DanBC

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Backsliding on free expression around the world needs to end(thenewhumanitarian.org)
198 points by DanBC 4y ago|282 comments
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Kiwifarms has a policy against illegal behavior wink wink
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That's not the argument being made. If you're not sick you should not be subjected to too much testing, because the risk is that you are diagnosed with a thing that will not harm you. And once you're diagnosed with it the ten
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by DanBC 4y ago
I completely agree about blandness! I live in Cheltenham and there's a bunch of buildings that are about 100-150 years old but they're in not great condition. I would much prefer there to be exciting modern buildings instead of ru
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by DanBC 4y ago
Submitting this because I find it interesting that there's a bunch of old stuff in England and because there's so much of it we often don't have good quality information about it, and it's not always in good condition. T
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In search of Britain’s oldest pub(historyextra.com)
65 points by DanBC 4y ago|56 comments
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Hydroxychloroquine in Australia: a cautionary tale for journalists(reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk)
2 points by DanBC 4y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 4y ago
This blog post might feel a bit minimal for an HN post. I'm submitting it because it is, in the context of current UK government, a bit subversive. The blog is making some statements: -Official Statistics (the office) is good -Public H
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An Army of Armchair Epidemiologists(osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk)
1 points by DanBC 4y ago|1 comments
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by DanBC 4y ago
It's easy to call for freedom of speech for harassers and abusers when you're posting from an anonymous account. You think it's okay for this site to exist when a key feature is doxxing people's information. But you&#x27
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by DanBC 4y ago
Bell wasn't a child when she had hormones or surgery. Bell was told by her psychiatrist at Tavi not to go ahead with transition. She ignored that advice and went ahead anyway. You'll notice that she hasn't brought a personal
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by DanBC 4y ago
> even repeating verbatim lines from The Guardian articles about the scandal at Tavistock is considered transphobic. The Guardian is so transphobic that their own journalists penned an open letter to complain about it. Almost anything
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Most transgender studies come from the same "reproducibility crisis" and largely the same branch of social/psychology science. No, this is wrong. A lot of the research into trans healthcare comes from endocrinology, not
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by DanBC 4y ago
Cloudflare posts a tweet defending their action and it gets some likes. Keffals posts a reply tweet telling CF to drop KiwiFarms and that reply gets very many more likes than CloudFlare's original tweet. The ratio of likes is what&#x27
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by DanBC 4y ago
Post your full name and address.
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by DanBC 4y ago
In England we can talk about NHS funding and private funding, and we have both. We can also talk about NHS providers and private providers of NHS services, and again we have both.
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by DanBC 4y ago
So, for example: https://twitter.com/mattdiscombe/status/1562108007407919104?... > Almost 333,000 hours were lost by ambulance crews because of handover delays in the 12 months to July 2022 – 18 TIMES higher th
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by DanBC 4y ago
It's a bit complicated. