Asked in an interview with the BBC if he had complete confidence in Boeing's quality control processes after the incident which saw a part of the aircraft's fuselage fall off, the Ryanair boss said "no".
I was today years old when I worked out that Trading Places with Eddie Murphy is literally an adaptation of Pygmalion/My Fair Lady, and I feel very slow on the uptake.
Oof. “We find it hard to see why the defendant's legal liability should turn on the court's impression of whether or not the facts of the case fit the dramatic pattern of a Greek tragedy.” I do love a good judicial putdown. (From Paul & Anor v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1 bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2024/… )
Except, in the salient aspect, that the events described *don't* really follow at least the strictest, Aristotelian criteria for Greek tragedy, where the tragedy takes place in a single place on a single day.
The original Cocklecarrot mentioned "Sophoclean" (great word). Now, dragged up in a Secondary Modern, I'm not an expert on such things, but Oedipus Rex and Antigone follow the unities, iirr?
So it was a weirdly specific (-ly wrong) analogy to use to extend a single event to 36 hours and the length of the M1.
After the point UK law diverged from EU law, EU regulations became UK law that could be modified. So now, if I’m talking about Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (aka “the GDPR”) I need to clarify that I’m talking about the UK’s fork of the codebase. Can I find a standard way of doing this? Can I bobbins. If legislation was in git I’d just cite the commit ID and annoy everyone.
Some months ago, I asked about trans women who were long term post op and who have had dental implants with bone regeneration.
I am pleased to report that at my 3 1/2 month appointment to place the healing abutment, I have had more than satisfactory levels of bone regeneration. The procedure worked really well!
2mg estradiol, oral, twice daily, FWIW. I also supplement vitamin D3.
Reddit mods embrace the fact that nobody has time to give a shit about your special snowflake arbitrary community rules novel when you are just one of thousands of subreddits and this is social media, not a job application 2024.
Reddit is tens of thousands of communities each run by someone for whom working as a petty bureaucrat with no oversight somewhere in the Iberian peninsula is their dream job.
TAP’s refunds department are incompetent rather than malevolent. They made the news for accidentally giving a full seat price refund for a baby that was on a lap so hadn’t had a ticket in the first place.
@timberwraith I imagined they won a really impressive bowl, you know, like on Mastermind, a super bowl.
It turns out big Mercian Football games are known as bowls after the first such, The Rose Bowl. Which is named after the Rose Bowl Stadium which is kind of bowlish tbf. It looks like the superbowl trophy is a weird, phallic trophy somewhat resembling a prostate stimulator, so not at all bowlish.
21st century capitalism, for me, has as its salient feature the flight away from quality. There is now an inbuilt acceptance that everything will just get slowly worse. There are now entire areas of commerce where you simply cannot buy a well designed high quality product, when you used to be able to. Everything is a race to the bottom.
This is most exemplified in my mind by the way Telsa enshittified DOOR HANDLES.
If you’ve never used the door on a Tesla, the thing is that you cannot close and latch the door if you’re holding the handle. Holding the handle means that the latch is disengaged.
Which means you have to slam it.
Whoever designed this must never have lived anywhere windy.
Earlier I posted about what I want in a car, and how it’s getting harder and harder to buy one that isn’t an SUV/iPad crossover. They look great, but are just dreadful from an ergonomic and safety point of view.
And they’re getting worse. There have been a few joyous years when you have been able to use the satnav system on your phone f
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21st century capitalism, for me, has as its salient feature the flight away from quality. There is now an inbuilt acceptance that everything will just get slowly worse. There are now entire areas of commerce where you simply cannot buy a well designed high quality product, when you used to be able to. Everything is a race to the bottom.
This is most exemplified in my mind by the way Telsa enshittified DOOR HANDLES.
If you’ve never used the door on a Tesla, the thing is that you cannot close and latch the door if you’re holding the handle. Holding the handle means that the latch is disengaged.
Which means you have to slam it.
Whoever designed this must never have lived anywhere windy.
Earlier I posted about what I want in a car, and how it’s getting harder and harder to buy one that isn’t an SUV/iPad crossover. They look great, but are just dreadful from an ergonomic and safety point of view.
