This isn’t considered verification in the UK from what I can tell. Companies are now implementing AI face scans, ID checks and credit card verification to comply with the UK law. I’m not a lawyer or even British, but it wouldn’t make sense to me that companies would spend money to turn away their UK customers otherwise.
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AspieEggto Ottawa@lemmy.ca•Councillor calls on Ottawa to consider banning right turns on red lights at downtown intersections4·1 month agoIt’s like that in Montreal too. You aren’t allowed to turn right on red on the entire island. Driving sucks there without having to focus on the entire intersection at once, so it’s kind of nice to just have to wait your turn.
AspieEggto Ottawa@lemmy.ca•Councillor calls on Ottawa to consider banning right turns on red lights at downtown intersections9·1 month agoIf this makes it safer for pedestrians and bicyclists, I’m all for it. It might even make driving downtown easier if the cars behind you aren’t expecting you to turn right on a red light. Turning on a green light means you really only have to focus mostly on the crosswalk.
Looks like it might be 9 full slices of bread. Maybe he didn’t want to miss the exact spot.
With respect, I think you are confusing technical simplicity with ease. Technically, it is very simple to lose weight. Just eat fewer calories than you consume. But there is a huge psychological, financial and often biological component to it as well. When some people lose weight, it doesn’t cause them to feel like shit, or cause them cravings they can’t ignore, or cause them to have diabetic issues. People with thyroid conditions may be extremely lethargic and have trouble exercising. People who are lower income may have a difficult time buying healthy food for their family (actually one of the biggest predictors of being overweight).
As an example, when I was a teenager, I smoked with my friends casually. I didn’t find that tobacco did much for me though, so when I no longer hung around those friends, it was easy for me to not smoke. However, I have seen how difficult it is for others around me to quit smoking. It is technically simple to stop smoking. Just don’t smoke anymore. But it isn’t easy for a lot of people.
So it may be “easy” for some healthy, active, middle class to upper class person with no health conditions or psychological issues that would prevent them from dieting to lose weight, but that doesn’t make it easy for everyone. It’s technically simple to do, but saying that makes it easy is very dismissive of the struggles people go through when dieting.
AspieEggtomicromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.world•Ludicrous $29,500 e-scooter built by F1 engineers to rip at 100 mphEnglish12·2 months ago🎶 Dumb ways to diiiiiiiiie, so many dumb ways to die 🎶
From what I understand, most ADHD medications are stimulants. Caffeine is too. Apparently a lot of ADHD people self-medicate with coffee or energy drinks unintentionally.
I know that anecdotally it’s true. Almost everyone I know with ADHD consumes caffeine like crazy.
AspieEggtomicro-blog-[ish]@lemmy.sdf.org•I wonder if there is anything to be gained from non-orthogonally-sliced bread (e.g. if each cut was 45 degrees instead of 90)... sure, there would be two funky heals, but each slice would be biggerEnglish4·2 months agoWhile it’s not exactly what you’re asking about, you can ask the bakery at many grocery stores to slice the bread the long way if you want. It makes for extra long slices.
It’s probably just that you’re not the target market for Harry Potter anymore and the only part of HP that’s still relevant to you is JKR and her transphobia.
HBO and their parent company Warner Bros are making a big deal out of their upcoming TV show. They own the rights to the films and merchandise and HP is a cash cow for them. They flopped with the Fantastic Beasts series, so you can bet there is going to be a push to try to cash in on nostalgia and novelty with the Harry Potter series.
As someone who grew up on HP, there are way better books in the same genre out there anyway. The hype of Harry Potter is all just marketing from Warner Bros (they own most of the rights on merchandise).
If you want an actually good children’s/YA story about a young person learning magic and becoming the hero, try the Tiffany Aching subseries of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. They are much better written than HP.
As if you all didn’t have stupid hobbies during COVID lockdowns.
AspieEggtoLGBTQ+•A mysterious masked unicycler is stealing a neigborhood’s Pride flags3·2 months agoOh yeah. This story is way less interesting and stupid when you realize what the “unicycle” is.
AspieEggto pics@lemmy.world•U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) waiting outside unmarked van3·3 months agoI can’t help but think of this “Straight Man Fashion” video when I see this picture. https://youtube.com/shorts/80w3SyCai2o
This is literally happening. Without getting too specific so her job stays safe, my sister works as an ocean researcher for the government. They removed any mention of the word “diversity” and “biodiversity” from their research and so far, they haven’t lost their jobs yet.
AspieEggto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Proprietary software's inferiorities, such as this control center downgrade, remind me of that one Dhar Mann video where kids enjoy homemade food and insult what the "award winning pastry chef" made.34·3 months agoWay back when, I had a Palm Pixie, which ran WebOS. While it wasn’t FOSS, if you turned on developer mode, you would have full terminal access to the Linux system it was running.
I think HP eventually made it open source and now LG uses it for their TVs. But that phone’s OS was one of the best ones I had seen at the time.
AspieEggto politics @lemmy.world•Bannon Says He’s Advising Trump to DEPORT Elon Musk Immediately18·3 months agoHe has a Canadian citizenship. Please don’t send him here. We don’t want him either.
You don’t need to hate yourself or your body to be transgender. If you think you’d be happier living as a woman, then you might be. When you feel happy about dressing or presenting as your true self, we call that gender euphoria, and it can sometimes be a more powerful feeling than dysphoria.
I don’t have a BambuLab printer, but the printers I have owned have done that when the nozzle is clogged, when over extruding or when the print bed is too close to the nozzle.
Basically, something is preventing the plastic from extruding out and the extruder motor is slipping.
AspieEggtomicromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.world•Should e-bikes be allowed on traditional bike trails?English2·6 months agoI understand the weight issue, but what good does making all e-bikes illegal do to prevent people using already illegal e-bikes? If the issue is people illegally modifying their bikes, then that should be what is enforced, not making things illegal for those following the rules.
Most of the trails in the city I live in have a 20 km/h speed limit. I tend to see a lot more regular bikes exceeding that than I do e-bikes. But regardless of type of bike, they should both be stopped for going too fast.
I mean, the guy on the right was left on read.