I can't watch the video right now, but here's an interesting article about a small village that set up their own bus service: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66536184

It's a bit different from a typical bus service - rather than having a set route it runs on a rough timetable, and picks people up from their homes if it's not convenient for them to meet the bus in the village itself. It's currently partially volunteer run, but is an interesting model for rural areas.

That's not quite true. The general rule for most people is that you get a year of maternity leave; the first 6 weeks are at 90% of your usual pay, then you get 33 weeks at the lower of 90% or £172.48 per week, and then the rest is on Maternity Allowance which is a lower amount again.

The two weeks rule applies only to people who otherwise aren't entitled to maternity leave - normally this is people who are self-employed, agency workers or on a zero hours contract (although you should always check as there are exceptions to these rules that employers will try to pretend don't exist). In that situation, everyone is entitled to two weeks maternity leave for safety reasons, or four weeks if you work in a factory.

That said, a lot of people don't get to benefit from these rules because employers will straight up lie to employees about what they're entitled to, and rely on employees either not checking for themselves, or being too scared of losing their job to insist on getting what they're entitled to. If you're ever in this position, you should absolutely contact Citizens Advice - they know the rules inside out and will be happy to help remind your employer of their obligations, and also of what happens to employers who are found to retaliate or discriminate against employees who are pregnant or new mothers.

Fury Road has a very strong theme of extractive/capitalist survival (represented by cars, gas, control of water etc) = bad, regenerative/communalist survival (represented by the mothers and plant life) = good. The action scenes are ofc designed to be cool but I think the broader environmental/social message is strong enough that the flame guitar doesn't drown it out.

I don't think we're heading towards an everything app, but we may well see an everything account at some point. Companies already use social media management portals to post/respond on multiple platforms; I think if that kind of commercial demand arises for fediverse services, we will probably see similar fediverse management portals which allow you to interact with content on multiple ActivityPub services in a context-sensitive way via one account.

Anyone who owns a server can access all the data stored on it, unless the data is end-to-end encrypted. Whether it's mastodon, Lemmy, Facebook, twitter, Gmail, vBulletin, whatever.

If you need to say something that you can't risk anyone else seeing, use an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, or implement encryption yourself using e.g. PGP.

I mean, most people could survive almost anywhere for a day. Yeah, people need shade, just like all animals do; which is naturally provided by trees, shrubs, big rocks, terrain features etc. It's true that there are places where humans have deliberately made the outdoors inhospitable by removing those features, but you can fix that by putting them back.

The web client supports it too, as do other apps like Tusky and Ivory. The official app is just a weird outlier.

Since they say that all their content moderation is currently being done by two backend devs on top of their actual jobs, that seems like a safe bet.

Totally negligible. All you need to keep is a line in a database with the person's email, hashed and salted password, and a unique identifier for each game they own - that's an amount of space that won't even register on any service nowadays. There might be other optional stuff that takes more space, like display pics, cloud saves etc but you can delete those without deleting the whole account.

Not at all! We just need a combination of A) more new instances popping up, B) some people moving to other instances because they like them better or they run faster, and C) kbin.social admins scaling up this instance. It's just an adjustment process.

The good thing about fediverse services is that as long as there are people willing to throw up a server, you can just keep scaling - unlike on a centralised service where if the owner doesn't scale, that's tough.