buzziebee @ buzziebee @lemmy.world

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I like you acknowledge both wrongs, but you mustn't have spent much time looking at post replies and comments if you think the people decrying the implicit supporters of Hamas are the problem.

I think the thing that's putting an incredibly sour taste in a lot of people's mouths is that anyone who decries the wanton slaughter and rape of innocent civilians by a terrorist group is absolutely bombarded with replies from blindly pro palestinian comments saying things like:

"Israel asked for this"

"Those people shouldn't have been there if they didn't want to get raped and killed"

"People have a right to self defense"

"Look at this map which doesn't reflect the whole story of this conflict, implying that it's justified"

"Freedom fighters fighting against oppression/apartheid/open air jail"

Paraphrased obviously but this is what it reads like. It's hard not to see people posting that stuff whilst bodies are still warm on the ground instead of condemning the barbaric attacks as not implicitly supporting Hamas and the disgusting crimes they just committed. There is no "but" after decrying these attacks. They are unjustifiable and inexcusable.

Obviously Israel needs to stop creating settlements in the west bank, but bringing that up relentlessly like a bot farm of brain damaged propagandists doesn't help the cause. It feels the same as Russian trolls claiming Ukraine is run by Nazis, or MAGA people taking about some laptop. Nothing gets taken seriously when it's clearly a one sided megaphone style discussion.

Making it look like any pro palestinian discourse is actually just people supporting their preferred football team doesn't help create dialogue and a future peace. You're just creating an echo chamber which to less invested observers seems to be celebrating rape and murder of civilians.

Ah yep my bad, I was speaking generally. The image in the article is only a short section of highway but it does look like one of the 2 lane sections that are usually quite old. If they were more modern and built for higher speeds they'd have an even shallower curve and would probably be 3 lanes with a hard shoulder. If you drive on the Autobahn you'll have a few moments where you notice the difference in road layout from those which more modern highways implement - the on and off ramps in particular can be a bit scary.

It's not actually. It's quite an old network so it was built before cars could go as fast as they can go now. There are surprisingly sharp corners and very short off ramps. If it were built from scratch today it would be even safer. Speed limits are bs outside of particularly tricky areas.

Absolutely obscene and short sighted what the German government have done. Everything is taxed per ml, even if it has no nicotine in it. As you say it's cheaper to actually smoke.

Well there are 4 million rental properties in the UK so your numbers don't quite add up. A very significant number of properties are purchased and rented as investment assets. No one is saying that ending landlord property portfolios will magically fix the issue overnight, but it certainly adds inflationary pressure on house prices and prices normal people out from being able to purchase homes. Houses should be homes first, not speculative assets.

Through taxation policy it should be possible for a family to move home and rent their old one, or rent an inherited one whilst waiting to sell, etc without much additional burden. But we shouldn't encourage private entities pricing out normal people from homes and forcing entire generations to only be renters.

The economic damage from high house prices and lack of generational wealth is way too expensive to allow this portion of the market to continue. Simultaneously we need to be building a fuckload more homes, yes, but there being other things to change shouldn't dismiss other helpful ideas.

You're absolutely correct that it's not solely an issue of landlords buying up property that's causing the shortage. I was just providing a possible legislative method to cut down on the number of properties being owned by speculators and corporate landlords.

There simply isn't enough housing being built for the population growth we've been seeing. That's 100% going to lead to an increase in prices.

In cities outside of London though there isn't always that same pressure (i.e. Liverpool still has a housing surplus), so why are housing costs rising past the point where people can afford to buy them? Supply and demand should mean that prices remain affordable for most people but they aren't.

A large number of rental properties are rented by investors of one form or another, if we can cut down on homes as speculative assets we should see more homes being sold to homeowners and prices fall back to more manageable levels for everyday people.

There are loads of other problems such as the UK building houses instead of things like apartments, planning permission bs, NIMBYism, economic activity being focused in the south, homeowners not wanting their valuations to go down, etc etc which are all part of the puzzle. Ensuring that more homes are owned by residents rather than investors can only be a good thing though imo.

I think if it's a first time build you could work something out to not punish developers for building houses which take a little time to sell, but you'd also want to avoid developers building and sitting on properties. That will probably already happen though as they'll want to recoup construction costs asap I imagine. For portfolio property buyers they'll be incentivised to sell which is only a good thing.

I grew up under labour and managed to vote in 2010. Since that election things have only continued to get worse as you say. It's been a shit 13 years. I still very clearly remember the optimism and idea of collective action under labour, can't wait to get them back in.

10% of Tory donations come from housebuilders. They are probably happy keeping demand artificially high and are paying to keep it that way.

