www.theguardian.com Man who survived ebike fire that killed his family fights for change to UK law
Scott Peden, whose partner and two children died after battery exploded, calls for compulsory regulation
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Sure, it's more than just encouraging people to drop meat and dairy. It's also voting for people who will make it financially impossible for those industries to continue.
We took our toddler to see it and both my partner and I had multiple episodes of weeping. Lovely film.
Strange! I just wouldn't work when I first tried, but I VPN'd from USA and it worked. Maybe something else happened the first time and I'm misattributing the success.
Thanks.
(If anyone else from the UK wants to read this link you'll need a VPN)
Is there any background to their strike?
Thank fuck I have an absolute limit on my weekly working hours.
Difficult to read it behind a paywall
Yinz is definitely a Scots thing
She does, and it's one of the key character points at the start of Aliens.
It was tender and sleepy the night before, but more fun and adventurous with a good night's sleep and a meal inside.
Sometimes I just give them a dead stare until they stop talking then carry on with what I was saying, or alternatively "excuse me [optional] Dave, I wasn't finished."
Other times it's not worth the drama, or they might actually be reasonably more excited about what they have to say then listening, in which case fair enough.
This is fucking cute
I worked with an ex-paramedic who alluded to a similar factor in leaving to become a nurse aide.
Only if we sequester your corpse in a mine shaft
Yeah, it's the one thing you just carry around. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil it's enough time to refresh Lemmy, but not enough to read even part of a chapter in a book.
Also keeps your health up for longer to use a bike! If you've got health insurance then that probably matters even more.
Hmm... We're trying to make sure we all get turns, so she gets nursery rhymes to sing along and do the actions to, then we get some pop, rock, folk or metal.
She's 2. Trying not to let her wear me down!
Yep, pretty much
Screen reduction techniques
I spend so much effort trying to distract my kid from just asking to watch TV, then as soon as I get some time to myself it's straight onto the TV or video games (or phone). Maybe I need to practice on myself as well?
A man who narrowly survived an ebike battery fire that killed his partner and two children says he is tormented by grief and guilt but determined to fight to change the law to avoid similar tragedies.
Scott Peden, 31, was placed in an induced coma for a month after suffering 15% internal burns when he tried to wrestle his burning ebike out of his Cambridge flat last June. He also smashed his heel in three places jumping from his bedroom after the battery exploded.
When he was pushed back by the flames and toxic fumes he called to his partner, Gemma, 31, and children, Lilly, eight, and Oliver, four, to jump from the same bedroom. “She said: ‘I can’t get out.’ That’s the last words I heard. I don’t know what happened,” Peden said.
He added: “Gemma knew I tried to help, but did the kids? Was their last thought ‘where’s Dad?’ I feel so much guilt and fear about what they went through in those last couple of minutes, it hits me every day.”
Peden learned of their fate only when he e
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Morning haar was leaving the dandelion clocks covered in dew the other day. Probably should have bumped up the ISO so I could have a faster shutter and tighter aperture.
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What's your secret ingredient that makes your version of a common dish better than anyone else's?
Mine probably isn't that secret these days, but almost every sauce I add nutritional yeast to. Curry, chilli, bolognese, it just makes them all better.
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