Not bad. Did the Ride London 60 on Sunday, pondering whether I should try the 100 next year. It went ok

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.

Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(

So, if I gave you some volunteering contacts as links, would you commit to starting next month for me? Or would it take a threat of fines/court action?

Would you be up for being compelled to give up a day a month to do good works? Not volunteering, mind, compelled.

“It’s a bit lively tonight “

£115? That’s nearly 3 pints of bitter

I contribute plenty. I volunteer for several charities including AgeUK and a local food bank and I give blood.

Want to make it mandatory? piss off.

You need a certain kind of landscape for that. I think the UK only has a couple of pumped storage power stations due to lack of suitable sites