Posts by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
(DIR) Post #AORj6rMiPV0MayCYnw by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2022-10-07T22:53:25Z
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Tooting this so I can pin it mainly.My lifestyle is mainly built around not getting covid again because the long term effects are common enough and severe enough for me to understand that spreading covid is really bad for everyone at large and that it’s immoral. In general, I subscribe to my friend’s COVID rider: https://gist.github.com/joenash/5d5a3fea786d396b5e1a223257c608a4Pinning because covid literacy is shockingly low.
(DIR) Post #AORj6ti3h7GXrkCdLk by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2022-10-07T22:56:34Z
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Also I realize I come across as a weirdo conspiracy theorist to the vast majority of people and that’s fine by me but do have a look at the sources there, you’ll find that they’re all the top tier academic medical journals, not crusty Facebook jpegs. If you don’t trust them on this then the same logic would invalidate a *lot* of other medical knowledge, which is …silly.
(DIR) Post #AORj6vR7H4tzDmI8Dg by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2022-10-08T07:53:20Z
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It's been extremely alarming to realize that I'm in the tiny minority on this issue, and so I've been thinking about what the differences are in the way I think and the way people I speak to think about it, and one huge difference I notice is that I think about a model for covid spread, and how my actions might cause entire chains of infections, whereas others seem to mainly think about their own quality of life and don't see infections from their own case as their responsibility.
(DIR) Post #AORj6x9osMFqYiDLXM by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2022-10-08T07:58:31Z
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I'm not saying this is everyone - it's just a trend among people I've spoken to, and there are other discrepancies too (people don't believe long covid is a thing because if it was the health authorities wouldn't have relaxed the safety precautions to zero as they have done). But, having a poor mental model for the spread of the virus, or a disinterest and abdication of responsibility for the spread, seems unfortunately p common.
(DIR) Post #AX6w1tW16fEMckfG1g by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2023-06-27T08:20:02Z
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@EU_Commission Why did the EU allow a private company to collect fees on the port tunnel? What's the point of paying for it out of public funds and then making citizens pay again at the point of use, except they pay a private entity?
(DIR) Post #Ac7q64lWoQjVXMxPay by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2023-11-24T08:08:32Z
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@EU_Commission investment makes the private sector soar to new heights. Concentrates wealth among the already wealthy. This is “trickle down” shit. Nonsense. What would make Europe soar is public ownership and public sector jobs.
(DIR) Post #AoGsMQqczW4J4SqpO4 by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2024-11-21T15:12:07Z
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@kyle They already tried competing on support and quality - and that worked well for a particular segment of the market. I guess they've decided they need to go after the complement of that segment too - and decided that this approach suited them better than reducing prices. I wonder what growth model they're pursuing though - do they, like some software companies, aspire to "take over the universe", or are they content running a successful business?
(DIR) Post #AsvCBGYk3jdBB4hcq8 by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2025-04-09T17:30:52Z
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@Terry @jeffcliff if only whether or not a disease is continuing to ravage the public was based solely on healthy people you personally know, rather than, for example, public health data.
(DIR) Post #Ayhz9QjqL8s2XStvVo by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2025-09-29T11:57:00Z
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Being a programmer is almost exactly like being a builder, except you show up to work with a toolbox full of spanners and power tools you know how to use dangerously and improperly, your education was in assembling Lego, the worksite is a skyscraper made of mud, and your colleagues think you’re being intentionally obtuse when you tell them there’s no way of knowing how long it will take to attach a windmill made of cheese.
(DIR) Post #Ayhz9Y5N1VFXKG1iXQ by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2025-09-29T12:31:54Z
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(For the avoidance of doubt, I would like to acknowledge that I have no earthly idea what it’s like to be a builder, and that programmers have a long history of both looking down upon and glamorizing building and other kinds of manual labour, and I like to think that I’m doing neither in this post but you be the judge. The profession is simply a character in my joke that is squarely at the expense of the tech industry and programming profession. I have a healthy respect for other professions,
(DIR) Post #Ayhz9fPplomI3keeuG by hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz
2025-09-29T12:31:54Z
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And a healthy disrespect for the profession of writing software for commercial entities)