wewbull
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- Comment on 2 days ago:
No, but it’s good to have hard data to back it up.
- Comment on Keir Starmer faces ‘judgment day’ as Mandelson vetting debacle grows 2 days ago:
Civil servants have a lot of control not over policy but over outcomes.
That’s a difference that matters only if the people at the top of the civil service have no opinions on what constitutes a desirable outcome. I would say that’s effectively impossible.
- Comment on Keir Starmer faces ‘judgment day’ as Mandelson vetting debacle grows 2 days ago:
Ciaran Martin, a former senior civil servant with past involvement in vetting work, who is a close friend of Robbins, told the BBC that the sacked official appeared to have been made a scapegoat.
He said vetting had been wrongly presented as a simple pass or fail, when it was instead a “risk assessment”, and that it was entirely standard for officials to decide whether the balance of risk was acceptable.
“There is no abuse of process, there is no failure of process. Not only is there no duty to disclose the details of a vetting case, there is a duty not to disclose them. The one thing you never do is tell ministers of any kind, because otherwise the vetting system would collapse,” he said.
I’m sorry…WHAT!!! How can civil servants hold that level of judgement. I’ve long thought that the civil service has too much power over policy, resulting in the Home Office and Foreign Office having minimal change in policy no matter who is Home/Foreign secretary.
If this is really the case then hopefully this is a catalyst for a change in how the civil service operates and where decision making really lies.
- Comment on Teenis 3 days ago:
Armstrong and Miller, for those that were wondering.
- Comment on Keeping the country safe 1 week ago:
I thought they had announced they were no longer arresting after the courts had called the home office rules into question.
What changed?
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 1 week ago:
“I’m stuck step-bro” isn’t incest. They aren’t related by blood at all. That’s one of the reasons it’s a popular backstory.
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 1 week ago:
Ofcom have a report stating exactly that. The OSA doesn’t work
- Comment on Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members 1 week ago:
I think it’s that they think “This is an easy vote winner. Nobody will object to this”.
Yes, I’ll object. You’re wasting your time and my money with this pointless paternalistic crap.
- Comment on Birthing pains 1 week ago:
To which the answer is “Human”.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 1 week ago:
Woohoo. Side-moon!
- Comment on Cry cry cry 1 week ago:
They can buy one of those packs to name a star after yourself. I’m sure they’d prefer that over a dirty crater.
- Comment on Cry cry cry 1 week ago:
This was intended before the mission. After conducting observations they were going to propose naming two craters. One for his wife, and the other for the space craft “Integrity”.
- Comment on Average sci-fi story-telling... 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Have you not seen Superman II?
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 2 weeks ago:
Do people not generally know this?
- Comment on Iran attacks Oracle as retribution for sacked employees 2 weeks ago:
He has incontinent missiles.
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 2 weeks ago:
Amazing how the countries side over it?
- Comment on Gotta go fast 2 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting we should boil them first?
- Comment on Gotta go fast 2 weeks ago:
Underwater turbines.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 2 weeks ago:
Well there hydro power, where we just skip the boiling part and have water turn turbines.
- Comment on Green conference votes AGAINST energy company nationalisation 3 weeks ago:
Ok. I’m confused. So which was the final position? It sounds like they retained
The five largest energy supply companies will be nationalised.
- Comment on Star Trilogy 3 weeks ago:
Starts and ends well, but that’s a long boring middle.
- Comment on Chelyabinsk liked your Post 3 weeks ago:
You’re right. Better use some wind turbines too.
- Comment on Chelyabinsk liked your Post 3 weeks ago:
12.5m?
- Comment on Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live 3 weeks ago:
Only incentives I can think of:
- They didn’t police it properly for the size of event and it’s a pre-emptive defence. “Yes we only sent one constable, but it was only 3 old ladies and a Yorkshire terrier”.
- They’re under orders to downplay the size of protests that can be seen as anti-government.
I know it’s a bit tin-foil hat, but I’m starting to suspect the latter. A number of protests appear to have had quite large numbers from footage (which is likely to be cherry picked yes, but should set a minimum number), but small number from the Met.
- Comment on Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live 3 weeks ago:
Amazing how organisers and police have 10:1 difference in the attendance numbers. I know the organisers have reasons to inflate numbers, but not by an order of magnitude.
- Comment on who would win 3 weeks ago:
Boss on Teams: Why are you off-line?
Me: I’m not. I’m talking to you.
Boss: Oh…
My cares about tracking vanished in that moment.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 3 weeks ago:
Living it right now. Me: “We’ve sold off or had resignations from ¾ of our engineering” Boss: “We’ll rebuild”.
Also Boss: “Our value is in our people”.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 3 weeks ago:
…and learn better finning technique.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 3 weeks ago:
You just gave the same advice.
- Comment on send thoughts and peer review 4 weeks ago:
It absolutely is. They’re sociology problems. Observations can be made on causal factors in society, changes made, effects observed, results shared.
Have a read of the book “The Science Of Racism” for how science can give a insight into dealing with a social issue.
