Flax_vert
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- Comment on UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn 6 days ago:
Why would they have been fined over a simple bug?
- Comment on Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine 1 week ago:
To be fair it’s not for off in the UK,
Northern Ireland is in the UK. I just specified this as the courts might work differently here. I know England has bailiffs and such. And for all we know, unless you’ve lived in or are familiar with Wales and Scotland, it could be the same situation there, too.
England ≠ The UK
- Comment on UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn 1 week ago:
the software Fujitsu developed was still shit.
All software is like that. Whenever your software is going to go from development into suddenly being rolled out nationally to being installed in well over 10,000 post offices nationally, you’re going to have glitches and people using it in unintended ways. This happens with almost every game release. It is released from the studio and suddenly bugs specific to different hardware which the developers couldn’t really have foresaw.
I know someone who worked for a company who’s software suddenly had charged someone 3x the amount that they should have been because they did something hacky with the product. (Thankfully by “charged”, it was just a generated invoice, so nobody needed to actually go about refunding).
What happened in this situation is what should have happened with the post office. The customer contacts the software company’s client, who contacted the company, who diagnosed and fixed the issue. Instead the post office hailed the software as some form of infallible deity instead of it being a simple glitch and decided to prosecute the subpostmasters.
Maybe there’s some nuance I’m missing here, I have seen the Channel 4 drama and listened to some Radio 4 podcasts on it, so there is a chance that Fujitsu encouraged them to hail their software as something which wasn’t prone to glitches or whatever. But in my opinion from what I know, the problem wasn’t necessarily the software or Fujitsu, it was the Post Office for prosecuting subpostmasters instead of reporting a glitch to Fujitsu, which if they did the latter it might have made a minor news headline before being consigned to history.
- Comment on Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine 1 week ago:
The best thing is that in Northern Ireland, their fines aren’t legally enforceable. All they can do is send you angry letters.
- Comment on UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn 1 week ago:
Wasn’t it moreso the post office lying about the software instead of Fujitsu itself?
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
I, personally am pretty inconsistent with how I do it, lol
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
This is why I was told to close my eyes, to do away with distractions. But my neurodivergent brain would just get distracted by unrelated thoughts, so staring at a stained glass window does nicely for me.
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
Apart from the Bible not saying much about the dead watching except from a vague
Hebrews 12:1 ESV
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us
The idea of people looking down - while could be argued for in this verse - is moreso a human invention than scriptural in the case of Christianity. But the Roman Catholic Catechisms may have something to say about it
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
Jesus -who Christians believe to be God Himself- is described as looking up to Heaven to pray
John 17:1 ESV
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you
He also fell on His face Matthew 26:39 ESV
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
I don’t think this is biblical in origin
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 2 weeks ago:
You can post to Lemmy from Wordpress as well.
!dbzer0.com@dbzer0.com
It doesn’t work on older versions of Lemmy though, notably the version lemmy.world is running.
- Comment on Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse! 2 weeks ago:
Does it work with lemmy? Would be nice if the cities were shown as lemmy communities
- Comment on Exploring a Potential Universal Connector for Non-ActivityPub Platforms in the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
And if someone responds to you on bluesky, it doesn’t bridge over to the activitypub fediverse
- Comment on Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online 3 weeks ago:
“tend the rabbits”
- Comment on Of Mice and Men taken off Wales' GCSE syllabus because of racial slurs - Wales Online 3 weeks ago:
The book is explicitly anti racist. It’s depicting racism in a negative light. It’s pretty progressive for something written in the 30’s if anything.
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- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
So we’re better letting people kill themselves than help them?
- Comment on Who stole all the pies? Michelin-starred chef 'gutted' at theft of 2,500 pies. 1 month ago:
Sorry lads, was feeling a wee bit peckish this morning. My bad, but happens to the best of us.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
Moving the goalposts
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
Canada literally did it
- Comment on Is the UK shut down during easter? 1 month ago:
Generally everything is closed from and during Good Friday to Easter Monday. There probably are special services going on at famous Cathedrals though for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday (in some places, Holy Saturday has some form of vigil going on also)
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
So the problem with suicide isn’t people taking their own life, but the mess they leave behind? How heartless is this attitude?
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
What evidence do you have that the law will become so lax that doctors will aggressively push people to being euthanised?
Canada
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
It literally is a fallacy. This is not up for debate. The slippery slope fallacy is a real fallacy, and this is an example of that fallacy.
Circular reasoning fallacy
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
So why do we have suicide hotlines, then?
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
It’s the cheaper thing to do, lol. Soon they’ll stop offering palliative care as part of “budget cuts” (Kier needs a new suit) and this’ll be their excuse
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
It’s not a fallacy. It literally happened in Canada.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
It’s literally canada
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
In Canada it turned into a cost cutting measure. There are several instances of people being euthanised as they had no other option. Like someone with EDS being refused treatment in America, or an ex-serviceman being refused a wheelchair ramp and offered euthanasia instead.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
It will be eventually, if we’re not careful
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
Progress? It’ll progress until they use this as a way to shorten the NHS waiting list. “Would you like to suffer for three years or die instead”. Or better yet, “We can’t give you that, but we can euthanise you”