wewbull
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- Comment on The Beetle 3 days ago:
…is going the other way.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 1 week ago:
It’s known to melt witches in seconds.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
1375…
We can work with metals, so we can probably make boilers.
I invent steam power 400 years early.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 1 week ago:
…most kids…
Most kids? (⊙_⊙)
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 1 week ago:
No, we say “FUCK! It’s cold”.
- Comment on Reeves suggests UK-EU trade more important than US deal ahead of Washington talks 1 week ago:
Us downgrading to accept any US standards that are not already EU accepted. Means we will not be able to sign a simple deal with the EU.
Which is, I think, somebody’s plan. Brexit distanced us from Europe. US standards would make the split irreparable.
- Comment on Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans 1 week ago:
It could but I don’t see it being a big jobs spinner. I’d expect us to automate the hell out of it.
Of course, the issue still remains that the materials need to be supplied from “clean” sources.
- Comment on stay healthy with just these 6 exercises 2 weeks ago:
I’m the picture of health
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 2 weeks ago:
“Iron Knight”?
- Comment on Labour MPs urge Starmer to ‘get out there’ with Trump-style media strategy 2 weeks ago:
Trump is certainly the wrong model, but they do need to communicate better. In particular I think they need to communicate the reasons behind their decisions.
- Why aren’t we standing with countries like Canada in response to Trump’s sabre rattling?
- Why haven’t they just told Trump to get fucked in trade talks when his administration is asking for changes in our laws?
- What are the cuts on winter fuels and disability benefits paying for?
- Why are we not looking to rejoin the customs union to remove barriers to trade with the EU?
Etc, etc, etc.
- Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK 2 weeks ago:
Like this
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 3 weeks ago:
I think you’d find as many wanting Huckleberry Finn removed because it’s racist as anything else. Woe betide anyone who thinks such books need to be around to teach future generations with.
Americans are puritans through and through. It doesn’t matter what strain they are.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 3 weeks ago:
I really wish they had their own language. It would make ignoring what they say so much more common.
- Comment on It do be like that 3 weeks ago:
The thing is negative results are often the most valuable. If a hypothesis is disproven, it’s gone. The search space is reduced and people don’t need to waste their time with it.
All those glory hunters are the problem.
- Comment on Remember when she fucked up the economy 3 weeks ago:
The purpose of the strike was to raise awareness and make the issue one of public note more than anything else. It didn’t really work in the long run. The pits closed. The communities suffered and they’re still feeling the effects today 40 years later.
The mines needed to go IMHO. The country needed to move on, but the way it was done with absolutely no support was callous and heartless.
We repeatedly face the same problem with industry still running from the Victorian era. This week it’s 2,700 steel-workers at blast furnaces in Scunthorpe. The government are stepping in “to save British steel”, but as part of it they want to modernise. A modern arc furnace only needs about a fifth of the workers (based on Port Talbot having 2,500 job losses when they closed their blast furnaces, but only needing 500 for the new furnace when it opens), so whilst they are “saving steel worker jobs” they’re also planning to let most of them go. The key question is what do those people do instead. Hopefully something less hazardous, but it has to be something.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 3 weeks ago:
Legally, totally agreed.
…but if you were so inclined to want to cause someone harm through poisoning, you’d have chosen really badly if you chose ivermectin.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 3 weeks ago:
Good story, but I question the relevance.
- Comment on Remember when she fucked up the economy 3 weeks ago:
The big thing she’s remembered for is closing down the mining industry. Whole communities throughout the north of England and Wales were left penniless. They were towns where everyone worked as a miner or in some way related to the mine. Nothing was done to give any alternatives.
Of course there was a huge industrial dispute - The miners strike. Massive, initially peaceful, demonstrations that turned violent as police would attack and stir up the conflict. People died, communities were shatteredd, yet through it all Thatcher was unmoving. Just using the police as her own civilian army.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQh4n8rRLw8
She viewed as a uncaring authoritarian tyrant by many.
- Comment on IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE 4 weeks ago:
You’d have to try really hard to poison someone with ivermectin. It’s extremely common in some parts of the world.
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 5 weeks ago:
How many shell companies between you and the government are necessary to make someone “not working for the Russian state”?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I totally accept that quantity shouldn’t matter more than quality. I mean that’s how we are where we are. I just don’t think zero publishable results is a good sign either.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Well yes, obviously. It’s even in the top post that the original was in 1959.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
…but then they should perish (not literally).
If you’ve got nothing to publish, is your work valuable?
- Comment on Win win 1 month ago:
Insurance companies are never the only victim. They just pass the pain forward.
- Comment on Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate? 1 month ago:
The 2023 figures (the latest ones and which had the 20mph change) also changed the way the statistics were gathered.
They state
It is likely that KSI collisions and casualties in 2023 are affected by Dyfed Powys police force migrating to Crash. This is further discussed in our quality report.
(KSI is “Killed or seriously injured”. Crash is the new collection method)
- Comment on So jussi 1 month ago:
Spotted Dick is not a bread. It’s a sponge pudding that you cover in custard.
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 1 month ago:
Evolution isn’t aimed.
I realise that, but the use of tools and sharing of ideas may well have been advantages against the T-Rex. Just as I’m sure they’ve helped us against things that would eat or kill us.
An advantage is an advantage, so I think it’s reasonable to ask why mammals and not murder chickens came up with stone tools and cooking meat.
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 1 month ago:
Which makes me ask, why were mammals able to evolve to produce an apex predator that relies on it’s inventiveness (Humans) in quite a short time, but no similar “dinosaur” got to that point in a much longer period?
We’re searching planets for signs of life as a pre-cursor to intelligent life, but there’s no guarantee that life will evolve in the same direction as ours.
- Comment on history rhymes, or something 1 month ago:
Fact is, even in the west we don’t know much. The historical record has holes. We know of the protests. We know the military went in and nobody came out, but I’m not sure we really know what happened.
At least… I don’t.
