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Why is this not happening in every European country, as an absolute minimum?

https://www.thelocal.fr/20230407/france-plans-70-supertax-on-fuel-for-private-jets


France plans 70% 'supertax' on fuel for private jets

France is set to dramatically increase taxes on fuel for private jets, as the government rejects a proposal from environmentalist and left-wing senators to ban short flights altogether.
The Local France (The Local)
Saint Palermo
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@spyro WHY NOT go down the all-out ban route? Rich people can afford to pay more- but the planet cannot!

#BanPrivateJets makes much much more impact on both #ClimateCrisis AND the #inequality crisis.

Really- WHY NOT just #banprivatejets??

#climatecrisis #inequality #banprivatejets @Ian Molton

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I like Vanity Fair's headline:

"Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Trying to Overturn the Election, Despite Us All Witnessing Him Trying to Overturn the Election"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/trump-pleads-not-guilty-to-trying-to-overturn-the-election

#Trump #Impeachment #News #Headline #VanityFair #BessLevin #Law #Crime #Spoiler #He's #Guilty #Elections #Comedy


Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Trying to Overturn the Election, Despite Us All Witnessing Him Trying to Overturn the Election

The ex-president was arraigned in a DC courthouse on Thursday.
Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
#News #trump #elections #comedy #law #crime #guilty #he #spoiler #besslevin #vanityfair #headline #Impeachment

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Tis bath night. Half of this lemon will be joining me and I shall not leave these waters until I am like a bleached prune.

I've decided to watch all of the Mission Impossible movies. In order. I'm on number three now. All totally bloody ridiculous so far. Have film makers starting basing any of their stunts around the laws of physics yet, because they hadn't in these movies.

And whilst I'm ranting, does anyone watch adverts without having to turn the sound off? If you do, how do you manage it? #AdvertsAreAllLies

#AdvertsAreAllLies
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Linus, creator of Linux, being “woke” as heck. Win.
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Alastair Cooper
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I think he's probably more akin to a democratic socialist than a communist but the hyperbole whipped up about the left-wing is very distorting. He literally works for a not-for-profit organisation (the Linux Foundation) that develops technology that underpins lots of other things, including for-profit. That seems very democratic socialist to me and probably ought to be the political centre, not the far left.
Martin Bryant
Martin Bryant  
The problem with capitalism is that if you're not 100% for it, then those that are, think you're 100% against it. These sorts of people are not very good with shades of grey.

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https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

Battle for Libraries

Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship. It’s time to fight back.
Fight for the Future

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Frendica on Android?

I currently use Fedilab for Mastodon and pixelfed but it didn't recognise the weyr.org.uk server when I try to sign in on that. However I see that Fedilab says that it supports the Friendica API, so I was hoping it would work.

Thoughts? Thanks. :-)

Martin Bryant
Martin Bryant  
Indeed there is. Does this give us any hope that there is something we can do to fix this or are we in the hands of a bug tracking system and software devs? I know nothing about this API, but happy to do what I can to help resolve this.
Ian Molton
Ian Molton  
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We aren't running the dev version yet.

If it passes some testing I'll update the server to it.

Apparently the current version has Mastodon API support.

Ian Molton
Ian Molton  
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I'm learning more about the codebase over time. We will be able to make changes in future.
Martin Bryant
Martin Bryant  
Cool. I'm a software dev by trade, but have become more of a business analyst over the last 10 years. So happy to help where I can. Probably can't help with any code, but should be able to with debug / test stuff. :-)
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