danielquinn
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca
Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
- Comment on Number of children injured in e-scooter crashes in England surges 1 week ago:
There are some serious gaps in the article around what the riders were colliding with. The only detailed account was with a car, in which (surprise surprise) the scooter rider was the one penalised.
These scooters are new, but that doesn’t make them a bad idea. I see parents using them to drop off their lids at school every day for example. Every person you see on a scooter is someone who would otherwise be in front of you in a car.
If we’re really concerned about the health and safety of kids riding these things, we should:
- reduce/remove car traffic
- patch potholes
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 2 weeks ago:
If the voters are already committed to voting democrat, the party doesn’t need to care about what they think.
- Comment on Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment 2 weeks ago:
I think you and I are on the same page, but everything I know about this country and government has stripped me of your optimism.
- Comment on Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment 2 weeks ago:
Evaluating a six year old based on their likelihood to perform as a worker is deeply fucked up, and identifying them for “help” to become employable is not what they need.
It’s addressing a problem from a backward position. Underemployment is objectively a problem with availability of work paying livable wages, so a reasonable solution would be addressing that fault, not pigeonholing children based on their likelihood to contribute to GDP.
- Comment on Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment 2 weeks ago:
The fuck is wrong with this country?
- Comment on Self-hosted fully working ST:TNG voice computer interface 3 weeks ago:
What do you use for voice synthesis?
- Comment on Self-hosted fully working ST:TNG voice computer interface 3 weeks ago:
OMG I love this. Thank you for sharing!
- Comment on Unauthorised car park near Stansted Airport grows after notice 3 weeks ago:
Tow every last one.
- Comment on Favorite Trek episode that's not in the usual top 57 lists? 3 weeks ago:
I really liked VOY: “One Small Step” (s06e08) wherein the crew work to salvage the wreckage of an ancient Earth probe from a dark matter asteroid
It’s a nice acknowledgement of the reality that space is fucking dangerous, and of the bravery of the men and women who shot themselves into it with little more than a few layers of metal and their wits to protect themselves. All this in the name of advancing science and exploration.
It closes with seven reading a eulogy for the centuries-dead astronaut who died diverting all power to the sensors so that knowledge would be preserved.
- Comment on Favorite Trek episode that's not in the usual top 57 lists? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on London council set to cut Haifa ties over Israel's apartheid against Palestinians 3 weeks ago:
It’s always nice to see Greens following through on their promises.
- Comment on Wildfires 'stark reminder' of extreme climate challenge, says William 3 weeks ago:
Why does anyone give a shit about what this man thinks?
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 4 weeks ago:
Well we are in the midst of a massive drought.
- Comment on Britons urged to take ‘small steps’ to prepare for potential national crises 5 weeks ago:
“Small” steps, because the necessary big steps like insulating homes and rebuilding our road infrastructure for flood resistance is work the state must do… and they’re too busy throwing old ladies in prison for holding up signs and splashing paint.
- Comment on Tutorial for setting up Iocaine (Scraper tarpit) 5 weeks ago:
That’s an excellent tutorial, but the bit about blocking legitimate web crawlers should be a little higher up in the article. I read all the way down and was ready to try it out when I encountered that deal-breaker.
- Comment on UK children will be one of unhealthiest generations in decades, doctors say 5 weeks ago:
They paved everything and filled the streets with monster trucks that park on every possible surface. Children are prisoners in their own homes. None of this should be surprising.
- Comment on We are living fewer years in good health: Is the NHS part of the problem? 5 weeks ago:
I agree 100% but would point out that simply having healthier options available at reasonable prices is only half the solution. The other half is time. With much of the working class working 9-10hr days and commuting for an additional 2hrs, that doesn’t leave a lot of time for the gym or cooking healthy meals. …and that’s for those lucky enough to be working only one job.
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 1 month ago:
Not unless those AC units are combined with rooftop solar. Most schools have massive amounts of space on the roof, so solar should be cheap and potentially even profitable to install.
- Comment on ‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms 1 month ago:
Also way cheaper.
- Comment on Video - Nigel Farage’s SECRET Millions: IT’S WORSE Than You Think 1 month ago:
There’s absolutely connections between them, though most of their videos seem to be bending over backwards to draw lines between some of them. The problem is in the presentation: insisting on drawing so many connections is unnecessary, especially when some of them are so tenuous.
- Comment on Video - Nigel Farage’s SECRET Millions: IT’S WORSE Than You Think 1 month ago:
I love the idea of DDN, but so many of the videos are just the same dude spinning connections between different parties until it’s just a big ball of red yarn pinned to a wall. This, coupled with the spooky music and those ridiculous title cards (it’s always EXPOSED!) I just can’t with them.
- Comment on Andy Burnham backs under 16s social media ban and wants 'urgency' in delivery 1 month ago:
Absolutely not. We should regulate them into transparency and prevent them from experimenting on children.
…but that’s not what he’s doing is it? This is punishing children by excluding them from their community because he lacks the courage required to stand up to American techbros.
- Comment on UK June heat record broken for third day in a row as ministers urged to act 1 month ago:
“Act”? Like, “just stop oil”? Nonsense. That’d be terrorism. /s
- Comment on Greens leader Zack Polanski calls the genocide in Gaza the moral litmus test for politicians 1 month ago:
All perfectly reasonable requirements.
- Comment on Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff 1 month ago:
Well as someone who’s never heard of Flint Global, I think the fossil fuel link required supporting data.
Even still, having worked in the past for a company that did lobbying for many industries, one of which was fossils is still a ways from “fossil fuel lobbyist”. That sort of claim requires more direct evidence for me.
He is however the former chair of Friends of Israel though, so I think were on the same “fuck this guy” page.
- Comment on Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff 1 month ago:
Neither the Guardian article, nor his Wikipedia entry mention any lobbying for fossil fuels. Do you have a source for this?
- Comment on More than one million homes in London need retrofitting due to increasing temperatures 1 month ago:
Honestly, this number feels low.
- Comment on Doctor Who and Star Trek showrunners discussed possible crossover 1 month ago:
Please no.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 1 month ago:
I’ve seen (and read) The Expanse, and you’re right, it’s fantastic. One of the authors has also repeated gone on record as doing his best to fight the patriarchy.
- Comment on The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?" 2 months ago:
I agree that this is valid criticism. The Star Trek writers have clearly gotten lazier over the years, opting for hamfisted, blatant, “see? we’re being woke in this scene” rather than allowing you to think for yourself.
However, the complaint here is laziness and not the nature of the message. I’d even go so far to say that due to the complex storytelling of earlier series, there’s a large continent of the fanbase that didn’t realise their progressive nature, and are objecting to how it’s woke now.
So basically I think there’s two complaints here: a valid one that you’re making: “lazy writing is terrible and arguably less effective”, and another one coming from, shall we say, those unburdened by an overabundance of schooling that are objecting to progressive ideas that were always there, but they only notice it now with the lazy writing.