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Double bluff?

I try to steer clear of anything apart from average strength (~4%) beer. It's far harder to get through equivalent quantities to a bottle of wine and your margin of error between happy and drunk is that much greater. Also if you do homebrew you might develop a more holistic relationship to beer, although its certainly tempting when you have a 36 pint barrel sitting around at home.

Not sure if the article has been updated but the only one I could find after a quick skim was: “Love Bug’s”

Thing is the writer was trying to show possession with that apostrophe but I the correct usage would be:

“Love Bug”'s

Not terribly attractive to read though; I would probably rephrase to avoid it.

Also I'd say I notice this more and more. My suspicion is that graduates from the more prestigious universities are avoiding journalism as a career.

I'm blind in one eye so 3D is lost on me. Looking forward to when the films can be beamed directly to the brain!

Dentistry is far from easy on the body and mind - high suicide rates, high toll on the body. Many if not most older dentists have some kind of physical ailment related to their job.

Whatever happened I hope for the submariners' sake it was quick.

Putting aside the fact that extreme austerity is a gross misrepresentation of the facts, what's the alternative? The UK is already living beyond its means, increasing the public debt every day. Do you suggest we increase the deficit still further? At some point investors would pull the plug.

There was a TV programme the other night about an employment agency in SE UK that could not find enough British workers to do the work it had on its books, and how Brexit had made things worse as many immigrants the agency was previously placing in work had returned their home countries. My thoughts on this were: those jobs were not paying enough to attract labour from the local market, but immigrants were prepared to accept lower wages; thus, the jobs were actually not viable without cheap foreign labour. This looks like a ponzi scheme to me. Does it ever end? Is the plan to continue with immigration for ever? Going by the arguments of the pro-immigration side that immigrants are net contributors then surely we should aim to have the entire population of the world living in the UK? What population do we want in the UK - 80 million? 100 million? 500 million? I would like an answer - I've noticed you never ever get one from a Remainer, because the truth is there is no plan, and whilst in the EU the UK had no control over immigration.

If ending the ponzi scheme and paying enough to attract British workers means we have to get a bit poorer, so be it, I am happy to do so to hold the forces of globalism at bay just a short while longer. I like diversity, and I want it to remain - how dull and disappointing it would be to live in a world where every country is made up of the same undifferentiated global populace and culture.

Or we just continue the ponzi by attracting more workers from outside the EU, e.g. Commonwealth countries, with which the UK has strong historic ties - we just get to choose the highly skilled and temporary labour we want, rather than having no choice over who comes, as is the case whilst the UK remains in the EU.

'As a comedian, she often uses Facebook to promote her performances by showing her irreverent, misandrist brand of wit.'

Replace the anti-male part of this with any other group and she would be a pariah.

Not exclusively.

Well, he would say that, wouldn't he.

Just here to say the coding/management dichotomy I see repeated many times here is false - there are plenty of jobs in service management for example, and they don't require you to turn everything upside down in terms of technology every few years.

Women are always first in the queue and they do indeed house women that have never worked. Just because you quote that page doesn't mean that's the policy that's followed.

You honestly think that tax avoidance is the cause of the deficit?

Point is, it's not an either or. Let's follow up whatever ways we can find of eliminating the deficit - it's still utterly shameful and wrong that someone should be able to get themselves pregnant and be supported by the state in relative comfort whilst someone that has paid in for decades is refused housing. Your defence is to avoid addressing this and instead deflect by talking about generalities.

'gift from the government'?! These are people that have worked their whole lives from times when benefit scrounging was not a viable life plan. There's plenty of poverty in retirement.

Also quite apart from fraud there are peversely generous incentives for people not to work, and thus we end up with the spectacle of multiple generations having never worked, and having no intention to do so.

But if you come from the EU you do not need a visa, do you?

>Reducing this means either an expansion of employment in run-down areas like Blackpool, or reducing benefit levels and hoping that people die quietly.

