wewbull
@wewbull@feddit.uk
- Comment on The UK needs more affordable electric heating tariffs 3 days ago:
Your lobes are showing.
- Comment on NHS in England told to slash recruitment of overseas-trained medics 6 days ago:
Dumb.
The problem isn’t that they come from overseas to get trained, it’s that they got back overseas after they are trained.
Other than that, if you want to rebalance the intake, raise the UK intake. Don’t slash the non-UK intake.
- Comment on Calls to clean up England’s ‘toxic air’ as GP visits for asthma attacks rise 45% 1 week ago:
Interesting that asthma attacks are up so sharply, but I’m unconvinced it’s down to “Toxic air”. Generally things seem to be on a improving trend, so getting a 45% increase in health issues would suggest something else at play.
From www.gov.uk/government/statistics/…/summary
Days with ‘Moderate’ or higher air pollution
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There were on average 6 days of ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution at urban pollution monitoring sites in 2024, down from 9 days in 2023.
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The number of days with ‘Moderate’ or higher air pollution at rural monitoring sites peaked in 2018. Levels have fluctuated since then, with noticeable drops in 2021 and 2024, when the number of days with ‘Moderate’ or higher air pollution fell to the lowest level since 2016.
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Since 2015 the mean number of days of ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution has been higher at rural sites than urban sites due to ozone pollution. There were on average fewer days of ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution at rural pollution monitoring sites in 2024 compared with 2023 (19 days in 2023, 11 days in 2024).
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In 2024, as in previous years, ozone was responsible for a large proportion of the ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution days at rural sites. The increase in ozone pollution in most years since 2018 was in part due to the prolonged hot and sunny conditions experienced in the UK in the summer of these years.
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- Comment on ‘Heads will roll’: BBC reckons with bias accusations over Israel and Palestine coverage 1 week ago:
Top tip: When you quote someone don’t cut off “…not as a way of…” at the start of a quote.
I’m doing this not as a way of bringing you out of your obvious delusion but to point it out to people reading later.
- Comment on Beaches 1 week ago:
S to the I to the M to the P
- Comment on Everybody poops 1 week ago:
You’re not alone. Exactly what I saw too.
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 1 week ago:
Of course, but the metric you choose for “effectiveness” is critical. In the current situation the metric must be “removal from office”.
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 2 weeks ago:
Ok… …a blanket ban on a set of protestors.
What’s the legal criteria to say somebody is a member of an organisation like this? Do they have to have a membership card to be banned from protests? It’s poorly defined and easily becomes anybody who turns up at a pro-palestinian protest. At that point you have banned protests on the subject.
Hold individuals accountable for their actions. Don’t police people’s views or their desire to express them.
- Comment on Government to ban Palestine Action, home secretary confirms 2 weeks ago:
Taking targeted action at those who perpetrated the sabotage would be my preference, rather than blanket bans on a protestors. This is the wrong way to solve the problem.
- Comment on Armed Forces Minister refuses seven times to say whether UK backs US military action in Iran 2 weeks ago:
He’s a member of the cabinet and so should know the government position. He can also state if UK forces acted in any part of the operation (e.g. refilling).
The decision may not be his but he should be enacting the effect of the decision. It’s absolutely reasonable to ask him.
- Comment on Ask the crickets 2 weeks ago:
…or count the chirps in 8 seconds and add 4.
Why am I taking 25seconds and dividing by 3? Accuracy?
- Comment on All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure it would be very useful. Doesn’t mean I want ANYBODY having that kind of information.
- Comment on All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years 2 weeks ago:
It should not remain in the NHS in my opinion. It should be deleted after the analysis is done.
- Comment on Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk' 2 weeks ago:
…or have decent security on them that can’t be broken by a 12yo.
- Comment on RIP Thomas 2 weeks ago:
I think the only way it gets beaten is if the goose gets a better name. Say… “Ferdinand” or Ferdy for short.
- Comment on Government 'quietly drops' fight for tougher anti-protest laws used to arrest climate activist Greta Thunberg 2 weeks ago:
Such apathy. This government really knows how to say what it stands for!
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 3 weeks ago:
Only if it’s a springboard for more.
If they all go home and do nothing more the country is sunk.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 3 weeks ago:
Americans don’t understand what a King is, or how monarchy fits into a modern democracy. What they mean is “No Dictators”.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 3 weeks ago:
… we must still uphold it.
Your supreme court is corrupt, making decisions by good judges lower in the system able to be overturned. The judiciary is broken.
So how do you propose the law is upheld?
I agree is must be, but I want you to be prepared that means taking action in some way.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 3 weeks ago:
It’s a good first step.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 3 weeks ago:
Good, now you know how big the support is it’s time to turn it into action. I don’t mean violence, but turning up on a summer’s day to go for a walk and hear some people speak is not enough.
I’m not going to tell you what to do next (it’s not my country) but one day is easily ignored. I know from other fights around the world that these things need persistence and sacrifice.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 3 weeks ago:
smithsonianmag.com/…/shark-skin-inspired-material…
Few people have gotten close enough to a shark to pet it. If you could run your hand from a shark’s head to its tail—not that you should—it would feel smooth, almost like suede. Reverse direction and it’s rough like sandpaper. Viewed under a microscope, shark skin is composed of ribbed, dragonesque scales layered over each other like shingles on a roof. These structures, called dermal denticles, are more like teeth than skin
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 3 weeks ago:
Quite the opposite:
- Sharks don’t have fur
- Shark skin is rough is one direction and smooth in the other. This allows them to get friction with the water to drive themselves forward, but the glide through the water for efficient travel.
The idea was copied into competitive swim suits.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 4 weeks ago:
I’m confused.
Is the issue here you’re using the term “micro-plastic” in a different way to me. My understanding of it is “small particles of solid plastic often reduced in size through mechanical processes to microscopic sizes which we find throughout the environment, often distributed by water”. You seem to be talking more generally about chemical water pollution.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 4 weeks ago:
That’s very different though. Nobody claims that the chemicals used in plastic manufacturing are biologically inert, just that the final result is.
Dupont wasn’t dumping Lego bricks into the pond. They were leaking liquid chemicals.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 4 weeks ago:
I guess “knives” hits a safety restriction that’s been added after the main training, and it just breaks at that point.
- Comment on Delicious 5 weeks ago:
Dramatic actor? Yes, agreed. I just never liked his film comedy.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 5 weeks ago:
Really? There’s a register of bitcoin wallet IDs to names and addresses?
- Comment on Delicious 5 weeks ago:
I assume you only know his film work then.
- Comment on Delicious 5 weeks ago:
…in America