A Palestinian girl carries bottles to collect water as she walks by houses which were destroyed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
A couple of days ago I shared a video I found on the restoration of a Simens razor sharpener. And guess what? I’ve now found the patent for it. Filed by Ferdinand Souczeck in 1933, the patent was applied for in – as far as I can tell – Czechoslovakia, Austria, and USA....
The involuntary celibate community (aka ‘incels’) are often thought to be rightwing, white supremacist, and prone to violence. But how much of that is true?...
“We are running out of words to describe what is happening in Gaza. We have described it as a catastrophe, a nightmare, as hell on earth. It is all of these, and worse.”
Kristi Noem Said She Is Proud to “Support Babies, Moms, and Families.”
Her Record Shows Otherwise, Critics Say.
As #SouthDakota governor, Noem has rejected programs and millions of dollars in federal funds that would have benefited #parents and #children and provided care during #pregnancy.
Critics say her rhetoric is “all hat and no cattle.”
At Bella’s Hacienda Ranch, a brothel on the outskirts of the rural Nevada truckstop town of Wells, a half-priced special for adult male virgins this May has gone off with a bang....
So, I got excited, and didn’t anticipate well how profound the knot would sit in the handle. The knot is glued in with silicone (maybe a little bit too much), and I would like to rescue both knot and handle without damage....
Take a few minutes to read the heart-wrenching story of Becky, a 14 year old child chewed up by a social career system that is by turns cruel, ineffective & run for the profit of investors.
The callousness of the state has become ever more obvious recently (although the problem is not new, of course).
How has it come to this?
In a word: austerity.
There are other factors but in the end the corrosion of system has been wrought by Tory defunding!
George Monbiot on the role of profit in (children's) social care:
'two Northamptonshire councils revealed they are paying an average of £281,000 a year for each residential placement, or £5,400 a week. A direct comparison cannot be made, because many children in care have complex needs, but just by way of reference Eton’s eye-watering fees are £46,000 a year'!
So, much of tax payers money is supporting investors not those needing care!
@ChrisMayLA6 I have a friend that works in a school for kids with needs that can’t be met by mainstream schooling, and each child that lives outside the town where the school is situated gets a budget for taxi transport of £40k annually. That’s significantly more than the annual income of a lot of their families, and it makes me wonder if a). That’s really the most cost-effective way to get them to school, and b). If that money couldn’t be better spent improving their home life, which is obviously and evidentially the root cause of many of their problems.
@mandelbroccoli@ChrisMayLA6 I work for a local authority in social care. We employ drivers and have a fleet of minibuses to collect children on routes around the county.
Much cheaper to spend £30k driver/assistant wages and ~£15k annual vehicle costs than £40k per pupil taxi fees for the AVG. 8 pupils per run. Plus the staff are trained in safety and have paid leave and a decent wage.
I cleaned, polished, and honed these three vintage razors a while ago, but didn’t get to posting a mail call. The main act here is definitely the big Henckels 14:...
A combined shipment from Stirling and Barrister and Mann arrived today. From Stirling, I finally got my replacement Varen tub (and added the frag) and got a tub of Mountain man to replace my soon-to-be-killed sample of it....
It is easy to forget, as one is looking at old patents online, that not every inventor spoke English. I’ve looked at several interesting non-english patents in the past, and stumbled over an interesting looking one today too. It is for how to do attach a handle to your shaving apparatus. Or to put it in a different way; a...
