MouldyCat
@MouldyCat@feddit.uk
- Comment on HS2 to be delayed again as costs spiral by £37bn after 'litany of failure' 1 week ago:
Definitely not, lol. Nearby countries with fast rail - France, Spain, Germany - would perhaps give a slight bemused smile in the direction of HS2. Those are big countries where high-speed rail makes actual sense - as just one example, from the German town of Karlsruhe right by the border with France, you can take a TGV to Lyon, about 350 miles away. It takes around 5 hours and will probably cost you less than €100.
However all those countries are all too familiar with their own governments mismanaging public works. So they wouldn’t be shocked at the huge sacks of cash that are being tipped into great holes in the ground, and any laughter would be at the idea that this ridiculously unnecessary governmental vanity project is even being built at all.
- Comment on Interesting interview with the creator of Junk store on YouTube 1 week ago:
Gardiner Bryant is great. So great, you don’t have to suffer YouTube to keep up with his videos, he also publishes to PeerTube:
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
A collective can be a great way to run a company, for some cases. I lived with a girl who worked at a cafe that was run as a collective - it meant that people had a fair say in decisions that affected them. They could vote on their own wages, working conditions, and no one was barking out orders bossing them around. The owner was an old-school left-winger who was doing this out of pure idealism. He was still the one with the financial risk, he dealt with banks, ensured taxes were dealt with, and all the other tasks involved in running a business such as that.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
Nothing stopping you trying!
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
Great. Yes. Under some kind of egalitarian free-energy tech utopia such as you’re describing, websites like Nexus mods would be even better. Sadly there are no such systems already operating for us to move to, and we do not yet have the technology to try creating a new one.
So any other political systems that are more real-world?
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
How would this specific problem be better under another system?
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
I guess you still have the issue of someone needing to pay for the huge number of downloads, most of which are going to come from users who make no other contributions to the site. Maybe you could combine a fedi site with torrents or something?
- Comment on The Guardian has rolled out new secure messaging technology which allows sources to anonymously contact journalists. 2 weeks ago:
The tech behind the tool conceals the fact that messaging is taking place at all. It makes the communication indistinguishable from data sent to and from the app by our millions of regular users.
That is very clever.
So, by using the Guardian app, readers are effectively providing ‘cover’ and helping us to protect sources.
And of course they take the opportunity to push their app! I generally hate apps, especially for things like newspapers. This is the first reason I’ve seen that might make me install one.
- Comment on Mum locked up in prison after what she did with two Kinder eggs 3 weeks ago:
The police even have the audacity to try and moralise about this: “As a result of her selfish actions that day, she is now behind bars and her four children will now be without their mother for a considerable period of time.”
No, it’s a result of our useless coppers choosing to waste taxpayer money harassing adults for entertaining themselves in ways that cause no harm to anyone else. Selfish actions my arse. You guys are the ones who have kept those kids from seeing their mum, nobody else. How about the police do something more worthwhile with their time, like investigating burglary and other anti-social criminality.
- Comment on Byond game engine suffers a weeks-long DDoS attack, apparently because a wanna-be Bond villain is trying to force it to go open source: 'Attacks on Byond servers are a symptom of your obstinance' 4 weeks ago:
“We demand you voluntarily side with progress”
They have an interesting concept of voluntary to be sure
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 5 weeks ago:
You must be able to see that giving your daughter your mother’s name as a middle name is not at all the same as giving your son your own name?
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 month ago:
Vanity isn’t it? Pathetic male vanity. Never hear women doing it do you.
- Comment on The NHS gave £330 million contract to Palantir to build an NHS data platform. Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it. 1 month ago:
Three. Hundred. Million. Pounds.
Government IT spending is absolutely insane. That’s 100 people on £100k a year for 30 years. How does this get through oversight? And then they deliver a shitty system and there’s no comeback?
- Comment on Urgent ‘do not eat’ warning issued for popular meal sold in Tesco and Morrisons 1 month ago:
if this is part of an effort to get beef recognised as a type of fish by the Catholic church, keep it up, this’ll probably work.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 1 month ago:
Trees do actually improve air quality, by absorbing harmful gases like sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide through their leaves. Additionally they can reduce particulate pollution by up to 70% - bbc.com/…/20200504-which-trees-reduce-air-polluti…
- Comment on Sycamore Gap tree destroyed in 'moronic mission', court told 1 month ago:
you mean you always plead not guilty, don’t you?
