I honestly can't read "load-bearing" anymore without thinking it was drafted by Claude.
"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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It occurs to me that if you are going to criticise someone for being awful, then the period just after their death is probably the best time to do so.
The last two or three times I've been to business meetings in Germany I have told my clients "be careful, because whatever has gone wrong with Britain it started with the trains"
David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d agoMy initial view of German trains is they aren't just bad, but utterly catastrophic, sweeping cancellations far in excess of any reasonable system, and everyone just shrugging that this is normal. As a symbol of a fading economic giant it is perfect.
Love drone footage of new builds in exurban Texas, gives me a very particular kind of dread to look at that is hard to replicate with other photos.
Something I often see is politicians get attacked, because they "lose their temper" or "seem peevish", and receive additional criticism for that reason; but "not doing this" is clearly a trivial skill that can be learned, no?
It's good that all the main actors in WWII are so phonetically distinct. HitLER. STALin. ChurCHILL. Eff Dee Arr.
Reading personal correspondence from around when coronavirus started. Me from six years ago spent an inordinate amount of time talking about my relationships with various women, and barely anything about covid until 27th March 2020.
Love the use of "they". "They" are the only ones with any agency, you see.
GodlessPrimate@godlessprimate.bsky.social · 3d agoIt's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.
Idk lads, I'm told there's a nuclear deterrent I'm theoretical benefitting from at the moment.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d ago1/3 The ONS has suggested 53% of households are currently net recipients of the state. This piece shows the number is rather nebulous as various things from roads to Govt debt interest payments are excluded, and of course the balance shifts over time… www.ft.com/content/9f81...
People aren't interested in lots of things that will make their lives better (which you believe, if you are advocating for something political). Also, people should be legally obliged to vote. Can't be having with this slovenly behaviour.
Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 5d agoit's an interesting contradiction of devolving power to local people when it's a pretty consistent finding that they don't really care about exercising that power
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
Why do people who say this not draw the conclusion that education is a consumption good, and therefore cannot be justified on the grounds of usefulness? (I also don’t think it’s particularly true on the face of it).
Vocational vs. academic education is such a weird debate. We can never seem to decide if it comes down to snobbery, reverse-snobbery, or “the British people are so inherently snobbish, we can’t trust ourselves to encourage vocational training”.
I read the (first) book, and it was annoyingly well done, for something that relies on a fundamentally dumb premise.
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 5d agothree episoees into Silo and the most disturbing thing by far is Iain Glen doing an American accent
Gotta love a science fiction classic that spends so much time on constitutional theory #RobertHeinlein
The full "cabinet statement" on devolution is out. It represents a huge change to the way our state is organised. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 6d agoToday's devolution announcements show that this govt is serious about doing it right. My post from this week on why I'm optimistic and the five big challenges to making it work. samf.substack.com/p/burnhams-d...
So a mildly serious problem with AI is that I’ve forgotten how to code. Like it’s not a muscle-memory thing anymore. And deliberately relearning *just* to be able to pass interviews is… fine. I suppose I need to think of it as like chess.
A truly progressive VAT would solve a lot of UK tax problems Ending exemptions while excluding low-income households would be fairer and bring in far more revenue www.ft.com/content/3c62...
A truly progressive VAT would solve a lot of UK tax problems
Ending exemptions while excluding low-income households would be fairer and bring in far more revenue
ft.com
The middle guy looks distractingly like an AI transform of a very specific actress.
Nathan Daniel Hernandez@natedhernandez.bsky.social · last wk.Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy
In general, it's easier to trick or persuade people to give you money than it is to provide them with something that's actually valuable to them.
Tom James@tacj.bsky.social · last wk.I have a horrible suspicion that a lot of “immaterial capital” is just zero sum rentierism and credentialism. What really matters is energy and robots, and other things that are hard to create a monopoly and hence extract rents from (ie they are not profitable under capitalism).
