HumanPenguin

@HumanPenguin@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman, 74, charged under abortion protest law in Glasgow⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to totally forget multiple doctor murders and violence over the years.

  Not to mention the simple fact. Just because someone believes something does automatically mean they have the courage to fight in every way. To exclude fear of punishment as the reason these people refuse to act. It is a clear failure to look at the realities of humanity. Completely ignoring a huge history of people objecting to things but still failing to act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman, 74, charged under abortion protest law in Glasgow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with her. Mainly because I’m not religiose. But if she honestly believes life starts at conception. Then its really not hate but preventing murder.

  I disagree and support the law banning this. But failing to understand the other side’s motives makes for an ineffective fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Grins. Just looked. Screw up happen i make more then my share :) PS sorry for any typos im visually impaired, after a while it just gets annoying to hunt for them.

  Yeah, my calling wait list’s pointless comment was more about having an effective alternative to measure NHS effectiveness. So we technically agree here.

  My caution about using customer satisfaction. Is customers are less qualified than anyone to do so. In general they have 0 understanding of the workload involved and needs to triage the needs of a population. Heck, even if we just look at an ER environment. Where triage is litrally about life and death. Most patients are unable to place their own priorities appropriatly to those they see. Let alone based on medical knowledge, they cannot or should not see due to privacy or lack of medical understanding.

  That same triage needs to happen when it comes to the effect of medical issues on quality of life.

  If we accept more money is not going to happen ( Once again ill say it def needs to. But unlimited resources are never going to happen, no matter what % of our GDP we spend ). There will always be a need to prioritise some types of care over others. And the people receiving that care are the least qualified to make that decision.

  Satisfaction is important. But, as this is not a retail or restaurant environment. The opinions of the recipiant of care are much less important data wise when it comes to how wer need to allocate the resources we have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: Rooftop solar could reduce energy bill for the country's poorest families by almost a quarter, study says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Their is a movement wanting solar on all viable new builds.

  Goven how many are sold to landlords. I assume that is in part the goal of articles like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harsh UK visa schemes leave Ukrainian families in limbo and torn apart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and now can’t get her child into the UK

  While more egregious may be common. Separation of family is a clear violation of our EHCR commitments. And refusing entry to parent unless they dump dependent children (let alone babies) is pretty unacceptable attack on refugees. No matter the birth location of that baby.

  Our human rights commitments in no way approve locking refugees/asylum cases within our borders. Or rights to change their status based on reproductive choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question.

  Yep any target based system leads to people manipulating them to pass. It is just a common human response to forced competition.

  But calling wait lists pointless is also pointless. Without some better way to ensure patients are getting the service they need as effectively as possible.

  So other then spending lots more money. (I agree thats needed but in itself dose not provide metrics of a service)

  What would you propose as a method for measuring NHS effectivness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK economy grows by 0.1% in unexpected boost for Rachel Reeves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. And given some expectations. That is good news.

  Honestly the government has not implemented anything that will as of yet effect growth. These things take time.

  But some interpretations of the recent budget caused our nations interest rates to go up. Meaning any drop in gdp would lead to deficiency in payments. IE a need to reduce spending or raise income to prevent even higher rates.

  Evidence that the economy is stable. Should mean the cost of UK borrowing stops increasing for a while. Allowing the government plans to continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Artificial merely implies manmade, as opposed to naturally developed IMO.

  Yeah but we do not use it for that anywhere else. Everywhere else we use artificial it is referring to something that dose not contain the original product. And implies something lesser.

  When talking about intelligence we use artificial in a unique way to describe something digital or created. And honestly. You better hope emotion is never a part of that creation.

  As for you definition of its how humans think. Sorry but you do not know that. It is the very hypothesis I was claiming you need to find a way to test.

  As I say we have lots of ideas / hypotheses on human and animal thought. Bot absolutely nothing that would move such into the relms of a theory. As of yet. We are not even sure how to test most of those hypothesis. All we do is measure neurons electrical and chemical transfer. We are a very very long way from tieing that to any process of original thought or generation of ideas.

  As I say. Id love it if you were proven correct. But ATM we don’t even know how to proove you or anyone else wrong on this subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have fun.

  The issue is your interpretation is at best an hypothsis. Not a fact. And the only way to prove your hypothsis is to simulate the thought you wish to create.

  Others have not managed it yet. But you may be the first. Personally i am not sold on the idea. Bur would love to see you prove me wrong.

  That is after all the point of science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  However, stopping oil immediately before alternatives are in place would be a humanitarian disaster

  I agree. But many don’t. Its def up for debate.

  But that is in no way justification for new dilling. All drilling new fields dose is give excuses to delay those alternatives. We are not really waiting for new tech to solve this problem. The tech we have today is able to do it. What we need it the fiscal and societal motivation to move away from oil. More oil will just motivate those currently making money from it to slow down that investment more.

  We need to invest in major inferstructure uprated to our electrical grid. Copy ideas like Norway new overhead power for trucking. (Think electric trams but using roads and semi trucks. Then using battery for last mile transport etc. While its only a trial being built atm. It is the type of thinking we need. And better electrical grids are the first steps.

  Unfortunately giving current oil interests longer is not in anyway the solution. As a society we need to accept the use is going to stop. So pull our freaking socks up and get on with it. We don’t need to wait for new tech. We need to implement the best of the current tech and stop finding excuses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that was sorta my point. Modern/ current technology at best mimics some functionality of intelligence. Hence my claim it is artificial. It really is no more then 1980s expert systems with much greater data speeds and sets. And more flexible algorithms. But an evolution not a revolution.

  He ce why I’d say artificial intelligence applies to current technology. Because it is not real.

