midgephoto
@midgephoto@photog.social
Mostly retired from other stuff.
Long-term FLOSS user.
Photographer.
Exeter, UK
- Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears 9 months ago:
@roguetrick @thehatfox @aelwero @li10 @BlinkerFluid
If I were looking for subtle trouble, I'd look at the brain, which might be influenced in its development by a psychoactive chemical in childhood.
And at the wetware that runs on it.
Not at the chassis. - Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears 9 months ago:
@roguetrick @thehatfox @aelwero @li10 @BlinkerFluid
Well, Peripheral arterial disease isn't, i think, from vasospasm.
And the effects you point to seem to be acute, rather than chronic.The magnitude and frequency of effects are significant.
- Comment on ‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank 9 months ago:
@mackwinston @snacks perhaps one motor lane in the centre, with occasional unloading spaces.
- Comment on Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears 9 months ago:
- Comment on 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport 10 months ago:
@wewbull
That's categorical thought, which is an error with a continuous variable such as speed.That they break, or do not break, the law ("rule" doesn't quite describe it).
You may also care to consider that if one driver does not exceed the limit, it moderates the speed of others behind - you've presented this as an individual decision, uninfluenced by others, but even taken as a guideline others have influence.
- Comment on 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport 10 months ago:
@wewbull @Syldon
If by speeding you mean 35 in a 30 zone, then will the drivers who know their journey is urgent and important, as are try, and that they are more skillful than those around them, drive 15mph above the limit, or 5mph?They'll stand out rather more if the former, and have a likelihood of killing a hit pedestrian or cyclist reduced by the change if the latter.
I suspect the chap recently apprehended for 61 in a 30 zone past children might not change, yes.
- Comment on Camera attacks and conspiracy theories: How Ulez became a vigilante battleground 10 months ago:
@Treczoks London residents or workers may not regret that. If you do, in your newer car, or by train, you may find the air is a bit nicer.
- Comment on 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport 10 months ago:
- Comment on Rachel Reeves rules out wealth tax if Labour wins next election 10 months ago:
@JoBo @thehatfox This is not sensible.
- Comment on Waitrose hit by middle-class vegetable shortage 10 months ago:
@tal @Mex
One can trade, if one has something others want as much as what they have that we want.
If the food supply in the world becomes insufficient for the people in the world, then yes, some may eat and others may starve. Solutions which avoid that have more merit than those that rearrange the queue.Note that considerable of the food production in the UK is dependent on the Gulf Stream.
- Comment on Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds 10 months ago:
@theletterd @merridew
There's cutting, and there's deflecting.
A demographic shift is observed in the USA, related to political stupidity and preference on mask wearing. - Comment on RAF officers ‘must stop exposing themselves to women’ says military judge 10 months ago:
- Comment on Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars 10 months ago:
- Comment on Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars 10 months ago:
@sturmblast @Mex
Freedom has costs: fitting a silencer or using a quiet vehicle is not a big deal. - Comment on Covid booster jabs to be approved for sale to UK public 10 months ago:
@merridew
... suspect we are under-immjnising; boosting here, and our interests would be better served by assisting more distant neighbours more. - Comment on Covid booster jabs to be approved for sale to UK public 10 months ago:
@merridew sounds fair. Potential, easily available.
Someone might chip in at this point, noting the suggested rate, to ask if we can think of anything else to spend G£4 on that might be more useful.
And most of us would point to some sort of crossover, applying some resources to this and some to (those) other things.
And then there are the loonies, quacks, and horrors with their views, but enough of them.I suspect ...
- Comment on Covid booster jabs to be approved for sale to UK public 10 months ago:
@merridew
...There are many things we could do, many of which are good or at least not bad, and deciding how much of each we do is a strange business.I think resource allocation and deployment could be done better, but I don't have ambitions as planetary overlord or whatever.
A while after I was born there were 4 billion of us*, and soon there will be 9 billion. Some things we should be able to do much more of and better, some we do, and some things we may need to share more widely.
