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epistatacadam, 5 months ago

@danjac @ChrisMayLA6 or perhaps work locally, and forget about the centralised work ideal, that seems to drive both businesses and economic thinking. Whilst economies of scale are recognised, the costs of organising big locations is often ignored. The York centre for reviews looked at the evidence that big hospital complexes were more efficient and safer, and found that the optimum size was about 3-400 beds. Yet we insist on building bigger & bigger hospitals whilst reducing the number of beds.

epistatacadam, 5 months ago

@danjac @ChrisMayLA6 I used the hospital example as I am a PH Doc. So it's an area I know about and understand. But I suspect the same is true of many service industries. Dispersed but connected networks are more resilient, and achieve better throughputs than centralised clearing houses, eg call centres.

epistatacadam, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

@fkamiah17 I suspect that they're plotting to ensure no life saving treatment can be given unless you are in the top 10% of income bracket. Then you will die before you can develop many chronic illnesses, so you are at peak productivity of tax revenues, and recieve no pension but have paid for one, so they just keep it.. And use it to find tax cuts for the top 10% who progressively shrink in number as the poorest for first....

epistatacadam, 5 months ago

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 I'm fascinated by why cheap public health measures such as this, which has virtually no downsides is so opposed by the powers that be, but the idea that selling something harmful to everyone should not be restricted as it's bad for business, is gladly acted on by governments.
Why were Vapes ever permitted as anything other than a therapeutic tool, and regulated as one?

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@fkamiah17 all of her or just her pants?

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@fkamiah17 🫣😒🤬 having trouble finding any on the Government who done deserve at least a toasting.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@fkamiah17 it's a bit messy, I believe.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@fkamiah17 🫣🤣 you're awake at a god forsaken time! My excuse is my sugar is low so having a snack. What's yours....!

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@fkamiah17 after a chocolate digestive, and a mug of hot milk sugar should return to normal PDQ, and I hopefully will wander gently to the land of nod for a few hours before I have to get up to let the dog out, and the plumber in! 🤞🤞🤞

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@Garwboy I went a gents loo in the Temple of Peace to find a man sized lizard using the urinal. Life is full of surprises.
Incidentally David Tenant was very pleasant and personable to all those doing their normal work there.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@stephenfarrow Seconded.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@melissabeartrix @HeatherMJ my own feeling is this is a complex issue. I support the move away from to fossil fuels. The long term carbon cost of solar is less than equivalent generation by carbon based fuels. However, we must ally that with energy reduction, home heating is one of our biggest sources of CO2. Build better and to better standards is required, I'm also concerned that we continue to trend set up in the coal fired days of big remote sources rather than dispersed local generation.1/2

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@melissabeartrix @HeatherMJ I want every roof as standard fitted with solar generation. Whilst no b most efficient it disperses generation widely. We must also add local community generation projects for base load like run of river hydro. (Low head) small cheap low impact, water drive industrial Revolution in UK particularly away from SE.
Wind will require centralised sites predominantly but great for riding it the full days when it's windy, but the main storage is in our rivers....

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@melissabeartrix @HeatherMJ I question if there is such a thing as waste land. It may be unproductive for us, but other living things live there, and we are dependent on them to give us what we need, and a lot of what we want....
We need to care, as Stewards, for our planet as it is given to us by our grandchildren's grandchildren to pass to them in good nick. My generation has done a terrible job, sorry, some of us tried, but the love of money turned most people's heads.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@melissabeartrix @HeatherMJ I recall the impact of silent spring in the deep cold of the spring of 62-63 in the UK, followed by the oil shock of 73. Lots of suggestions to reduce energy use then, but economic growth at planetary cost was more popular in 1974, and despite her understanding it, she pushed public debt up, but hid it, in the words of the Earl of Stockton, "by selling the family silver."
She has a lot to answer for, as do her accolytes.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@fkamiah17 if like me you think the UK needs breaking up, then I'm guessing he has done considerable good. Almost all of the UK suffered under his rule. But London and South East had benefited, so much from his predecessors in the robbers party, than they barely noticed!
Essentially all other regions have reversed the 20th cent trend for each generation to live longer. That reversed for most in 2013. Got worse in 2019....

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@fkamiah17 prime facie case of misleading parliament whilst a minister of not before. Should be suspended for a month by privaledges committee, then let's see if she gets back.
If she does that of UK can declare UDI as England's government party no longer agrees to rule of law.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@fkamiah17 I wonder how much could be saved by denying those who failed to deliver Gov contacts, any access to public money for say a decade. I'm prepared to bet it could cover a rise in unemployment benefits and a pay rise for health and social care workers...

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@fkamiah17 they're not used to being challenged by the TBC. I'm glad some journalists on BBC are professionals, unlike most of the bosses who are part placemen.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@Daojoan the best reference I ever found for a dissertation I was being forced to write, was from a dusty bound journal in a library. By chance it was next to the article the search in Medline had taken me too! (The indexed reference was on a totally different subject and of zero use!)

The knowledge that is lost by using electronic databases (sometimes mislabeled as libraries!)
#libraries and #librarians are vital for knowledge to grow.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@RickiTarr
Can't claim to have made either of these but both these wild beauties were ignored by most people walking past on a visit footpath this summer, the larger one I think is a pyramidal orchid, the second a bee orchid.
The 1st was surrounded by common spotted orchids.

A rough spike of blooms the open ones resemble a large bumble bee feeding on nectar in a pale pink open bloom.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@partim I think it requires heating and stretching prior to welding and then fixing in place to prevent lengthwise thermal movement. So I suspect it is both economically and environmentally more expensive, whereas joined tech permits thermal expansion within limits, as climate heats up extra joints made be required even in welded track.
Anyone actually know the figures for both?

Curious to be properly informed.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@partim I agree it difficult, but from my life experience, convenience to the end user comes at a considerable environment cost. (I'm talking about medical consumables, over my life time the waste associated with survival each month has grown from next to nothing, to a carrier back full!)
Not convinced my convenience is worth destroying my grandchildren's home planet.

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@Meron Israeli reporting in my youth had an enviable reputation for fairness and honesty. This episode of tradegy had demonstrated that the current Israeli media landscape is untrustworthy, though I recognise points of honesty within it. Once you lose trust by flagrantly lying, you lose it for a generation. Conversely, the Gaza Ministry of Health retains its reputation of honest reporting of hard epidemiological data. Unsurprisingly considering where many of it's officers were trained...

epistatacadam, 6 months ago

@Meron I'm talking about the 1970's since about 1990 it started to destroy Israel's reputation. A good reputation allows the one rotten apple theory to flourish. Now that idea can be dismissed as simply acting out Government policy.