wewbull
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- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 3 days 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 days 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 days 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 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago:
Good story, but I question the relevance.
- Comment on Remember when she fucked up the economy 6 days 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
How many shell companies between you and the government are necessary to make someone “not working for the Russian state”?
- Comment on 'vegetative electron microscopy' 3 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 'vegetative electron microscopy' 3 weeks ago:
Well yes, obviously. It’s even in the top post that the original was in 1959.
- Comment on 'vegetative electron microscopy' 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 'vegetative electron microscopy' 3 weeks ago:
…but then they should perish (not literally).
If you’ve got nothing to publish, is your work valuable?
- Comment on Win win 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Spotted Dick is not a bread. It’s a sponge pudding that you cover in custard.
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on history rhymes, or something 4 weeks ago:
Closest I can come with is nuclear disarmament. Not because I think they were on the wrong side of it, but I think it’s far less clear cut and there’s a credible argument that MAD has worked.
- Comment on Sony launches new version of the best cheap 4K Blu-ray player that drops the streaming tech – but the price looks odd 4 weeks ago:
Disagree. You have to vote with your wallet. It’s not like the manufactures aren’t going to continue down the road they’re on. The only thing that will stop them is losing sales because of this crap.
- Comment on Sony launches new version of the best cheap 4K Blu-ray player that drops the streaming tech – but the price looks odd 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure we’re there yet, but we’re certainly in the “nag banners on a frequent basis” realm on TVs.
- Comment on Sony launches new version of the best cheap 4K Blu-ray player that drops the streaming tech – but the price looks odd 4 weeks ago:
Plug and play features like…
Plug an HDMI cable in and watch?
- Comment on Sony launches new version of the best cheap 4K Blu-ray player that drops the streaming tech – but the price looks odd 4 weeks ago:
…because there’s no guarantee it will work without internet.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 5 weeks ago:
That’s what a lot of countries allow. Not all though.
- Comment on Having a baby? Use this one weird trick! 5 weeks ago:
That’s fine and is what most European countries have. What they have is minimum levels to say that a parent is resident (e.g. over a couple of years of a legal status). This is to avoid pregnant women doing exactly what the OP suggests. Make journeys last minute just to get their child a different nationality.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
I wish people understood the differences between types of vaccines more. I despise the “vaccines good” Vs “vaccines bad” thinking. Each of them are separate treatments and like any medication have pros/cons for each individual recieving them. I think a lot of people learn about Jenner and the smallpox vaccine and assume all other vaccines work the same way.
- Comment on German thermostat company Tado locks previously free app behind fake paywall, claiming it's "marketing tests" 1 month ago:
If they brought out new features and charged for those I think most would understand. However since the V2 they basically done nothing in R&D. That’s 6-7 years ago.
- Comment on German thermostat company Tado locks previously free app behind fake paywall, claiming it's "marketing tests" 1 month ago:
I’d rather they found a business model that made them stable, rather than exploiting their current customers. Fact is, if they go bust then there’s à bunch of people left high and dry.
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 1 month ago:
I don’t understand why LAs don’t understand that you pay for the parking space by having a thriving town centre. Making wandering around the shops an expensive expedition means people only come when they have a specific reason to.
Low footfall kills shops, and kills towns, so don’t make parking a money making scheme. Size it appropriately for the town, make it free, and maintain it. That’s it.
