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its a good idea even if you are sighted but unfamiliar with the area, as whilst there's generally all manner of noisy things in the train/metro station and often alarm beeps for doors opening/closing, you instinctively associate birds with "outside"...

@nprofile1q... even the Police round here realise this and are trying to get NHS and Social Services to attend first for mental health incidents, but the other services struggle to provide staff out of hours due to lack of funding...

But the issue with them turning up for ODs is due to NHS Ambulance Service *requesting* them as backup (they can now communicate across services with the digital radios by using a "mutual aid talkgroup") - if someone calls nines and asks for Ambulance they are put straight through to Ambulance Control - the 999 operator is at British Telecom, independent of the Emergency Services (unlike 911 call centres which appear to be Police led)

@nprofile1q... tried this on Copilot with a picture of a small dog out in the yard and two cats in my garden - in both situations it didn't even have the honesty to admit the backgrounds were too busy (or it wasn't prepared to use the resources for the free tier) and after repeated prompts returned pictures of completely different dogs and cats (a Yorkshire Terrier became a Patterdale, and two ginger cats became one ginger cat and a tabby)

It also couldn't identify the year of the car I drive in spite of having full access to LinkedIn where there is a picture of it on there (its really easy to tell the difference between MK6/7/7,5/8 VW Golf), which suggests that the resources to process images are rationed (but no service wants to admit to it)

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raves still happen, albeit nowadays in larger towns and cities with better public transport and/or urban layouts that aren't so car-dependent. Authorities in many countries (particularly UK and Europe) have become a lot better at detecting and clamping down on the rampant DUI that was present on that scene, which has had an impact on who is still prepared to attend such events if they are more further afield.

Also social media culture fed the same authorities with 20 years worth of evidence about sheer level of drug use and hedonism that was used to justify the clampdowns..

@nprofile1q... the pub appeared to be doing fairly well before the crash - it would however be relatively easy to lose control of the Jag if someone was pushing on a bit too much (a witness in this video claims the driver was going at some speed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vDwqlHfAmg