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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mosquito-borne disease risk looms for UK - study⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not just mosquitos and not just in the long term either; with the colder weather not being as harsh a lot of other critters are either making a comeback, hanging around for longer or not dying out in the colder temperatures - think Blandford flies, horseflies, tick bites…
British workers missing out on £10,700 a year as living standards fallwww.theguardian.com ↗
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BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study findswww.theguardian.com ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS hit by ‘severe drug shortages’ due to Brexit red tape⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Project Orbis is about approval (and it seems like a good idea). It isn’t about supply or cost.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS hit by ‘severe drug shortages’ due to Brexit red tape⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Close to home think Gibraltar and Northern Ireland. Further afield - I work with people who regularly travel for tasks that require an on-site presence and who have long term health conditions.

Probably more common than you think.
Private Eye - In The Back - False account Tees freeport , Issue 1608www.private-eye.co.uk ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sycamore Gap tree: Site plans are complicated, says MP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It’s sad but just leave it be. What’s lost is lost and cannot be easily replaced or replicated. In another millennium or two there’ll be something else there and those of us around today won’t really have any control over that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The pure ChatGPT output would probably be garbage. The dataset will be full of all manner of sources (together with their inherent biases) other with spin, untruths and outright parody and it’s not apparent that there is any kind of curation or quality assurance on the dataset (please correct me if I’m wrong).

I don’t think it’s a good tool for extracting factual information from. It does seem to be good at synthesising prose and helping with writing ideas.

I am quite interested in things like this where the output from a “knowledge engine” is paired with something like ChatGPT - but it would be for eg writing a science paper rather than news.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Exactly. The data harvest has had years in the making.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
“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.
Revealed: Russell Brand Exited Comedy Central’s ‘Roast Battle’ After Facing Sexual Predator Claims On-Cameradeadline.com ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Enshittification intensifies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I believe the secret sauce is empathy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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.
Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another waywww.theguardian.com ↗
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russell Brand: Comedian accused of rape and sexual assault of four women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
The alt right alimentary canal; always ends with a load of shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ugly Truth About Reinforced Aerated Autoclaved Concrete (RAAC)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Almost choked on my tofu. Now to read the article.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covid variant Eris causes summer surge as mask mandate returns spark debate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
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.