mindlesscrollyparrot
@mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Defence ministry spends millions on private schools to avoid Welsh 3 weeks ago:
Why is he an idiot? He isn’t insisting that these children go to an all-welsh school. He’s saying that it’s ridiculous to pay private-school fees for the sole purpose of avoiding 2 hours of Welsh a week.
Of course, the soldiers from Wales probably don’t need this. It’s aimed at the ones who have been sent there together with their families, from somewhere else in the UK. I wonder how many of those are officers.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 4 weeks ago:
This is the man we just gave all the NHS data to.
- Comment on Driver claims cyclist punched him in face and threw bike at car, causing £1,000 worth of damage, after motorist hit him “at about 2mph” 1 month ago:
The driver also didn’t mention what damage they did to the bicycle.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 5 months ago:
They also said that they were cancelling lifetime contracts that hadn’t been used in 6 months. Hard to see how those could be sinking the company.
- Comment on 'Not sustainable': The heavy price your 6c tea bag is exacting on others 7 months ago:
Having checked, it seems that the Fairtrade standards now allow producers that are not cooperatives.
- Comment on 'Not sustainable': The heavy price your 6c tea bag is exacting on others 7 months ago:
The article repeatedly lumps Rainforest Alliance and Fair Trade together, but they are not the same at all, and I didn’t see any examples of inspection failures for Fair Trade.
To be certified for Fair Trade, the producers must be a cooperative. That is relatively easy to check and it means that there is no-one to impose harsh conditions on the workers.
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 8 months ago:
Well thank goodness that Microsoft isn’t pushing AI on us as hard as it can, via every channel that it can.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 10 months ago:
If puberty blockers are not reversible and if the person decides that they are not trans in later life, then the consequence would be that they are stuck in a body that doesn’t match their self-image.
If that sounds bad to you, well …
- Comment on A surprise solar boom reveals a fatal flaw in our climate change projections 10 months ago:
I am unclear how people in Pakistan installing solar to power their factories and air conditioning instead of using fossil fuels is a fatal flaw. It seems to me that it is a very good kind of flaw to have in the model.
Unless the model was assuming that Pakistan would simply have to do without air conditioning because they wouldn’t be allowed to run it on fossil fuels. In which case the model had an appalling flaw in it - in the moral sense as well as magnitude.
- Comment on Thousands of UK farmers protest against inheritance tax hike 11 months ago:
I would be entirely unsurprised if the ones protesting are not rich, and they don’t realize that they won’t be affected.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 11 months ago:
Do commercial/industrial buildings not require power then?
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 11 months ago:
You aren’t wrong, but you are assuming that the grid is required. Solar panels can be installed at the point of use, and then the grid doesn’t come into it at all.