danielquinn
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca
Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
- Comment on Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles 19 hours ago:
Yes. It would.
- Comment on Rightwing campaigners claim there is covert deal to return Parthenon marbles 21 hours ago:
I should hope that they’re right. We should return what was stolen.
- Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows 1 day ago:
You do not need to pave green space to build homes. There’s plenty of paved, ugly, low-density areas in desperate need of upgrades. The problem is the British public’s obsession with that idea that everyone needs their own patch of grass and two cars.
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 3 days ago:
Hell yeah.
- Comment on Does anybody actually care that a dude chanted "Death, Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury? 1 week ago:
Personally I think it’s fantastic and long overdue. Hating genociders is finally “cool” and I am 100% here for it.
- Comment on Google could be forced to change UK search as watchdog takes steps 2 weeks ago:
So don’t break Chrome and Android out the company, just force them to harass users with another popup? I’m sure this will do wonders for choice on the web. /s
- Comment on Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill 2 weeks ago:
[Liz Kendall] said the cuts were about “ensuring the welfare state survives” and that the government would always seek to protect those with the greatest need.
This bullshit has got to die, and shame on the Guardian for uncritically publishing it. The choice isn’t between cutting welfare or watching it die. It’s between taxing the rich or not.
The problem here is that they’ve already made that choice and are pretending that now we only have two choices, both of which amount to “screw the poor”. There are massive amounts of wealth in this country and it’s all going into the pickets of the rich and into bombs.
So let’s do away with this “we have to cut or lose everything” lie already.
FFS this country needs a socialist party.
- Comment on Petrol bombs thrown at police during fifth night of Northern Ireland disorder 3 weeks ago:
Funny how cops manage to round up Just Stop Oil protestors for even talking about maybe being disruptive, but they let full-blown race riots carry on for five fucking days.
- Comment on Labour’s Centrism Is a Dead End 4 weeks ago:
Swapping out one government for another with identical policies on key issues like sustainability, xenophobia, and genocide is not progress.
- Comment on Downing Street ‘exploring plan for digital ID cards’ 5 weeks ago:
It’s almost as if the people making these decisions have never heard of compromised devices. Either that, or they’re happy to have someone steal all your data and don’t care.
- Comment on A “victim blaming” row has broken out on social media, after a cyclist uploaded footage of what he described as the “closest pass I’ve ever seen” 1 month ago:
If a cyclist is going to take the lane (and we have every right to) it’s very dangerous to leave any room for drivers to pass because they inevitably try this sort of shit.
Ride out into the middle of the lane. Make them recognise you as someone taking the lane. They’ll still want to kill you for daring to be a cyclist, but they won’t want to damage their car.
- Comment on Co-op votes to boycott Israel 1 month ago:
Honestly, this has really turned me around on them. The Co-op is far less convenient than the alternatives for us, but news like this is enough to get me to commit to going as often as possible.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 month ago:
Teamsters, fuck yeah!
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 month ago:
Exactly. It’s stuff like this that’s convinced me to join a tech union myself. If you’re in the UK, you might consider the one I joined.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 month ago:
Cory Doctorow just posted something very much related to this. It’s an excellent read.
- Comment on Levi McClain: Klingon Music Theory is Weird 1 month ago:
I love this so much. Thank you!
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 months ago:
4 weeks is still not on par with other civilised countries. Living here in the UK now, 5 weeks is standard. When I was in the Netherlands I was getting six.
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 2 months ago:
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 2 months ago:
Well shit. What good is pasta without parmesan? And no feta? Gouda? How is life worth living without good cheese?
- Comment on Are there any Trek episodes where they enforce the Prime Directive to protect a developing world within Federation space from an external influence? 2 months ago:
In Star Trek: Insurrection, the Enterprise protected the Baku from the So’na, though if I remember right, there was some debate as to whether the prime directive applied as the Baku weren’t native to the planet.
- Comment on Police admit arrest of anti-monarchy heckler in Oxford was unlawful 3 months ago:
£2500 in compensation isn’t nearly enough to ensure this doesn’t happen again. It’s practically a license fee for over reach.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 3 months ago:
Long replaced by the EU?
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 3 months ago:
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 3 months ago:
I am a strong supporter of the EU, and won’t sign this. This country is too xenophobic, fractious, reactionary, and delusionally self-important to let them back into the union when it’s still reeling from the damage the UK caused just a few years ago.
If the UK is serious about rejoining, it will first have to stop treating EU membership like a glorified trade agreement and stepping stone to national power and influence. The EU needs community members and partners, not self-aggrandising parasites.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 3 months ago:
…let alone the rest of the EU. They’d be crazy to accept a UK petition for membership right now.
- Comment on YouTuber travels to the filming location of Veridian III and shows what's left of Soren's rocket launcher and Kirk's burial site. 4 months ago:
I couldn’t watch it. I tried, but that dude is too annoying.
- Comment on Gen Z reveals the surprising reasons they are career catfishing—ghosting a new boss after endless interview rounds: Nearly a quarter say it was a dare 5 months ago:
Do it! Best decision I ever made.
Unless by “overseas” you mean “to the US of some other oppressive country”. In that case maybe don’t do it.
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- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 5 months ago:
Neat trick! I’ve enabled it on my phone now, though it does say that it’s probably better to use a guest user for such situations… I don’t know how to do that either.
Still, this is additionally handy when I want to let my kid briefly use my phone.
This may all be moot though, if the state requires you to install a government app with invasive permissions just for this situation. Yet another reason to give up driving!
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 5 months ago:
Just we need, an excuse for a cop to take your unlocked phone away to his car to do whatever he likes with it.