tankplanker

@tankplanker@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teachers in England get two-year 6.6% pay rise but schools to foot part of bill⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds very familiar. I know a head teacher who gave his wife a SLT job with no teaching or actual responsibility, she won’t even do emergency cover for lessons and he won’t pay for supply teachers either.

  The whole system is self awarded CEO pay on speed run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teachers in England get two-year 6.6% pay rise but schools to foot part of bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Majority of state schools only have their income from either the local authority or the trust they are part of, so yeah, reduced funds. Its how the majority of recent money for pay rises has been expected to be funded.

  Couple this with up till just very recently rampant SLT and trust salaries consuming ever more money from a limited pot and you have why schools have rapidly gone backwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obesity cases rising fastest in young adults⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, far too much added processed sugar and fats, but thats the vast majority of problem foods problem.

  A whole wheat or cauliflower base would be all I changed if I was aiming for a healthy pizza

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obesity cases rising fastest in young adults⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Copying the Americans with their pizza is a fruit classification?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obesity cases rising fastest in young adults⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its already here, I had an ID check when I purchased some red bull yesterday, well I would have done if I looked forty years younger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idiocracy is here.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Covid made me realise that even the dumbest person in a horror movie who goes down into the basement on their own, actually exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its an absolutely awful way of tackling the problem of sexting and cross sharing of nudes.

  Zero chance this won’t misidentify content, be easy to bypass, and massively extended.

  Does anyone seriously believe that the type of content it looks for won’t be expanded in what it searches for, and that it will cover adult devices over time?

  Thats before you look at jt as a way for mass role out of device level identity verification dressed up as age verification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And now, let us join Pete Hegsfield in prayer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If he was into Metallica, Lars would be by far his favourite member and the drums on St Anger a masterpiece

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinks reform will stop with Muslims, has book out talking about the end of the Tories, very obvious grift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carmakers scramble to plug £3bn shortfall for UK loan scandal payouts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The amount has already been reduced because it would “bankrupt” the sector if they actually paid out the true cost to the consumer plus interest and this seems like more posturing to lower it further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Footage used in Palestine Action trial contains 'perceived gaps', court hears⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have made it worse and worse by doubling down each time they get blocked punishing OAPs for wearing a T Shirt supporting the group. Its now got to the stage multiple senior members of the sitting government need to resign over this, not just the PM if they can’t make this stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at this photograph⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jeff Jarret has let himself go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water bills are rising and thousands are planning not to pay⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think of you’ve agreed a payment plan and then dont pay it you are in a worse position than just not paying it in the first place, as by agreeing to the payment plan you agree I’m the debt is yours and you can afford to pay it. Disputing the debt until it goes to court gives you a stronger position i believe.

  Main difference from not paying your gas or electric bill is that they can’t legally cut your water off.

  Obviously get proper legal advice as I’m far from certain or a lawyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children in England ‘bombarded’ with online ads for harmful products⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can add gambling adverts to this, it would be disingenious to suggest kids do not watch football

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The budget for Galaxys Edge was cut by Chapek, it was only part of what was planned and what did get implemented was often less than originally planned.

  Other than cutting the budget, I think were they went wrong with it was making too high a concept for a theme park and centering it around the less popular sequel franchise time line. It made for a confusing experience for a more casual Star Wars fan.

  I stand by RotR being an S tier ride, when it isnt operating broken, because its over complicated and the maintenance budgets were cut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Barnsley rebranded UK’s first ‘tech town’ as US giants join AI push⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “In the latest move in Labour’s drive to inject AI into Britain’s bloodstream, the government has announced four US tech companies – Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Adobe”, ah, a complete scam it is then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All aboard! UK's first rapid-charging battery train launches in London⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fast charging at the platform is the most interesting thing here, three and a half minute top ups are up there for turnaround times. If it proves to not excessively degrade the battery with high number of charges then it makes much longer routes with charging points as and where local infrastructure can support a charging point. Would greatly reduce the cost and disruption to implement proper electrification for routes that would struggle to justify it otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at the rate its dropping it will be close to zero in eight years.

  The people left could almost certainly get by with a 5G (or likely 6G by that point) setup properly, and the extreme edge cases left with sat based internet like Starlink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, thats clearly a common setup requirement for the majority of people on freeview who don’t have more than 10 Mbps broadband.

  There are always edge cases, they are rarely helpful in understanding problems like this as the cost to support them far out weighs the number of people it helps. I would suspect if you means tested this group most would fall outside of qualifying for assistance anyway.

  I used to run 3 4k streams plus social media use for 4 adults on what was often 65mbps. You only need a reliable about 5 Mbps for a HD stream for iPlayer, the 10 Mbps more than covers this for the majority of people in this situtation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The BBC’s proposal to switch off Freeview is a threat to its universal service | Letter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the research pushing against the switch off is driven by Arqiva, who runs the transmitters, lol.

