DanBC

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by DanBC 6y ago
Yes. It's not just about historical allegations. It's about a complete lack of awareness that he's doing anything wrong, and a refusal to put in place any kind of support to mitigate that.
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by DanBC 6y ago
This is a mythical view of cancel culture, and it's driven entirely by arseholes who have realised that people are now prepared to call them arseholes. "I'm being cancelled" they yell, from the front page of a national n
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by DanBC 6y ago
> No one is saying transition is a "regrettable outcome". Please for the love of christ just spend 10 minutes reading some of the gender critical arguments before trying to represent them here, because you're saying stuff
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by DanBC 6y ago
> and trans people are the new token individuals You have to be totally detached from reality to actually believe this. Have you not paid any attention at all to the number of anti-trans laws being brought in a number of US states? Ther
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by DanBC 6y ago
The people pushing hatred against trans people dress it up in nice language so useful idiots then go around saying things like "keeping a critical attitude is entirely legitimate". The gender critical movement is based on antisemi
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Lockdown laws in England: One year on(commonslibrary.parliament.uk)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 6y ago
I agree. In England we've seen a lot of waste and harm caused by our weird markets, and we're moving away from them.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Weird that you talk about "making shit up" when your post contains no cites.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Bing had a problem with images of child sexual abuse, and with bestiality images. I don't know if they've fixed that.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Have you seen the ICNARC data? https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports It gives details of patients admitted to ICUs, and the patient characteristics gives numbers of people who needed no support
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by DanBC 6y ago
Welcome to HN! If you have a product that people can try out you might want to submit it as a "ShowHN". Or if you have some detailed technical write ups you could submit those, along with stories from other sources. The FAQ and gu
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And the natural language questions sometimes get stuck. For example, [what's the difference between cauliflower cheese and cauliflower mornay] seems like it should return a page that tells you what the difference is, but it doesn'
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The US has this thing in some states called "certificates of need". People who support the US market driven healthcare will say that interferences like CoN distort the market and prevent it working properly.
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It's important to know that John Read is part of a campaigning group that aims to increase use of psychological therapies and decrease use of psychiatric (ie, medication or ECT) interventions. He's not a credible source of informa
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by DanBC 6y ago
Maybe read the court documents before commenting further. "Confiscate"? He was human. He had human rights. He wasn't the property of his parents. He wasn't an object that they could control.
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A couple of points: There isn't a single police force that operates across England. For London there are the Metropolitan Police who cover actual London, and the City of London Police who cover the "square mile", the tiny Cit
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by DanBC 6y ago
> You're confusing inconvenience for lack of safety. Going slower and driving as if the vehicle in front of you may stop at any time is safe, responsible driving. Yes. And this doesn't just take into account cyclists, it also t
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by DanBC 6y ago
There's a sense of ownership in your posts -- the roads are for cars, and everyone else gets to use them with your permission. But that's cobblers, isn't it? The roads are there for everyone. People get to use them because th
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by DanBC 6y ago
"slow" very much depends on the city. In lots of places (eg, London) cyclists easily keep up with the speed of traffic. No-one should break the rules or the law. I'm curious why you think cyclists are more likely to do so. It
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No.10 Innovation Fellowships(no10innovationfellows.campaign.gov.uk)
2 points by DanBC 6y ago|0 comments
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Because covid is considerably more contagious than most flu strains.
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We could have had a hard strong lockdown in early 2020, but people like you made the arguments you're making now, and so we've had a see-saw year of restrictions being imposed and lifted, and here we are: the economy's fucked
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by DanBC 6y ago
The Alfie Evans case had nothing to do with cost. It was entirely about what was in his best interest. He had a catastrophic and untreatable, progressive, neurodegenerative condition. Death was the only outcome. The argument was whether he&
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by DanBC 6y ago
> I raise this as a general point: I've never seen any good resources to help people estimate full environmental impact of disposable vs. reusable things, accounting both the difference of {emissions, energy, water, plastics} used i
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Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland(face2faceafrica.com)
477 points by DanBC 6y ago|417 comments
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> Focus on media literacy, critical thinking and digital literacy You're assuming that people want to spot the fake, but it's pretty clear by now that they don't. This is why we have the American College of Pediatricians
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I share with the Secretary of State: 9 May 1957(theyworkforyou.com)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|1 comments
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Example number 89894758934 in "Brexit is a complete mess".
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‘Science superpower’ ambitions risk being undermined by lack of investment(wellcome.org)
1 points by DanBC 6y ago|1 comments
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Why do you believe there's a link to blood-clotting, and not to, say, broken dishwashers? People (especially on HN) like to say "correlation doesn't equal causation", but there isn't even a correlation here. There a

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