danielquinn
@danielquinn@lemmy.ca
Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
- Comment on Got bored and created my attempt at Mirror Badgey in Inkscape 3 days 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 5 weeks ago:
Fucking parasites.
- Comment on UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on Can Engineers Stage a Coup and Take Over Their Company? 2 months ago:
Fascinating idea. One suggestion though:
When selecting your “coup team” avoid immigrants and people with families. Back when I was young, single, and living in my home country, I could have been convinced to go along with something like this, but now I’m living abroad with a wife & kid. The risk is sufficiently high that I might be compelled to snitch for fear that I might be deported or jailed.
You want ambitious, charismatic, high-skill, and risk-friendly people for this kind of job.
I’ll be cheering you on from the sidelines though.
- Comment on Dollar General has 48hrs to make stores safe or face more penalties after $12m fine 2 months ago:
The unspoken reality of these sorts of situations is that companies like Dollar General simply can’t fix these problems and remain profitable. Many of these safety measures require staff they’d have to hire for example.
We talk about this as if it’s just some safety measures that need to be fulfilled, but what we have to understand is that the business model of exploitation to this degree is unsustainable in a world where safety measures are enforced.
They likely know this, and may do some performative response in the hopes of avoiding the fine, but $12 million is a rounding error compared to the cost of doing this properly.
TL;DR: nothing will change.
- Comment on The number of lines for each character by percentage of the series 2 months ago:
That was my takeaway as well. I just wish I had data for the other seasons. It’d be interesting to see how that might change the percentages as they are.
As for
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, I’m reasonably sure that this refers to both versions of her. - Comment on The number of lines for each character by percentage of the series 2 months ago:
Honestly, it’s 'cause I forgot to include it! I’ll see if I can add it tonight. Check back in 24hrs :-)
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- Comment on A "test" to judge Star Trek shows 2 months ago:
I like it, and I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that you’re talking about Discovery. I’ve said in the past that the show should be called “Star Trek: Michael Burnham” as it would at least be more honest.
To be fair, I think every series has a lot of episodes that would fail this test, some of which were excellent, like DS9’s “In the Pale Moonlight”, and “Far Beyond the Stars” or TNG’s “The Inner Light”, but if used to assess a series, I think this could be a good metric.
- Comment on [Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability 2 months ago:
Looking at that list, this suggestion seems entirely appropriate.
- Comment on Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise 3 months ago:
Ah yeah, I remember a moment like that in DS9, where Sisko is lamenting the crew’s interest in a holosuite program set in the 50s because of how “our people” were treated back then. It always felt out of place for me, though DS9 is still my favourite Star Trek.
- Comment on Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise 3 months ago:
Can you give some examples of this? Admittedly I didn’t much care for Discovery and didn’t pay a lot of attention through it as a result, but I’m not picking up what you’re laying down ;-)
- Comment on BBC uncovers 6,000 possible illegal sewage spills in one year 3 months ago:
Can we really call it a “spill” if they dump it deliberately?
- Comment on Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents 4 months ago:
Don’t these dipshits have anything better to do?
- Comment on Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room 4 months ago:
Could he now sue the people that beat him (or even Sainsbury’s)?
- Comment on British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float 4 months ago:
This is the path to enshitification.
- Comment on Eurovision viewing parties in England cancelled over Israel’s participation 4 months ago:
Fuck yeah.
- Comment on Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode 4 months ago:
Voyager: One Small Step
It’s one of my top ten favourites, but it’s also a very typical “one off” story.
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 4 months ago:
Awesome, thanks!
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 4 months ago:
It says it’ll hit “overnight”, but surely in 2024 we can be more accurate than that?
- Comment on Sadiq Khan wins third term as London mayor saying he answered 'hate with hope' 4 months ago:
“Deeply frightening” can you name even one thing Corbyn said or did that was antisemitic other than be openly antizionist? Given that it’s Israel’s Zionist regime that’s currently committing genocide, I would think Corbyn would have been vindicated by now.
- Comment on Britain developing new, sovereign nuclear warhead 5 months ago:
It’s the tight coupling between the government and arms manufacturers. I used to work at UKTrade and nearly every decision there was rooted in how we can give more money to arms companies.
- Comment on MPs and peers sign letter urging UK government to ban arms sales to Israel 5 months ago:
Is there a comprehensive list of the signatories somewhere? I want to know if I need to praise or harass my MP.
- Comment on What was the best guest-acting role on TOS, and do you have any runner-ups? 6 months ago:
Excluding the obvious choice of Jeffrey Combs as… well anyone really, I’m rather fond of Andreas Katsulas, though I may be partial to him for his phenomenal role as G’Kar on Babylon 5.
- Comment on Comfort show 6 months ago:
“Yankees, in six games” – “One Small Step” is comfort food for me. A close second is “The Siege of AR-558”
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 8 months ago:
Of course not. No, you vote for parties who want the same things you do, to remind Labour that your vote isn’t a forgone conclusion. So long as they can count on your vote by simply being “not Tory” that’s all you’ll ever get.
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 8 months ago:
That’s a lot of faith to place in a leader and party who have shown zero evidence of principle or conviction.
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 8 months ago:
You mean the guy advocating for changes this country desperately needed? You’re right, let’s only have leaders bent on doing nothing.