HumanPenguin
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- Comment on AI firms are ‘scraping the value’ from UK’s £125bn creative industries, says Channel 4 boss 1 day ago:
Terrible.
Almost as bad as IP firms stripping the whole point of copyright by lobbying to change copyright terms to forever.
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- Comment on Thames Water picks US private equity firm KKR as preferred buyer 2 days ago:
Executive and board compensation as a result of any deal of this nature should be public money.
- Comment on Police launch urgent search after girl, 11, falls into River Thames 2 days ago:
Cold flowing water is very very different from a warm swimming pool. Especially when dressed.
The current in the Thames can get dangerous for strong adult swimmers in certain areas. (Or the whole upper thames at certain times of year)
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 5 days ago:
Never let facts get in the way of a good joke.
- Comment on A quarter of Britons now disabled 5 days ago:
But just over 7% of brits claiming any disabled benefits.
Please remember these numbers are in no way backing for the crap the government is doing. Most disabled work.
Even most on disabled on benifits work. PIP is not about income. It is about covering the difference in cost for disabiled to live anything close to equally in society. Including getting to and fr work.
- Comment on I'm So Proud To Be Deported From The USA - Dorset Eye 1 week ago:
Nit a gambler. Bit im seriosly wondering what odds I can get on Trump refusing to step down.
To much of this is looking like the early moves of a dictator.
He has already indicated an unconstitutional 3rd term.
- Comment on Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal. 2 weeks ago:
Her basic argument is.
" whaaa it hard and my funders dont wanna whaaaa waaa. ’
- Comment on Government to save £5bn by restricting benefits to 'those with the greatest need' 2 weeks ago:
Exactly the claim made by tories when they invented PIP.
A reminder for all those not watching. The process for reviewi g claims cost them way way more then they ever saved.
A huge 60 % of rejected cases were overthrown by courts for failing to follow thier own rules.
And DWP is still refusing to release their imvestigation into the huge rose in suicides from claiments.
Anyone who thinksbclaiming PIP is toneasy is delusional.
The disabled community as a whole has spent the last 14 years stressed to the point of ill helth through exactly the percecution Labour is planing to contine.
- Comment on More SEND pupils could go to mainstream schools as support shake-up is considered 2 weeks ago:
Yes but. (And I do not agree with labor here)
There is also a huge problem when disabled students are separated from every day children. Part of that problem is in the lack of support seen for disabled in society.
Separate but equal is never really true. But also leads to a lack of understanding between the communities. This among other issues. Allows politicians to safely attack disabled benifits. And get away with lack of funding to SEND schools.
As a community. We are currently under attack. There are multiple posts atm on this subject. But at the time of writing any in non disabled centric communities. have 0 comments.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 3 weeks ago:
Bollocks is it non sequitur.
Non voters cannot be counted as objectors or supporters. Other then to assume the same divide as voters. Maling every comment you made statistically irrelevant to the result you are doubting.
If you fail to understand statistics please avoid discussions that are entirly about statistics.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 3 weeks ago:
Not the op you responded to.
But
First 72% is actually a huge turnout compared to pretty much any vote in the last 50 years.
The 28% that did not vote cannot be used to argue either side of the vote. As such they must be assumed to divide as the vote was.
Same with 1.9 % spoiled ballots. As we do not have any legal none of the above option. You have absolutely no way to decide that 1.9 % between those who support or don’t. So again statistically they have to be divided as those who successfully voted are.
This is exactly why we do not count non voters or spoiled votes when deciding on an election. If 1.9% was significantly higher then other election or 72% significantly lower. Maybe some data might make sense. But the result would still be the same without further info. You would still have no ability to use them as a rejection or support for the vote.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 3 weeks ago:
And honestly they are correct. Any attempt to rejoin now. Especially based on a partition with well under the 16m voters figure. Is only going to result in more anti EU bull and a growth in ukip like supporters.
The UK as a whole needs to accepthow fucking stupid leaving was. And rather will not happen untill we see the huge support wi originally had for joining.
Below that we will just repeatedly have people feeling forced one way or the other constantly refusing to partake in the spirit of the EU.
EEA is the best we will get and even that will be a fight for some time.
- Comment on Government announces plan to open up Land Registry 3 weeks ago:
Health yeah, or more to the point it should have ide Tina left data removed.
But the actual group data should very much be open. And that likely should be applied to most things.
As foe criminal records. That is already open as most court cases are public.
Closing it would be the first step in hiding prejudicial actions.so lets not change that.
- Comment on Government announces plan to open up Land Registry 3 weeks ago:
Honestly any non military data collected by the gov. Should be open by default.
Even military should be required to proove the need for secretary every so often.
- Comment on Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told 3 weeks ago:
Interesting interpretation. Given that is exactly way rape within marriage did not exist in the UK until the 1990s.
IE a wife was historically considered property. And this is to some extent the issue with the tate attitude.
PS I am in no way suggesting you think that. Just pointing out how coincidental the typo / missed word is.
PS be sure to confirm your body parts concent next time you feel lonely ;)
- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 4 weeks ago:
Yep. I’m likely older than you. (coincidently bang on the age where the stats placed our votes at 50/50 )
So I was born a few years before we voted to join. And grew up watching most of the benefits becoming a part of UK life. And realise half my generation are fucking insane.
- Comment on Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut 4 weeks ago:
wars are have been with technological edges.
But mass population of economic differences can also overwhelm that edge.
Unfortunately the world has changed over the last 20–30 years. Technological edges have less(but still some) effect sue to ionformation technology changes and the ability to extract it.
