danielquinn
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca
Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
- 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
I love this so much. Thank you!
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 2 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 2 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. 2 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 4 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.
- Comment on How do I find a job that's unionized outside the trades? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 4 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’ 4 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.
- Comment on Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply 5 months ago:
Non-boomers do, yeah.
- Comment on Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply 5 months ago:
Flu vaccines are reasonably cheap, but COVID vaccines are still £100.
- Comment on Junk food ad ban legislation progresses to curb childhood obesity 5 months ago:
Where are kids seeing ads these days? Is this just for people who watch tv rather than streaming, or would this include any sort of product placement you see in streamed shows? Honestly, it’d probably be a lot more effective (and better for adults too!) if we just taxed the shit out of junk food.
- Comment on TIL Connor Trinneer & Dominic Keating have a podcast called "The D-Con Chamber". Here they are interviewing Nana Visitor on her new book! 6 months ago:
Nevermind I went back over and found it. It was Marina Sirtis at 20:35.
- Comment on TIL Connor Trinneer & Dominic Keating have a podcast called "The D-Con Chamber". Here they are interviewing Nana Visitor on her new book! 6 months ago:
At one point in the interview, Visitor says something about an acres who refused to be interviewed because she didn’t want Visitor to make money off of her. I didn’t catch the name though. Who was it?
- Comment on Boeing issues layoff notices to 400-plus workers as it begins drastic cuts 6 months ago:
This please.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Cambridge checking in. It must be payback for the cows leaving their shit all over the walking path.
- Comment on Scientists dismayed as UK ministers clear way for gene editing of crops - but not animals 6 months ago:
This will make rejoining the EU much more difficult.
- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 6 months ago:
It’s actually rather brilliant.
In an (d)effective 2 party system like ours, running to your extremes has few costs, since the electorate tend to vote parties out rather than vote them in. When the public tires off the ruling party (it helps if you own most of the media) and you do get elected, it’s by:
- your base that votes for you regardless
- new voters from the fringe you’ve been courting
- people who’ve convinced themselves that you’re just pretending to be crazy to court that fringe.
Now you can do whatever you like and if people complain they get shouted down by both sides: “What did you expect? They literally told you they were going to do this.”
In short, it’s how you drag the Overton Window toward that extreme. If only the Left in this country had figured this out years ago, we wouldn’t be saddled with Sir Red Tory.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 6 months ago:
It’ll take at least that long for the EU member states to forgive the UK for its fuckery. The memory of Brexit will have to fade enough in their minds before it’s even considered.
- It’s doubtful that the same deal will be on the table, as it would be politically untenable domestically.
- Getting France and Germany on board will be hard, given that they enjoy much more powerful in our absence.
- The risk of our exit again when our xenophobia acts up would have to be objectively low, or no member state would take the chance on approval lest we fuck over their economy again when we throw an egocentric racist tantrum.