Not reducing means that the country eventually goes bankrupt. And then there won't be any benefits for anyone at all, will there? To put it another way, if your principle holds true, why don't we just increase benefits until they are 100% of the economy?

So then let's have permanent war because all that spending on bombs is economically beneficial to everyone, right?

I don't care - we need to counter the cynicism at both ends of the scale. For example, it cannot be right that someone that pays into the system their whole lives can then be refused housing in favour of an able bodied person that has paid in nothing and caused their own homelessness by arriving in the UK without a job or means to support themselves. Needless to say the tax avoidance is also disgusting.

There are some very strange situations in the UK at present - for example when a person would actually be worse off by going out to work, or when someone's (viable) career plan involves having a child in order to get a house and benefits.

Given my political views I'm consoled by the fact that the level of welfare spending is unsustainable in the long term. The UK is already going deeper into the red every month, despite supposed austerity.

I'd be willing to bet that the US's lifetime emissions vastly outweigh China's lifetime emissions. The US is in no position to lecture anyone.

Quite an obnoxious website on my phone. Anyway I came here to point to GATE as a mature FLOSS option: https://gate.ac.uk/

There are also lots of confounding variables to account for - for example, power plants (of all kinds) commonly have higher amounts of road freight than would otherwise be the case, thus greater air pollution etc. Inhabitants of areas around power plants move in and out of the area. Some people that live in the area work at the plant, whereas others do not. Prevailing weather and topography may affect how any emissions from a plant disperse. Spatial stats is hard!

Let's also not forget German car makers forcing the EU to dilute emissions limits. All very well having recycling bins all over the place, but when push comes to shove, the attitude is apparently !!!! the environment.

I'd be interested to learn more if there are any statistically significant results showing clustering - proving that there is spatiotemporal clustering that is different enough from what might be expected at random is pretty hard. I know that Sellafield has been studied in detail many times, with no definitive evidence yet found.

Raising the idea that immigration might have negative effects is pretty much taboo here on HN.

Because of course, whoever is leaking this information is only doing it for the noblest reasons.

I think you are simplifying UK involvement in Libya, failing to mention that the EU is doing a reasonable job all on its own of restarting conflict in NI, and also smearing your fellow countrymen as racist.

What type of actual crisis are you talking about? The UK has one of the finest professional militaries in the world, amongst the finest special forces, some of the best cyber capabilities, and nuclear tipped ICBMs lurking beneath the waves at all times. Other countries send their soldiers to us to be trained for gods sake! I'd imagine we could take care of any serious threat to the realm pretty easily.

I live nearby and recently discovered this piece of local history. I wish there were a way to open it to the public!

For some reason I'm fascinated by anything subterranean. The Great County Adit is quite an incredible feat, the world's largest drainage adit, started in the 1700s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_County_Adit

Crazily enough people are still interested in exploring these places: https://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewtopic.aspx?t=8031

This is one thing I just do not understand about many of my countrymen. So often I seem to read about wanton destruction of precious places such as buildings, forest and so on. Some of the destroyers are demonstrably ignorant/moronic, but the worst are the intelligent but sociopathic cynics that wilfully destroy, almost always in the hunt for profit. Ugh. For example a property owner near me destroyed some greatly loved ancient woodland in defiance of legal protections on the woodland. His response to legal action is to sell the woodland - if there were any justice he would be forced to reforest it, and fined half his fortune or something equally fierce. We don't deserve to have nice things around when we let these people thrive.

Cat lover?

Fair enough, my language was a little careless.

The finding is interesting, but wouldn't it be more interesting still if they had performed the same study with the sexes reversed also? We would then know for definite if there is a sex difference in behaviour. As it is we don't know. Women are just as capable of bad behaviour as men, and to think otherwise is to subscribe to the sugar and spice and all things nice school of sexism.

Also, imagine substituting men and women for black and white, or jew/non-jew, etc. I suspect the ethics board might be asking questions.