, but instead there's a fault in the system that heats the water.

[–] jafffacakelemmy@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Smartaudiobook player is brilliant, free, and will remember your place in the story. To download, choose 'desktop mode' in your android browser then click where it says '310 files' to download it all in one go. Took me 30-45 minutes, it's about 1.3Gb in size.