dgroshev

No, let's just spell out directly what you're saying (and your incorrect assumptions) instead of dog-whistling.

That article is largely not about London and not about average chefs though.

Just so you don't feel shouting into the void: I completely agree with your assessment.

It's also notable that there are several accounts in this thread doing the exact same thing.

Whose "their" children, and in what sense is cousin marriage connected to your (entirely false) claim about extended families?

There's a minimum salary attached to that visa, which the article failed to mention. I very much doubt a kebab shop will hire someone for £45k+.

This framing misses that "traditional" CAD is programming, too. It's declarative and implicit, but what's happening in Fusion or Shapr3d or Solidworks is you're building a DAG of operations and objects, with all the clicking around serving to just select the nodes and their arguments.

It's exactly the same as "regular" programming: you have ways to abstract things (projections, imported components, linked copied components), there needs to be a reasonable architecture (the way dimensions and constraints are flowing off each other), it's possible to write "tests" (driven dimensions are a kind of a test if you squint). It's just not explicit text, which throws people off.

Those tricks won't help when the design calls for G2 (or higher) fillets or surfaces.

Fragile boilerplate.

I love "Zero to Production in Rust", but that's a pretty long book that recreates a fraction of what comes out of the box with Django. Also, when things come with Django, there's no need to maintain or worry about subtle yet crucial bugs.

Being as charitable as possible: there is a lot of difference between

- swear words

- slurs

- speech enabling political organising

…which is not a matter of "upset".

Parliament is not in control of its own timetable, for one. Bit of a restriction on exercising its sovereignty, innit. And yes democracies can be chaotic.

It's entirely mad to me that I can make a list of easily verifiable, massively important examples of democratic processes in this country in the last few years and someone would just come up with a hypothetical like "but what if King kills someone" like it's somehow not just equal but has more weight than the list. Mad

Parliament does have constitutional limits on it (for example, see timetabling powers or Erskine May), even if it can't pass acts that will bind future Parliaments. The constitution being (largely) unwritten and changeable doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

The result is substantially more democratic, as per the list above.

> almost all western governments are increasingly unaccountable to their voters

In this country, the government with a vast majority couldn't even withdraw a small cash payment from better off pensioners without a rebellion from their own MPs.

Those generalising takes are entirely disconnected from the political reality of the UK outside of twitter.

Funny thing is, your desired system is a constitutional change and it's entirely feasible in the UK if there's enough support for it. Which is exactly my point.

We have a representative democracy, not a direct one.

I invite you to consider the rest of the points, too.