nrrp t1_iu30i4p wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:22 AM

Reply to comment by Ftpini in EU reaches deal to ban new combustion engine cars by 2035 – DW – 10/27/2022 by JustMyOpinionz

Quite a lot (around 200) of cities in the EU already legally prohibit sufficiently polluting vehicles from driving inside them. Meaning older more polluting cars wouldn't be able to enter them anyway. They can just update those to only allow electric cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-emission_zone

nrrp t1_iu0dzxf wrote on October 27, 2022 at 4:58 PM

Reply to comment by Thanato26 in Canada: Quebec separatist party calls for split with British monarchy by AugustWolf22

They are basically in a personal union, a single monarch of a single dynasty holding multiple hereditary kingdom titles. So there's Crown of United Kingdom, Crown of Canada, Crown of Australia, Crown of New Zealand and all the others and a single person of a single house (Windsor, formerly Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) holds all of them in hereditary fashion.

nrrp t1_is2xkzf wrote on October 12, 2022 at 10:27 PM

Reply to comment by Mist_Rising in Pensioner with broken hip left lying on cold street for nine hours due to no ambulances by turbo_chuffa

> She was elected in the same manner as any other prime minister.

That's not true. Normal process in the UK is for the public to elect MPs and then those MPs elect a prime minister; what happened with Liz Truss was that the Conservative party members (~200,000 people total) and very specifically not the MPs elected the prime minister directly. Truss actually got minority of support of Conservative MPs in parliament (IIRC only a quarter of MPs actually supported her).