tallpaul

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Highland Council's 5% visitor levy could raise £10m a year in c/scotland@lemmy.world
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

ScotGov legislation says it has to be a percentage.

No Fourth Hike for him in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago

Upvoted for the title.

Tony's Chocolonely bars are shaped unevenly to represent farmer inequality and the coastline of Africa in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

It's also why I no longer buy it. It's a PITA to eat.

Earbuds in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I find https://gsmarena.com is the right place to start as you can search, among many other things, for phones with a 3.5mm socket.

Twitter getting worse, weird political shit. What's the best Mastodon server and Android app? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Tusky for client. Lots of good medium sized instances (avoid mastodon.social). I'm on mas.to for a general account and mastodon.scot for a local one (both reliable, run by the same person).

Earbuds in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I still only buy phones with a 3.5mm socket.

SITE CHANGED HEADLINE: Harris says she would appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if elected in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

She didn't "pledge" to, but she didn't seem adverse to the idea if it was the right person.

Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Not so effective against the likes of YouTube allegedly.

USA | Police Are Increasingly Encrypting Their Radios to Block Scrutiny by Journalists in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Similar in the UK. Ours is called Airwave and came in in the early 2000s.

https://www.airwavesolutions.co.uk/the-service/emergency-services-network/

Bagging a Munro gets easier as volunteers fund repairs to mountain paths in c/scotland@lemmy.world
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

IME "path repairs" too often means making steps which are more difficult to descend than the path that was there before unless you have exactly the same agility as the (generally young and fit) path builders.

Depressing how often this happens. The path down off Cairngorm towards the cafe is a prime example.

Heather Mills Tells UN Officials To 'Eat Vegan' If They Care About The Planet in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I bet she flew to Bonn...

Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] tallpaul@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Not every country has elections either.

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'North Lanarkshire Council to close libraries, pools and sports centres' (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

[I think I saw this posted earlier but it seems to have disappeared.]

I have to say my view, speaking as a councillor on Highland Council, is that the more I think about this it's gesture politics as the council presumably own most of these facilities so closing them still leaves them with significant revenue budget costs.

Plus "No dates have been given for the closures and affected staff are likely to be offered redeployment" which smells of something not well thought out - a big chunk of the cost of these premises is payroll so redeploying doesn't save money ... and then making people redundant is expensive too, as HC learned to its cost the last time it was "saving" money.

So I think this is a Labour led council just trying to embarrass the SNP/Green government into coughing up some more money.

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I was pruning a ground hugging bush today and grumbling to my wife about having to take the prunings to the dump. "Why not just hide them in the bush?" she said. Problem solved. (lemm.ee)
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Handy guide to places not to eat in the UK over the summer... (feddit.uk)
 
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Kylesku bridge looking as magnificent as ever (media.mastodon.scot)
 
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