* ish
- Comment on Covid booster jabs to be approved for sale to UK public 10 months ago:
@merridew Interesting paper. On COVID I didn't see the 4 billion in there, but I didn't do adding up, either.
I've ignored all the vaccines that are not mRNA for assorted reasons, but they must be potentially useful still.On Influenza, I think the capacity is greatly more than that, but much of it is potential and/or used for other purposes. Given a 1919-like strain we could ramp it up rapidly.
- Comment on Covid booster jabs to be approved for sale to UK public 10 months ago:
@merridew You might find it helpful to see this as lining up the whole population, of the world, in ranks, ordered by how useful or urgent it is to immunise them.
You have enough doses for fewer ranks than are there. You have more doses of flu vaccine than of COVID.
In what order have you put your ranks?
Are the ranks identical for the 2 (and several other) vaccines?
You may care to imagine being in rank n+1
Why should you be swapped with someone in rank n? - Comment on Covid booster jabs to be approved for sale to UK public 10 months ago:
@fakeman_pretendname @merridew
None of them are £0
We buy them in bulk, and pay for most through general taxation, efficiently.The COVID vaccines are made by actually more expensive and difficult techniques/ologies, which are available in new facilities of more limited extent.
Expect the products of those techs to become more plentiful and cheaper, and the difference may get below the order of magnitude. Not to parity.
- Comment on Ulez: More than 300 cameras damaged or stolen in four months 10 months ago:
@echodot @CookieJarObserver
Also to there being more people. - Comment on Suspected spies for Russia held in major UK security investigation 10 months ago:
@Emperor @HikuNoir@lemmy.world
It is a troll. - Comment on Suspected spies for Russia held in major UK security investigation 10 months ago:
@HikuNoir @Emperor
Gargle with some if you like.You may care to consider that nerve agents, as with other war gases, are optimised to be lethal or disabling on exposure after deployment, and then decay, allowing occupation of territory etc.
You may also care to consider the targetting of the agent in these particular instances, and the availability of high-quality intensive care facilities.
- Comment on Polluters, tax avoiders, misfits: forget Labour’s pals, Tory donors are in a different class | Catherine Bennett 10 months ago:
- Comment on Polluters, tax avoiders, misfits: forget Labour’s pals, Tory donors are in a different class | Catherine Bennett 10 months ago:
@RobotToaster @Syldon
Do they not though?
My impression was that runways have been blocked. - Comment on Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? 10 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
@david I might be missing something, but I have no idea what website you are complaining about.
I initially assumed you had trouble with a Mastodon server.
Good that you have worked round it. - Comment on The rows over Ulez and LTNs lose sight of the truth: they save lives | Devi Sridhar 10 months ago:
@Hossenfeffer And finally, Londoners who now need a <15 year old petrol car, to replace their 16 year old one, can have I gather £2000 toward it as scrappage, funded by the people who get cleaner air out of it, their wider neighbours.
Occasional visitors are asked not to be mucky, but if they insist, can pay.
Frequent visitors - well yes, action indicated. - Comment on The rows over Ulez and LTNs lose sight of the truth: they save lives | Devi Sridhar 10 months ago:
@Hossenfeffer Barcelona has one. We drove a far from new SLK into there. (We don't live in London, either)
It required registration with an automatic system, in English, and a e5 fee.
Nuisance, but it is now recognised as compliant not just in Barcelona, but throughout Spain.That's an area of nuisance in England, that this is multiplying effort, and an incompetent and uncaring central gov isn't coordinating it.
- Comment on The rows over Ulez and LTNs lose sight of the truth: they save lives | Devi Sridhar 10 months ago:
@Hossenfeffer vehicle purchase decisions involved would be an earlier buying of a less old car, or not a LandRover Defender, Aston Martin DB5, old Diesel etc.
Petrol newer than 16 years old, diesel newer than 5y, generally.
Not, generally, of ordering a new VW ID.3 (I drove into the dealer, said "I'd like that one" drove it home, but if I'd made a specification it would have taken much of a year to arrive.But if I had, I'd have an order form, and IIUC, would have been exempt from ULEZ charge!