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UK Police to crack down on face coverings at protests(bbc.co.uk)
11 points by a2fz 5d ago|2 comments
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by a2fz 1mo ago
Woah - Alexandra Palace spotted on the landing page?
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by a2fz 1mo ago
Yes, but this instance of it was in the Underground station, whereas previous cases have been in the mainline Network Rail-operated stations.
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by a2fz 1mo ago
To provide clarity, this isn't (yet) (publicly) hooked up to the whole CCTV network of London Underground stations. Instead they use these temporary portable stations you can see at the end of the linked article. I went to Victoria sta
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by a2fz 1mo ago
A counterpoint is that people - especially young people - who spend enough time on the internet to be willing to develop online friendships tend to be people who lack a proper irl social life, and (from my own personal experience) it is pai
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by a2fz 9mo ago
Customer service on British trains is excellent. It only takes a few minutes to claim Delay Repay if you're delayed more than 15 minutes, and you can even set it up to do it automatically for you. If your last train back home for the n
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by a2fz 9mo ago
> that won't even go into the centre of our capital city Is Euston not the centre? Where all the other trains from the north-west come into, and literally on the same road as Kings Cross St Pancras? Plus Old Oak Common is going to b
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by a2fz 9mo ago
Passenger rights are very good in the UK. It's easy to claim Delay Repay, where you get 25% refund after a 15 minute delay, 50% refund after 30 mins and 100% refund after 60 mins. Other train operators are obliged to help you get where
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by a2fz 9mo ago
Decentralisation. Almost all the traffic on the internet goes to one of like, five companies. They're the ones psychologically experimenting on your kids and intentionally making their services addictive and mental illness-inducing. Th
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by a2fz 9mo ago
https://sidebox.net is a nice way to do this as long as the site doesn't restrict to mainstream email domains
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by a2fz 9mo ago
Meanwhile, British Transport Police are about to start rolling out Live Facial Recognition at London railway stations: https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/british-tran...
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British Transport Police to Trial Live Facial Recognition at Railway Stations(btp.police.uk)
2 points by a2fz 9mo ago|0 comments