bluetoucan Now • 100%
Yes I do not like squash (generally) either.
bluetoucan Now • 100%
What's up with this guys head lol. Please tell me this is an edit
bluetoucan Now • 100%
Who cares what he has to say on Ukraine?
bluetoucan Now • 100%
Imo, the L should be a series of progressively smaller Ls tucked into each other at the right angle, and the O should be a series of progressively smaller concentric circles.
Also after seeing that I have to keep doing double-takes reading my own post, none of the letters look right
bluetoucan Now • 100%
From that description I’d say it is effectively a punishment for protesting I think you have a point but the word "effectively" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here
bluetoucan Now • 86%
Go is flawed but so are all the programming languages I've ever used. The author raises some valid criticisms imo but I'm not sure what the point is supposed to be. Go is good for some use-cases and not for others
bluetoucan Now • 75%
It might be offensive to some people, but even if it doesn't offend it makes you sound like a weirdo. This has nothing to do with LGBTQ+ politics
bluetoucan Now • 100%
Saying that this is keeping up with changing trends of what is politically correct language implies that there was a time when referring to women as "females" outside the context of a biology lesson didn't sound weird as hell. Have you got any sources for mass usage of the term in that way from the past?
bluetoucan Now • 100%
For me this is the most appropriate instance as far as I can tell. The other instances mostly seem to be run for countries in which I do not live or for interests which I am not especially interested in
bluetoucan Now • 100%
Are you not mistaken here? Does FOSS not mean "free as in free speech, not as in free beer"? I.e. it does not necessarily mean offering the software to you for zero cost, it means that once you have acquired it (whether you paid for it or it was given away) you can do with it what you wish
bluetoucan Now • 84%
This guy is president of Ukraine while I'm just a dumb nobody that hasn't read the article, that being said all these quotes from Zelensky that it could mean "a third world war" - or somewhere else I saw him quoted as saying that if Ukraine falls the rest of Europe will be next - seem like really obvious bullshit to get the EU/US more involved.
I'm saying this cos I think the latter quote (that I'm attributing to him here without a source) was attached to a plea for the US to do a no-fly-zone over Ukraine, which seems like it really might lead to world war 3
bluetoucan Now • 75%
Anyone want to try summarising this in less than 50 minutes?
bluetoucan Now • 66%
I'm not a puppet account, and that's not evidence. Thanks for confirming that you are an idiot
bluetoucan Now • 75%
So, 1+1=2 right ? Can we help you ? (we.cou1d.pretend.to.be1ieve)
What on earth is this supposed to be
bluetoucan Now • 100%
I loved futurama but 0% chance this revival will be good imo
bluetoucan Now • 100%
Reading the article this is much less significant than the headline implies.
First of all it's not a reduction in hours, just working the same hours over 4 days instead of 5:
"...employees would be able to condense the current five-day week into four days. In practice this means maintaining a 38-hour working week..."
I'm sure this will benefit some people but when I say 4-day week I mean a reduction in working hours, not shuffling them around the week. Calling this a 4-day week instead of flexible-working is not helpful imo.
Secondly this isn't even giving employees a right to that, just a right to ask for it:
"The draft reform package... will grant employees the ability to request a four-day week. 'This has to be done at the request of the employee, with the employer giving solid reasons for any refusal'"
bluetoucan Now • 100%
I think the sandwich building looks good
Another couple of sources: https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2021/11/26/amazons-black-friday-turns-into-a-global-disaster/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/26/extinction-rebellion-blockades-amazon-uk-hubs-on-black-friday
20 police officers entered a student flat without a warrant, but police are "unable to locate any Body Worn Video footage... as a list of... officers... who were assisting with the operation, was not retained" Apparently "several learnings will be implemented" but it doesn't sound like anyone is facing any actual consequences. Apparently the police & crime commissioner for Avon & Somerset, Mark Shelford ([@ShelfordMark](https://twitter.com/ShelfordMark) on twitter), has been asked to investigate, but he's not quoted in the article and I haven't seen any comment from him. Note that this is not the same event as when police broke into a student's flat and handcuffed them in a state of undress, even though they'd got the wrong flat (and also faced no consequences), that was a different incident: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/17/it-was-humiliating-police-apologise-for-handcuffing-undressed-student-in-raid
"Days of negotiations at the G7 leaders summit in Cornwall failed to set an end-date for coal after the U.S. and Japan blocked a deal."
Article in the guardian about changes to sharing of patient data being made by Matt Hancock. There's more information here about opting-out if that is of interest to you: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/data-collections-and-data-sets/data-collections/general-practice-data-for-planning-and-research/transparency-notice#opting-out-of-nhs-digital-collecting-your-data-type-1-opt-out-
I like browsing all rather than local or subscribed because then I see posts from new communities I wasn't previously aware of. But there are some communities I know I am never going to be interested in, I would like to filter these out. In other words I prefer to use Lemmy by opting-out of communities I don't want to see rather than opting-in. This is how I (would) like to use Reddit for example, although it doesn't really work there as they limit you to a max of 100 filtered communities. Thanks