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It's just a normal mainstream instance. Fairly heavily moderated. I subscribe to a few communities on there, but mostly they're much quieter than their sister communities on other servers. I'm not subscribed to anything on there which is particularly unique or standout.

Quite a lot of the world (including the EU and UK) is committed to banning ICE cars entirely within the next 10 years. Honda simply can't survive selling exclusively ICE cars to the US and a few fringe markets; either they're a global player or they'll disappear.

Obviously if a global apocalypse wipes us all out then none of this matters, but that's true of everything. It makes commenting on the news in general a bit redundant.

Calling him "Gavin & Stacey's Rob Brydon" seems very wrong, considering how prolific he is.

It's like saying "David Jason from Open All Hours".

The two big minicab firms in my town both use apps with very similar functionality to Uber. Fixed fare, vehicle tracking etc.

Uber doesn't have a monopoly on nice apps. It's [current year], that stuff is standard now.

Hydrogen as a substance is light, but the equipment to make it viable isn't. The kind of high pressure tank required to keep it under high enough compression to make the energy density viable, with walls thick enough so that it doesn't embrittle and explode specularly after a few weeks' usage, is hugely heavy.

So, is the general thinking that the courts got it wrong?

No, there is no "general thinking" here. It's a very complicated case and there's a lot of detail, and it's a shame that some people seem to be leaping on it as some salacious conspiracy theory.

The panel of doctors didn't "conclude that she's not at fault". They reviewed each individual incident, and determined that they didn't think there was sufficient evidence in each case that the baby died/was injured in the way that the prosecution alleges. If you take their evidence at face value, you could conclude that there isn't enough evidence to convict.

However the courts have generally been not enormously interested in that line of reasoning because it doesn't address all the other evidence against her, including a witness statement from a colleague who says they literally caught her in the act on one occasion, or the fact that she had a 40% incident rate for a type of fatal error (breathing tubes becoming dislodged) which generally only happens on less than 1% of shifts (i.e. it only ever seemed to happen when she was there).

So yeah, people need to chill and let the justice system grind this process out. Maybe her conviction will be overturned, maybe it won't. Not only is there no point in second guessing that, but when we're dealing with the depths of conflicting evidence and medical testimony even a nul conviction doesn't necessarily tell you much about whether she actually did it or not.

Only the Scottish could think "caffeinated wine" is a highly desirable beverage.

I love chinotto so much. They used to sell the San Pellegrino one here in the UK, but it got discontinued.

It's great. Like a Campari and soda without the booze.

I want you all up in my 'nities, fam.

SCART was standard here in the UK. But most VHS players also had RCA composite cables. I don't recall any of my VCRs/DVD players ever having coax, though; that presumably wasn't that common a standard here.

I'm an h-in-herb kinda guy. 'erb actually feels like more effort to say.

What actually is a 'buttermilk biscuit"? It just says use ready made ones, but we don't have those here.

Am I right in remembering that they're something like a scone?

Whenever I've seen pictures of US style chicken and dumplings, the dumplings always look fairly similar to a UK-style suet dumpling, and ultimately we're just talking about different ways of mixing flour and fat together into balls, so I wonder if ultimately it amounts to much the same thing.