scratchee

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham scraps restrictions on disabled people’s bus passes in England⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, always felt a bit second class citizen. “You can use the busses but not when they’re needed by the people we actually care about”

  Busses are busy in peak hours because people need to travel to work at those hours. Disabled people get free bus passes to expand their travel options given they’re much more limited. But god forbid a disabled person actually has a job and needs to travel at peak times, clearly the government wouldn’t want to encourage that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildfire phone alert was 'entirely appropriate', government says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it depends on volume.

  Once or twice a year for arguably not too major things is better than never, because it helps test the system and people won’t get overwhelmed by 1 or 2 alerts a year. Like a fire drill, but maybe slightly more useful since it actually is providing some actual info hopefully.

  If you go higher than that, you need to start raising the bar so that you don’t (excepting the emergency action requirement you laid out)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Met chief questions why Simon Levy was freed after assaulting prison officer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “But miss…. John was doing it too” - children and police chiefs apparently

  Tbf I agree with him. The police fucked up, and sounds like the prison service did too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Better solutions have always and will always exist, but they cost more to implement.

  Piping grey water to a data center either means placing it somewhere with an appropriate pipe with appropriate filtration performed, or building a new pipe/filtration. Drinking water in comparison is easily accessible anywhere. They don’t care about the impact or even the per unit cost, they just want to build on the cheap and take advantage of local infrastructure, and they figure in this ai boom the actual running costs are irrelevant because ai companies will pay for anything that works, efficiency be damned

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d certainly prefer if they didn’t have to find out the hard way that so many obviously bad ideas are bad, you’d think they could predict the results with just a little thinking ahead.

  On the other hand, a u turn is better than blindly pushing through every bad take they have, so on that basis, I propose more u turns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outgoing British PM Starmer pushes IRGC terror label⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An important difference, but doesn’t invalidate the point the previous poster made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofsted drops ‘clumsy’ and ‘offensive’ guidance linking autism and extremism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They made the mistake of writing it down and got punished with public oversight. I’m sure they’ll remember to only share their bad takes verbally from now on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in the uk they encourage smokers by printing cigarette packs as collectibles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you know what they say, the only defence from a bad guy with alcohol is a good guy with alcohol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Truly horrific’: the stories of five people affected by the NHS maternity scandal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, is that article hard to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record number of people waiting for NHS diagnostic tests in England⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually don’t mind it too much in theory, private healthcare works better in the uk because 1. Anyone who uses it also pays for nhs cover anyway, so they’re paying in but not using the resources, saving money for everyone else. And 2. Private healthcare stays out of the emergency room, this is where duplicate effort is an enormous waste since you need them all over the country, having an emergency room not everyone can go to is just insane.

  That said, i guess the danger is anyone who does pay private has an incentive to push back against the nhs, maybe that’s ruining things, though I bet they’d be doing it even harder if they were forced to lie next to poor people in the hospital, so I’m not sure we can avoid that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aerosol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, the government is bad, so if we put a bad man in charge it’ll be a double negative and become good, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lollipop people crisis: what does the road rage against them say about Britain today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Endangering children and those trying to protect them just because you’re in a rush is pretty shameful.

  Hopefully some karma comes their way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capacity of lifts not kept up with UK obesity levels, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, and if we’re excluding people from society because of how societal problems affect them, let’s revive the vagrancy laws and reopen the debtors prisons, perhaps even a concentration camp or two?

  Or you know, we could either try to fix the problems that cause obesity, or we could require lifts to be upgraded to match the reality of modern demographics, maybe even both if we’re feeling really ambitious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK looked at ways to ‘open doors’ to US chlorinated chicken, FoI request shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong, though chicken is at least 10x better than beef, and “only” 10x worse than plants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK’s most iconic trade marks revealed, as voted by the British public⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calpol is a children’s brand of medicine.

  It is remembered fondly because it tastes nice and we’re not allowed it after we get too old and we just have to swallow bitter tablets instead. But all British children remember pretending to be sick so they could have a spoonful of joy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All because Reagan felt their power trip was more important than maintaining safety in a system entirely dependent on maintaining safety.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foreign tourists could be charged to visit UK museums - including top London sites⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised it took us this long to realise we can charge people to look at their own stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dwarf Planets are people too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’m seeing shit I’ve seen a perfect protostar I’ve seen a triple quasar But I’ve never seen a dwarf planet go this hard!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the only setting that will look the same across hardware and driver versions is dsss off, which I think was their point, what is yours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protest as Chick-fil-A opens first London restaurant⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We take great pride in being ashamed of our TERFS I’ll have you know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Officers call for police cars to be equipped with guns⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fear seems to be that access to guns quickly leads to normalisation of guns, especially if the criminals try to keep up.

  But I can imagine a middle ground where guns and training are available, but you have to get permission from a specialist who’s on the hook if it turns out the guns weren’t justified (or some such idea to stop them ending up in every action) to unlock the gun safe. Then the “domestic with a shotgun” scenario might be resolved a little more efficiently without everyone having to accept guns everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do, when those investments can be copied for free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay Girl⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True. Lots of pronatalists tend towards eugenics, so doubt they’re huge fans of adoptions.

  OTOH, even nurture-over-nature pronatalists would be problematic. “I’m better than everyone else so I should have an outsize impact on the next generation by adopting as many children as possible” is only slightly better than the eugenic variant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay Girl⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see where you’re coming from but no, I’m very much not pronatalist, and my opinion of them is literally what I put in the comment.

  I was going for “amusing juxtaposition” but the vote balance on my comment shows you were not the only one who didn’t take it that way, my bad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay Girl⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In cartoon ducks: overly simplistic but cute, naive, and innocent

  In humans: pronatalism. weird disgusting pseudo colonial bullshit that’s the dark mirror to “just” wanting kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: Chinese embassy opponents to seek judicial review⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because America is a trusted ally and… hmm. My news feed seems to be stuck let me just refresh it…. Oh, hmm.

  New idea: give china half of Americas fortress, let them sort it out together, it’d be good for them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 60 Labour MPs urge Starmer to back under-16s social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a middle class parent: agreed, this bullshit is helping nobody

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad Ganymede noises⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Moon” is more an indictment of the mediocre fusion product of the mass being orbited than any statement about the orbiter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the uk? Yes. For the world? Probably a minor nuisance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A weak theory, but Poland being one of a handful of countries with a reasonable claim to “inventing” the computer probably helps, mostly indirectly. When deciding to invest in tech education things like that can make a big difference by stoking some national pride. The UK has absolutely benefited from Turing’s legacy keeping us alive involved in tech (despite everything).