Streetlights
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- Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes 5 hours ago:
Interesting take. Government policy should only favour loyal voters? Minority interest groups be damned?
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 3 weeks ago:
People on low salaries are exactly the sort of people who wpuld be vulnerable to being bribed by foreign adversaries.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 3 weeks ago:
Yeah you’re right, immediately thought I’d low balled it.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 3 weeks ago:
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) sought a lead cyber security expert and advertised annual pay of £41,935
That’s fucking shocking. And after they can’t fill that role they’ll bring in a contractor and pay 4 times as much.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks cast call for more seasons: "Until we're dust in the ground" 4 weeks ago:
Lindelof: “oh I don’t think so”.
- Comment on Lucy Letby: police and CPS handling of case raises new concerns about convictions 1 month ago:
If she gets a retrial/appeal they will have to go through all the evidence with a fresh start, unless the prosecution withdraw their case (as what happened to Lucia De Berk).
- Lucy Letby: police and CPS handling of case raises new concerns about convictionswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing: Influencers claim to be exposing 'Western lies' about Xinjiang, claiming they have not seen human rights abuses 1 month ago:
Stop thinking of them as people, they are just meat space for brands. Like a billboard or those little posters above urinals.
- Comment on Scrap law making schools serve meat, says Labour donor Vince Dale 1 month ago:
I’m not sure it’s a law per se but more guidance that schools should endeavour to serve children a balanced diet which will include portions of meat/fish/poultry/dairy.
- Comment on Scrap law making schools serve meat, says Labour donor Vince Dale 1 month ago:
Says party donor who happens to own vegan catering business that supplies schools.
- Comment on Letby shift data was scientifically worthless, statisticians warn 1 month ago:
This article doesn’t explain exactly why the statistical anomaly should be inadmissable in court.
Were they asking for it to be inadmissible? My take was the RSS are implying the court allowed the jury to be misled as to its significance by not having a statistician on hand to explain it. It’s almost an exact replay of what happened in the Lucia De Berk case, later overturned and since described as “the greatest miscarriage of justice” in the Netherlands. Worth a read if you’re interested.
- Comment on Letby shift data was scientifically worthless, statisticians warn 1 month ago:
It’s uncanny how much of it exactly mirrors what happened to Lucia De Berk.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 6 comments
- Comment on Why a scandal at the Jewish Chronicle also goes to the top of the BBC 2 months ago:
It’s a bit mad that we aren’t allowed to know who owns it.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 2 months ago:
These exist and are good
Any examples off the top of your head? I would assume/speculate they are fairly expensive?
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 2 months ago:
20 years ago there were complaints that GP’s were using Google, now its normal. Can’t help but feel the same will happen here.
- Comment on Crossbow murders: Police find suspect after BBC’s John Hunt’s family killed — as it happened 4 months ago:
Men harming ex-partners. Unfortunately not uncommon.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew told Rick Berman she wanted a gay character on the Voyager bridge 5 months ago:
He’s been firmly out of Trek since Enterprise.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew told Rick Berman she wanted a gay character on the Voyager bridge 5 months ago:
And Rick the Dick Berman said fuck no, in fact here’s a blonde bombshell in a catsuit. Fuck you.
- Comment on Post Office accidentally leaks names of sub-postmasters 5 months ago:
Post Office shits itself whilst on life support.
- Comment on NHS appeals for blood donors after London cyber-attack 5 months ago:
If it’s russian then there is no difference.
- Comment on NHS appeals for blood donors after London cyber-attack 5 months ago:
Speaking to colleagues down south about thus and it’s an absolute cluster fuck. It’s almost certainly caused fatalities but we won’t know the exact numbers until the dust settles.
This should be treated just as harhsly as if russia dropped a bomb on us.
- Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter 5 months ago:
I’m just repeating what was going round on social media a while back. His own account of when he started working for the BBC doesn’t line up with him finishing uni.
And all docs go on the gmc register during their final year (known as provisional registration), this is to allow them to do their ‘house’ jobs.
- Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter 5 months ago:
He certainly studied it for a bit, he never graduated and was never on the gmc register. He was in the same year as his wife who graduated in 1986 (she is on the register), he started working for the BBC omin 1985…
- Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter 5 months ago:
Read between the lines. Just because the formality of identification hasn’t been stamped and filed yet doesn’t mean the journalists reporting this have no idea its him. Its clearly him, this sort of thing happens all the time. Cf “he died after a long illness” being code for “cancer”.
- Comment on Michael Mosley: Body found in Symi search for missing presenter 5 months ago:
What a tragedy. Why did he leave his phone behind and walk out solo after being warned about the heat?
I wonder if there really was something to those rumours about him not being a real doctor and the GMC investigating.
- Comment on Reform UK pulls to within two points of Tories in latest YouGov poll 5 months ago:
I predict they will formally merge with Reform UK during the next election cycle. Too much money behind them for them to just disappear into the political wilderness.
- Comment on UK clothing sales to EU plummet as Brexit red tape deters exporters 5 months ago:
Disaster capitalists.
- Comment on UK government bans private puberty blocker prescriptions for trans youth 5 months ago:
It is not a pointless difference. The use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists have been banned in the UK for the treatment of gender dysphoria. They are of course still available for treating precocious puberty, regardless of how anyone identifies.
- Comment on UK government bans private puberty blocker prescriptions for trans youth 5 months ago:
They aren’t banned for kids who suffer from dysphoria. They are banned from being used as a treatment for dysphoria. Important difference.