I'm vegan, and I do honestly think that PETA get a bad rap for their animal shelter work, but their online presence is ridiculous and cringe and it doesn't surprise me at all that they get ripped to shreds constantly.

What's great is all the stuff I used to listen to in Uni (I'm 37 now) is also up there, like Torche and Manatees. Now I have the money to, I can chuck all these artists that I found in what.cd all those years ago a few quid. Whilst I'm sure they would have appreciated it more back in the day, I couldn't afford it and spent most of my uni years flat broke.

That's my bet, it's the best one right now. Not sure why OP didn't just say it.

If you want to support artists, try bandcamp, it has streaming but it's more of a "try before you buy service", and money goes directly to the artists' accounts. Mp3/flacs with no DRM or just stream as much as you like. For an old-head like me who still has an SD card and a headphone jack on my phone, it's perfect.

Maybe look into setting up your own supply chain or paying the businesses you rely on enough money to fix their supply?

If fairphone can set up a whole new phone manufacturering supply chain to make sure they don't have any child slaves, I'm sure this isn't so difficult, it's many more suppliers, but many less steps.

Alternatively, go vegan and stop contributing to this barbaric industry.

Wait, we can just do that?

Hey Elon...

I'd say just let sex workers run brothels and hire security and much of the problem will disappear, but I fear if it were just legalised in the UK, corporations would want to run the show and would cause a whole set of other problems for sex workers.

I have similar reservations about the legalisation of cannabis too, for I fear it would just be legalised without any effort to bring people out of the black market, pushing them to deal in harder substances.

It's an article about some drivel from the telegraph, why would I read that?

I usually go with "Elon's Musk" cos it sounds gross and he is gross

The article they're complaining about explicitly says the cyclists are a danger to pedestrians in the headline

Weird, here is says drivers.

Cyclists certainly can be a danger to pedestrians, personally I'm super careful when pedestrians are around, and when I'm walking on a designated shared path (probably most paths in my city now), I'll stick to one side because I know I'm not the only type of path user out there. Also, knowing cyclists go at speed, I try not to do really unpredictable things.

Nottingham here.

FYI I managed to save deposit during COVID lockdowns, I actually lost my job again the beginning of lockdown and was unemployed for 3 months, then I managed to save 20k during the next year and a half, which was a little more than 10% of the house price.

Cyclists endangering motorists? Me on my little metal frame is somehow a danger to basically a tank, yeah no, not buying that one. And speeding? Do you know how difficult it is to get above 25 on any bike?

What an absolute shit rag.

How would a prosecution occur if there's no inspectors? They haven't got BTP checking tickets now have they?

You might want to check the mirror for clown makeup yourself.

"knowing these people"? The fuck does that mean? Is this racist or homophobic? I literally can't tell.

As long as it means more rights for the worker and not less I'm all for it.

Exactly what I was thinking, at ATG all that happens is you get asked if you have any glass, they don't even search you.

Rice and beans is life

I've heard of this, but I'm not sure it's true, after searching I can't find a source that says it is either, are you aware of any studies that suggest this is true?

I'm not advocating removing meat from school meals either, just that everyone is catered for.

They have to serve it, not force it down student's throats though right? Is there anything restricting them from also serving something plant based at the same time?