The reddit api blocking 3rd party apps pushed a whole bunch of people onto lemmy, and lemmy is very big on FOSS and Linux so it's been a gateway of sorts

It's funny how cycleway skeptics demand this endless justification for each individual project, despite the huge body of research already confirming their effect, then immediately turn around and moan about the money spent on reports instead of infrastucture.

And by funny I mean a painfully obvious tactic to just delay and wreck things.

I feel this will just breed resentmint

Is this guy not public domain yet, I thought that was coming up. Maybe next year? John Oliver did a whole bit on it

All this 'we can't afford it' happened when we went from 3 weeks to 4 weeks annual leave 20 odd years ago.

And when sick leave came in.

And when the weekend came in.

Every improvement to workers' rights gets met with the same outcry. We'd still be in workhouses if we listened to it.

What really stands out with these incidents is that all the handwringing against the protests themselves and how they should be 'doing it the right way' is total bullshit.

Turns out direct action (up to and including violence) is justified... If you're delayed getting somewhere in your car by 15 mins. However, nonviolent direct action about our own government dithering on the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced is too much.

So why do they want people's iris scans? Like they say it's an easy way to verify someone signing up is a real person but is there some other nefarious reason I'm missing here?

I think the worst part of it is that its not actually hopeless, at least not in theory. It's just that we, or more accurately the people with actual power, refuse to act because it would mean slightly less profit.

In effect more wealth transfer from renters to the pockets of landlords, this time direct from their retirement or first house deposit savings. It's all national are here to do.