Regardless of the drug, someone who isn’t a medical professional shouldn’t be mailing it to children.

Hilarious watching Lammy trying to defend this earlier today.

I personally thought the film seemed respectful of Indian culture.

Apart from Royal Tenenbaums at first place, I’d reverse this list.

Keffals has a bit of a bad stink around her online presence. I think she claimed to be posting sex hormones to underage people at one point, without any kind of medical license. One of the ecelebs on the weirder side of the terminally online subculture.

Obviously no one should ever be swatted. Wanted to mention that she is somewhat controversial though as opposed to a regular activist.

I mean, there were riots last month and then the last time I recall riots before then was 2019 when the journalist was shot. There might be more inbetween I’ve forgotten but a cadence of 5 years is more than the ~10 year cadence for mainland UK (which is culturally very similar). Sectarian tensions have died down in the past 20 years - my sister is currently in Belfast and loving it - but they still exist and have deep roots.

They can’t keep going with the current setup due to how changing demographics are producing increased demands on the NHS. People using the service are much older, with more complicated diseases, then ever envisioned when we designed the systems.

Beaurocracy is causing inefficiencies due to too much red tape. We spent £5.1 billion on “costs of harm” in the year 2023/24 which is quite a large amount of the £160 billion total budget. Running total of outstanding compensation claims was recently £83 billion. We need a way to fix the processes to prevent these clinical failures or find some way to cap the amount of compensation claimed.

Additionally the use of short term contractors is hemmoraging money. Often the management will give IT contracts to large firms like accenture who fail to deliver semi-regularly while charging a premium. NHS administrators frequently use the big names because they are recognisable instead of interrogating which company is actually best placed to deliver.

I’d personally be happy with looking more closely about how other European countries handle healthcare. They seem to spend less for better outcomes, while ensuring that everyone who needs medical treatment receives it. If it can save lives we shouldn’t be too ideological.

Edit: In Scotland health is devolved, we get higher levels of funding per capita due to the Barnett Formula, and lastly income tax is higher to provide more money to the NHS. Outcomes are actually worse here than in England due to mismanagement. Seems like an example of more funding not being a silver bullet.

There’s a dumb Italian Horror movie called Del Amore d’ella Muerte (Cemetary Man in English speaking territories) that I absolutely love. It was made in the 90s and stars Rupert Everrit as a graveyard keeper who fights a zombie invasion with his mute assistant.

Hard to explain but the universe they create is very comfy where he’s drinking red wine and shooting zombies.

Yeah there are some absolute gems like Astral Chain which got positive reviews like 8/10 but in reality are close to 10/10 for me personally. One of the best games on the system.

Then there are a few infamous examples like Godhand and Deadly Premonition which were completely slated by many reviewers but I found to be very strong titles. 8/10 personally.

I was trying to write a custom Strategy for an objectMapper in Java. Foolishly decided to ask ChatGPT about it and got instructions which suggested an implementation that was the inverse of how Strategies actually work. Stuck for an afternoon.

Then in the evening I read the docs and put it together in half an hour from scratch. Lesson learned about the stochastic parrots.

Would 2nd this suggestion. It is also often possible to swap to using the arch repos after you’ve got the install setup and you are happy with it on these distros.

I use DDG but caveat emptor it’s using Bing as a backend. I find it is very good at certain things google censors like finding streams of obscure films though.

I still enjoy them on linux.

The UK has always had an outsized influence on popular culture worldwide. For example our musicians are overrepresented in terms of music charts in many other countries. There was a good Economist article about this a few years ago where they interviewed a die-hard Gorillaz fan who lived in rural Russia.

However, that 90s ‘cool Britania’ self confidence we had is definitely missing these days. We’ve retained a sense of British twee or fascination with the mundane though which I suspect is driving this modern interest. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that youtube/instagram shorts are preoccupied with the mundane - and we have heaps of that to offer up.

Not really. I tell them it’s like a Black Mirror episode and they give me a sympathetic grimace. Then we talk about something else.

She obviously left in the believe that her child couldn’t be sentenced with her in absentia

Bright lights make your pupils shrink

I don’t understand how this can happen through them losing £300 when the triple lock is set to increase by ~£700 this year.

Astonishing listening to the news coverage of that story where the anchors were reading some terminally online nonsense from the teleprompter about Discord “Thug Shakers”

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