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Not a lot to say about myself. Worked as GP in valleys, then public health something to do with data of health events. Ignored mainly, you're advised to do the same. Meanwhile if you fancy seeing what I'm thinking this is quite a good place happy to be corrected as I don't know as much as I think I do. It's a common male fault. 🤣

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lauren, to random
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It's reported that 25% of Americans believe that the FBI was behind the January 6th attack on Congress. It's notable that in a survey not that many years ago, almost exactly the same percentage of Americans said that the Sun revolves around the Earth.

epistatacadam,
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@lauren linked to the question @grammargirl asked about reading age in the US, Yesterday?
Education of the least is the mark of a good society, just as care for the pregnant, the child and those who need care whether young or more especially if they are old and infirm is the measure of a humane just one.
From where I'm sitting, it seems the US is an unjust, inhumane bad society, that our current government wishes to emulate. To think our conservatives once believed in good just society too.

simon_brooke, to random
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Deep joy, another fucking storm.

epistatacadam,
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@simon_brooke we can solve this, as the protestors say, "Just stop oil". And use less external energy, so we need less of everything.

NationCymru, to random
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Labour’s reckless cuts are having dire consequences for my constituents and people across Wales who rely on our NHS https://nation.cymru/opinion/labours-reckless-cuts-are-having-dire-consequences-for-my-constituents-and-people-across-wales-who-rely-on-our-nhs/

epistatacadam,
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@NationCymru I can't help but wonder why he's blaming WG when the money they have is determined by Westmonster. Now remind me who has been running the treasury and making tax cuts for the wealthy but raising taxes for the lower paid, for the past 14 years...

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Once again I see people in the media (the commentariat) are scrambling to find some good news in the current data, and as so often the fallback position is 'we're not doing so badly, we're still the sixth richest country in the world'....

so at the risk of repeating myself.

This is nonsense: at the very least look at the GDP per capita data which 'corrects' for population size. Here the UK is around the mid 20s in ranking, which goes some way to expelling our overall economic plight!

epistatacadam,
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@JugglingWithEggs @ChrisMayLA6 I wonder what changed in the late 1970's. ....
Oh I know, the beliefs that there was no such thing as society, that markets should run everything, and finally that monitoring the effects of policy was a waste of tax payers money....
What a mess the Milton Friedman view has created, still beloved by UK political class, and central Bankers.

epistatacadam,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I suspect media editors go to special schools where intelligence and belief in facts and honest comparisons are drummed out of them. Or perhaps they are genetically screened to ensure the genetic disposition towards honesty with others, a feature demonstrated by 5+ year old humans, is absent.

MaJ1, to weirdfolks

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G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!

So got 8 hours sleep last night !!

Shout out to @amiserabilist for the wonderful avatar he has created for @Tim_McTuffty s a/c !
Paul you are the Meme king of my TL, Thank you so much !

Have a brilliant day & remember : Don’t let ‘em catch you!
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epistatacadam,
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@MaJ1 @amiserabilist @Tim_McTuffty @weirdfolks mind that tail! Issues very windy out today..

airadam, to privacy
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This scares the hell out of me. Not only are they going to use our photos for a purpose we never consented to, but I would expect the misidentification rate for Black people to be far higher than whatever is claimed. As someone who has been stopped by the police before due to a ridiculous case of mistaken identity, I can only imagine trying to talk them out of an arrest when they say "computer says this is you".

#privacy #UKpolitics #policing #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/20/police-to-be-able-to-run-face-recognition-searches-on-50m-driving-licence-holders?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

epistatacadam,
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@airadam the idea that computers never make mistakes is deeply engrained in UK law. However, any objective world, the facts show they frequently make mistakes. The Bridgend nurses case is probably the best documented example, prior to the Horizon scandal at the Post Office, though in the latter no-one was charged with homicide.
See "Computer Bugs in Hospitals: a New Killer" Gresham College lecture by Martyn Thomas & Harold Thimbleby.

ChrisMayLA6, to london
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How do you inflame #Northern #voters (again)?

By announcing that the money that has been saved by binning large elements of #HS2 & replacing it with the hodgepodge of fragmented projects in the (so-called) Network North is now going to be spent on filling potholes in #London.

Wrong on (the claimed strategy of) #LevllingUp;

Wrong on #publictransport for a #greentrnasition, and

surly a miscalculation if trying to keep 'new' Northern Tories on side.

But would we have expected anything else?

epistatacadam,
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@ChrisMayLA6 how much longer before the North demands independence from London. I really think the break up of the UK and in particular England appears to be the secret plan of HMG. It would be the logical conclusion of Brexit.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Moany McMoneface is stropping out all over X 😂 😂

"Michael Gove and Sir Chris Wormald approved the purchase of 5 years supply of PPE when the remit was to build up only 4 months.
They oversaw huge waste in PPE contracts. They have both had questions to answer for a very long time."

#UKPolitics #GetInTheBin #Mone #PPE #Covid

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 I look forward to all the Johnson cabinet joining them in clink for bribery and corruption and her cabal for fraud....

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 as I think I've indicated before, not merely do I live in hope, but her TV confession, was just the sort of Xmas present all the nations in the UK needed, if it results in the current ruling party doing time inside, she might even have done some good, though accidently....🤣 Can't stand popcorn, but stocks of peanuts and Welsh whiskey looking good for a long show, with Cornish ale to help. 😉 Getting serious......

