Had a really good steak and ale pie in a pub somewhere. Also, fish and chips is wildly overrated.

Charging at home or work would be great. From my perspective, the biggest obstacle to EV ownership is road trips. I just did a trip last week that was 2000 miles round-trip. Having to stop multiple times a day for charging would be a real challenge, not just for current lack of infrastructure, but also the time spent charging. Fuel stations are everywhere and I can have a full tank in <5 minutes. Until EV charging approaches these numbers, I don’t see myself owning an EV. Although I guess there is the option to rent a traditional vehicle for those periods, I usually make multiple 1000+ mile trips per year, so those costs aren’t insubstantial.

This sounds like a question for a UK-based labor lawyer, not Lemmy. Any answer you receive here, if not fully compliant with UK law, could result in penalties for your company.

Yeah, they’ve got some bangers out there besides the ones I named, but I figured those two would give a pretty good idea of what one could expect from their music. I’m pretty partial to Savior, Satellite, and House on Fire myself.

I’ve heard them, but I’m not as familiar with them as Siren Song and later albums. I also remember them being much harsher musically compared to their later stuff. I personally wouldn’t recommend them to someone just getting into Rise Against as their current sound has evolved well past those albums, but they would be good for someone looking to see how the group sounded in their more formative years.

Ms. Rachel seems to be an outstanding role model for everyone, not just girls / women.

A good starting point would be the songs “Re-education (Through Labor)” and “Prayer of the Refugee.” If you like those, I would recommend pretty much any of their albums from Siren Song of the Counter-Culture to Wolves. I haven’t kept up with anything more recent than those so can’t give an honest recommendation there, but I would imagine they would also be solid.

Rise Against.

Is there a statistically significant population of blind people pumping gas? If you struggle to pump gas unassisted, I’m honestly not sure how you would safely operate a vehicle.

Respectfully, I’ve been working in government for nearly 20 years. I know what my limits are and what I can get away with. I never signed any acknowledgement that I would keep the app on the phone. Worst case scenario and extremely unlikely to happen, they somehow notice it’s missing from my phone and ask me about it. “Oh, my bad. Didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to remove it.”

I also ignored the DOGE emails last year and I’m still around. I’m honestly not the least bit concerned.

For what it’s worth, I saw that it had been installed on my government issued phone this morning and was able to simply uninstall it.

This is strictly for government-issued devices. So everyone that is subject to this is already carrying two phones.

You could always try clicking on some shady links online.

I’m not sure that’s possible.

That may well be so, but I have no intention of making things even easier for them.

Yep. Found that out a couple weeks ago for the same reason. I’m not giving them my data just to read some reviews. There’s literally no reason to hide those behind a login other than to harvest your info and viewing habits.

I was with you until the end. Most Gen A are mostly technically illiterate thanks to smartphones and tablets that “just work.” They’ve never really needed to tinker with their devices and it shows in their technical capabilities. I would bet the average Gen A couldn’t tell you the difference between downloading a file vs installing a program.

I notice a lot of the more prolific posters and commenters, for better or worse. Even more so the ones with distinct avatars since I associate that picture with what they post and my client has avatars on by default.

You’re not wrong, but we don’t all have the capability to move to another country, for both legal and financial reasons.