  If we ever develop anything that is intelligence as many fear it. Then by its very definition AI is no longer a valid term for it. Hence why O think we should stop using that term when talking about weather such things are safe or not. First It gives the impression to the less informed that we are anywhere close to such tech. Creating invalid fears of current tech. When lets face it their are plenty of genuine arguments about the massive use of data.

  But more importantly if ever anything (sci-filike as it may be) that is trully able to learn and think for itself is developed (if that would even be the correct term as we really are that ill-informed on how atm) . Then artificial would be a miss definition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour is wilfully ignoring that the climate crisis is at a crunch point.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If we never drill for it. Or allow anyone else. Studies will run out eventually.

  It is in no way a solution. But the simple fact is adding new wells extends the time corperations and governments can delay implementing alternatives. Increasing the total amount of harm done to the enviroment.

  It is not a zero sum game. Providing our own dose not mean the world burns the same amount t it means we burn for longer with less urgency to alternative options and inferstructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most age groups find a days work stressful.

  Young people are just the first generation to be anashamed to admit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? | Frances Ryan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope the fact is FPTP is mathematically garrenteed to force a 2 party system. As 3rd parties will always split the vote forcing control to the more unified but smaller opposition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories? | Frances Ryan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to FPTP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Busses with LED advertising on the side.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  About 12% of the same light via older methods.

  But you are correct. Old signs rarely used light as the cost was rarely worth it. Now running lights 24/7 that would not be used at. All before. Is an increase in overall use.

  Add how much more controllable ot is then past methods. Lighting up a sign on a bus in the 1980s was fairly useless. The viewability would be lower. But with LEDs it is practicle. Dospite the fact that bis is useing more diesel (most buses are still diesel) to travel that same distance as it did before the signage.

  Its hardly suprising when cost is the only motivation used.

  But unfortunatly few pitential customers are going to refuse the company because there advertising is not considering overall power use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Busses with LED advertising on the side.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly consumers are not told. We are encouraged and the price of energy is the greatest encouragement.

  Advertisers have the same encouragement. But their motivation is based on how effective the advertising is to the company.

  Its not like anyone is arrested for not reducing use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can apply lube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its only a defence. If she has no history of diagnosable attacks.

  I am no expert on epilepsy . But know young diagnosis is far from exclusive. So it is entirly possible this was her first attack. Or even the first attack she recognised as such. (IE not happening when she was asleep or otherwise unable to identify).

  But if she has ever had an event she should suspect makes her unfit to drive. She is required to tell the DVLA and not drive.

  But that recognition requirement is hard to define. Drivers are not expected to be medical experts. So in general unless a doc has told her. It would be hard to proove she is aware of any risk.

  T1d myself. Diagnosed long before I was able to drive. I now do not drive because my condition is not safe to do so. But was in the situation for almost 30 years. Where I was required to testify my stability to drive every few years. And could be held responsible if I did so falsely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. At no point is lackmof evidence proving someone innocent ever acceptable to debate at a trail.

  And I the lead up to the trail. It is not something even the defence or prosecution is likely to consider. As neither is able to consider it as argument. Or make decisions on taking the case based on such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to sharply and rapidly stop producing CO2 immediately

  Can I recommend a new law requiring billionaires the travel only by trebuchet. May solve more issues then just CO2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it would be difficult to accept this one without evidence.

  Sorta not the point. We are talking about the person being accused. So reasonable doubt is in her defence.

  It is down to the prosecution to either prove this is false. Or prove she had reason to know it was unsafe for her to drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might happen vs predicted to happen.

  May seem like a small difference. But its really not. It changes possible to probable.

  That said. The prediction is based on no changes. So you know full well this is being jumped on by right-wing media that have other reasons for arguing the change.

  IE its about rich not wanting to pay the taxes needed to support the future p opulation. So arguing for anti immigration as a cost saving that won’t effect them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z far less likely to be atheists than parents and grandparents, new study reveals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but that definition of spritual.

  Looks to some like a group of potential cult members. That just need conversion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While that is all true. Post the jaffa cake thing we had a change in VAT laws. Some time in the 1980s. Where food and drink becomes vat applicable is served or prepared to eat on premises.

  Part of the whole idea is eating out is a luxury where as preparing your own food at home is seen as essential.

  As alcohol is not actually seen as a luxury product but simply food. It meets the same rules VAT wise. Although it has its own additional taxation like tabbaco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot packers and AI cameras: UK retail embraces automation to cut staff costs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always considered the sci-fi def of AI to be the incorrect one. Once sentience appears. The intelligence is no longer artificial.

  Seems to me the systems we have now that try to (badly) fake it, are real AI. And any created intelligence would be a Digital Intelligence or even just Created Intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  True.

  But as much as I hated privatisation.

  If owning the trains was required. Then sort term contracts would be impossible.

  Making what labour is doing now, as expensive as the more right wing keep falsely claiming.

  So we sorta have some gratitude that the tories never required the same companies to own the rolling stock as run it. But instead sold it to banks requiring them to rent it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you honestly think that would stop him taking the UK gov to court.

  It would not. He would claim it is a personal attack on his companies rights to free speech.

  Remember, this is not about having a valid case. It is about who has the greatest limitation on spending. Elon spending his own money. Or a gov that must argue it is a valid use of voters money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The labour gov is pretty much planning to nationalise rail again.

  All contracts as they expire will be replaced with co ops or a new nationalised company. By 2027 apparently.

  So yep public owned rail again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep also China has a hold on musk economically. And supports Russia.

  Russia has managed to gain a hold on the US again. (Reminding folks about his illegal holding of Ukraine funds last time)

  The UK is by far the next most vocal supporter.