danielquinn

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

The way to do that would have been to send our military to escort the humanitarian flotilla through the illegal blockade and protect our citizens delivering that aid.

This... is just performative.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Honestly, it looks like I'd be served better by re-watching A Knight's Tale for the 30th time. Now that was a good film.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Plus the FF extension is really full-featured. I can clip in different formats or even take a screenshot if the webpage makes clipping hard.

I didn't even know there was a Firefox extension! I might give it a look.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's shit like this that makes it so hard to support unions.

The North American auto industry has failed miserably to produce vehicles people want, instead opting for high-cost monster trucks with low visibility and high fatality ratings. They deserve to be decimated by companies producing smaller, more efficient, and safer vehicles, but no. They'll have to pry these monster abominations from our cold dead nation instead.

Unions are proving time and again that they can't be trusted to be on the right side of critical issues like climate if it means some people might be out of a job that kills people.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What exactly is an external drive case? Are you just talking about a USB enclosure for a single drive or something that can somehow hold multiple drives and interface over something more stable than USB?

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Joplin will do this for you. It comes ready to sync with all sorts of cloud options, as well as "local folder" which works well with Syncthing. It's offline-first, cross-platform, and FOSS.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's the expectation.

Boris and Truss were abject morons and Sunak was an insulated, rich Tory. They were expected to be terrible and so we weren't surprised.

Starmer won in a landslide victory for Labour and went about screwing the poor, arresting old ladies, and presiding over genocide. Conservatives hate him because he's on the Red Team, and the Left hate him because he acts like a Tory.

If he'd run as a Tory, he'd be scoring higher than everyone since Cameron, but he was supposed to fix the mess, not make it worse.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

I agree 100% with this take and want to thank you for that excellent video! I'm not all the way through yet, but I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The opposition to id cards themeselves in this country is very strange to me. Most civilised countries have some sort of national identification number/card that can be used to access government services, and having worked inside the UK government, I can tell you what a total nightmare it is to develop services for Britons without such a unique id.

What kills me, is that inevitably the id card debate here seems to focus in on the existence of a card rather than what the government wants to attach include with it, like biometric data, or pairing it with an app with invasive permissions. You need an id number for me so that I can be identified when accessing government services, you don't need to keep a record of every time I boarded a train or more surveillance nonsense.

This country is so used to government surveillance that they automatically assume that "id card means more tracking" rather than objecting to the tracking that already exists (have you seen Oxford Street?) and opposing an id that'd save the country mountains of cash and hassle if used properly.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Fuck yes. More of this please.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

This is brilliant work! For anyone interested, this appears to be the park in question.

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