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https://www.channel5.com/show/cyclists-s­courge-of-the-streets/
CYCLISTS: SCOURGE OF THE STREETS?

Thank god there is a question mark at the end of the title, was worried it wasn't going to be balanced for a second there

I really want to see people that feel threatened by a bicycle while driving 2 tonne reinforced vehicle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

I PAY ROAD TAX.

Ergh I can just see it now.

Poor and cyclists are the last two groups you can still openly hate on. Here you can hate on both at the same time.

A 16-person congressional delegation visited CBP South Texas concentration camps on Monday.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/the-whole-facilitys-culture-is-rotted-from-the-core-what-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-saw-inside-the-el-paso-camps/

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Stromboli exploding, turn your speakers down:

https://twitter.com/AlexEtna/status/1146487043301810178

Holy fucking shit!

Anyone know what was going on in Finsbury Park earlier this evening? Seven Sisters road was closed and there was a tent up in the road at the park gates near the junction with Finsbury Park Road

Edit: Oh, looks like a road accident involving a motorbike

Looked like a bad road accident.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/04/staggering-cost-nhs-alcohol-abuse-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The biggest no-shit Sherlock news ever. Would you Adam and Eve it, turns out all those shitfaced weekenders and functional alcoholics are actually incredibly bad news - mostly for themselves, but also for the NHS.

Bookmaker blames government for no longer being able to exploit the vulnerable...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48868335

who needs bricks and mortar operations when you can fleece people out of their benefits from the comfort of their own phone?

A very, very good point. But the fixed odds things are cash, aren't they? So the exploitation and willful ignorance of their own industry body 'guidelines' is then untraceable.

as per the article (that i've now skimmed), i suspect the fixed odds machines are the only thing keeping the shops open. take that away and they no longer become profitable.

digitising services that used to be a branch / meatspace activity that results in the closure of said branch is nothing new. retail banking for example.

Before the reduction of limits on those betting machines there was still a limit of how many they could have in a shop. To get more machines the bookies would open up new shops nearby, some high streets near me had 3 of the same bookies in a short stretch. This was always going to happen once those limits came in.

This is sad
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/04/lawyer-who-racially-abused-flight-crew-found-dead-after-jail-release

moider?

"Burns was found dead at Beachy Head in East Sussex on 1 June, 13 days after her release on licence from Bronzefield prison."

Beachy Head is almost always suicide.

Grim...

Didn't you do UX for a gambling oufit?

yup. and they're terrible across the board.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/bury-road-rage-jeep-cyclist-16528814

Be interesting to see what this guy gets, witnessed by another shocked motorist, sounds like a sustained attack, poor kid on the bike....!

No mention of driving ban while he's on bail.

public health expert has suggested the sides of motorways, cycle paths and even brownfield or former industrial sites could be transformed to house the dead.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/05/bury-bodies-along-uks-motorway-to-ease-burial-crisis-expert-suggests

Bury a body - plant a tree

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-emissions