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It's conspiracist planks either knowingly or unknowingly at the behest of sociopaths hellbent on maintaining their own power and the status quo in the name of "freedom" by using a slippery slope logical fallacy, rather than permit any kind of progress. A world where the less advantaged are helped more is a world where they have less power, so they purport this BS on social media knowing that a subset of folks will lap it up, make a noise and block things. That's about it, really.

Oh yes. Isaac Newton is still the deadliest SOB in the galaxy.

...and that's just the larger, more visible pieces. That being said, we've still got something of a grasp on the situation for now, but we do have to be very careful in the future - triggering Kessler Syndrome would be catastrophic.

What an unbelievable farce.

Fair enough, mon ami.

So... small scale fission plants and renewables replacing oil and gas for energy generation ASAP to prevent disaster then?

I think home advantage and conditions will give you guys a good lift.

And the end result is the use of the democratic process to destroy it. Very depressing, especially when, as you say, it's obvious.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66990302 Conspiracy theories linking "15-minute cities" to sinister ploys to control people may once have been the preserve of fringe groups on social media, but have they now entered the mainstream of British politics? Speaking at the Conservative Party conference on Monday, Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he was "calling time on the misuse of so-called '15-minute cities'". Originally an urban planning concept, the "15-minute city" idea is aimed at providing people in cities with basic services within a quarter of an hour's walk or bike ride of where they live. Like a lot of other conspiracist stuff, this would be laughable if the internet didn't allow it to reach so many people and thus somehow become a matter of policy debate.

I guess a larger part of this comes down to a wider debate tbh. Whether someone thinks that the bigger problem is people abusing a system ("tragedy of the commons"), or some people slipping through the cracks in that system and not getting the help they need. Sadly as such systems are never perfect the choice tends to be between one or the other.

I hope you feel better soon mate. It can hit people very hard.

Appreciate you clarifying your position - I'll be totally honest, this isn't the only post I've seen regarding the "workshy" made here that made me draw that conclusion. But text can sometimes be very easily misinterpreted, happens all the time.

Well, this is the conclusion I have drawn from that particular post, too. No wonder the male self harm and suicide rate continues to remain unacceptably high.

Certainly, but let's not overlook that the Fail deliberately miss the point regarding underfunding as a means to discredit the organisation itself for the purposes of public distrust and subsequent privatisation with all the suffering for poorer and vulnerable people that entails. Any vaguely competent and reasonably funded (by a vaguely competent government) organisation with an actual interest in both its workforce and the patients that use it would offer both the ambulances required and this.

Ah, not like the Fail to show a lack of understanding regarding basic empathy and just throw red meat to their red faced readership by attacking a state institution, is it?

4 finals, lost 3 of them. 3 QF losses too, it's the semifinals where England seem to specialise. Also 3 out of the last 4 knockout losses (since 1999) have been to South Africa.

Nah, if that were there it would have been more specific about "quarterfinals".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66983060 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize. The technology was experimental before the pandemic, but has now been given to millions of people around the world to protect them against serious Covid-19. Congratulations. Long may they continue to save lives and make ridiculous conspiracy nut antivaxxers angry.

Of course, this really should be obvious. However it's perfectly plausible for well-applied tech to reduce the number of mistakes in this case and we really shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Could use "choke, mostly against the Saffers, in the knockout stage" instead.

That's perhaps because they have an understanding of the difference between bad human application of tech and bad tech entirely - the former being much more common than the latter and certainly more common than perhaps some of the more...."romantic" elements among football fanbases appear to think.

There's something darkly funny about Truss's commitment to a course of action that ends at best with hundreds of millions dead, suffering or displaced and at worst with civilisational collapse.

I think that's a certainty rather than a probability tbh.

Yep. The flaw is human, and both other leagues and other sports show it can be mitigated. So mitigate it, don't throw the tech out simply because the folks currently running it lack competence.

Great stuff!