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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/29/horrible-winter-lies-ahead-next-pm-inherit-nhs-knees-crisis ‘A horrible winter lies ahead’: next PM will inherit an NHS on its knees quote:Jeremy Hunt, the chair of the health and social care committee, is equally concerned. “The new PM will inherit an NHS facing the most serious crisis in its history,” he warns. “A&Es, ambulances, general practice and social care are in serious peril across the country.” LMAO how did it get that way Jeremy?
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Musing that sometimes it's a little unclear whether people are using "Tories" to refer to Tory MPs, members of the Conservative Party or people who vote Conservative.
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Maugrim posted:Musing that sometimes it's a little unclear whether people are using "Tories" to refer to Tory MPs, members of the Conservative Party or people who vote Conservative. They're all tories, some of them are paid to be tories.
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Aug 29, 2022 15:22
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OwlFancier posted:The smarter ones might correctly deduce that a degree of public services are necessary to stop society collapsing and them no longer having a pile to be on top of, but the tory leadership has been progressively burning through the passably intelligent ones and we are now left with the absolute stupidest and most unhinged they can dredge up. Except they don't pay it because they list it as a donation from the non-profit their accountant set up in the caymans, or whatever tax loophole they get to use for being rich.
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Aug 29, 2022 15:27
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Darth Walrus posted:Water quality in England and Wales was a horrorshow unique within the continent even a year before Brexit. The idea that we aren't going to get a flood (ahem) of lethal tap water scandals as our already-crumbling water infrastructure gets steadily more toxic seems like far more wishful thinking. Have you got a source on this? or are you talking rivers etc? Cos those sure, they are in an awful state. But as far as I'm aware tap water in the UK is pretty good, generally regarded as some of the best in europe. stev posted:They're all tories, some of them are paid to be tories. Then lots of them drink tap water. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Funniest are the ideologues who are so opposed to public spending and taxation that they boast about their private health insurance, private guards on their gated community, and private pension / 401k; paying profit-making companies ten times what they would in taxes to a properly funded government. I think the point for them is honestly they need to see other people having-not in order to feel like they have. It's not enough to simply have a good quality of life, there needs to be a lot of people to look down on.
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Do you remember the time when people were chucking milkshakes over pro-Brexit politicians? I do, every time I read an article about politicians who voted to allow sewage to be dumped in rivers. Except not milkshakes.
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You can get a complete reverse osmosis unit for 80 quid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdzLJWb4R8 Poor water quality will be something that only directly affects the poorest and those precarious rental accommodation, while costing the masses a bit more money every year, benefiting the bold innovators selling them by a bit, and benefiting water executives a lot. That's completely aside from if they're using wastewater reclamation, standard treatment, desalination, dowsing, hydromancy, or cold fusion. It would be very bad, it would kill people at the people at the bottom, while everyone else is Bobby Deluxe posted:paying profit-making companies ten times what they would in taxes to a properly funded government "Be your own water treatment plant" is a bad proposition all round, but I'm not sure that's enough to stop it given to material benefit to bold disruptors and decaying infrastructure.
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Lady Demelza posted:Do you remember the time when people were chucking milkshakes over pro-Brexit politicians? I do, every time I read an article about politicians who voted to allow sewage to be dumped in rivers. Except not milkshakes. go do it then
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My local MP uses the same definition of 'local' that Ryanair does.
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OwlFancier posted:Being lazy is a full time commitment if you're good at it. It's lucky that 'self help singh' is on the case then  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8An2SxNFvmU
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domhal posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/29/horrible-winter-lies-ahead-next-pm-inherit-nhs-knees-crisis so we’re actually forced to privatise it to save it you see
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Maugrim posted:Musing that sometimes it's a little unclear whether people are using "Tories" to refer to Tory MPs, members of the Conservative Party or people who vote Conservative. I regret to say that I have spent time with both (i) Tory voters and (ii) Tory members. The latter are worse by an order of magnitude.
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Halisnacks posted:I regret to say that I have spent time with both (i) Tory voters and (ii) Tory members. The latter are worse by an order of magnitude. I saw an article the other day where one of them was boo-hooing about being stereotyped as a weirdo loony, just for being a member of the party which [gestures at everything]
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Bobstar posted:I saw an article the other day where one of them was boo-hooing about being stereotyped as a weirdo loony, just for being a member of the party which [gestures at everything] In that vein, I came across this today: https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1564202925068623874?s=20&t=CHe7_63Yd0wUfxMM4-sYbw One of the most amazing twitter threads I've seen in a while; just a string of terminal lib-brain JAQ-ing off about how "isn't it extraordinary how the tolerant left don't want to be in close personal relationships with conservatives?" https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1564205536421224448?s=20&t=CHe7_63Yd0wUfxMM4-sYbw "Methinks it so strange that you, who professes to be tolerant, won't tolerate intolerant people...this is mysterious and I am very clever  "
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BalloonFish posted:In that vein, I came across this today:  he kept digging.https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1564228971016880128 I wonder what values he believes are strongly predicted by race. A minority group is more likely to be antiracist than a majority one, that's just called having skin in the game, but beyond that you end up going straight into "Black people believe X and..." https://twitter.com/Hal_Duncan/status/1564264704918568961
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Shakespearean Beef posted:go do it then Is chucking a milkshake at a MP now considereda terrorism that'll get you sent to a hole in Rwanda?
