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- Comment on Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way:
Agree. Too incompetent, and maybe too lazy to improve.
- Comment on Revealed: Russell Brand Exited Comedy Central’s ‘Roast Battle’ After Facing Sexual Predator Claims On-Camera:
“Ryan has previously spoken about her experience on Roast Battle, but has not named Brand or the show she was working on. In an appearance on BBC series Louis Theroux Interviews… last year, Ryan revealed that she confronted her unnamed co-star: “I – in front of loads of people, in the format of the show – said to this person’s face that they are a predator.”
Deadline has confirmed with multiple sources that she was referring to Brand and Roast Battle. Ryan told Theroux that she did not name her colleague because it was a “litigious minefield” and she had not personally been assaulted by Brand.”
That potential threat of litigation may have played a role.
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- Comment on Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps:
Enshittification intensifies.
- Comment on Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way:
I believe the secret sauce is empathy.
- Comment on Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way:
From your link:
“Beanland’s study concluded that “cycling experience is associated with more efficient attentional processing for road scenes.” She suggested that road safety would be improved for all if more motorists also cycled.
I suspect they’re right.
- Comment on Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way:
Enforcement of existing rules would go a long way; the parliamentary group also advises increasing tariffs for breaking the law and tightening the what counts for “exceptional circumstances” when it comes to defence.
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- Comment on Russell Brand: Comedian accused of rape and sexual assault of four women:
The alt right alimentary canal; always ends with a load of shit.
- Comment on The Ugly Truth About Reinforced Aerated Autoclaved Concrete (RAAC):
15:54 - 16:19; the political angle!
Found the video quite informative; the guy knows how to deliver an engaging lecture.
- Comment on ‘Alarming’ scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platform:
For those who like me are wondering why folk are sucking sand out of the sea in the first place - the TL;DR bot missed this bit:
“Sand and gravel makes up half of all the materials mined in the world. Globally, 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel are used every year – the equivalent of a wall 27 metres high and 27 metres wide stretching round the equator. It is the key ingredient of concrete and asphalt.
“Our entire society is built on sand, the floor of your building is probably concrete, the glass on the windows, the asphalt on roads is made of sand,” said Peduzzi. “We can’t stop doing it because we need lots of concrete for the green transition, for wind turbines and other things.””
- Comment on British Challenger 2 tank destroyed in combat for first time, Ukraine footage shows:
The quote you’ve picked out from the article seems key; small sample, unreliable statistics.
I am not a military person; I do not know the lingo. All I can say is that the footage I have seen coming out of the Ukraine suggests that these days the soldier on the ground or in a light vehicle can have a huge impact on the battlefield. They seem to have very capable and very mobile weapons that will knock out tanks and aircraft; they also seem to have remotely operated weapons and drones. What is happening over there doesn’t seem to be the asymmetric warfare that would have been seen in, say, Iraq.
The impression I get is that the fictional “Modern Warfare” battlefield is here today.
How well tested and adapted is this rarely seen rarely used British tank?
How much have anti-tank weapons evolved since the last design and upgrade?
How was that tank actually damaged anyway?
I’ve no idea. But I am curious.
- Comment on Are spending cuts to blame for the schools concrete crisis?:
forcing change outside of the polling booth Separate to my other reply; what do you mean by this?
- Comment on Are spending cuts to blame for the schools concrete crisis?:
No. This is incorrect.
Labour had taken action - by putting in place the BSF.
The Tory government cut the BSF back in 2010 and further when asked to make money available (bearing in mind a chunk of concrete had fallen off a school in 2018) they didn’t provide nearly enough - indeed they halved it here’s Mr Slater on the Today programme yesterday (from 1:12:57).
- Comment on "Ccritical risk to life:" Sunak refused to fully fund repairs of England’s crumbling schools when he was chancellor, says ex-official:
At risk of spamming the link; Mr Slater talked about it on the Today programme here at 1:12:53
- Comment on Schools are only crumbling because the left-wing Wokerati made us cut the school repair budget in half, insists Government:
Thank you for finding the clip! An incredulous performance from Mike Graham.