IE, unless that edge is such a huge change that we are basically talking a new scientific disapline/form of technology. The ability and history of global communication means nations can copy the principals and develop similar design. So the war returns back to speed and ability of implementation. IE finance and population.
The only way a technology can now outweigh that is if the tech is so different top that being used. The opponents cannot formulate a basic theory of its methodology of function. IE the new discipline idea I pointed out above. This is due to war being so much more viewable due to the availability and distribution of video and communication. Deployment of weapons in a manner that cannot be seen and understood by your opponents, impractical.
Of course, this is only a hypothesis. But a logically well backed one. That military professionals are now having to consider with long term planning.
- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 5 weeks ago:
I am not good enough at this law
Nor am I. But Do know pre Brexit the EU was funding actual wood land. That is a huge part of the issues farmers have now.
The huge farm subsidies the EU provided were still not replaced or agreed to long after Brexit. I’m not sure if they ever were at all. But farmers were forced to change growing habits with no idea what the gov was going to support.
It was a huge part of way £350m a week was an outright lie. Not only were we not actually sending that much due to discounts. We got a huge chunk back via farm subs.
- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 5 weeks ago:
This is a point that needs pushing more.
Save the planet is not only false. But less impactful than just save humankind.
Trying to convert humanity back to low meat diets (again a much easier sell and the real issue is mass production). It is more likely if people are convinced it is their children to great grand children that will Suffer/Die/never happen. Rather than suggesting all life will end.
- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 5 weeks ago:
to convert their source of income into land for trees?
The correct trees are income. Less than other sources. But I spose that is where gov needs to step in. But well managed wood cultivation is both CO2 absorbing and would reduce the huge transport harm imported wood causes.
Also, wood is getting insanely costly in the UK due to import costs. It may help other industries.
- Comment on Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut 5 weeks ago:
Def a better manned military dose. Well-trained disaplined manpower can be the most helpful aid to many a crisis.
Unfortunately, equipped depends very much on the type of equipment. With the modern military, less spending goes on such equipment. As more effort is made to move personnel from the field. IE remote combat.
- Comment on Starmer says he wants to increase UK defence spending to 3% - and announces foreign aid cut 5 weeks ago:
Bit depressing that they can find the cash for weapo
Defence increase (by 2027) is entirly funded by aid reduction.
So seems that was the only way to fund it.
- Comment on Who will be the next James Bond? Amazon's tough 007 decision 5 weeks ago:
Please explain that one. I prefer new talent as well.
But do not get why a well known actor would require a different story to a new one. They are after all acting, so the writer’s job story wise would be the same.
- Comment on Woman, 74, charged under abortion protest law in Glasgow 5 weeks ago:
You seem to totally forget multiple doctor murders and violence over the years.
Not to mention the simple fact. Just because someone believes something does automatically mean they have the courage to fight in every way. To exclude fear of punishment as the reason these people refuse to act. It is a clear failure to look at the realities of humanity. Completely ignoring a huge history of people objecting to things but still failing to act.
- Comment on Woman, 74, charged under abortion protest law in Glasgow 1 month ago:
I disagree with her. Mainly because I’m not religiose. But if she honestly believes life starts at conception. Then its really not hate but preventing murder.
I disagree and support the law banning this. But failing to understand the other side’s motives makes for an ineffective fight.
- Comment on SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show. 1 month ago:
Grins. Just looked. Screw up happen i make more then my share :) PS sorry for any typos im visually impaired, after a while it just gets annoying to hunt for them.
Yeah, my calling wait list’s pointless comment was more about having an effective alternative to measure NHS effectiveness. So we technically agree here.
My caution about using customer satisfaction. Is customers are less qualified than anyone to do so. In general they have 0 understanding of the workload involved and needs to triage the needs of a population. Heck, even if we just look at an ER environment. Where triage is litrally about life and death. Most patients are unable to place their own priorities appropriatly to those they see. Let alone based on medical knowledge, they cannot or should not see due to privacy or lack of medical understanding.
That same triage needs to happen when it comes to the effect of medical issues on quality of life.
If we accept more money is not going to happen ( Once again ill say it def needs to. But unlimited resources are never going to happen, no matter what % of our GDP we spend ). There will always be a need to prioritise some types of care over others. And the people receiving that care are the least qualified to make that decision.
Satisfaction is important. But, as this is not a retail or restaurant environment. The opinions of the recipiant of care are much less important data wise when it comes to how wer need to allocate the resources we have.
- Comment on UK: Rooftop solar could reduce energy bill for the country's poorest families by almost a quarter, study says 1 month ago:
Their is a movement wanting solar on all viable new builds.
Goven how many are sold to landlords. I assume that is in part the goal of articles like this.
- Comment on Harsh UK visa schemes leave Ukrainian families in limbo and torn apart. 1 month ago:
and now can’t get her child into the UK
While more egregious may be common. Separation of family is a clear violation of our EHCR commitments. And refusing entry to parent unless they dump dependent children (let alone babies) is pretty unacceptable attack on refugees. No matter the birth location of that baby.
Our human rights commitments in no way approve locking refugees/asylum cases within our borders. Or rights to change their status based on reproductive choices.
- Comment on SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show. 1 month ago:
Honest question.
Yep any target based system leads to people manipulating them to pass. It is just a common human response to forced competition.
But calling wait lists pointless is also pointless. Without some better way to ensure patients are getting the service they need as effectively as possible.
So other then spending lots more money. (I agree thats needed but in itself dose not provide metrics of a service)
What would you propose as a method for measuring NHS effectivness.