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Chucking a milkshake is now illegal because it wastes precious moisture.
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Microplastics posted:Chucking a milkshake is now illegal because it wastes precious moisture. Only those who have read the first three Dune books will be allowed stillsuits. 
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Just Another Lurker posted:Only those who have read the first three Dune books will be allowed stillsuits. What do we get if we sat through the SciFi channel TV adaptation
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domhal posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/29/horrible-winter-lies-ahead-next-pm-inherit-nhs-knees-crisis We're just going to have to explain to every patient that comes in with various cold and malnutrition related illnesses that they should really be working harder and trust that our betters in big business have got our best interests at heart. In all seriousness it's going to be first come first served once it gets even slightly cold because no fuckers house is going to be habitable and care jobs are still working poverty jobs - and trust me even the posh cunts who can pay for private carers are going to have a shock when can't advertise for one of the local poors to care for their relative for £8 an hour or whatever.
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McFlurry Fan #1 posted:We're just going to have to explain to every patient that comes in with various cold and malnutrition related illnesses that they should really be working harder and trust that our betters in big business have got our best interests at heart. We've got a woodburner so have been spending some time at the local woods grabbing stuff to burn, we only take fallen stuff thats dried. A top tip is to get an electric chainsaw, beats the piss outta a screaming 2 stroke.. we use a dewalt & one battery will cut enough to fill the car.
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They've pulled Liz from her interview with Nick Robinson. I assume because they think she'll crumble.
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Wonder what kitchen appliance she will hide inside to avoid reporters.
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xtothez posted:What do we get if we sat through the SciFi channel TV adaptation Your water will be shared with the tribe
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xtothez posted:What do we get if we sat through the SciFi channel TV adaptation A body shield (not to used near lasers, Shai-Hulud or Liberal Democrats). 
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Trainee PornStar posted:We've got a woodburner so have been spending some time at the local woods grabbing stuff to burn, we only take fallen stuff thats dried. Wood poacher. Verdict: guilty. Sentence: Chop his hands off with his electric chainsaw.
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serious gaylord posted:They've pulled Liz from her interview with Nick Robinson. When I apply for jobs and they offer me an interview, I decline it saying, no I think this will only harm my chances, go on what you already have.
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OwlFancier posted:Wonder what kitchen appliance she will hide inside to avoid reporters.
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Anyone got a simple rundown of all jk Rowlings insanity in one place? I saw one a while back but I can’t find it now
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OwlFancier posted:Wonder what kitchen appliance she will hide inside to avoid reporters. She will pretend to be a photo of herself petting the dulux dog.
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Did Bojo leave office yet? Or is he just pulling a stealth Trump coup or something?
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TulliusCicero posted:Did Bojo leave office yet? Or is he just pulling a stealth Trump coup or something? He won't leave office until the Tories elect a new leader, and that should be 5th September
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Ouroboros posted:Anyone got a simple rundown of all jk Rowlings insanity in one place? I saw one a while back but I can’t find it now You just need to check out her later books, and then her Twitter account, it's all good stuff. (You shouldn't actually check out either, and none of the stuff is good)
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TulliusCicero posted:Did Bojo leave office yet? Or is he just pulling a stealth Trump coup or something? he's cranking his hog on a beach in Greece, saying 'wow such a shame all that stuff going on back home, if only I was in a position to do anything about it. oh well time for another strenuous red-faced wank!'
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https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1564168390196985856 oh dear what a shame, who could have thought he would do such a thing
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OwlFancier posted:https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1564168390196985856 Wow, are there no depths Jeremy Corbyn won't go to?
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If you're wondering about keeping the heating off this winter and concerned about mould, here's a couple of charts for you: A. Relative Humidity v Temp (sadly in F) To convert F to C use the formula C= (5/9)*(F-32) To nearest .5C: 60F = 15.5C, 65F = 18.5C, 70F = 21C, 75F = 24C, 80F = 26.5C, 85F = 29.5C Example: your indoor temp is 15.5C, it's raining so relative humidity 90% = 3 or 4 days to mould on wood in a crawl space. The PI is paper preservation and I'm not sure how to interpret that other than lower numbers are worse and your papers will probably get mouldy too. (NB - I stand to be corrected on this if someone has knowledge of this area!)  For the above chart: quote:There are often many factors and measures in science where knowing a few allows you to determine others. With Temperature and Relative Humidity you can determine Dew Point of air, Preservation Index of paper, “Days to Mold” of wood, and finally, Equilibrium Moisture Content of wood, respectively. 100% of the above information was laboriously extracted from DPCalc.org which has a good thing going, but people tend to stick between 60F – 80F (with their living conditions) and tolerate rough math at an increasingly delightful rate, and are quite happy with a 1-pager that fully encompasses all the environmental conditions a seasoned building scientist who travels the globe will encounter. Each chart goes from “No-Risk” to “everything you have is garbage in 3 days”. Thank you google for making the Stetten Home Services “Mold-Chart” the number 1 google result on earth. B. Relative Humidity v Temp (C)  I know some of you have got dehumidifiers, but I just read that they start to become less efficient under 18C and don't function below 10C. I have lived in a flat where the indoors in unheated areas was 9C in winter (in Cairo as it happens) and that is very bloody cold and Brits saying 'oh but it's 2C here - not in your bloody home it isn't). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Aug 30, 2022 |
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