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8 days agoFuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.
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3·9 days agoThat’s more like a credible source, thank you!
I agree with the statement but I’ve downvoted this as I can find no reference to it anywhere on the BMA website or any other official public communication.
What I did find was an article about it here, and when questioned for a reference the author responded with an ever unhelpful “I have been told it is on the members only part of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) website.”
OP, if you can provide proof of this I’ll gladly turn that downvote into an upvotes.
Edit: The Guardian has reported on it so it appears to be true, nice one!
Not to mention the constant paranoia and assumption that you’re stealing from them whilst saving them an immense amount of labour costs. Cameras watching your every move and “UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA”.
Makes for such an enjoyable shopping experience…
12·14 days agoBBC giving free advertising in disguise, wtf? Evan Davis can’t have a podcast about heat pumps because they’re “controversial” but they can make fluff pieces for private corporations? What a shower of bastards.
In the short term, definitely.
In the long term I’d hope that it collapses like the Trump administration appears to be in the very beginnings of. So cruel and incompetent that large percentages of the population finally wake up to the shit oppressive capitalist system we live under and force genuine progressive change to improve all our lives. No more Tory light, actual fucking socialism.
Billions of people live their lives working all day every day, to what end? We have so many amazing machines, computers, robots, we don’t need to be working all our days all day to make some rich pricks who purchased a factory more money. Productivity is so immensely high. The Bread Book came out in 1892 and argued then that productivity was high enough to not need all of us to be working as much as we do, productivity eclipses that now by an insane amount. We don’t need to be constantly stressed and doing the bidding of some prick boss and yet that is the experience of the majority of the population across the world.
All so they can watch the number in their stock portfolio go up and up. Literally dragons hoarding gold for no other purpose than to hoard it. And brag to the other dragons about how much they have.
We’re genuinely at the point that the ancient Greeks dreamed of, of being able to eat figs, have orgies, and play with the arts all day and yet we all get up and commute to work and back instead because wealth is so unevenly distributed.
Cruel and unusual punishment from a Labour government. Great.
Interesting that £1k of benefits cheating will give the government carte blanche to look through your bank accounts but fraud and tax avoidance by the richest in society and HMRC can’t do a thing. Funny how that works…
2·4 months agoJust works, sometimes. Other times you’ll be left with a blank screen and the need for a second device to search the mint forums. It all depends on the age and support for your hardware.
You’d rather see nonsense then. You can’t dissolve a country. A country doesn’t go bust, stop trading, wrap things up and shut down. It may have hyper inflation and gain a poor populace but it cannot shut down. It can always leverage for credit because it will always exist. The terms of credit may be awful but the ability to raise funds somehow is always there. Literally printing money, bonds, government takeover of private institutes, whatever, there’s many many many more levers available to a government than other entities.
A country cannot go bankrupt. Therefore the title is bollocks, therefore a downvote and move on is warranted. Even if the content is good, they’ve spoiled any respectability with the title.
This is exactly why the new lemmy.world rules where moderators should challenge everything instead of removing bad content is bonkers because it encourages nonsense and misinformation.
Countries can’t go bankrupt… anyone who puts that in their title is full of shit.
One in five Britons have never lived under a dictatorship and haven’t got a fucking clue what they’re wishing for.
2·4 months agoLemmy on the TV? That’s a thing? How? Why?
The solution is a varied diet.
We need to be eating random things, not the same protein, carbs, and veggies that we know we like and buy on routine.
How much of the fruit and vegetable aisle do you actually purchase from? I think many of us get in a routine of buying the same things over and over because we know what we like or we’re on autopilot from work burnout. But, for example, if instead of buying apples each week, we buy a different random fruit. Or, if the budget can stretch it, buy apples and a random fruit. Then our nutritional variety has just increased.
I’m being a bit of a hypocrite here because I myself like to buy the same things over and over. I like chicken, I like apples, I like the same granola I always get. But during each shop, I try to add at least something random that I don’t normally get. A vegetable I don’t normally cook with or tofu instead of chicken, whatever. We need variety.
There’s also the talk of nutritional content reducing in supermarket goods as they’re produced for profit. So growth speed and shelf appearance are prioritised, a way to combat that is to start growing some of your own. Obviously, this is highly dependent upon living situations, but even some herbs in a windowsill will help. Personally, I think vegetable gardeners are some of the most punk people out there, sustaining themselves, entertaining themselves, and learning new skills all for the price of a bag of dirt and some seeds. Be punk!
I use drills everyday for work and have one at home that doesn’t get used much because if I want to get handy I don’t want to drive to work to get one.
The average person has fuck-all experience with power tools, they don’t use them every day. They can pull the trigger and it goes brrrrrrr but they don’t know what the options on the rotation piece are, they don’t know about different types of chuck, they don’t know which gear setting to put their drill in. They use it for the absolute minimum amount of time possible and then put it away. You’re clearly a professional if you’re using them every day, most people are not.
I don’t know whether the 7 minute claim is true or not, but the idea that most drills barely get used and spend most of their time sitting about is not very difficult to believe. I’m quite a handy person, and even my drill spends most of it’s time doing nothing because I’m not drilling every single day, just as and when DIY jobs come up.
In a world drowning in ewaste, and lithium being a precious resource, why are we collectively wasting so much on individual drills when, as JubilantJaguar said, we could own these things communally and not create so much waste.
The idea of a communal toolshed for your street, block, tenement, whatever, isn’t the same as having tools sitting at work. Work for most people is a commute away. Communal toolsheds would be local. They ideally shouldn’t be any more than 10 mins walk away. Can you really begrudge a 10 minute walk for the sake of your wallet, environment, and community?
This also helps the young get into DIY easier. Most of my mates growing up barely did any DIY or tinkering, not because they weren’t interested, but because the cost of getting the necessary tools was prohibitive as a teenager. It’s taken me years to accumulate the toolbox I have now, and many of the items in there are hand-me-downs or second-hand. A communally owned toolshed gives everyone instant access to tools regardless of personal wealth or resources. If a power tool dies, £150 spread between multiple households is nothing compared to £150 for an individual household.
Managing it, caring for the tools, ensuring they’re returned, and in a good state, are obviously hurdles to be addressed, but if communal toolsheds were the cultural norm then they could easily be overcome. We manage to do it with books easily enough, why not anything else?
The $0 home server:
Don’t host on YouTube? They’re a big company, I’m sure they’ve got the resources for a couple of video files.
Because that’s not how people think. They could have done a graph of average rent price and shown it going up, and up, and up. But instead, they obfuscate the statistics so the layman casual reader can’t understand it, that’s better, isn’t it?
There’s a reason they’ve got a section titled Landlord’s Concerns and not one titled Tenants’ Concerns.
Yes. Not precedent as in American law where “they’ve done it this way in the past so we don’t need to think about it again and just copy the previous ruling” but precedent as in other cities have now seen a) it can be done b) how to do it. This makes it easier to do it in their cities. It’s also in a highly influential city when it comes to laws and courts.