Rogue
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- Comment on Is "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy considered a good book? 4 days ago:
I gave up on Rainbow Six as well. I didn’t really understand the plot.
Apparently I was meant to be on the side of Team America: World Police and not sympathise with the environmentalists trying to save the world from corruption and climate change.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
I’m very intrigued by your definition of Liberalism. It doesn’t correlate with liberalism across the world.
- Comment on Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says 1 week ago:
The latest budget included the funding to Euston.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
Every nation should be inviting him for state dinners, banquets, golf tournaments, the works. Collectively keep his ego constantly jerked off and away from any advisors. Keep that going for four years and we might just distract the child enough.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
I’m hoping he just focuses on enriching himself. Clearing his convictions and then lining his pockets with more NFTs and corruption. That’ll keep him sufficiently occupied to not fuck too much with the lives of everyday people.
- Comment on Why Do Gas Carriers Have These Humps? 3 weeks ago:
Indeed. Most of my skills are self taught but I suspect that’s because no one ever taught in a manner that suited me.
I need visual and/or practical learning. Somebody talking at me just doesn’t work. I lose interest or don’t absorb the material. Slides or scribbles on a whiteboard help a bit but teachers and professors are severely lacking in visual communication. They certainly aren’t going to create graphics and animations like this video which clearly and concisely express the concept.
- Comment on Why Do Gas Carriers Have These Humps? 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure every generation says this but…
Kids these days are so lucky. They have access to so many incredible learning resources. If your teacher sucks or expresses concepts in a manner that doesn’t work for you then all you have to do is check YouTube for an animated lesson that breaks it down at a pace you’re comfortable with. Or just speed it up/slow it down/skip back and forth to suit.
- Comment on Train crash Wales: Man dies, 15 in hospital, after collision 3 weeks ago:
The antiquated single track setup.
Which apparently has no physical lockout to prevent two trains entering the same stretch of line.
- Comment on Train crash Wales: Man dies, 15 in hospital, after collision 3 weeks ago:
This really shows how antiquated a lot of our rail network still is. I wouldn’t have believed this were still possible. We’ve had safeguards to prevent this kind of issue since the age of steam.
- Comment on 'Lightning speed' broadband for rural areas 3 months ago:
Just as a counter: I live in a very rural part of the country, pretty sparsely populated and yet I get 1Gbps fibre. There’s a new company rolling out in the area promising 10Gbps, it’s kind of insane. So these programs do work.
- Comment on NHS and care regulator 'not fit for purpose' 3 months ago:
It’s going to take much longer than a five year term to fix the NHS. Liklihood is they’ll inject some life into it just in time for the tories to sell it off next government
- Comment on Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity 3 months ago:
Oh, for sure in London or any other dense area where public transport is abundant, and taxis run 24/7 there is no need for cars.
- Comment on Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity 3 months ago:
Nah, if you leave people on waiting lists they give up, turn to private options or just die. That’s the cost saving approach the NHS uses for mental health services.
- Comment on Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity 3 months ago:
I get what you mean but I find anti car rhetoric way too overdone.
Given the topic is about health issues there’s going to be a lot of people who have limited mobility so cycling isn’t viable and walking may only be short distances. Therefore a car provides them freedom they need.
- Comment on BBC: Level crossing near misses and risk-taking caught on camera 3 months ago:
Because after 14 years of Tory rule our living conditions are dire and mental health services not fit for purpose.
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by between X and X 4 months ago:
Maybe if they raise the CEO pay then they’ll attract better CEOs who can figure it out. I bet they haven’t thought to try that
- Comment on Dyson to cut 1,000 UK jobs following global workforce review 4 months ago:
Or Shark.
Like Apple, Dyson is just good at marketing. The products themselves are fine but nothing special.
- Comment on Reform UK pulls to within two points of Tories in latest YouGov poll 5 months ago:
They have fewer of those scary foreign looking people
- Comment on Leasehold charges to be capped at £250 rather than cut to zero: Report – Mortgage Strategy 6 months ago:
Why the fuck would investors get compensation? Isn’t the entire point of investing that your capital is at risk
- Comment on How David Cameron tried to make his fortune with cash from China 11 months ago:
We’ve been fighting for transparency for so long. Now they’re providing transparency we have the audacity to complain about their blatant corruption.
- Comment on Amazon shows ‘contempt’ for UK law over parcel thefts 11 months ago:
Thanks! I think that’s the context I was missing. OP cut a few paragraphs when quoting the article. Lesson learned I should read the source.
- Comment on Amazon shows ‘contempt’ for UK law over parcel thefts 11 months ago:
Perhaps I’m missing something here, what is the issue with insisting thefts are reported to the police?
Isn’t a bigger issue that the
police declined to investigate delivery failures
Does that mean the police are denying a crime may have been committed? Or does it mean they agree there may have been a crime but they aren’t willing or able to commit resources to investigate what happened?
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
I did read the article. The context of the statement you’ve picked out is as follows
Dodgy driving – covering such reported infringements as speeding, jumping a red light, overtaking on double white lines or ignoring the humble pedestrian crossing – was more likely to be a factor when a Subaru, Porsche and BMW was involved than a Skoda or Hyundai.
The authors have hand picked these items but they don’t say that these behaviours are exclusively what’s defined as risky or aggressive behaviour.
I agree with your statement:
Anyone who overtakes on a double centreline is an utter twat and well deserves to be called dangerous.
I’m not sure if you thought I was implying otherwise?
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
Then there’s the subjective language of “risky” and “aggressive”. Is it risky and aggressive to overtake a slow vehicle? Quite possibly? But I regularly drive in an area frequented by older tourists. Often they’ll be driving at 30 on a wide, open, road where the national speed limit applies. So is it aggressive that I overtake them at double their speed?
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
This article just reads that the authors have solely set out to draw the conclusion they’d already decided upon.
A study of more than 400,000 UK road accidents found that when “risky or aggressive manoeuvres” played a part in collisions, there was a significant statistical difference in driver culpability across different brands.
While I completely understand why the drivers are considered culpable for making risky or aggressive maneuvers. What I would be interested in is the circumstances that led them to making those maneuvers.
My own experience is that I only overtake (which I presume is considered risky?) when I’m behind a vehicle driving well below the speed that the road and weather conditions permit.
So while I am responsible for an incident that may occur due to my choice to overtake I do think consideration should be paid to what caused that manoeuvre.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' 1 year ago:
Does it still revolve around building roads or can cities finally thrive with alternative transport?
- Comment on Lemmy moderation is frustrating as hell 1 year ago:
So, I take it your answer is no?
- Comment on Lemmy moderation is frustrating as hell 1 year ago:
Have you considered that the issue could well be that the things you’re posting just aren’t particularly amusing?
- Comment on Half a billion cheap electrical items go to UK landfills in a year, research finds 1 year ago:
I’d be interested to know the proportion of people who know how electronic waste can be recycled. And how often the average person visits their local recycling center.
I have dozens of items boxed up in need of disposal but I never find the time to research how, let alone making the journey to a recycling center
- Comment on Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission 1 year ago:
Not to forget this is Lemmy which has a development leadership so left leaning that the CIA are likely already working to destabilise it.