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 3 months ago:
How many billions (in today’s money) were spent on going to the moon? What about the billions poured into refining the internal combustion engine? The billions that have gone into making and running massive particle accelerators?
Technology is constantly advancing and we often don’t know where it’ll take us until we get there.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 3 months ago:
Alright, stick your head in the ground if it makes you feel special. You’re clearly too deeply invested in this to listen to reason. It obviously doesn’t matter what you or anyone else believes anyway.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 3 months ago:
Hinduism is pretty incompatible with the Jesus narrative
Of course it is lol
If there were a real god that cared about what rituals you perform in this life, then you would expect multiple religions to appear independently all over the world with the exact same rituals. But that has never happened once. Every single religion is totally different from all other religions that are properly independent of it.
Never has divine inspiration revealed the same “truth” in different parts of the world independently. Almost as if it’s all just common or garden mental illness.
- Comment on Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? 3 months ago:
Don’t you think the Jesus story would be a terrible way for an omnipotent being to send an important message that’s vital for everyone to hear? Just creating a normal human and plonking them in some desert backwater - who looks and sounds just like any other human. The only difference is he hears voices in his head, and can pull off some pretty mediocre magic tricks.
Seems way more likely that Jesus was just another mentally ill person and anyone who thought they saw him after he was dead was simply mistaken.
If all it takes is an appealing story to convince you that something with literally no evidence is true and you should devote your life to it, there are many other stories like that, check out the Baghavad Gita for instance. Some really wonderful characters and truly fantastic events - not to mention absolutely mind-blowing magic, all of it completely true (apparently).
- Comment on Shein could be a shot in the arm for the London Stock Exchange – but the fashion giant might not like the added scrutiny 3 months ago:
God the UK is desperate if getting a shitty company like this on the books is something to be celebrated.
- Comment on TFW you think you got away with it for 137 years but then the cops come knockin 4 months ago:
yes we can make an assumption that that is indeed what they think, but that’s not actually what they said with the sentence “This wouldn’t hold up in modern court let alone Victorian age court”. So perhaps they accidentally used incorrect phrasing, but even so, the logic doesn’t follow - if something doesn’t hold up in modern-day court, that tells us nothing about whether or not it would hold up in Victorian times, when standards of evidence were indeed lower.
- Comment on Axel Rudakubana: 'Evil' Southport killer jailed for minimum 52 years 5 months ago:
I want to add my tuppence worth as well. Even if one day we have a justice system that can be 100.000% certain of guilt AND 100% certain that there is no chance of rehabilitation, I think we should still not have the death penalty, because I don’t think spending the energy and time killing individuals in cold blood is a healthy way for a society to behave. This Rudakubana guy may be some kind of monster, but that doesn’t mean that acting monstrously towards him is somehow acceptable.
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 5 months ago:
It’s interesting isn’t it? “Guys” can include women, and can even be a group of only women, but you can’t talk about a single woman as a guy - “I snogged this gorgeous guy last night”.
- Comment on Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online 5 months ago:
I’d say these books are important for anyone studying American literature - and probably essential for anyone studying American literature of the 20th Century.
They’re not so important for Welsh pupils and don’t need to be included in a general English literature syllabus for 15-year-olds in the UK. The reasoning for choosing not to include these sorts of works in the list of required and optional texts for this specific qualification are pretty convincing IMO and I completely support it.
No books are being banned from schools or anything like that. The article headline is I suspect just trying to get clicks from the anti-woke crowd.
- Comment on Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online 5 months ago:
The book hasn’t been banned, it’s just not been selected as a required or optional text in a new English qualification for Welsh schools. Steinbeck is a wonderful author and story-teller, and his stories provide a useful insight into America’s difficult recent past in regards to racial segregation (as well as other issues such as oppression of the poor). America is an important country, and it’s useful to understand why it remains such a damaged society with deep racial divides even today, but it’s not Wales is it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
No previous generation has ever wanted to spend time with family and friends before! This is unprecedented!! Every single old person has only ever wanted to go to work and help create value for shareholders by fucking over the disadvantaged!!!