wewbull
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- Comment on Record year for wind and solar electricity in Great Britain in 2025 2 days ago:
- Comment on UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor 5 days ago:
One of the biggest examples of equality Vs equity there is, and how the Blair government picked the wrong one. A university education was a dividing line in society they said. It was something only available to a select few. Everyone should benefit from a university education.
Thing is, apart from Oxbridge, the dividing line was never about race, sex or class. It was about academic ability. If you had the grades, you could come from anywhere (Equality). Now, there was a problem with high schools and sixth-form colleges not being as good in certain areas, but that wasn’t a problem with the universities. Many even tried to take such factors into account during admissions. If they’d solved the school education issue instead it would have been a fair system (again, apart from Oxbridge).
…but Blair felt that everyone should go to university. So they pushed up the intake numbers, converted all the polytechnics into universities (blowing away further education for less academic people) and turned the now unsustainable grant into loans.
End result: 20 years down the road and the bachelors degree is now largely worthless in hiring circles because everybody has one, and the masters degree is going the same way.
Qualifications are meant to give prospective employers information about people’s strengths. Now everyone appears the same on paper (Yay… Equity!) and the qualifications have lost their reason to exist.
- Comment on NHS England quietly removes open source policy web pages 5 days ago:
No. Just Oracle crap.
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 1 week ago:
Manatees aren’t the only ones.
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 1 week ago:
There’s a difference between driving fast and being ready to move when an opportunity appears. It mainly comes down to watching traffic far enough down the road so you anticipate where the gap will be. That then allows you to smoothly merge into it.
- Comment on We're just friends! 1 week ago:
I’ll always worry about a guy that dresses like Jimmy Saville.
- Comment on Reginald D Hunter: Judge quashes antisemitism case brought by Campaign Against Antisemitism 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that the hate speech laws are, like in this case, open to abuse. Somebody can have their career damaged whilst they fight an abusive case for over a year just because somebody feels offended.
They shouldn’t be on the books. They need repealing, or at the very least made much more specific.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 2 weeks ago:
It’s a subsidy to the shops and businesses in a town. Businesses that pay taxes back to the council. A thriving town provides more funds than a dead one.
In a rural area there isn’t public transport to get people to the centre of towns to buy things (and there never will be because the population is not dense enough to be practical). It’s personal transport, or people order online and the town dies.
In an urban area the equation is different.
- Comment on ‘We’ve seen it decimate areas’: Somerset town’s traders oppose parking charges 2 weeks ago:
Yes! Councils see parking charges as a money making scheme to bolster budgets, but having available free parking attracts people to the town centre. This is especially true in market towns that might have a large catchment area.
There’s a reason supermarkets don’t charge for parking when they can avoid it.
- Comment on It's the truth! 2 weeks ago:
No. They are maroon.
- Comment on Sea Level 2 weeks ago:
Landlords would love it, at least.
And I thought you ment because the pubs would be full that week :-(
- Comment on UK launches urgent review into foreign interference in politics over "shocking case" of former Reform UK politician Nathan Gill 3 weeks ago:
Was that while the other side was in power? Might have had a muted reception when it was delivered.
- Comment on 1.2 Å 4 weeks ago:
Angstroms hurt my brain. A $10^{-10}$ of a metre, but not a nanometre or a picometre. Just…why?
- Comment on Why you think the net was born? 4 weeks ago:
Context for the context
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 4 weeks ago:
No star = no charged particles = no lights. Doesn’t matter how big the magnetic field is.
That’s all he’s saying.
- Comment on Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles 5 weeks ago:
I would say yes, or at least there’s no reason that a doctor has to run a business in order for a GP surgery to exist. They are medical practices, not small business managers.
- Comment on qt π 5 weeks ago:
That there is an American Kestrel. According to Wikipedia…
… it is not actually a kestrel in the phylogenetic sense. Instead, a process of convergent evolution to fit a similar small prey niche in the ecosystem as the true kestrels have left it with similar physical characteristics and hunting methods.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 5 weeks ago:
This is why I focused on graphics hardware for so long… Then some arsehole came up with running AI on GPUs.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 5 weeks ago:
"our hiring system is even less discriminatory than our targeting system!" -their motto, probably
Bravo!
- Comment on Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes 1 month ago:
Americans, this is what you do.
- Comment on eleven 1 month ago:
Remembering those who died in service maybe…
“The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” is when WW1 ended and is held as Remembrance Day across Europe .
- Comment on Quentin Willson: Former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter dies aged 68 1 month ago:
Damn. He was politically active recently trying to push environmental policy. He was a great spokesperson for that kind of thing given his history.
That’s a bit young to go.
- Comment on MPs urge minister to adopt definition of Islamophobia amid rise in hate crime 2 months ago:
The key point here seems to be the because Islam is a religion and not a race then it doesn’t get classed as racism, and that matters because certain laws reference racism.
To me, this points to a problem with our laws where we need a crime to be in the right category of motivation to be treated properly. Why is a racially motivated assault any different to a assault motivated for any other reason? Assault is assault and should be dealt with by the same law.
- Comment on ‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ 2 months ago:
True, but it’s a step in the right direction.
- Comment on Is that a fucking threat 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure it’s Fat Albert.
- Comment on Space is beautiful 2 months ago:
Sound of Linguine
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of crossover here. It encompasses the “you rent everything and own nothing” aspect of today’s society. It’s multi-billion corporations against consumers.
A win here will be something that will expose chinks in the armour for a lot of other issues. I know it might seem unimportant because it’s games, but that’s its beauty. It’s a backdoor into so many other fights.
- Comment on William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes 2 months ago:
- Comment on Rachel Reeves ‘plots tax raid on solicitors and GPs in crackdown on UK’s wealthy’ 2 months ago:
FFS!
How hard is it ? Nobody needs more reasons not to be a doctor. They are valuable to society. That justifies good pay. Nothing wrong with that. Lawyers are more debatable, but certainly they perform a civil function and often serve a community.
Go after the companies that are robbing you blind.
- Comment on I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species. 2 months ago:
I think you’re seeing the tragic result of a shark having shark repellent bat-spray used on it.