  I cannot see how in 8 years the vast majority doesn’t have some sort of suitable broadband just to exist let alone replace an old freeview set that will likely need replacing in that time frame anyway.

  We are already down to 3% of households now, and less than 50k households that do not get 10mbs+. In eight years we will have fixed almost all of that, and aged out a lot of the older demographic that has worse adoption.

  Cost aspect I get and agree with, we should be ensuring people on pension credit and other low income benefits get free broadband anyway, its getting increasingly difficult to interact with Government and Local Services without it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There used to be a cap on uni places, Blair removed that cap. Polys converted in 92 under the Tories.

  In theory, there could be more students applying than the cap, and in theory you could end up getting grades another year would have let you get in but not get in year you applied.

  I say in theory as you would have had to have pretty fucking awful grades to not get in, I know of people getting in with a mix of Es and Ns during the pre Blair era, and no it wasnt a “soft” course or on a foundation year either.

  Obviously I am ignoring subjects like Medicine that still had a cap even after Blairs meddling and have always been extremely tough to get in even with fantastic grades.

  The biggest issue he caused by just removing the cap entirely was not ensuring a long lasting funding model, you cannot double the number of students and not cause runway increases in costs that ultimately have to be footed by the tax payer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  May be they couldn’t have kids because, i don’t know, being entirely different species, so they adopted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they don’t pay a penny towards those costs? For the median? As thats a lot of people.

  As its entirely wrapped in the tax already accounted for in that net income with the UK tax payer.

  I wasn’t expecting it to be the whole difference but I do know those that have to pay in the US pay a significant chunk of change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Replace 'm' with 'rn' in Microsoft(.)com to Steal Users' Login Credentials⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You would think it would be an easy up-sell by the domain registrars to offer sound and look a like domains when you registering and renewing your domain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you accounting for everything that’s included in UK taxation such as health care and state pension?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that’s its pre-watershed for sporting events that are popular with kids makes it even worse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have WfH for about twenty five years now and I will say the same thing I always say when this type of comment pops up, if people do not want to talk to you for some reason they will not respond as its a lot easier to hide on email/IM than an office situation. If you finding that people are hiding from you, then that’s as much a you problem as anything else for not directly addressing it.

  I actually find it considerably easier to get hold of someone via IM than any other method short of direct dialing them as I can reach them in meetings or away from their desk or even in another country entirely, its only if they are intentionally ignoring you it does not work. If the person is presenting in a meeting or otherwise legitimately incommunicado then they aren’t going to respond F2F or IM anyway.

  Not measuring output volume or quality consistently is a widespread problem for businesses, regardless of location of the employee. Consistent and accurate measurement is the only way to be sure you are getting the results you are expecting, for coding that means code reviews not commit counts, 360 feedback, and so on. If you are feeding back, and someones ignoring that, guess what, its also a you problem for not building in consequences and follow ups. It also applies just as much in an office situation as it does remote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sheffield Wednesday file for administration with 12-point deduction imminent⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason the Premier League was created was for the teams in the Premier League to keep more of the money by sharing less with the lower leagues.

  The Premier League earns so much more money than the lower leagues its impossible to get into and stay in without a rich sugar daddy.

  Even if you do get up with money to spend as Forest found when they got promoted, the cap on your spending is greatly reduced for that first year so you struggle to compete without a points reduction for overspending.

  The rules exist to pull up the ladder as much as possible. One of the main goals for any European super league is to remove relegation and promotion. Its about locking in that revenue stream.

  Having said all that, the punishment is there to stop the club being pillaged or mismanaged as in this case. The threat of a points deduction stops anybody sensible from just borrowing their way up the league without being able to pay for it. We had clubs getting in all sorts of messes and far more often as they tried to buy titles.

  This owner is far from rational, best case was his plan was to sell it to a friend for a pound and wipe off the debt, and thats me being very generous to his ability to plan ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Progress⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did Samsung dex for a while, its ok as long as you don’t want low level access to what you connecting to.

  Now I switched to a gpd micropc 2 and its built in ethernet, sd card, usb a and c sockets and native linux make it so much more useful. No longer do i need dongles or other rubbish.

  Plus it will do multiple monitor support, something dex struggles with. The keyboard is a little small for touch typing but the former factor is worth the trade of for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad but true⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumbest person I know also happens to be a super nice, always happy, and also very attractive. She’s never struggled to get work ever, even for her dream job as a teacher when she had to take her foundational English and Math exams three times.

  I would say she has a better life than the majority of people, never had a day of stress ever as everything has always worked out for her.