BrightCandle
@BrightCandle@lemmy.world
- Comment on Study: American workers in labor unions has fallen from nearly 35% in 1954 to just 10.5% in 2018 4 days ago:
This is why wages are failing to keep up with inflation now for decades. Breaking up the labour unions has been an enormous accelerator for the capitol owning classes.
- Comment on Cropped out, banned, airbrushed: the school photos that show the ugly face of Britain today 2 months ago:
People don’t realise how common this is in our society unless you are a minority. Its everywhere. The state abuses disabled people via the DWP, the doctors do the same to disabled people by refusing to accept they are disabled, access is awful everywhere and people with wheelchairs fail to get on buses because the spot is taken by a pram. Then there is all the attacks and verbal abuse on the streets from random people.
Despite whatever self reported level of discrimination the UK gets as one of the best in the world any minority in this country can tell you how many times a day they are abused by someone else. Its every single day. The Police, NHS and other state functions all do it. Most of the time there are no consequences, its so common infact its not ever news. Its hard to accept this basic reality as someone who isn’t a constant victim of our society but if you listen to the people who are the victims of this stuff its relentless.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 2 months ago:
Its notable its not listing Long Covid at all. The 1.9 million long haulers in the UK have all been treated atrociously by the NHS so far, most have been misdiagnosed and gaslighted and the rest have been abused with graded exercise therapy that has worsened their disease. But then this was a poll by the NHS so it likely wasn’t one of the answers available.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 2 months ago:
This is almost certainly Covid. We already know it damages the brain and attacks the executive as well as behavioural centres of the brain and children are out sick for twice as long from school directly due to sickness. We are also busy trying to force children with Long Covid, of which there are 68,000 in the UK now, into school and unfortunately that will make them very unwell. Most schools are having to use a lot of substitute teachers due to doubling of sickness and teachers are the second hardest hit profession with Long Covid (behind medical staff).
It will keep getting worse as more and more suffer from Long Covid impacts.
- Comment on Labour 'committed' to assisted dying vote, Sir Keir Starmer tells Dame Esther Rantzen 3 months ago:
Assisted dying requires really good legal protections or we end up with a system that pushes people who are in desperation situations into death. There needs to be legal provisions that those applying have actually had all medical interventions (even those that could kill them) and they are actually fully supported socially too to live a reasonable life. It needs to be a legal requirement that the government must ensure these things happen and quickly to elevate suffering.
The problem is we currently live in the country that is actively trying to kill the chronically ill and disabled with below poverty levels of social funding and a healthcare system that isn’t fit for purpose and regularly abuses patients. We need to fix these before we can talk about a safe assisted dying system or its just eugenics.
- Comment on There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’ 7 months ago:
Way back in time I worked in a supermarket that first trialled self shopping. At the time this was done with special trolleys and boxes and hand scanners people took around the store to scan their own goods. The scheme survived about two years. The system was designed to gradually ramp up rescans by the checkout operators if prior scans had shown missing items. Certain people were clearly making a lot of mistakes (usually with expensive items like Whiskey) but many weren’t. The increased waits for rescans for the people who often made such “errors” destroyed the value for everyone else and they became increasingly angry on what should have been near instant checkouts.
Its notable I think that almost all supermarkets today use self scanning despite all those earlier experiments showing that some people would use it to hide theft. This goes very much against the image of the pocket and exit that people have in their head. That was actually very uncommon and being a person who often greeted on the door it was my job to spot them. Most of the theft occurred through items that were smuggled through the checkout in some way.
I don’t think self scanning is contributing to an increase in theft losses and the data shows its not. What I think it potentially contributes to is making it hard to identify the theft because there are less employees effectively as the security force. The decline in prosecutions is likely due to these changes that the supermarkets have adopted which they knew 25 years ago resulted in hidden theft.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 8 months ago:
Minecraft, playing a 1.20 modpack
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 8 months ago:
Punching trees hurts.
- Comment on Hunt warns of benefit cuts for people who won’t ‘actively look for work’ 8 months ago:
It continues to disturb me that this is so popular. Hurting the most vulnerable in our society for votes is pretty sick and twisted.
- Comment on Hunt warns of benefit cuts for people who won’t ‘actively look for work’ 8 months ago:
In Tory land the reason the economy is in trouble is because the Poorest people have too much money.
- Comment on Record number of teachers quit for mental health reasons in 2021 10 months ago:
Given doctors are regularly diagnosing Long Covid as anxiety we are seeing mental health losses all over industry. Until medicine starts accurately diagnosing the condition it’s hard to assess if mental health is getting worse or if it’s just the pandemic.
- Comment on Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars 10 months ago:
I think this will solve itself as the electrical vehicle transition happens. Cars will become substantially quieter by default and at that point it will easy to adjust MOTs for ICE vehicles to meet more stringent noise levels.
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- Comment on UK windfarm red tape to cost billpayers £1.5bn a year, say analysts 10 months ago:
The government is doing so much to harm the move to clean solutions for electrical energy.
- They cancelled the feed in tariff and now at best you can get about 1/3, most energy companies give you 1p for something they can sell for 35p. There is no net metering which would seriously help home energy projects for solar and wind without the need for expensive batteries.
- There is around 5x the countries current energy needs in solar projects waiting on the National Grid to make it possible for the projects to go ahead. The queue goes out to 2035 and there is no extra investment coming to try and make this happen earlier. These alone could be enough to completely transition all electrical energy to solar.
The entire transition is being intentionally slowed down by government, they wont invest in it and instead are trying to build as many barriers as possible. Its becoming very difficult to build energy projects that aren’t gas on a personal or business level.
- Comment on Supermarket plastic bag charge has led to 98% drop in use in England, data shows 10 months ago:
What is missed in this article is bags for life purchases. We saw the same article more or less in 2019 and once you factored that in there wasn’t much of an improvement in plastic use or disposal. Expect the same to appear after this article at some point.