danielquinn
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca
Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 6 days ago:
- Comment on UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to prevent foot and mouth disease spreading - BBC News 6 days 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 week 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 2 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? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 2 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’ 2 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 4 months ago:
Non-boomers do, yeah.
- Comment on Public urged to get flu vaccine as hospitalisation rates rise steeply 4 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 4 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! 4 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! 4 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 5 months ago:
This please.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 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 5 months ago:
This will make rejoining the EU much more difficult.
- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 5 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 5 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.
- Comment on This Working Class Waitress Could Decide Who Controls Congress 5 months ago:
Honestly, her party needs more people like her.
- Comment on This Working Class Waitress Could Decide Who Controls Congress 5 months ago:
That was really interesting, thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Got bored and created my attempt at Mirror Badgey in Inkscape 6 months ago:
You got the eyes just right!
- Comment on More than 80% of recruiters admit to posting ‘ghost jobs’ to juice their talent pool and business reputation 8 months ago:
Fucking parasites.
- Comment on UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet 8 months ago:
“Class warfare” from someone willing to literally go to prison to prevent millions of the poor dying in climate change. Right.
- Comment on UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet 8 months ago:
I never contested the facts as stated, only that their presentation, devoid of context was misleading. I put “crime” in quotes to demonstrate the absurdity of a system that imprisons people for blocking traffic when those actually burning the planet are treated with the highest respect by our elected representatives. This wasn’t defrauding old ladies, it was causing a traffic jam.
Normal car traffic blocks ambulances all the time, and yet no one seems to consider it a crime punishable by 5 years. Meanwhile, a woman kills a cyclist with her car and gets a suspended sentence. Canada is on fire. Greece is on fire. Bulgaria, Italy, North Macedonia, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal are all on fire. How many ambulances-worth of people do you think are going to die as a result?
And spare me the “he’s a hypocrite 'cause he flew in a plane” pearl-clutching. He knows, as I’m sure you do that you don’t fix climate change through individual action. Sure it feels nice to be all self-righteous and forego luxuries provided by bad energy policy, but real change comes through legislation that taxes the hell out of flying — you know, like JSO is demanding but for which our elected leaders would rather ignore because it’d be unpopular.
- Comment on UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet 8 months ago:
These statements, while true are lacking so many critical details that it borders on disinformation.
- He was a repeat offender of nonviolent crimes.
- He was held in contempt after the court refused to allow him to speak to the motivation behind his crime, a key component in any defence of nonviolent civil disobedience.
- Of course he said he would commit the “crime” again. It’s civil disobedience. What exactly are you expecting? The planet is still on fire and we’re still burning it.
The ambulance thing is pretty terrible, but when you consider the objective outcome of our current world-burning, it’s not an unexpected perspective. Given a few more years of inaction and profiteering, and the nonviolent actors will start giving up on being civil – especially if the penalty is the same regardless. We’ll be looking back on traffic blocking and orange paint with nostalgia.