ohulancutash
@ohulancutash@feddit.uk
- Comment on ‘Nobody has done this before’: Britain’s beloved steam trains trial pioneering technology 4 days ago:
This is the first outfit of a steam locomotive with ETCS Level 2, hence the length and cost of the project.
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 6 days ago:
They were part of a land grab that took it from the Spanish along with Guam and some other places. Gained independence in 1946.
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 6 days ago:
Lack of hostile land grabs? West of the Mississippi, Texas, Hawaii and the Philippines would beg to differ.
- Comment on Global pandemic treaty finalized, without U.S., in ‘a victory for multilateralism’ 1 week ago:
I wonder how long that will last when shit meets fan.
- Comment on Anti-Trans Ruling in UK Strips Protections From Trans Women 1 week ago:
This bombastic style of reporting isn’t helpful. The ruling doesn’t “strip” protections, it clarifies that Scotland made a law based on an error in interpretation of an earlier law, ergo those protections never existed. It further points out that the Equalities Act confers protections on trans people regardless.
This is an opportunity to introduce the protections Scotland thought were in force, but actually.
- Comment on A French law requiring adult sites to run age checks( facial age estimation, ...etc) and block users under 18 became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU. 1 week ago:
Good thing russian hackers don’t know how to get into a database
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 1 week ago:
So they’ll be open sourcing all their algorithms right? Right?
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 1 week ago:
You’re unfortunately very mistaken there. That fundamental was shattered in 1993 when social care was separated from the NHS (free at point of use) and instead given to local government (means tested pricing at point of use). Ever in search of savings for their limited budgets, local governments promptly privatised and outsourced their services. We went from 65% of care home spaces being publicly funded at the end of the 1970s to 6% a decade ago. At-home care went from being 95% publicly funded in 1993 to 11% in 2012.
This sector of healthcare is beyond breaking point, with over 100,000 unfilled staff vacancies in care homes alone. This creates a backlog as NHS hospitals can’t discharge patients who need residential care that doesn’t exist.
If you’re expecting a free-at-point-of-use care home later in life, think again. That is gone. Unless you have a large accumulation of savings to burn through things don’t look rosy.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 1 week ago:
The NHS has already largely been privatised. GPs were always private contractors but now GP groups have been increasingly bought by US companies, with the largest GP group in England, The Practice (half a million patients), being completely US owned
NHS Logistics was privatised 2006-2019 (part of DHL, later Unipart) before becoming a government owned company.
NHS internal operation capacity has essentially frozen since 2014, with the increase coming from the private sector. Over a third of “NHS” hip and knee operations, 60% of cataract operations, and a fifth of operations overall are contracted out to private companies.
In terms of “internal” structure the service has been broken up into more than 500 legally distinct “Public Benefit Corporations” who can set up commercial subsidiaries and bid for provision contracts between themselves, as well as entering into commercial partnership with foreign companies such as the Mayo Clinic’s involvement in Oxford’s NHS provider.
Social care has been almost totally privatised at this point.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 1 week ago:
With its support for capital punishment, the Democrats would fit somewhere in the far right in most of Europe.
- Comment on Trump Admin Considering Giving $10,000 To Each Person In Greenland To Annex The Island 1 week ago:
It’s probably better than how they got Alaska and the Louisiana territories.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
Unfortunately Germany does not permit dual-nationality with a country outside the EU.
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 1 week ago:
British Steel got itself into a mess. It decided not to invest in the equipment needed to make high-quality steel, so we get that from the Dutch. That leaves mid-grade steel but the Chinese happily crank that out by the shipload at a lower price.
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 1 week ago:
Employing thousands across the park, hospitality, transport, supply chain. Improving the balance of payments as every foreign visitor counts as an export. Showcasing British IP. Yeah it’s a disgrace.
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 1 week ago:
You’re thinking of the failed scheme to build a Paramount theme park near Dartford.
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 1 week ago:
Just a minor correction here, HS1 was not built with public funds. Indeed Thatcher wrote into the Channel Tunnel Act 1987 a clause making it illegal for any public subsidy to reach the tunnel or its connecting line. As a consequence, St Pancras is the only privately owned railway station on the national network.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 2 weeks ago:
Who’s doing the beating here?
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 weeks ago:
It’ll increase wages.
- Comment on Infrastructure construction in Britain is defective. The most budget UK tramway is more expensive than the most costly french tramway 2 weeks ago:
France does more trams, so they have homegrown industry to support them, standard economy of scale. The list is also comparing smaller French urban areas with very dense urban areas such as Manchester, which has higher property prices, more infrastructure to avoid or divert, and so on.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 2 weeks ago:
Assuming OP is from that country.
- Comment on AI firms are ‘scraping the value’ from UK’s £125bn creative industries, says Channel 4 boss 2 weeks ago:
Which hasn’t happened in the UK.
- Comment on Anyone else over April Fools being an extension of companies R&D depts 3 weeks ago:
How is it anything to do with R&D?
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 3 weeks ago:
This will probably be a reaction to the Hainault sword attack last year which resulted in the murder of a schoolboy, attempted murder of others, and an attack on a sleeping family, using a samurai sword. The trial is due to start tomorrow.
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 3 weeks ago:
The houses will be in insufficient quantity and in poor location to make rail transport of materials viable.
- Comment on BBC reporter arrested and deported from Turkey 3 weeks ago:
You mean the killings consistently called out and condemned by the BBC?
- Comment on If you are ever feeling like what you are doing is meaningless, remember that there are American lawyers and judges who have spent many years studying US constitutional law. 4 weeks ago:
And most of them will be millionaires by 2029
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 4 weeks ago:
It’s called cold weather.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 4 weeks ago:
They do.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
If you don’t bother to vote, you’re not a voter.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
There are, they are being reported. I couldn’t speculate as to why you are missing them.