danielquinn
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca
Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
- Comment on Petrol bombs thrown at police during fifth night of Northern Ireland disorder 1 week 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 1 week 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’ 2 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” 4 weeks 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 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
I love this so much. Thank you!
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 1 month 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. 3 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.
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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.
- Comment on Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply 6 months ago:
Non-boomers do, yeah.
- Comment on Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply 6 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 6 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] 7 months ago:
Cambridge checking in. It must be payback for the cows leaving their shit all over the walking path.