steeznson
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- Comment on Indeed 1 week ago:
There are also recent examples of books like To Kill A Mockingbird being pulled out of high school ciricula due to antiquated attitudes towards race being depicted. I think these should have been kept and preserved as an example of outdated societal attitudes instead of being repressed.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think these people actually want to leave reddit. They are only interested in farming karma by complaining about it,
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 3 weeks ago:
Not weird enough to be Pynchon but it was a good comment nonetheless
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 weeks ago:
I think we’ve both got different perspectives on this that aren’t going to change so let’s agree to disagree.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 weeks ago:
I’d argue that attempts to force people to change their beliefs too quickly has led to a conservative reactionary backlash in recent years.
Recent surveys are showing an increase in people, in particular young people, harbouring intolerant views vs even 10 years ago. I think that suggests that the maximalist progressive rhetoric on social media is turning people away from progressive causes.
Creating a more tolerant society is a frustratingly slow process where the general public gradually become acclimatised to new ways of thinking. Forcing it creates a backlash because people need to feel like they arrived at their ideas themselves. There used to be an acknowledgement that it was a mutual process which is missing from the debate today.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 weeks ago:
Queer people were oppressed by the social norm of not judging people for their political beliefs?
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 weeks ago:
They worked fine in the 90s/00s. Social media and smart phones has just come in and created hyper-polarization since then. Human beings aren’t designed to be able to handle getting news so quickly from such a wide variety of (dubious) sources.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 weeks ago:
People cast their vote for a variety of complicated reasons, often against their own interests. Someone might be stupid because they voted for a bad ticket but I don’t think they are necessarily immoral.
These old norms like not judging others for their politics used to function fine before social media propagated and the culture wars flared up. I’d be hesitant to throw the old norms away, even in our current circumstances, because after they go there’s no guarantee you’ll ever get them back.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 2 comments
- Comment on Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall 4 weeks ago:
I think the harder question about the NEET crisis in the UK is that the world of entry level jobs or those available to people with little experience is that they are borderline unbearable. They pay badly and in some cases are humiliating/degrading to do (especially if you interact with the general public). I’m never going to forget wiping cum off the walls of a TK Maxx changing room with blue roll during my student summer job there.
- Comment on Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls 5 weeks ago:
My brother-in-law has a slightly unusual form of epilepsy called absence seizures where he zones out and ceases to function for almost a minute at a time. It’s the exact opposite of what you’d want for a driver.
However he’s been on medication to treat it and hasn’t had an abscence seizure in over 10 years with his current medication. He lives in Cornwall and some of the council houses he is being offered are perfect but have problems like the nearest pharmacy being 20 miles away and buses being every 3 hours. Out of curiousity we checked to see if he could learn to drive and apparently if you’ve not had a seizure for 2 years then you can get rubberstamped for a provisional drivers license.
Ultimately he’s turning down these places due to these issues, it’s not being counted as a wasted bid since the drawbacks of the property are not just him being fussy. Additionally, I’m pretty certain he lacks the gross motor skills to drive even if seizures are no longer a problem. Will need to wait to bid on more suitable properties. People who live in the country really need better amenities and public transport.
At any rate that 2 year figure struck me as being very, uh, optimistic from the DVLA. Potentially any seizure should seriously curtail your ability to gain a provisional/full license.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 1 month ago:
I believe it would have been legal if the driver was an Albanian with a license. The issue is that the car was registered and insured in Albania and then driven by a Brit. Not EU country has approved them for use on the roads but there are weird loopholes.
- Comment on DOOM® CAPTCHA 2 months ago:
Is there any strategy for this level apart from kiting the enemies into your line of sight while you are shielded from the centre cube? Maybe the WAD could be tweaked. Cool project though!
- Comment on Police investigate after 'Sara Sharif killer attacked in prison' 2 months ago:
I mean, I agree, but this dude is getting medical support for these injuries like his daughter never got to experience. Having his throat cut probably distracts him from the consequences of his actions and allows him to consider himself as a victim. I want him serving every second of his sentence.
- Comment on Police investigate after 'Sara Sharif killer attacked in prison' 2 months ago:
This was entirely predictable. Why was he in gen pop?
I hope he survives so he can see out his sentence in totality.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 2 months ago:
Got 5 days left to finish Indiana Jones before the GamePass subscription times out.
- Comment on Nick Clegg to leave Meta ahead of Trump's return - BBC News 2 months ago:
I agreed* with Nick
*unfortunately
- Comment on British girls outdrink boys — and most of Europe 2 months ago:
Denmark are still worse though so no need for alarm. Scottish drug deaths meanwhile…
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 2 months ago:
Balatro is my current go-to game. Not sure if it is patient gamer material since it came out relatively recently but it is cheap and on all platforms. Poker themed maths game.
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 2 months ago:
Xonotic is mint can’t recommend it enough! has replaced Quake 3 for me
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 2 months ago:
I’ve owned this game for years and I love RTwP combat in games like PoE and Baldurs Gate (first two). You’ve convinced me to give it another try!
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 2 months ago:
I found when they used that same device to explain the ending of Hellblade 2 really unsatisfying.which is a shame because I’d really enjoyed the journey.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
Would have been hilarious if big dairy brought them into the trial as an “expert witness”.
“Yes, that’s right ladies and gentlemen, I am a real life strawman.”
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
Sadly, they’ll probably call it ‘Nilk’ or something lazy like that
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
It’s weird how much they love UHT milk on the continent. If you get a Starbucks in France (not sure why you would) then it’ll be that UHT shite.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 70 comments
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 months ago:
Yeah it’s the so-called slippery slope argument people are making that countries which have legalised assisted dying so far have tended towards making increasingly more people eligible over time.
Conflicted on that tbh. Slippery slope is one of the classic logical fallacies but that doesn’t necessarily mean it can’t happen.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 months ago:
Setting the moral discussion aside. I think Starmer will be worried that this will define his first term and absorb his ministers’ bandwidth as it is being implemented. He would have wanted to focus on the economy and his plans for “rebuilding” but that will get less oxygen in the media now.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 months ago:
Canada has gone too far in terms of who is eligible for assisted suicide in many people’s opinions. For example people who are mentally ill are able to request assisted suicide from the state.
- Comment on Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford prize but rejects £50,000 over sponsor’s fossil fuel ties 3 months ago:
This Baillie Gifford controversy is nuts. They are one of the largest investment companies in terms of backing renewable energies and they invest way fewer funds than their competitors in fossil fuels.
Arts festivals like the Edinburgh Book Festival have been browbeaten by these grandstanding authors into removing them as a sponsor but the only repercussions we’re going to see is the event being reduced in scale in coming years. The government is not going to step in and take their place and there’s no viable alternative source of money other than the private sector.