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https://x.com/i/status/1836412381024379270

Similar things have been around for a while. I used to work at Borden chemicals in North Baddesley in the late 1980s. One day in a chat with one of the chemists about jobs he said he used to work on 'M' type projects in the days long before mobiles. One surprise and delight project was explosives and a steel spike in the earpiece of the old wired phones. You'd call up, say hello is that Mr X, when they said 'yes' press a button and kaboom. Im guessing he was talking about the 1970s. He never knew if they used it operationally or not.

He's got a lot worse. At one time it seemed like he was playing a caricature. Now just a addled loser who has fallen in the politics of the dim gap.

It's claimed to be a Harvard conducted report published in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). I can believe its a legit figure -only one of the four GPs I know works full time. The problem is how that and other facts are distorted to make it look like they are getting paid but not working.

Exactly. The real story is that increased demand is putting huge pressure on GPs and they are working far more hours than they are paid for. The consequence of this is that many GPs are reducing the number of sessions they work in order to avoid burnout. Instead of questioning why GPs are working shifts 50% longer than they are paid for the Torygraph are turning truth on its head and claiming workshy doctors have it too easy and thats why the NHS is broken, nothing to do with the Tories.

Elderly alcoholics with lifetime exposure to pesticides also have very high death rates. so not all bad.

It was about the people putting their lives and those of their families at risk to save others during the pandemic and happened in countries across the world. You dont need to be NHS religious just a little bit human. https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_coronavirus-outbreak_europeans-sing-praises-health-workers-their-windows/6186329.html https://www.dw.com/en/spain-gives-last-applause-for-medics-as-coronavirus-cases-fall/a-53474657 https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/832131816/every-night-new-york-city-salutes-its-health-care-workers https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-latvia-statue-healthcare-workers-honour-a9574836.html

Because many GPs work part time or are locums you absolute fuckwit. Is there nothing so simple you can actually grasp it? The other point you have missed is that GPs are paid by the number of sessions they work. One paid session is 4 hours and ten minutes. The average time they actually work per session is six hours 12 minutes, up from 5 hours 40 minutes in 2021. As an aside my partner and I were supposed to go out to dinner last night. She called and asked to cancel. Turns out she was on her way home and came across a hit and run. A 17 year old lad had his leg snapped off at the femur. After stabilising him., loading his leg into the ambulance and calming down a hysterical passer by she didn't feel like going out. Billable time, zero.

Not a huge surprise that the ONLY group of Britons who would prefer Fascism over Communism are Reform voters

This is an interesting article by Tugenhadt talking his experience of being treated an an incomer or not truly British because of his name. Its from 2020 so well before the war in Gaza and the issues that throws up, so probably worse now. I’d never really considered myself Jewish before I entered parliament in 2015. As a Catholic Brit with a French mother and English father the Austrian bit—our name—was a legacy of long ago. At a push, I would have said I was Jew-ish. But even that was tenuous. The Vienna my grandfather grew up in and left shortly after the First World War was not religious. It was dominated by Freud and Hayek rather than cantors and rabbis. And that world disappeared. Grandfather Georg left in the 1920s to study in London and married, converting to get her family’s permission. A veteran of the war, he had fought for the Emperor King Franz Josef, he was marrying the daughter of a man who had died in Ypres fighting for the King Emperor George V. Such marriages were unusual and it was clear that to my grandmother’s family, the Austrian Imperial Eagle was more of an issue than the Star of David, after all, he could convert. After five years in Westminster, though, I have been made to ask whether he really could and forced to ask myself if I feel differently. As many non-Jews with the names Cohen will tell you, this prejudice isn’t theological. ‘Funny names’, like mine, are used to question loyalty and challenge belonging. A historical throwback as out of place as ducking stools or witch hunters, is in Britain today and I’m seeing it for the first time. Antisemitism–in its varying shades–is still with us. I was surprised to see so many of the old tropes echoed in a major newspaper recently and, though grateful for the mountains of support including from many of their own journalists, was forced to ask–what do some think I am? A foreigner in my own country? Perhaps that’s not what was meant but the myths it repeated I’ve heard before and it reminded me that there is an ongoing blind-spot for antisemitism in liberal, British society where the quinoa is followed by a quip. This more polished slight is nothing new — Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet was said to contain ‘more Estonians than Etonians’. It has taken me time to see it but serving in Parliament has made it clear. It’s strange to see similar sentiments in a paper that would vilify anyone breaking the taboo of such insults to any other group. They’re right, of course. We should cherish the enrichment that Britons whose parents or grandparents brought to our islands, when their names show clearly that they grew up more than a few miles from church bells. But for some reason, not all should be welcomed. Not all are full citizens, clearly. My own name is a reminder of the days before Jews were had rights. Tugendhat, rather grandly, means ‘has virtue’. Something which amuses me – albeit for different reasons – as I can imagine the hope of the citizenship that a name indicates. I smile at the arrogance of my ancestor who threw caution to the wind and chose something so showy. Perhaps I’d have done the same. At the same time, I remember how I felt at Yad Vashem. Tugendhat just one name amongst millions and the hope it embodied barely a century before now reduced to a record in a war crime archive. Perhaps that’s why my last connection to a history of European Jewish culture makes me so conscious of the words that normalise hatred and try to turn me into an outsider in my own home. Many of those victims never thought of themselves as Jews either but their murderers felt otherwise. My grandfather, who converted to Catholicism to marry my grandmother, would have found the Mass I still attend, no defence.