And they’re getting worse. There have been a few joyous years when you have been able to use the satnav system on your phone for directions via CarPlay or the Android equivalent, instead of the dreadful shit the manufacturers include.
They’re now moving away from letting you connect your phone. In the future, not only will we be forced to use their dross; we will have to pay a monthly subscription for it.
Sorry to change the subject slightly, but another area is furniture. Almost all my furniture is pre-1990 stuff that I got second-hand. I threw out all my new IKEA furniture after they begun failing within 3-12 months of buying them. I thought I'd found a quality furniture store recently, but it turned out their furniture was second-hand. I've become convinced that it's not possible to buy quality, first-hand furniture anymore.
Suitcases too: I have a suitcase from the 70s that my dad gave me, saying "you can dump it". Is he nuts? It may look old-fashioned, but made of proper leather with metal clasps. I'm over 30, but am sure that suitcase will outlast me. Compared to suitcases made these days, which will last 15 years if you're lucky. I hate the concept of planned obsolescence so much!
@llwynog I have the same experience when it comes to clothes and textiles from the parents' or grandparents' generation: clearing out my parents' house I remember handling old clothes (coats, blouses, shoes, gloves and scarves), and the realization on the first touch: "Wow, this such a great, thick and built-to-last quality of textile!" This was clothing that was 50 to 80 years old.
I wasnt used to feeling that kind of quality in my clothes lifetime. Mindboggling. Sad.
Capitalism does to products what it does to everything else: the wealth gap, here visible in quality and price tag.
The midrange products are kinda gone or turned to shit. We now have a lot of shitty cheap stuff (getting less cheap by the day in many cases) and very high end quality stuff, unaffordable by most.
On top of that, all the crap technology now allows like subscriptions to be able to use the hardware we paid for are not prevalent.
Regarding cars, if I was on the market for one, I would look into the Hyundai Kona (or Kauai or whatever it’s called in Portugal to avoid the c word). It’s a bit SUVy so you probably won’t like it, and I’m not sure about the enshittification factor. However it seems to be the car that usually gets higher ratings on range per kW second only to the fascist EVs (and I’m almost sure the battery has active cooling).
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar...
@@shezza_t Here in the western Algarve we are 10 years into a drought. We are now in a situation of essentially having to abandon our reservoirs because it looks like they will never actually fill up ever again.
So, out of interest (I drive a Nissan Leaf, which is in many ways my ideal car, but they’re EOL), what car is available today that satisfies the following:
Battery EV
Not an iPad/SUV crossover
Hatchback with decent boot space (previous comment about not an SUV still applies)
Intelligent cruise control with lane following
If Nissan updated the Leaf to have CCS2 and an actively cooled battery, it would be just perfect IMO, but instead they scrapped it and replaced it with the Ariya, which is an SUV/iPad crossover and they broke one of the Leaf’s best features (e-pedal) in the process too.
@swaldman I think every single one of those lacks physical climate controls - suggesting they've falled into the trap of normal driving operations requiring unsafe interaction with a touch screen. And potentially significant interaction if you need to switch away from and then back to CarPlay/Android Auto being used for navigation.
@Zoë O'Connell @Simon Waldman Yeah. It's like they got the people in who vomited up (I refuse to use the word "designed" here) electric oven and hob controls.
@zoe Yes!! I have a touch-button hob for the first time in my current place and I am screaming "why? Turning knobs was perfectly good, and you made it worse!". Though it is easier to clean.
@zoe they all have big touchscreens, but I don't think any / many of them are free of buttons in a Tesla way. I think most of the things that would usually be on the wheel or stalks are still on the wheel or stalks. (though the ID3 and Born have been criticised for making the steering wheel buttons capacitive...) @goatsarah
@zoe Also, "You put something down on this cold and not-in-use cooking surface? I will BLEEP AT YOU INCESSANTLY until you move it or turn the power off".
@zoe also, in modern planes, a lot of serious experimental science has gone into UI design (because of its importance, as you note). Although what is best for pilots who train on that specific aircraft type may not be what is best for car drivers, I guess. @goatsarah
@mastodonmigration I am willing to bet it would actually be cheaper for manual knobs. Added complexity of software and computer control can only add price over time. The internal mechanisms are the same.
