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  • More SEND pupils could go to mainstream schools as support shake-up is considered

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  • Yes but. (And I do not agree with labor here)

    There is also a huge problem when disabled students are separated from every day children. Part of that problem is in the lack of support seen for disabled in society.

    Separate but equal is never really true. But also leads to a lack of understanding between the communities. This among other issues. Allows politicians to safely attack disabled benifits. And get away with lack of funding to SEND schools.

    As a community. We are currently under attack. There are multiple posts atm on this subject. But at the time of writing any in non disabled centric communities. have 0 comments.

  • Moscow comes under 'massive' drone attack leaving civilians killed and three injured

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  • ukraine was fooled into thinking that they could join nato

    What utter bullshit.

    Ukraine has avoided joining nato as a part of the Budapest treaty with Russia the us and uk.

    Until russia attacked Ukraine had no intention or hope of joining nato.

    None of these Russian properganda excuses change the one clear fact.

    Russia broke that treaty when they attacked not the Ukraine.

  • Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible

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  • Bollocks is it non sequitur.

    Non voters cannot be counted as objectors or supporters. Other then to assume the same divide as voters. Maling every comment you made statistically irrelevant to the result you are doubting.

    If you fail to understand statistics please avoid discussions that are entirly about statistics.

  • Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible

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  • Not the op you responded to.

    But

    First 72% is actually a huge turnout compared to pretty much any vote in the last 50 years.

    The 28% that did not vote cannot be used to argue either side of the vote. As such they must be assumed to divide as the vote was.

    Same with 1.9 % spoiled ballots. As we do not have any legal none of the above option. You have absolutely no way to decide that 1.9 % between those who support or don't. So again statistically they have to be divided as those who successfully voted are.

    This is exactly why we do not count non voters or spoiled votes when deciding on an election. If 1.9% was significantly higher then other election or 72% significantly lower. Maybe some data might make sense. But the result would still be the same without further info. You would still have no ability to use them as a rejection or support for the vote.

  • Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible

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  • And honestly they are correct. Any attempt to rejoin now. Especially based on a partition with well under the 16m voters figure. Is only going to result in more anti EU bull and a growth in ukip like supporters.

    The UK as a whole needs to accepthow fucking stupid leaving was. And rather will not happen untill we see the huge support wi originally had for joining.

    Below that we will just repeatedly have people feeling forced one way or the other constantly refusing to partake in the spirit of the EU.

    EEA is the best we will get and even that will be a fight for some time.

  • Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

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  • They are a nation with very declared and active enemies. The US sanctions them and shuts them off from world trade.

    To suggest they don"t partake in these tricks at all is to clearly lable them as incompetent. I find it hard to believe you have that little respect for them.

  • Cuba Sends Doctors, the US Sends Sanctions

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  • If we are unbiased and ignore OPs political claims. (Both/all sides use aid for this when they can).

    And the actual statements of skill do not contradict each other. Cuba will be using very different equipmentment and procedures compared to the MX. Just like most poorer nations. A very very skilled doctor in one nation will usually.ly take time to fit into the system and requirements of another. Adding the limited supply from Western medical tech to Cuba due to political restrictions. Well of course things are different. MX for all its immigration hate has a healthy trade with the US.

    Anyone who thinks Western doctors have nothing to learn when going to Africa etc. Is rather unrealistic.

  • Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense

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  • All amounts to the same thing.

    Your just a guy eh is in a position to choose 1 or 5. And did not. So from that point. Yes you chose to allow 4 people to die. The death of those people is on your hands when you chose to do nothing.

    You seem desperate not to make the choice but the responsibility for that lack of choice still lies with you.

    Just as you were in a position to choose trump or Harris. So trump is as much your fault for failing to vote a viable alternative. As if you had chosen to vote him. Just because do not like either option dose not forgive you the effect of not choosing.

  • Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense

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  • You really seem to be failing to understand. And simple typos are easy to read around. I'm visually impaired so have little patience for that excuse.

    As you said its a thought experiment. As you say you only have two options. Rejecting responsibility is the same as leaving the lever in the kill 5 position.

    Pull or don't pull. If you pull 1 person dies. If you don't 5 die. There is no don't kill.

    Yes the person tieing them to the track murdered them. But just like not voting you don't get to rewind time amd select better candidates. As the guy in the signal box. Your duty iss to direct the train. Just as your duty is to vote. Not wanting people to have been tied to the track is obviose but not an answer. Unless you are the one willing to invent a time machine. Your duty is still to direct the train.

    Not voting leaves you with trump. Because you live in a fptp nation where 3rd parties just reduce the opposing vote.

    Just like not pulling the lever means 5 folks died. You still had the task to direct the train. Refusing to pull the lever still leave you responsible for 5 rather then one dying.

    Refusing to take responsibility dose not forgive you for failing to select the lesser evil. You are still directly responsible for choosing the greater evil by failing to pull the lever.

    Rejecting responsibility and blaming others is not an option provided. Because the thought experiment recognises you live in a system where you have to make choices based on facts not your hopes and wishes. You live in a world where if you don't have the option to stop the train. Or prevent the arsehole tying people to the tracks. You still have responsibilities. I refuse to play still has an effect on the world you live in. Like it or not.

  • Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense

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  • Bollocks.

    It is a thought experiment. Where you do not get to dobt murder someone.

    That is the whole fucking point.

    Just like not voting dosent stop evil running the nation.

    You are the one misinterpreting. By some how inventing the dont murder somone option.

    Just because you dont like it. Dos not mean you get to invent your own interpretations.

  • Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense

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  • Amd its not misinterpreted. The whole point of using the trolly problem is as an example as it was designed. Thought experiments are there to help you interpret real actions by simplifying them. Not to be ignored as pointless.

  • Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense

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  • You are still the one making the choice.

    Hence why the trolly problem is equivalent to a political vote. Not voting has the same effect as not making a choice between one or 5.

    If you are there before they get tied to the track you do more. But that is not the situation you are in on election day.

    On election day its to late to change candidates. Just as its to late to try and untie the victims. If you do not have correct of the breaks or the ability to stop the trolly on time.

    Your only option is to choose or not to choose the lesser of 2 evils.

    Failing to choose is no less evil then choosing the worst.

  • Government announces plan to open up Land Registry

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  • Health yeah, or more to the point it should have ident left data removed.

    But the actual group data should very much be open. And that likely should be applied to most things.

    As for criminal records. That is already open as most court cases are public.

    Closing it would be the first step in hiding prejudicial actions.so lets not change that.

  • Government announces plan to open up Land Registry

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  • Honestly any non military data collected by the gov. Should be open by default.

    Even military should be required to proove the need for secretary every so often.

  • Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told

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  • Interesting interpretation. Given that is exactly way rape within marriage did not exist in the UK until the 1990s.

    IE a wife was historically considered property. And this is to some extent the issue with the tate attitude.

    PS I am in no way suggesting you think that. Just pointing out how coincidental the typo / missed word is.

    PS be sure to confirm your body parts concent next time you feel lonely ;)

  • Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense

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  • Sorta like the trolly problem.

    You can flip the lever to kill 5 or 1. But if you choose not to and also don't fucking bother to hit the breaks. Your still responsible for killing 5 instead of 1.

    If you are not willing to actually stop the evil fai.ing to selects make you the bigger evil.

  • Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense

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  • All true. But the world also watched a huge amount of voters rejects dems over gaza. While trump had no better plans on gaxa.

    Much like Ukraine his only argument is "i am better and every one else was stupid"

    The argument often heard. "Voting the lesser of 2 evils is still voting evil".

    So yes these folks very much voted the greater of 2 evils by refusing to vote the lesser option. And much of the rest of the world is rightfully sorta pissed at the evil they allowed in.

  • UI Design?

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  • Yeah thanks for the effort. You would be stunned at how many web sites make no effort.

    Many modern web sites often fail miserably, especially scripted ones. But mostly because companies just don't care. As you say it is hard work. So when companies outsource that hard work is rarely if ever asked for up front. And the cost to modify existing site is hugew..

    But remember if we are talking software. Again all the pro measures are based on 0 or 100% able. So again leave all disabled depending on solutions that slow down workload.

    All the laws on the West only require reasonable accomadations. And being less productive is never considered reasonable. Or in anyway a hope for a successful career.

    So with so much software moving to Web apps. Those AA standards rarely help beyond making the page usable. If your career depends on performance as almost all do. Most disabled are not able to efficiently use them.

  • UI Design?

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  • Honestly best approach is to find some small projects you feel need help. Introduce yourself to the development team and offer time and suggestions. Eventually one will say yes.

    But as a visually impaired developer I'll give you a heads up. Most pro non foss ui is freaking awfull for accessibility. The choices made over the last 20 year are just bad. OS is far from perfect. But I find the interfaces generally work way better with enlarged text then anything using modern UI ideals.

    So please if you get involved. Remember accessibility is more complex the let voice assist work. Most blind folks have some vision. And rellying on the Systems accessibility options is not enough for us to be able to use software in a competitive way.

    OS software using the UIs designers seem to dislike. Is generally more customisable for font sizes and colour options accross different parts of the system. In ways able folks would just never consider. This allows us to actually layout software so we only need magnifiers or text readers for things we individually rarely need to read. But can increase the stuff we do in ways that allow us to work at competitive speeds.

    Modern UI design is pecomming less accessible as the software becomes much more complex but developers of ui tools seem to see disability as a 0 or 100% slowing disabled users with some ability down to the point they are unemployable.

    Please please try to avoid moving the OS stuff we can use that way as well.

  • Why the F*CK Were BBC & Guardian Editors Meeting an Israeli General During a Genocide?

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  • Answer is pretty obvious.

    Either they do not believe it is a genocide. Or they are working to convince everyone they believe it is not.

    Either way both are not reporting it as such. So avoiding such interviews would be hypocritical of them.

    Its a bit like asking farrage why he dosent change his name to dickhead. Weather he believes he is one. Or just want you to think not. Nothing he's ever done would suggest its likely to make decisions based on admitting it.