okay, using the words listed at the start of this wikipedia article, here’s where i place myself:
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or, British 1, American 5, Canadian 4, Australian 2
it’s a nice litmus test to see where you’re at. i knew i used to skew NA in writing style, but i didn’t think by that much
i mean, i really dont want to be that poster, but he’s not being arrested for blocking with a scooter, he’s being arrested for protesting
there’s a separate discussion to be had about arresting protesters, but the way they’re trying to spin this as “they oppressed a disabled person for being disabled” is honestly insulting to the agency of disabled people that choose to protest, and whom accept the risk of consequences for doing so
in my mind, you can’t be both trying to normalize disability, and then also weaponizing it when it suits you for an opinion piece after being arrested. in particular, i take offense to the line in the article: “Now prosecuting disabled people to (sic) acting ‘socially responsibly’”, as if that’s magically a step too far?
a “fairer” title here would have been something like “activist prosecuted for deftly showcasing how climate risks disproportionately affect disabled people”. although, it wouldn’t have been as attention grabby, and so none of us would be reading it…
this was a really good read, thank you for sharing
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if you mean this literally? then until the 28th of january, 2025
and before some of you pipe up and say “nuh uh, by convention elections are held on thursdays/held in summer/held whenever”, like, when has this government cared about convention 😅
the conservatives have zero reason to call it early. dont be surprised if it goes all the way to the legal limit
my headcanon on this is delayed leap-day bugs from february 29th, only showing up just now
the issue with death penalty is that even if you have a perfect state that makes zero mistakes when applying such penalty, it can only do so in the context of a criminal offense having been committed.
but what is a criminal offense? one person’s “that’s a crime” is another person’s “i should be free to do that”
for example, in yemen, if you are caught performing homosexual acts as a married man, you are to be stoned to death.
in principle, a capital punishment supporter should also be okay with this.
if you are one of those who has just caught yourself saying “well… i think death penalty is okay but not like that” then you have just hit my main point like a brick wall
if the decision to apply death penalty is based on one’s subjective assessment of what a crime is, then that’s not rational or fair
here’s some homework for you - replace “death penalty” with “any penalty” and re-run my thought sequence again :)
the very act of “criminalizing” is fraught with moral issues already, so i think we should drop all death penalties until we have perfectly solved the question “what is crime?”
for further info, here’s a good one (link here, clicky!)
i wanted to add my personal experience, as someone who tried kbin and then ended up on lemmy
when learning about fediverse, i was first introduced to kbin. i assumed that kbin was a close match to reddit, and this was why i was being introduced to it. turns out, nope! it also has some microblogging thing? active people? boost vs favourites? i was bamboozled to say the least.
i’m sure the dual-purpose threads + microblogging is good for some, but i’m really, really not into twitter. and i also found it to be confusing when i was tagged in something as to whether i was reading a thread, or a microblog. i.e, kbin wasn’t a good fit. then i discovered most of the actual content i was reading on kbin was being posted from some “lemmy” service? i clicked to find out more and… yeah, i made the switch pretty quickly.
basically, not all of us went back to reddit. i can’t speak for all former reddit users, but one of the detracting points for kbin was the mixed purpose. like, for example, if i was to list places like facebook, twitter, instagram, even mastodon - these are all “people” focused places. you post about people, and the focus is more skewed towards following individual people and trends. if i was to list places like reddit, hackernews, something awful, even… 4chan… - these are “things” focused places. you post about things, and the focus is on following things. lemmy is firmly in the “things” camp, whereas kbin is trying to be both “people” and “things” at once, and so it just wasn’t for me. 🙂
op, it’s not just you, i promise. 🙂
i encourage you to watch this in it’s entirety. while it covers a different life story, it explores some avenues of what you are possibly feeling when you ask this question.
it’s tempting to think digitization is forever, but we’ve already lost so much of the internet to link rot and server shutdowns in just 30 years. paper is actually longer lasting than digital, lol
they changed it to first-past-the-post??!!
what the fuck
yeah i can see what’s happened here, rishi has been forced to say “fuck it” and align with one of the factions.
if you have a choice of a faction to align with, you should pick the one that is closer to the center of the overton window, to maximize future vote gain under FPTP.
if suella didn’t force her own sacking to then try and force a no-confidence vote to seize leadership (or otherwise secure cabinet control for the NatC faction), then… why did she write that opinion piece otherwise? she didn’t have to write it.
is there a secret sneaky reason why this question is being asked? like, is this a trick to boost the number of questions that the MPs have both asked and answered in parliament? i.e, is this political stat padding?
yeah people i talk to don’t seem to get what’s coming. like, they haven’t had the misfortune of a medical emergency in their life, and so they’ve never actually experienced how bad the service provision is getting. but not just for healthcare, it’s for every service.
me personally? i’m saving up that money for sure. not for the next emergency, oh goodness no. i’m going to use that savings pot to leave this island for good. ideally before i get my next medical emergency. selfish? yep, you bet! 🙂
but, i am fundamentally sick of living in a place where we pay all this money and get little service to show for it. for me, one of these two options is fine:
one or the other i am fine with, preferably option 2. but what we have in the uk is the downside of both of these options.
bit of a tangent i know, but…
rather than national or local governments fix any of this, they’ve instead embarked on massive campaigns to massage the statistics, through changing the measuring sticks used to assess service quality across the board, and in doing so, hide all the problems. this extends to water standards, and unemployment statistics, and cancer waiting times, etc etc.
don’t even get me started about the filthy liars who do the passenger rail statistics 💩
thank you
real world link rot, lol
it’s simple. asking people to do the right thing (i.e slowdown), out of the kindness of their hearts, is laughable.
if you build the street in such a way that driving above it’s design limits is impossible, then people wont do it. surprisingly, the threat of their car being damaged or totaled will force compliance with the intended speed limit. if this was done correctly on a large scale, speed limit posts wouldn’t even be required - the street layout would naturally dictate the speeds you can drive at.
for UK streets, this can be retrofitted with chicanes, curb extensions, raised pedestrian crossings, etc. increasing the amount that a driver has to think to drive down a street, automatically makes them slower. oh, and none of those stupid painted chicanes and bumps either, you think anyone cares about those? lol. actually build the damned curb extensions
i’ll be honest, unless you’re at the west coast of ireland, probably give this one a miss. :(