The gentleman from Insulate Britain conducted himself quite well. Straight face and all that.
- Comment on Inquiry into remediating use of ‘weaker’ concrete expanded to include UK’s wider public estate | New Civil Engineer:
This is going to be a big expensive mess isn’t it?
- Comment on Schools are only crumbling because the left-wing Wokerati made us cut the school repair budget in half, insists Government:
Almost choked on my tofu. Now to read the article.
- Comment on Covid variant Eris causes summer surge as mask mandate returns spark debate:
This is what I was going to say - you won’t find what you don’t test for, and these days next to no one outside specialist healthcare settings will be testing.
Best we can hope for these days is that sewage monitoring is still in place.
- Comment on Junior doctors and consultants to strike together in England:
The trouble with over a decade of failing to raise pay in the public sector in line with inflation is that eventually you run out of other people’s free labour.
- Comment on Camera attacks and conspiracy theories: How Ulez became a vigilante battleground:
There’s me thinking that the parts of the expansion to the North and South circulars were insisted upon by the Tory government as part of a deal supporting TFL in the COVID-era, and that all Labour’S Khan did was to tack on expansion to the East and West.
- Comment on Should we decide to have a main fediverse community or should we keep posting everything twice?:
I think there’s an element of “careful what you wish for” (hence my stance of “let it be”). I think the risks of over-zealous behaviour, defederation and apparently spontaneous loss of host servers is quite real.
Your idea of multi-communities seems sound; as long as the user is made aware of which community they are posting to when they reply (in case of quirks in the community rules etc) it should work - and over time it is likely that certain communities will become the “go to” for certain types of discussion.
- Comment on Angry Birds developer Rovio got acquired by Sega:
Hmmm.
Sega is a subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings. Sammy is a major developer of pachinko machines.
I wonder where this is going?
- Comment on One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it:
Problem is they even with paying the third party app gets an inferior experience (no polls, nothing marked NSFW).
- Comment on Assuming time travelers are real, but only influenced events so far back enough that a smartphone they lost in the past didn't survive for archeologists to find, how far back are we speaking?:
No idea.
Hawking threw a party once to see if any would turn up.
- Comment on Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit - AiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers:
The last and only printer that I bought from HP worked well and didn’t pull any shenanigans, it was a Laserjet 5L.
Since then, feedback from colleagues and what I’ve seen from reviews and tech communities put me off buying HP again. Between their cloud printing, their inkjet cartridge verification and the USB ports covered in stickers and now this…
- Comment on Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit - AiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers:
The printer scene: youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8
- Comment on Why do comment counts often disagree with what I see?:
Have you disabled viewing posts from bot accounts? It’s one of the user settings.
If you have disabled viewing posts from bots, this is what you would see if a bot commented.
- Comment on How much do junior doctors really get paid in England?:
From what I can see, the fact that individual doctors can see their pay go up as they progress and gain experience isn’t in dispute.
The fact that individual doctors can get paid for doing extended or additional hours isn’t in dispute.
The issue is that freezing pay and awarding sequential sub-inflationary pay rises has effectively cut pay for individual roles.
Is someone one year out of medial school in 2023 worth a third less than someone one year out of medial school in 2008?
Ditto the registrar. Ditto the consultant. Ditto many others in the public sector.
That’s the point of dispute here.
And pay review bodies are appointed by the government and work within whatever constraints the treasury has already placed on the budget - and that have also been ignored in the past. Hiding behind the pay review bodies isn’t going to work.
The sooner they come up with a sensible pay package - multiyear deal is going to be needed - the better.
- Comment on Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds:
There is some variation across disciplines; I do think that in general the process does catch a lot of frank rubbish (and discourages submission of obvious rubbish), but from time to time I do come across inherently flawed work in so-called “high impact factor” and allegedly “prestigious” journals.
In the end, even after peer review, you need to have a good understanding of the field and to have developed and applied your critical appraisal skills.