Could be done fairly easily via the tax system. Each additional property you own increases the income tax on any rent and the capital gains tax when selling it. Bump up council tax for empty properties massively too and the market should correct itself with minimal direct intervention.

Set it up so having a second home means paying more for it, having 3 or 4 or 10 means it's not profitable to keep it at all.

The effects of gravity drop at the distance squared. I believe it technically is felt up to the very edge of the universe (if there is one) or infinity. At a more reasonable scale, it would only be if the card got close enough to fall into another bodies gravity well than the Earth's that it wouldn't fall back to earth. That'd be a house of cards somewhere around 300k-350k km high to get pulled onto the moon.

Yeah "why" comments are absolutely fine, "what" comments are useless at best and can be harmful at worst.

I feel like this constant flood of "write comments" posts are from CS students who are told to comment everything by their lecturers. Descriptive variable and function names help explain the "what" of code pretty well most of the time.

Sure with some old languages like C89 where you are limited in your variable name length you probably do need comments to explain wtf is going on, but most code bases aren't as constrained.

Yeah it looks like the Union flag is next to Gabon on the android emoji flag picker. I think the country code is GB so it's next to GA even though the name is United Kingdom. That might be what's throwing people.

The two US flag emojis are actually different Unicode emojis.

The first is 🇺🇲 'U+1F1FA U+1F1F2' and is for 'U.S. Outlying Islands'.

The second is 🇺🇸 'U+1F1FA U+1F1F8' and is for 'United States'.

No malice, no bad code, no bugs or typos, this is just expected behaviour.

For those of you getting riled up to point out how this wouldn't work in rural Nebraska - yeah no shit!

This video is taking about how it can be very beneficial for urban areas to use electric cargo bikes rather than vans, and how it helps everyone to remove the amount of vehicles in inner cities by providing safer ways for bikes to move around (and better for emissions too!). The parcel services in my city all have hubs where lorry's drop off pallets, and then bike porters to take the parcels for the final mile. It works great.

Everytime there's a video about the benefits of bike infrastructure or public transport the online discourse gets filled with pointless bad faith drivel about how public transport or bike lanes don't work in an area with a population density of 0.000001/km^2. No one is claiming that's the case, and no one benefits from you pointing that out. Get a grip.

Yeah the straightforward quests are sometimes a little disappointing.

I.e. there's a tiny side quest where you have to get some rich guys wedding ring back from his fiance. You go to the fiance and that say that they saw the rich guy cheating (having a conversation) with the waiter at their favorite restaurant, and that they shouldn't have to give the ring back.

I went back to the rich guy to find out if this was true, and to insert myself firmly into their drama, but there was no new dialogue from the rich guy. I just had to pick a dialogue option to either take the ring or let the fiance keep it.

It would have been nice to be able to confirm my suspicions that they were just being friendly with the waiter, not cheating, and maybe get the two back together. But no it was go to person A, get quest, speak to person B, return with ring/update that they are keeping it.

There are some great quests, and lots of cool world building, but the RP portion is sometimes a bit lacking compared to (as you mentioned) New Vegas.

Creating a nation wide scarcity mindset across generations is only going to make things even worse. Lack of investment, opportunities, and support means there will be even fewer new businesses and innovations. Levelling up my arse.

They should just get it built. This NIMBYism combined with a lack of investment under the Tories is why things only seem to be getting worse in the UK. I lived next to a pub/club, I didn't complain about the noise.

Edit: leak - lack

I'm definitely there with you. I actually forgot that hot existed because it's basically a 'new' sort.

On the one hand it's handy because it makes me browse Lemmy less and do more productive things instead, but it isn't good for encouraging growth of niche communities and topics if everyone is just looking at the same few posts.

They do not

We test the shit out of our Apis. We do more API level/integration testing though.

I.e. a test will be something like "if the db is in this state, and we hit this endpoint with these params, does it return what we expect and update the db correctly".

Our app is primarily about users maintaining stuff on big datasets with complicated aggregation and approval logic. So setting up a scenario and checking the app does what the business logic says it will do is what we want to know.

It makes refactoring wayyyyy less painful to just know that the app will always behave itself. Rather than testing whether a function can add 1 + 2 correctly, we can test each endpoint does what it's supposed to do.

It gives us loads of confidence that the backend is doing what it's supposed to. If you do a huge refactor you don't need to worry about whether you broke the test or if the test is failing correctly. If the tests all pass everything is working as it should.

Downside is longer test execution times (because a temporary db needs set up) when running the full suite. Worth the trade off for us though.