The insurance companies must negotiate much more competitive rates from the vets than individuals get. I had to pay £64 for a tiny tiny tube of topical steroid cream which apparently would cost the NHS around £4 for one ten times the size.

That's private healthcare for you! My vet was very condescending I didn't want to spend thousands on palliative chemotherapy for my 16 year old cat with intestinal cancer and instead thought it was kinder to put her down.

That's the only thing he's ever been able to prove

Doesn't sound like Ducky to me

I hope so too. Whilst as a President she'd be miles better than Trump, she often isnt a great public speaker either. She had a tendency to get muddled and lose the point she was trying to make - probably why she brought in Walz who is super clear and coherent. There is also a view with several Americans I know that she isnt obviously driven either -its not clear what she actually wants to do - mebbe a natural VP rather than President.

Every iteration since 2G has been faster but with less coverage / range from the mast. Its why there is a controversy about 2G and 3G switch off - which are often the only signals you can get in remote areas like Scottish highlands. According to one news story I saw you'd only get the quoted max speeds for 5G if you were stood right next to the mast and only 30m away from it the speed is halved.

Haha. I like to buck the system Just to expand a little I was using it in York a couple of weeks ago and was getting 115mpbs on mobile compared with my home broadband is usually c74mpbs - which i used to think was lightning fast

Havent used mobile data long term as the main connection but have for a couple of weeks at a time with no problems. 5 or 10 years ago it wasnt fast or stable enough but now cant see any reason why not. There is no real investment needed so might as well get a one month sim and try it out

I noticed her. Great technique I'd imagine...

Thoughts? https://fb.watch/uo8C50Ihqp/

you forgot to include the rest of that copy and paste paragraph you used without crediting: Output, new orders and employment all rose but new export orders decreased for the 31st consecutive month. Rob Dobson, director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said "The trend in export orders a key cause for concern, with new business from overseas having fallen continuously since early in 2022".

Kamala Harris stopped Merry Christmas but little Orange Donny is going to bring it back. Especially fruit loop clip https://x.com/i/status/1827211039571648681

I got to second base once. True story

It's not conspiracy so much as money - there is more profit in processed food than raw. We live in society that has a much higher percentage of it food / leisure markets controlled by large chains than other countries. I heard a claim a few weeks ago that Americans eat less food by volume (indicating it isn't innate greed) than most Europeans but consume more calories because they eat far more processed food - hence the obesity and heath issues. Probably also true of UK.

Most of them are zero calorie sweeteners now since the sugar tax came in. I rag my daughter about it - 'why do you drink that crap?' - 'it gives me energy' 'its zero calories' - yep so I dont get fat....' Teenagers facts and logic are not a good mix.