galmuth
@galmuth@feddit.uk
- Comment on Mother takes autistic son back to Ukraine after facing three-year NHS wait 4 months ago:
My son is on a 5 year waiting list… maybe we should holiday in Ukraine this year 🤔
- Comment on Brianna Ghey: I'm open to speaking to killer's mum, her mother says 4 months ago:
Measures like Google Family Link already exist if parents choose to use them. I don’t think legislation restricting what young people can do online would necessarily help. It’s illegal for kids to take drugs and drink alcohol yet it still happens. Whatever measures are put in place, there’s usually a way around.
- Comment on No excuse for shoplifting because UK's benefits system is very generous, policing minister says 5 months ago:
Where are you getting your figures from?
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 8 months ago:
Ahh, you’re American - the UK system, which this article is referring to, will be different. There is talk of banning disposables for environmental reasons and ease of kids getting hold of them, but the government over here are currently looking into the best options.
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 8 months ago:
Christ, chill with the venom. Fair enough, you like those flavours, but there are ways to avoid marketing them as desirable to children.
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 8 months ago:
Who’s trying to stamp out vaping entirely? All I’m reading into this article is just “Kids shouldn’t start vaping, especially if they have asthma.”
The suggested solutions I’ve seen in the news recently are things like keep the vaping displays away from kids, stop kid-friendly flavours, and make packaging less enticing - all things that they currently do for cigarettes, and all perfectly reasonable IMO.
No-one I’ve seen is proposing taking them away from adults.
- Comment on More than half of UK children do not read in their spare time, survey reveals 9 months ago:
It depends how old they are. Kids in primary school at least have a decent amount of free time. School doesn’t start crazy early in the UK, and there’s not much homework when they’re young.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 10 months ago:
Yeah I absolutely agree with you. I didn’t mean to suggest that lecturing the neurodiverse person would have solved the situation in this case.
I meant that even if the girl was neurotypical and/or intended it as a homophobic insult… it doesn’t really matter - if the cop had to do anything, then just talking to the girl would have been a more proportionate response than what happened.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 10 months ago:
I meant that if the girl was neurotypical and meant to insult the cop, then the cop talking to her would still be a more proportionate response than assault and arrest.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 10 months ago:
Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(
Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn’t autistic, there’d be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She’s a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.
- Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall 10 months ago:
Ooh,. Is pressreader any good? Do you just get a PDF-ish version of the print edition which you have to try and zoom and swipe around to navigate and read, or is it a bit easier to use than that?
- Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall 10 months ago:
I uninstalled the app last month and use the website instead too. I put a shortcut on my homescreen so there’s barely a difference.