clara
@clara@feddit.uk
- Comment on Anon can't sleep 2 months ago:
> implying you don’t know what an implication arrow is
it’s one of these: >
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
other than dire emergencies
if you got to ditch the cart for safety, that’s fine
- Comment on What a nerve 6 months ago:
aww it’s like hardstyle shuffle rave phat pants!
- Comment on Soup 6 months ago:
why would future humans bother bringing all these people back
i think it’s worth reminding why doctors treat people now, in this time and space. they do it mostly because they want to save people. maybe a few do it for money, but past a certain point, the money isn’t why you do it. i think it’s a safe bet that doctors of a future would see these corpses as patients, and act accordingly. an analogy - think how we see heart attack victims as patients, and not how our medieval ancestors would have seen them (as corpses)
…literally nothing positive to contribute to the utopian future…
true, but, a good chunk of patients in hopsital today have nothing to contribute to society, and cannot contribute any more, whatsoever. we treat them anyway, because that’s what we do. humans have consistently cared for others that are sick and have “nothing to contribute” throughout history, and that shows no sign of going away anytime soon
- Comment on Handy guide for today's eclipse. 7 months ago:
cloud cover map, showing 8 oktas of cloud cover for the whole uk
i’ll be honest, unless you’re at the west coast of ireland, probably give this one a miss. :(
- Comment on Greggs hit by IT issue affecting card payments - BBC News 8 months ago:
my headcanon on this is delayed leap-day bugs from february 29th, only showing up just now
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
op, it’s not just you, i promise. 🙂
i encourage you to watch this in it’s entirety. while it covers a different life story, it explores some avenues of what you are possibly feeling when you ask this question.
- Comment on Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts 11 months ago:
it’s tempting to think digitization is forever, but we’ve already lost so much of the internet to link rot and server shutdowns in just 30 years. paper is actually longer lasting than digital, lol
- Comment on Complaints about poor NHS dental services rise 66% in five years 1 year ago:
yeah people i talk to don’t seem to get what’s coming. like, they haven’t had the misfortune of a medical emergency in their life, and so they’ve never actually experienced how bad the service provision is getting. but not just for healthcare, it’s for every service.
me personally? i’m saving up that money for sure. not for the next emergency, oh goodness no. i’m going to use that savings pot to leave this island for good. ideally before i get my next medical emergency. selfish? yep, you bet! 🙂
but, i am fundamentally sick of living in a place where we pay all this money and get little service to show for it. for me, one of these two options is fine:
- somewhere where i pay low tax and rightfully get poor service.
- somewhere where i pay high tax and get premium quality of service.
one or the other i am fine with, preferably option 2. but what we have in the uk is the downside of both of these options.
bit of a tangent i know, but…
rather than national or local governments fix any of this, they’ve instead embarked on massive campaigns to massage the statistics, through changing the measuring sticks used to assess service quality across the board, and in doing so, hide all the problems. this extends to water standards, and unemployment statistics, and cancer waiting times, etc etc.
don’t even get me started about the filthy liars who do the passenger rail statistics 💩
- Comment on McDonald's franchisee group says new $20 minimum wage California fast-food bill will cause 'devastating financial blow' 1 year ago:
- Comment on Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn | TechCrunch 1 year ago:
real world link rot, lol
- Comment on 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport 1 year ago:
it’s simple. asking people to do the right thing (i.e slowdown), out of the kindness of their hearts, is laughable.
if you build the street in such a way that driving above it’s design limits is impossible, then people wont do it. surprisingly, the threat of their car being damaged or totaled will force compliance with the intended speed limit. if this was done correctly on a large scale, speed limit posts wouldn’t even be required - the street layout would naturally dictate the speeds you can drive at.
for UK streets, this can be retrofitted with chicanes, curb extensions, raised pedestrian crossings, etc. increasing the amount that a driver has to think to drive down a street, automatically makes them slower. oh, and none of those stupid painted chicanes and bumps either, you think anyone cares about those? lol. actually build the damned curb extensions
- Comment on Apple security updates could be banned by British government 1 year ago:
i got searching, and i understand your concern, there’s a lot of chatter in EU countries about doing this too
however - it looks like it’s all chatter. i managed to find the specific proposal from the EU that people seem worried about, but it hasn’t got out of council yet. seeing major countries like italy and germany coming out against an E2EE ban, means that i have confidence this proposal wont get past a qualified majority vote. (germany + italy = 31% eu pop, qmv pop threshold of 35% to reject)
on the other hand, we have the UK, which has already demonstrated that, when presented with a seriously stupid choice, it has the capacity to actually take that bad choice. the Online Safety Bill is real, it’s in UK parliament now, will likely pass, and it will start hurting us by the end of this year
it’s this second reason really, that the UK has the capacity to pull the trigger on dumb issues, that has put me on the path to leaving. it’s not so much “EU good”, rather it’s “UK bad”. this encryption thing is icing on the cake for me, but it’s not the root cause.
- Comment on Apple security updates could be banned by British government 1 year ago:
same. where you thinking to bail out to? my top 2 picks are netherlands and norway atm. got any ideas?
- Comment on [HN] Last rites for the UK Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead 1 year ago:
it’s frustrating to see rules on technology being decided by people not qualified in the field.
then, i stop and think about it further.
i realise that these same donkeys also legislate on healthcare, energy, water, education, ~police,~ ~transport,~ ~environment,~ ~ᶜᵘˡᵗᵘʳᵉ~ ~ⁱⁿᶠʳᵃˢᵗʳᵘᶜᵗᵘʳᵉ~ ~ˢᵖᵒʳᵗˢ~ ~ᵉᵗᶜ…~
- Comment on The rows over Ulez and LTNs lose sight of the truth: they save lives | Devi Sridhar 1 year ago:
- Comment on Man in gimp suit allowed to watch Shakespeare’s Globe play with children in audience 1 year ago:
oh is it that bad there? fair enough :)
- Comment on Man in gimp suit allowed to watch Shakespeare’s Globe play with children in audience 1 year ago:
if you ever go to a place that has strange rules and laws, it’s because of people like this
like, yes, okay, there’s no rule saying that said you couldn’t attend a public event in a gimp suit. it doesn’t mean that he had to, did he? 🙄
i think it’s obvious he’s exploiting the freedom provided to dress in a gimp suit, which freedom you would use to attend a fetish/like-minded event or convention, to then attend something vanilla, where people are definitely not consenting or opting-in to the behaviour.
sure, it’s legal. but it’s fuckin weird, in the same way that attending in a furry costume would be weird. buying a yard ticket too? he knew what he was doing. if you can afford a fetish suit, you can afford a seat.
i will say that the moral “think of the children” arguments don’t have any weight in this scenario, because you’re taking those kids to a shakespeare play, lol. i could understand being morally outraged if this loser turned up to wacky warehouse 😄
