HeartyBeast

@HeartyBeast@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If it is anything like the UK, Covid and lockdowns were massively disruptive to both driving lessons and testing, so there is a substantial bump of new drivers on the road at the moment and people practicing for their test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer: Labour ‘won’t turn on spending taps’ if it wins election⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Must less stringent than the incoming Blair government, which actually committed to kep to the outgoing Tory government’s spending limits during the election.

  It’s a way of defusing attacks from the Tory press about untrammelled spending. There’s still a lot that an income Labour government can do that will be different

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there circles of melted snow on this icy pond?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I embedded an image in each using the kbin.social web app. Wonder if that functionality doesn’t federate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there circles of melted snow on this icy pond?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A close up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there circles of melted snow on this icy pond?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just in case you are interested, here is a similar phenomenon - photographed on the moat of Leeds Castle in Kent, UK - back in Jan 2010

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labour vows to ‘rewire Britain’ as pylon plans spark row in Tory party⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No it global warming raises sea levels suffciently! .... taps forehead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housebuilders in England may be made to look after trees they plant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This, I think is actually a good idea. Property developers frequently sling the trees in, which have been required by building regs, with zero consideration as to whether they will actually survive.

  If they become financially liable for their survival, they are likely to take a lot more care over soil prep and initial planting, to minimise long term costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortage of EV charging points make Sunak's green goals impossible, say businesses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You mandate everty large supermarket carpark must have 50% of parking spaces with chargers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's mainly the consequence of a resurgence in the Andrew Wakefield nonsense around MMR from years ago. Wakefield is, of course a charlatan who falsified data, had a commercial interest in his narrative and was subsequently struck-off.

  The mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 were indeed fast-tracked through approvals - not surprising in the a global pandemic - but were still throughly tested for their ability to reduce serious illness and were very effective. The number of people who suffered adverse affects, compared with the number of people helped is tiny.

  You'll remember, of course that vaccines weren't and aren't compulsory. I was privileged to work at a vaccine hub during the first lock down - in charge of managing the queues of people who had booked in to get a jab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Headteachers in England tell of worsening behaviour of pupils – and parents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Let's just remind ourselves that socialising and educating kids is always going to involve them doing things that they don't want to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The amount of communities I need to block to not see the same old stuff over and over again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point. I do the same, but I'be blocked onlt a handful of communities. I like watching the weird stuff float by in all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The amount of communities I need to block to not see the same old stuff over and over again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you blocking communities in all, rather than viewing ‘subscribed’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This has got to be someone trolling, right? Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tommy Robinson sprayed by police during arrest at march against antisemitism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine he workshopped it quite extensively and ran some sentiment analysis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "Five past 6"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tommy Robinson sprayed by police during arrest at march against antisemitism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s use his proper name- Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I live in the UK, I was a school governor. You are, however giving these middle class folk who are deep down the rabbit hole an incentive to move to home schooling - or possibly to organise into independent "home school schools".

  Personally, I think compulsion is a poor way to convince people about public health measures. It may not work and is likely to lead to more conspiracy theory- we have to be smarter than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’ll get the holistic middle class nutters vaccinated to home-school in no time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Ron White comment is pretty stupid, which leaves us with a nice paradox.

  You might not be able to fix people who are willfully stupid. You can certainly try to prevent people from being sucked into the whirlpyof misinformation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Those may certainly supplement analytical thinking and reasoning

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  C’mon - you want to know about ways of avoiding illusory beliefs, but you are sceptical about the power of reason and analytical thinking?

  What alternatives are you considering?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make myself smarter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I want the kind of smarter where I’m better at escaping illusions. Self-made, cultural or otherwise.

  Despite your claim that you aren’t interested in better reasoning - that’s absolutely one aspect of what you are after.

  Don’t reject methods of reasoning as tools to escape illusions, to the extent that that is possible for any of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Cultural vandalism’: row as Kew Gardens and Natural History Museum plan to move collections out of London⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I demand to be outraged about something.