danielquinn

@danielquinn@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Children were calling for their mummies’: UK pupils struggle in 40C-plus classrooms⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Also way cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video - Nigel Farage’s SECRET Millions: IT’S WORSE Than You Think⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All perfectly reasonable requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, this number feels low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doctor Who and Star Trek showrunners discussed possible crossover⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best answer to "when did Star Trek get woke?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I whole-heartedly agree.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk: Zack Polanski is ‘a scumbag and traitor’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if Elon says he’s a bad guy, it must be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kemi Badenoch: James Bond must not be woke⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the Toties are continuing to focus on the critical problems of our time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record number of people waiting for NHS diagnostic tests in England⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my MRI in a matter of days, not because my case was dire (it was just a routine screening) but because I paid for private health care through my employer.

  We need to have a grown up conversation in this country about how fucked up it is that private companies have injected themselves into our “single payer” system to create two-tiered care.

  You cannot share this space with private companies. The only mode capitalism has is stratification and enshittification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decathlon offering cash refund to stop festival-goers abandoning tents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems to me a better system would be a licensing/deposit system for such events. You can’t pitch a tent unless you’ve paid a deposit that’s refundable a week after the event should your tent not show up in the debris.

  A partnership with Decathlon could be made to attach scannable serials to various parts to aid in identification of the debris.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour contender Andy Burnham declines to say Israel has committed genocide in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, so he’s just like his other friends in what’s left of Labour. Lacking principles, conviction, or courage in the face of obvious injustice.

  Just what we need in a Prime Minister.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in four births in England is now emergency caesarean, BBC analysis shows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who could possibly have seen this coming? It’s not like we re-cast childbirth as something that can be managed by barely-trained hippies pitching crystals and hypnobirthing… oh wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put a £5 deposit on vapes to stop fires, say waste companies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. Deposit systems create a “scavenger class” of people. Imagine a deposit on:

  • Aluminium cans
  • Glass bottles
  • Vapes

  …and then introduce legislation requiring reusable (and deposit-managed) fast food containers and overnight you’ve solved a massive part of municipal waste costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Disgraceful' parking leaves village gridlocked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually there’s a sign posted that days “no parking” and I fine print at the bottom it says “tow away zone [phone number]”. You call that, and if you’re lucky, you get a human with directions. If unlucky, you get a machine with the same info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Disgraceful' parking leaves village gridlocked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You bill them for the towing. And the admin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Disgraceful' parking leaves village gridlocked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s this fabulous invention that we really don’t see enough of in this country. It’s called a tow truck.

  Fines are useful and all, but only if they’re high enough to be a deterrent and enforceable enough that the offender actually pays them. If we tow offending vehicles, this problem goes away immediately, and even those who consider the fine “the price of a day out” now have to deal with the inconvenience of having to retrieve their vehicle from the impound.

  Seriously, why don’t we see more of that here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 500 seriously injured in e-scooter collisions in Great Britain last year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You missed a lot. There are so many things wrong with a statement like this.

  1. A global comparison necessarily includes roads all over the country, the bulk of which being intercity motorways. Given that motorways and local roads are maintained quite differently, for a discussion about the viability of our roads for use with scooters then, which don’t use these roads, such a bias renders this metric useless.
  2. It won’t include surfaces which are likely to be used by scooters, such as pavements and cycle lanes, let alone the availability of either.
  3. It’s also likely not to include negative cultural norms like:
     • Parking in cycle lanes
     • Parking on pavements
     • Double parking
     • The average size of vehicles and the visibility the drivers have

  The biggest problem though is that it’s just a bad argument. Having roads better than another place does not make our roads “good”. At best it establishes ourselves on a spectrum of mediocrity. I saw this constantly living in Canada where people would talk about our mass transit as “better than what they have in the US” like that’s something to be proud of.

  Our roads are objectively shit. Potholes are everywhere and the pavements are literally crumbling. For a scooter, these are all serious hazards because of the wheel diameter. Those are objective facts, so lets stop with this “well at least we’re better off than ${someplace slightly shittier}” because it ignores the objective shitty state right in front of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 500 seriously injured in e-scooter collisions in Great Britain last year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m willing to bet that the miserable state of the roads and pavements has a lot to do with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polanski calls for workplace temperature cap as Labour dithers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I was surprised that this wasnt already a thing. Who would oppose this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reform's Brilliant Councillors Keep Getting Expelled - Novara Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing how all this comes out after the election. It’s almost as if the media wasnt interested in vetting the right wing party dominating the polls or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I've given up eating hot meals to pay for equipment to keep my son alive'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  She says at one stage her energy company called to suggest she doubled her direct debit to £845 per month.

  Even in the dead of winter, my all-electric house with three people in it had a bill of £171.73. How the hell does anyone get up to £845??

  Are these ventilators really so inefficient, or are electricity prices in Yorkshire something like £3/kWh?