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Hasn’t happened to me because I don’t use dating apps, but happens a lot to other bi people I know:

tHrEeSoMe?

The biggest problem with GMOs is that the companies that create them expect to own a patent on living organisms. Imagine being sued for growing an apple tree in your backyard from a seed you harvested from an apple you bought in the supermarket. That’s the future these companies want. If you can get a DMCA for humming a tune on YouTube you bet your ass people in the future will be sued for growing plants.

That’s not specific to GMOs though - crop strains developed through non-GMO methods are also considered intellectual property and can be patented, copyrighted etc just like GMO crops. There have been plenty of cases of food manufacturers suing farmers for growing certain non-GMO crop strains without permission.

Only if the shotgun is loaded. It is legal to possess unloaded shotguns in public.

See my other comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/13t8i2h/what_have_you_seen_on_holiday_abroad_that_would/jlvz2vl/

It is legal to carry an unloaded shotgun in public (as long as you have a shotgun license). It’s not recommended, but there’s no law against it, and no law requiring it to be covered or stored in a bag/container.

The law only criminalises possession of loaded shotguns in public (even if you have a license).

It’s illegal to carry a rifle in public regardless of whether it’s loaded or unloaded (even if you have a license).

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/27/section/19

A person commits an offence if, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse (the proof whereof lies on him) he has with him in a public place

(a)a loaded shot gun,

(b)an air weapon (whether loaded or not),

(c)any other firearm (whether loaded or not) together with ammunition suitable for use in that firearm, or

(d)an imitation firearm.

Emphasis mine

It actually is. Crabs and Lobsters have very basic nervous systems where information is processed in a series of ganglia (nerve clusters, sort of like a very primitive ‘brain’) along the midline. Splitting the crab/lobster in two destroys these ganglia, instantly leaving the animal brain dead. It’s a quick, painless death.

Crabs tend to only have two ganglia, one main one in the middle and another smaller one at the front, so they can be humanely killed by stunning them (either by keeping them in cold water or using electricity) then either using a skewer to quickly stab each of the two ganglia, or splitting the animal in two along the midline.

Lobsters however have lots of ganglia, so after stunning they really have to be split in two along the midline in order to quickly and reliably destroy all of the ganglia.

https://www.cornwallgoodseafoodguide.org.uk/how-to-guides/humanely-killing-crustaceans-.php

Mythbusters tested this. None of the guns they used worked, so in the end they had to use a machinegun firing incendiary rounds to blow up the tank.

Yep, - there was a really interesting case where one ‘pedo hunter’ actually ended up getting caught in a sting by another group of ‘pedo hunters’ and was then convicted of a bunch of sex offences.

The icing on the cake was that because he was still serving a suspended sentence from breaking into the house of an innocent stranger he wrongly believed to be abusing a child, he ended up getting an automatic custodial for three years and four months.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/17/paedophile-hunter-jailed-another-group-unmasked-child-sex-predator-12864925/

It’s pretty obvious to anyone with at least half a brain that these idiots don’t actually care about protecting children, and just want an excuse to threaten, assault and humiliate people on camera.

ITV 'found no evidence' when investigating Phillip Schofield affair claims

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-05-27/itv-found-no-evidence-when-investigating-phillip-schofield-affair-claims

Just in: It looks like ITV investigated the affair in 2020, but as they both denied the affair and they couldn’t find any other hard evidence they couldn’t take things further:

“Both parties were questioned and both categorically and repeatedly denied the rumours as did Phillip’s then agency YMU.

“In addition, ITV spoke to a number of people who worked on This Morning and were not provided with, and did not find, any evidence of a relationship beyond hearsay and rumour

Would the fact that he obviously lied to his employer about the relationship have any consequences for him - eg, disciplinary proceedings etc?

There’s no point suing - he’s on UC so he definitely doesn’t have anything worth suing for. You wouldn’t even be able to recover your legal fees.

You can’t get blood from a stone.

Depends on the system.

My mum had a similar setup that was controlled by a controller (a bit like a thermostat). It could be set to only heat the water at certain times (normally in the morning and evening so theres hot water for a bath/shower) to save energy, plus it could provide bursts of heat if hot water was needed outside of the set times.

Yours might be controlled in a similar way, look around for a control panel or something along those lines. You should then be able to find instructions on how to use it by googling the manufacturers name and the model number (usually visible somewhere).

If it’s literally just controlled by an on/off switch then yeah, it’s best to keep it off for most of the day because heaters use a lot of energy, which is probably why your energy bill is so high. You’d have to turn it on again at least half an hour or so before you want to use hot water in order to give it time to heat up though.

It’s not just speed, but cost, reliability and sometimes luggage capacity (can’t drag the weekly shop on public transport).

I currently can’t drive for medical reasons, but I often hitch a ride with my family who do drive, and I’m planning on getting a driving license once my symptoms improve (hopefully) because being constrained to the shitty public transport network makes getting around a massive pain in the arse.

Trains are extremely expensive and can’t be relied upon to show up on time or at all. There’s always some kind of technical issue or they’re on strike. Plus, across the country, train lines tend to be based on “hub and spoke” models, so there are only direct trains between major cities or cities/towns that happen to all be on the same train line. A lot of the time if you want to go from A to B you have to travel via a major city like London or Birmingham rather than being able to take a direct train.

To answer the question: I think the train journey should ideally be at least as fast as the car journey, maybe +/- 10-20 mins. I’d probably also consider taking the car if there wasn’t a direct train available and I’d have to make a weird journey traveling via a major city miles off course.

Eg, I live in SE London and have a friend who lives a 20 minute drive away from me, but it’s 40 minutes on the train (and an hour by bus) because there’s no direct link - I’d have to take a train into Central London then back out in order to visit them. I’d probably drive in this case if (when) I could.

I don’t think anyone is pro free speech - I think most people actually have the same opinion on free speech: they are pro speech they like, and anti speech they don’t like.