@chris Don't think so. The ergonomic engineering of controls in cars is one of those things that looks seemless, but is the result of lots of design expertise. The controls themselves are quite expensive because they have to work reliably in temperature and environmental extremes. Sticking an iPad on the dashboard is relatively inexpensive. It is also a safety nightmare, but hey its so cool 😎.
@chris @mastodonmigration I reckon touch-only is cheaper nowadays. Touchscreens are cheap commodity items, note that the CPU behind them is nearly always underpowered and the UI poor, the assembly cost is less than lots of buttons, and it's identical for all versions regardless of features.
Hyundai's design team have stated that they plan to stick with buttons. But they don't really have a Leaf-sized hatchback (maybe Ionic 5, but I think it's bigger, and the looks will be marmite)
Conversation with the wife now about why the angry Christian types don’t froth about Dan Simmons’ Hyperion/Endymion series.
I mean, it’s literally about the second coming of Christ, sent by god to die a horrible death so that humanity can be redeemed, only god is us, if we heed the message, sending said sacrifice back through time, and she’s a teenage girl because apparently the carpenter from Nazareth had one job (apart from the carpentry gig), which he fucked up, so she’s sent to do it properly, and it’s the Catholic Church which tortures her to death this time round.
Anyway, the conclusion was that they aren’t upset because the books are longer than their attention spans.
Welcome, once again, to, “I see most Reddit mods are frustrated wannabe global dictator arseholes” day.
Wasn’t even me this time. I’m annoyed on behalf of someone else who fell foul of “posted with vowels on the first Tuesday of the year, which IS CLEARLY against subreddit rule 53 a subsection 5 clause z (revised). WILL YOU PEOPLE JUST READ THE RULES?”
After taking a few hours off in deference to the guilty verdict in the trial of the murderers of Briana Ghey, the UK press are once again back at it, going on about how trans women need to be banned from All The Things.
This, presumably, informed last night’s nightmare from which I woke in a pool of sweat in which I was in the process of being beaten to death by TERFs on a train going from London to Cambridge in a near future UK.
do you know which cat allergy y'all have? There are two common cat allergens, and some breeds naturally produce lower levels of one of the allergens. I have a cat allergy, and a cat who doesn't trigger them
I’m more worried about the rich. Bands getting rich always turns the same way. Not that I ever enjoyed muse much, but I’ve seen other bands I’ve enjoyed go to the same way.
@Billy Smith I honestly have no clue what your ideas are, other than nationalising the water to make you pay taxes and not letting you buy a solar panel, or something.
Fell badly from my SUP yesterday. Initial tenderness in left knee which was bent at an awkward angle as I fell. Managed to paddle several more kilometres.
Later it swelled up and became agonising. Barely slept last night with the pain. Joint remains stable and able to bear load though. Got a compression bandage today. It’s helping massively.
Dr Google suggests that this is a grade 1 MCL tear. Mild, as the joint still retains full function. It just hurts like a fucker.
Apparently it should heal in 1 to 3 weeks. I’m hoping for 1.
also kidneys. Our kidneys are iirc about half as effective as horses, gram for gram, for no reason besides "evolution missed the optimum and it's too hard to back out and fix it". Also sinuses. And spines! The human spine is a mammal spine turned sideways and kludged.
Teeth are the example I normally think of, though knees are good too. What's even going on with teeth?
The mess that is hunan knees is easy to explain evolutionary though. We spend like a couple hundred million years evolving knees optimized to walk on four legs, and just 'recently' start using them *wrong*? (Apparently using hands for tools is beneficial or something.) Maybe evolution would eventually fix that, but give it at least a few more million years.
(You can easily anthropomorphize the process here and imagine a god, but somehow no one finds it particularly convincing or reassuring to imagine we're crude prototypes made by an imperfect god who is still figuring out how to do bipedalism right. And how to create intelligent tool-users who don't irradiate the planet because someone else has their favorite kind of rock or something.)
Ok, have discovered the “for you” timeline view in #friendica 2023.12 and also limited default post display to 10 replies in the timeline, and have reinstated bluesky in my feed. I hope that will make the weirdness tsunami manageable.
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