steeznson
@steeznson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls 6 days 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 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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' 4 weeks 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' 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
I agreed* with Nick
*unfortunately
- Comment on British girls outdrink boys — and most of Europe 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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." 1 month 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." 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
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- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what is your favorite Prince of Persia game and why? 2 months ago:
I believe the Switch version does not require an online account either.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what is your favorite Prince of Persia game and why? 2 months ago:
I also quite enjoyed Warrior Within but then again I liked Jak 2 as well. I wonder what happened in that “Shadow the Hedgehog” era to make all these good mascots go bad…
- Comment on Mortgage rates rise despite interest rate cut 2 months ago:
I think their decision was influenced by the most recent budget. With business costs rising due to the national insurance increase, banks are anticipating that inflation will fall less quickly. This is compounded by government spending increasing which also has the potential to have an inflationary effect.
Given this background it is not inconceivable that BoE might need to raise interest rates again and this means the banks need to keep their fixed rates high to cover the risk of people locking in rates that turn out to be too low.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 2 months ago:
Persona 3 OST for me
- Comment on What is your favorite Halloween older game? 2 months ago:
Still Wakes The Deep was a fun Lovecraftian horror from this year. Unique setting on a North Sea oil rig with an authentic Scottish cast. Also didn’t overstay its welcome at roughly 4 hours length; I believe it’s on GamePass.
- Comment on I'm homeless after making and losing £1,000,000 and having a hit film 4 months ago:
I know some who have managed to hold down successful careers despite their habit. I wonder how many hidden “functional” users there are
- Comment on Twitter's UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over 4 months ago:
The phrase “absolutely decimated” annoys me since to decimate has a really exact definition of shedding 10% of something
- Comment on Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89 4 months ago:
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is probably what I’ll remember her best for
- Comment on Women in STEM 4 months ago:
I thought her husband took a lot of the credit at the time. Might be mistaken about that though.
- Comment on Women in STEM 4 months ago:
Could also add Marie Curie in there. I didn’t realise until recently that there is a lot of controversy over France “claiming her achievements” since she was born and educated in Poland.