FishFace
@FishFace@lemmy.world
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 4 days ago:
You’re missing the point, which is that estate agents already get paid by the landlord for this. Charging renters is just extra money for doing what they already did.
And in sane places it doesn’t happen, and is often illegal.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s a good point. I guess in light of that what I would say is that, if you are going to have a state-run payment processor, you need to build in a) pluralism (enable and encourage multiple processors) and b) legal protections (legally guarantee that the payment processor has a limited remit in terms of allowing all payments unless instructed to block them by a court order) which would help mitigate or slow down anti-democratic backsliding.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 weeks ago:
Why would a campaign group have any influence over that?
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good point, but a payment processor run by the government would also be under pressure (from voters) to wield its power to suppress marginal content.
Imagine a US-government-run payment processor right now - it would be blocking anyone that sells anything “woke” or “DEI”.
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 4 weeks ago:
It’s a shame that you’re so quick to express skepticism but so reluctant to do any research of your own, because the facts are a bit embarrassing with the exact same trend in the USA as in the UK.
Driver safety peaks in the 60s, and only moderately worsens after then. The large increase in fatal accidents, by the way, is clearly a result of older drivers being more vulnerable in a crash - because the chart at the bottom doesn’t show any such large increase for passengers and others.
I’m interested to know if this changes your mind.
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 4 weeks ago:
That doesn’t affect the ability of older drivers, only the number of them.
In fact, since one reason very old drivers might get more accident prone is because they stop driving as much and lose some of the skills, you would expect that, if older Americans really persist in driving more as they get older (you haven’t provided any evidence that they do) they would retain those skills and be less accident prone, not more, so would be safer, and less at need of re-tests, than their UK counterparts.
Focusing on the driving safety of the elderly is a classic example of Saliency Bias. A 20-year old kid wrecking his car is nothing unusual so you don’t remember it when thinking about safety. An 80 year old who can’t even remember which way to turn the wheel getting in a wreck is unusual and extreme, so it’s more salient. Getting stuck behind an elderly driver gives you the impression that they’re a bad and hence unsafe driver, which contributes to this.
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Tries to Crash into Oncoming Traffic On The Highway… Again 4 weeks ago:
The problem with “self-driving” tech punting you into the oncoming lane is that you may have no time to react. Reaction times are non-zero, also when reacting to your own car doing something unexpected.
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 4 weeks ago:
Fact is that if you want to spend some money, time or political capital on improving road safety, targeting older drivers is not where you should focus your efforts. The fact that it frequently is, is due to ageism.
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 4 weeks ago:
In the absence of forthcoming data (hint hint), what factors do you think differ between the UK and USA which affect the ability of very old/very young drivers?
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 4 weeks ago:
This is your regular reminder that it’s generally not older people who are high-risk drivers: …publishing.service.gov.uk/…/02-image-2.svg
Drivers get safer until about 70, and only get less safe than your average young driver when over 86.
There is a perception that older drivers are an absolute liability on the roads, which I can only assume stems from impatient people who get frustrated when stuck behind an older driver going more slowly than they’d like.
- Comment on This is the dumbest idea ever 4 weeks ago:
Really, you can’t think of any reason to be upset that you’re required to take an exam that you then pass?
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 5 weeks ago:
Disabling JS worked
- Comment on Steam Introduces In-Game Performance Monitor 5 weeks ago:
Steam already has an FPS monitor, right? I think that’s enough for 95% of everything (and it’s very unobtrusive).
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 5 weeks ago:
This is not really “mildly infuriating” and you should make the link point to the article, not to a screenshot from it.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 1 year ago:
The requirement to not track users with cookies does not extend to cookies that make the site work in the first place, such as those which track your login session, or your refusal of other cookies.
- Comment on Game devs should follow the BG3 development footprint 1 year ago:
<3
- Comment on Game devs should follow the BG3 development footprint 1 year ago:
Do you mean “blueprint”?
- Comment on What the actual f*** is this Rockstar? 1 year ago:
“Prove you’re not a machine by training this machine to pass this exact test.”
There is nothing stupid about this unless you believe that the people behind it had no plan to change out the challenges over time.
- Comment on This Captcha 1 year ago:
I would write it “Select all the images of the type which is warmer than the other type of image”
- Comment on This Captcha 1 year ago:
It’s the “of one type” that gets me - to me that says I should be examining either the outdoor or the indoor pictures, not comparing between those two types of picture. So I should somehow pick the warmest outdoor or warmest indoor pictures.