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 that's a first, never been mistaken for an optimist before. I'm a hopeful pessimist, Murphy's third law is exactly that, a law, it always applies. But by preparing you can evade the consequences. Love being proven wrong....😉

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 on the subject of Penderyn, pure gold in liquid form. I first fratenised with it when you walked through the distillery floor to go to the office up a set of fire escape stairs.... To buy a bottle...
Well worth it. The original is still the best in my view.

epistatacadam,
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@fkamiah17 I hope the children have got mine in well by now!!!

glynmoody, to random
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Rishi Sunak taking Michelle case ‘incredibly seriously’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/18/michelle-mone-house-of-lords-tory-minister-media-ppe IOW he knows it is a serious problem for him; but keep screaming people, it's getting through...

epistatacadam,
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@glynmoody remind me how much benefit fraud costs the UK, and how much business fraud the then chancellor wrote off before he became PM. One has a whole expensive team chasing it, from people who generally can't pay it back. The other, ignored, despite those involved easily able to return the money plus interest plus a substantial fine. Or property might have to be surrendered and could then be rented out to give the exchequer an income....

epistatacadam,
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@glynmoody I do wonder if a better approach would be to investigate the accountants involved, and all their clients. Do it to one of the big four, and watch the tax frauds disappear. Imagine investigating a bank for involvement in tax fraud... Checking every account meticulously. Of course money laundering would be unearthed too, after all it's estimate 1/10 such transactions by Russia takes place in London....

DrALJONES, to Israel
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    epistatacadam,
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    @DrALJONES there's at least four dead Israelis who did exactly that, 3 under a white flag too. So it's all very well for the top brass to say it doesn't happen, but clearly his indisciplined troops are a mob. Snipers picking off women in a convent on their way to the toilet, not exactly in the rules of engagement either... Had that snippet been handed over to ICC? They know who they are.

    epistatacadam,
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    @DrALJONES So previously they were told to kill unarmed surrendering individuals.... If this is a new order!

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    Remember the very opinionated and extremely confident “Israel would never bomb a hospital” posters?

    Israel has now bombed literally all hospitals in Gaza.

    If you’re one of the “would never” posters, maybe take this as a lesson on how you’re used for propaganda to further violence and murder by people who don’t even know you exist.

    epistatacadam,
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    @thomasfuchs perhaps we need to start saying frequently Israel under the current Government deliberately bombs hospitals even if it could avoid doing so. I recall a time when it did indeed hold the moral high ground.

    fkamiah17, to random
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    When you spend five minutes looking for your glasses until you realise you're already wearing them 🤦
    Don't get up at 2.30am kids 😂

    epistatacadam,
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    @fkamiah17 I wonder if it was weather. My wife on baby sitting duties was woken at 2 and slept intermittently for the rest of the night, grandson aged 3 slept perfectly, and was ready for school early....
    Meanwhile my self and hound elsewhere, woke around 2:30 and slept in bursts, until 6 when I got up!

    fkamiah17, to random
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    Bit embarassing when you open a Christmas card someone's pushed through your letterbox and you've no idea who they are 😬

    epistatacadam,
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    @fkamiah17 since I have difficulty remembering anyone's names, that's a universal problem for me. Unless I can mentally see a face with the name, I have no idea who they are. But show me a face I've met and chatted to, I'll still recall everything I know about them except their name.
    Useful as any confidential information can't be linked to a personal identifier. Similar with street numbers...

    countcol, to random

    Although I think I’m pretty smart,
    I still click the car remote a 2nd or 3rd time for extra “lockiness”!

    epistatacadam,
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    @annemartine @suearcher @JohnLoader6 @countcol @Roadwarrior29 it also allowed passengers to 'strech their legs, & full the stomachs' hence the Coaching Inn. Now we call them service stations....😊
    Perhaps the idea of hurrying is what needs too change. Perhaps life in the slow lane would be better, longer and more fun.

    ChrisMayLA6, to london
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    Having just seen another casual allusion to 'this overcrowded isle', I think people who believe the UK to be over-crowded either don't understand the shape of population distribution or think the whole country looks like the suburbs of .

    There may be an issue about the carrying capacity of this island, but on a purely spatial level its not overcrowded, the population is just clustered in a few places.

    A less clustered population might also help re-balance regional ?

    epistatacadam,
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    @danjac @ChrisMayLA6 the misunderstood economy of scale argument, as well as the throw away culture. Remarkably when I was young make do and mend was the order of the day as credit was limited. Then it was decided to drop any pretence that money meant anything and the pound & other currencies floated. Now the financial world is based on foundations of debt, based on imaginary values dreamed up by central banker's and money markets...

    epistatacadam,
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    @KimSJ @vanitarium @ChrisMayLA6 @danjac I never understood why accountants who are trained, allegedly, to ensure that published documents are a true and factual record of the financial transactions of a business, ever got out in positions to guide businesses. Yes they can advice on finance but they don't exactly have a wonderful track record of doing the job businesses are legally required to employ them for. Especially the big four. They never seem to get struck off either.

    epistatacadam,
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    @wootube @precariousmind @danjac @ChrisMayLA6 perhaps raising the rate of property tax by a link to city size, and top slicing a segment to send to smaller towns in proportion to both 1/size * distance, based on some sort of gravitational zoning between cities. (Voroni/Dirichlet diagrams/tessellation idea)

    epistatacadam,
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    @danjac @wootube @precariousmind @ChrisMayLA6
    My own view is that you should be paid from the moment you b leave your home, so the company has to pay not merely for your time on the commute but also the costs you incur. If you get them to subsidise public transport via property taxes then their costs decline, though sorry distance commutes or working from home become better for the bottom line.... Hence director's pay if linked to profit...

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