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- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 8 hours ago:
Ok… …a blanket ban on a set of protestors.
What’s the legal criteria to say somebody is a member of an organisation like this? Do they have to have a membership card to be banned from protests? It’s poorly defined and easily becomes anybody who turns up at a pro-palestinian protest. At that point you have banned protests on the subject.
Hold individuals accountable for their actions. Don’t police people’s views or their desire to express them.
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 8 hours ago:
Taking targeted action at those who perpetrated the sabotage would be my preference, rather than blanket bans on a protestors. This is the wrong way to solve the problem.
- Comment on Armed Forces Minister refuses seven times to say whether UK backs US military action in Iran 1 day ago:
He’s a member of the cabinet and so should know the government position. He can also state if UK forces acted in any part of the operation (e.g. refilling).
The decision may not be his but he should be enacting the effect of the decision. It’s absolutely reasonable to ask him.
- Comment on Ask the crickets 2 days ago:
…or count the chirps in 8 seconds and add 4.
Why am I taking 25seconds and dividing by 3? Accuracy?
- Comment on All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years 3 days ago:
I’m sure it would be very useful. Doesn’t mean I want ANYBODY having that kind of information.
- Comment on All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years 3 days ago:
It should not remain in the NHS in my opinion. It should be deleted after the analysis is done.
- Comment on Federal judge declines to order Trump officials to recover deleted Signal messages 3 days ago:
…the ruling stopped short of ordering the government to recover past messages that may already have been lost.
How would somebody be meant to comply with an order to recover a message that has been deleted? Or is that the point? Can’t comply and you’re in contempt of court.
- Comment on Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk' 3 days ago:
…or have decent security on them that can’t be broken by a 12yo.
- Comment on Rich people know their cosmetic surgery is obvious and uncanny, but that's the point; it's a way of signalling that you belong in a certain income bracket and that you're part of the 1% 3 days ago:
Moisturize me!
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 4 days ago:
So at one point Macs were the developer laptop. They gave a nice desktop experience but with UNIX underneath that was very close to the Linux servers you’d deploy on to.
The direction of travel has been to bring the UI closer and closer to touch devices, often at the detriment to the developer experience (IMO). Snow Leopard / Lion was Mac OS at it’s best. Once we left the cats behind it started going wrong.
Intel has become Arm - moving things further from those deployment servers. I’ve come to the realisation that I actually need x86 Linux adjacency more than anything else and nothing does that better than x86 Linux.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 days ago:
Hardly. Honda have just replicated what Falcon 9 has been doing every week for years.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 days ago:
Comparing an engine out where the mission went on without issue and a huge fireball on the pad is apples and oranges.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 4 days ago:
I’m not sure what you’re waiting for in terms of warning signs. They’ve taken the military into LA under the pretence of “liberating the city from socialism”.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 5 days ago:
In the US a gun is more likely to kill the owner or their family than anyone else.
I’m fairly sure ethe vast majority of those are accidental.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 5 days ago:
What makes you think they didn’t have guns?
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 5 days ago:
You’re right. It’s a liberal idea to allow the (largely) unregulated possession of firearms. However, it takes a certain mindset to pickup that forearm and try to decide how the country is run with it through armed insurrection. One that’s more akin to authoritarian, or at least paternalism.
Personally I feel if the 2nd amendment is there for this reason, the ln the no kings marches should have had arms. That’s a powderkeg scenario and we’d probably be looking at hundreds dead at this point. However if there was ever a reason for the 2nd amendment, this is it and that’s the cost. Otherwise there’s no point in the right to bear arms and you should scrap it.
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 5 days ago:
I e got an i3 one of these on order and should turn up next month. I need to buy RAM and an SSD, but I think it’ll end up around £750 all in. Will replace my 11yo MacBook Air 11 inch. Mac OS just went in the wrong direction under Cook.
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 5 days ago:
New board size was dictated by the smaller form factor I believe. Still will be very interesting to see what options come out in time.
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 5 days ago:
Cells pretty much are one of 3 or 4 standard sizes. Getting down to the cell level is pretty tough on a lot of cars though.
- Comment on RIP Thomas 6 days ago:
I think the only way it gets beaten is if the goose gets a better name. Say… “Ferdinand” or Ferdy for short.
- Comment on Government 'quietly drops' fight for tougher anti-protest laws used to arrest climate activist Greta Thunberg 1 week ago:
Such apathy. This government really knows how to say what it stands for!
- Comment on Director General Grossi’s Statement to UNSC on Situation in Iran | IAEA 1 week ago:
So all countries should just have a free hand to develop nuclear weapons?
- Comment on Director General Grossi’s Statement to UNSC on Situation in Iran | IAEA 1 week ago:
To give people context, reactor fuel only needs 1-3% enrichment. Weapons grade is 90% or higher. The barrier is accepted to be 20%. If you can achieve that you’ve made the technological leap.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 1 week ago:
smithsonianmag.com/…/shark-skin-inspired-material…
Few people have gotten close enough to a shark to pet it. If you could run your hand from a shark’s head to its tail—not that you should—it would feel smooth, almost like suede. Reverse direction and it’s rough like sandpaper. Viewed under a microscope, shark skin is composed of ribbed, dragonesque scales layered over each other like shingles on a roof. These structures, called dermal denticles, are more like teeth than skin
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 1 week ago:
Quite the opposite:
- Sharks don’t have fur
- Shark skin is rough is one direction and smooth in the other. This allows them to get friction with the water to drive themselves forward, but the glide through the water for efficient travel.
The idea was copied into competitive swim suits.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 weeks ago:
I’m confused.
Is the issue here you’re using the term “micro-plastic” in a different way to me. My understanding of it is “small particles of solid plastic often reduced in size through mechanical processes to microscopic sizes which we find throughout the environment, often distributed by water”. You seem to be talking more generally about chemical water pollution.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, which is why it’s important to have articles out in the wild that show the shortcomings of AI. If all people read is all the positive crap coming out of companies like OpenAI then they will make stupid decisions.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
It does
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 weeks ago:
That’s very different though. Nobody claims that the chemicals used in plastic manufacturing are biologically inert, just that the final result is.
Dupont wasn’t dumping Lego bricks into the pond. They were leaking liquid chemicals.
- Comment on How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure German could do a compound of “spät erkennen” or similar for a late realisation.
