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I went swimming on Saturday. There were a load of people that were swimming who were putting on shoe covers in the entrance to the changing room. I hate it.

Spectators aren't allowed poolside. There is a separate spectator area which has access elsewhere.

The shoe covers are reasonable for parents of young children having lessons but nobody else should be using them.

There was a family of 3 putting them in as I left. Parent and two kids that are too young to swim without an adult in the pool with them. No lessons at that time of the day. That's six pointless shoe covers.

you don’t take your shoes off

I've tried swimming in my shoes and it sucks. You are weird.

I guess that's what I need, I don't have one.

There is a lot of personal preference and at the same time it doesn't really matter... We are an Android house so have Chromecast. Roku starts really cheap if you don't want to spend much. I assume iPhone owners splurge on Apple TV but it seems a bit expensive to me, perhaps I'm missing the USP.

Whatever your favourite telly streaming thing is (Apple TV/Google Chromecast/native TV apps) but instead of connecting it to your regular network connect it to something like a GL-MT300N on a different SSID (or even cable). That can then connect to your regular network and run a VPN for the client.

Blue plastic shoes covers at the swimming pool.

Take your shoes and socks off on the bench provided, less single use plastic. You are about to have bare feet anyway FFS!

Apparently Saturday lunchtime is great for having the fast lane almost to myself but the changing rooms are overrun with small people and parents being dicks.

Bricklink Designer Program Series 3 on Tuesday. Harbormaster's Office for me, probably.

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-3/main.page

It's never going to be produced but I supported it anyway.

Why is it awful?

Because you end up with half a dozen pensions in private pension companies that gently hike up the fees and get rich while people don't contribute nearly enough anyway.

The government automatic minimums are ridiculously small. I might feel a bit differently if they had been set around the cost of something like an old police pension which is probably 20%+

Financial literacy can be eradicated if we taught kids sensible things like personal finance at school.

They tried some of that when I was in school and yet my sister is a complete muppet with money. A professional pension manager is a better option for more than half IMHO.

The private sector has basically closed all final salary schemes so it seems fair to do something similar for public sector workers

When the private sector does something awful we should legislate to stop them. Shifting the risk and responsibility from a few authorities to millions of mostly disinterested and often financially illiterate individuals is the wrong thing to do.

Peds are fucking lemmings, have seen Peds run across a junction in to a motor bike holding the junction.

Good. All motorists, even cops, are only there with a license. Pedestrians have an absolute right to use the road.

(Excluding motorways and a few other special roads)

made-up event

Most events are made up to some extent.

Nice. What are you serving it with?

wouldn't handing sovereignty to the Chagossians themselves, rather than to Mauritius

The Chagossians are quoted in some reports as excluded from discussions so it does seem like nobody cares about them.

All seems a bit irrelevant since the military base will remain on the biggest bits of land for at least 99 years and the whole lot will be under water before that.

Does the .io TLD get deleted?

My work gets attacked all the time (the darker corners of the Internet trying all the attacks). I suppose I'm sort of worried that the mitigations I've put in are rubbish and reveal my incompetence.

It's such an important frame and integral part of the painting that the National Gallery don't show it or mention it on the painting listing.

Can we sentence every motorist that close passes me as if they did knock me off? It certainly worries me.

Is this the sentencing of the JSO folks?

caused £10,000 worth of damage to the gold-coloured frame

Blimey, frame repairers are well paid these days.

Staff at the gallery were worried the soup may have dripped through the protective glass

The glass worked. The staff worry unnecessarily and need to relax a bit.

Snappy Snaps usually have a selection and are probably local to you

My answer seems to be I need an Operating Safety Case Authorisation from the CAA which is a massive amount of paperwork so flying close but not over is the only realistic way.

The drone could be under 250g if that is what makes a difference. The participants will be under my control which makes some things easier but actual overhead seems to be unspoken even though it happens all the time.

nuances and exceptions

That's what I'm trying to get to the bottom of. An A2 CofC seems to change some rules for example. There is another certificate that actually requires training that might be the ticket. But I can't work it out

So the photo I posted was illegally taken?