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Co-founder of @protect.earth, a registered charity (England & Wales) creating/restoring woodlands and other knackered ecosystems to sequester carbon and fight the biodiversity crisis. Electric van life, bikepacking, and boycotting fossil fuels.
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Ah, the A417.
Great spin on the DfT website. Odd the usual anti habitat loss / pear tree crowd silent on this one.
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This new road separates two SSSIs, mangles woods, scrub, and grassland.
Local Wildlife Trust:
“Our engagement has resulted in positive changes … [but] we remain disappointed that the scheme will not deliver overall biodiversity net gain.”
www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/position-sta...
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You should own that you said something horrible instead of blaming others for your moral bankruptcy.
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I don’t care at all what they have decided to end up making the till with this latest iteration of a PFI nightmare road scheme. The point is we need to stop it being built.
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Technically yes, but most of these middle aged brand new Chelsea wagon drivers didn’t do their tests this century let alone in a car that big which they can’t manage the dimensions of.
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I read exactly what you said and what you’ve said is fucked.
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The ghost of Thatcher is there with the Labour Party, giving out nice big contracts to her road building mates.
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That chart is one I put together for Greens4HS2, the campaign group of Greens who helped turn the tide from anti to pro HS2 internally.
Perhaps next we need to campaign @greenparty.org.uk to go anti-RIS2/3 (group of roads where LTC is only 1/50). @zackpolanski.bsky.social hs2.green/the-carbon-n...
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Lower Thames Crossing will destroy 0.32 hectares of ancient woodland per km, which is 3x the 0.09 hectares of ancient woodland directly impacted per km for HS2.
Then there’s the emissions for construction and usage. Both wildly different.
Can we please get mad about the right projects.
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“LTC is a deeply flawed and short-sighted scheme that will destroy up to 8 hectares of irreplaceable ancient woodland, emit 6.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gases, making it the highest carbon-emitting road scheme in the UK and worsen air pollution.” www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/campaigns/lo...
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Your comment is horrendous even with that brief caveat. You literally said enough homeless people are lazy and don’t want to work that you’d be wasting your precious tax money on them. That says a lot about you.
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Why the fuck are you assuming homeless people don’t want to work.
How do you get mental health or medicine reliably when you’re being kicked around the system or being moved on by cops.
I hope you get a pay rise so you’re not so tight fisted and hateful towards people who are struggling. Strike.
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I’ve always wished more people cared at all about semantic schemas like JSON-LD / Schema.org etc.
Sharing common reusable understood data structures that tell you what they are and how to work with them would be so much more useful than relying on the slop machine that sometimes guesses right.
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It’s cheaper to rehome homeless people than running shelters or sticking them in jail. Even in purely capitalist terms it’s getting them back contributing to the economy. Every study on this has proven it works. Similar arguments can be made for the others. theprogressplaybook.com/2023/11/07/h...
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That would suggest OpenAPI has got harder over time when it’s got easier, and version 4 aims to simplify it further. All the people involved are using it and building with it all the time too so it’s not that. In my experience most people just hate planning APIs and wanna fling shit code around yolo
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Every time schemas get popular there’s a big push to avoid them.
Then we fire around unspecified data for a while and everyone remembers why that’s an issue and reinvents schemas.
XML-RPC > SOAP > REST as rando JSON > gRPC/GraphQL > REST with OpenAPI > AI slop
Yo yoing back and forth forever
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Education isn’t bad, and not everything should be a monolith, it’s important to know your options.
The main problem is blind evangelism and inexperienced developers poorly parroting things and rushing to jump on hype trains. 🤣
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Yes a lot of people who don’t need SoA end up building distributed monoliths for silly reasons and most of my job is telling people not to do that.
That’s all beside DHHs point here.
Notice he’s not clarified “when done poorly”. He thinks this is generally applicable for SoA. Maybe how he does it.
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We should not be assuming _everyone_ is doing that though like DHH is here.
People who build horrendous architectures need help and advice, not misinformation from constantly wrong thought leader galaxy brains like DHH.
I help people. That’s my job. Helping is good. DHH just confuses people.
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Countless experts have spent infinite time explaining 1) you probably shouldn’t start a distributed system if you don’t have a clue how to build them, and 2) explaining how to build them for when you do.
DHH is confusing “doing the thing properly” and “doing the thing badly”.
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DHH is only right if you managed to build your entire architecture to be so brittle that that every time any one service goes down the entire thing shits the bed and falls over.
You shouldn’t build architectures like that.
You shouldn’t assume others build architectures like that.
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The “fossil fuels are amazing and renewables are bad” clowns are always the most shining example of Dunning Kruger.
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Beavers eat Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed and farmers call them pests!
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No you’re right, some of it would be concrete.
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Great to hear! Any chance of a few photos now they’re in leaf?
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They are. Making everything tarmac would be bad for tourism.
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Why would I need to use a map for peat restoration instead of looking at the ground?