I volunteer with them here in the UK after being a youth member most of the way through. I know our respective organisations differ in some ways and I don’t know a great deal about USA Scouts.

I think we do legitimately help young people gain life skills and care for others. If I had kids, they’d be on the waiting list well in advance of joining age.

I’m proud that we’re an LGBT+ and neurodivergence inclusive space, by national policy as well as practical local example in many places. I have seen variations between groups though and I don’t think we get enough training on that. I would also say we’re pretty bad at race and class inclusion.

The biggest downside I feel is organisationally. We suffer from all the usual issues of a big organisation including internal politicking, shitty managers, disconnect between different teams, and putting the organisation’s interests above its professed values.

Bruce!

In case you missed it, the article’s not about the government but about the Lib Dem party’s internal conference. The Lib Dems do indeed seem sympathetic but lack the power to change anything at the moment.

The Labour government, as you say, could change the legislation, so the fact that they haven’t says quite a lot about how sympathetic they really are (i.e. very little).

I’d trust what the NHS has to think about it over some random on lemmy

Agreed that you shouldn’t trust random Lemmy comments. But the NHS on this issue is very driven by politics, rather than actual evidence of what provides the best outcomes for people. Here’s a well referenced analysis from a few years ago. And for example, the Dutch Health Council has a very different position than the NHS - I mention that mostly to illustrate that any given national health organisation isn’t inherently right, but I do also believe the Dutch one follows the scientific evidence more closely.

So no, nobody should be excluded from this discussion.

I get where you’re coming from but I fear that by making a point about “regret”, you’ve (perhaps unwittingly) contributed to scaremongering in contradiction to the available evidence (which points to that being only a tiny fraction of trans people). I don’t think it’s unfair to ask you to check your facts before posting and/or acknowledge a correction.

… make a life altering and irreversible decision …

Not providing healthcare is also a life altering and irreversible decision. As others have commented here, the later in life treatment is started, the more irreversible dysphoric changes will happen to that person’s body in the meantime, with generally poorer mental health outcomes. In particular, puberty blockers’ function is to pause those irreversible changes, not to cause changes.

A lot of relay boxes will both detect the switch position and toggle the power, so you should be able to get rid of all smart plugs that you were planning to use for this light.

The relay should have these connections:

• Live input from breaker box
• Neutral (both from breaker box and to socket)
• Switched live output to socket
• Connection to one side of the manual switch
• Connection to the other side of the manual switch

You may have better luck with a smart zigbee switch to replace the switch. Be careful that it complies with your local regulations etc.

If you want the aesthetic of the current switch, you can alternatively get relay modules which would sit in the box behind the switch and connect both to the switch and the socket.

If you don’t want to mess with the in wall wiring, you can get covers that sit over a wall switch and contain/mount a battery smart switch.

If none of that suits, sounds like you’re on the right track with powering the light from a non switched socket and using the presence/absence of a second device to identify the switch position. But I don’t have advice on the fine details.

Your take doesn’t really fit with the timeline described in the article. If the police hadn’t screwed up, it would have come out before he became MP (and presumably he wouldn’t have).

It would be interesting to know how much of this is because the same factors which trigger care proceedings are also likely to harm the mother, and how much is because the care proceedings cause the harm. Either way, it’s a big number and clearly more support needs to be available.

I think we also have to remember that the care proceedings are there to protect the child, and in theory are already a last resort after support has failed. Though I’m sure there’s work to be done to improve that in practice.

Here’s the initial statement from the RAIB https://www.gov.uk/government/news/collision-between-two-passenger-trains-near-elstow - pirc_lover had it about right

One train developed a fault which caused it to stop. The second one, as seen on its dashcam, drove through a red signal (which it should have stopped at) and into the back of the first. They are still investigating why the second one didn’t stop at the signal and whether that might include brake failure, safety system failure, driver error, and/or any other factors.

Oh that one’s a word wrap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_and_Jan_Mayen

Agreed, the words on the screen are not alphabetical (I’m just theorising there’s a hidden database column which is).

But in my book, if they’re mostly alphabetical, that implies the intention was to be fully alphabetical and something’s gone wrong. But maybe that’s just me 😂

I thought about codes but wouldn’t that put Germany before Denmark? Maybe there’s some other code system

It’s not claiming, but it quite clearly is.

It’s just that Great Britain and the Hellenic Republic have a different display text.

Is that not the profile picture of whoever’s post you were trying to view?

Completely agree, treat them broadly like e-bikes. Limited speed and use only on roads and bike paths, not footpaths.

That said, I see a lot of people riding e-bikes which don’t comply with the existing e-bike speed limits, so perhaps better enforcement is needed as well. There’s definitely a place for these faster e-bikes, but they’re basically e-mopeds and should act like it (roads only, driving licence, number plate, MOT, insurance etc.).

Righting yourself and standing up, apparently isn’t a natural motion for many adults who haven’t learned to swim.

Other than that, someone might have knocked themself out as they fell in, suffered leg injuries, got tangled in something on the bottom, been intoxicated, suffered cold water shock, or fallen into one of the locks or other deeper areas.

I don’t know the stats you’re looking at, and this is me talking about plausible explanations rather than the actual reasons. But people can drown in puddles if the circumstances are there.

If I’m understanding correctly, this is saying that isolation between different clients on the same VLAN is broken? But this attack doesn’t break isolation between VLANs?

So the major issue is if you’ve got a guest network on the same VLAN as your main network

I’ve been the car driver who nearly made jam out of the cyclist in the last panel. I’ve also been the cyclist hit by a car which was driving in the cycle lane.

Bad road users are everywhere and they use all sorts of transportation. Let’s stop with the division and generalisation.

I’m honestly surprised you’ve never had to do that, because it happens to me all the time.

Like when I’m approaching a junction on the road and the satnav suddenly changes from saying 0.5 miles to like 500 yards, that’s jarring and breaks my mental countdown. (In Britain, the roads are imperial, yes it’s a pain.)

Or if I’m cooking an old recipe and it needs 12oz of something, but I’m doubling the quantity, suddenly I need to know what that is in lb and oz because my scale doesn’t just tell me 24oz.

Or if someone says they’re 5’ 8" tall, I have to know how many " in a ’ to conceptualise how close that is to 6’.

Meanwhile, I know when I’m out hiking what my pacing is for 100m, and if I’ve got 2.5km to go, that’s 25 lots of pacing.

Or when I’m sewing, and fabric is sold by the metre but all the pattern pieces are measured in cm or mm.

And not strictly related, but it’s handy being able to measure out water in an unmarked container using a weighing scale and the fact that 1l=1kg.

Everyone’s got something to hide.

For example, I like to keep my credit card number secret from criminals.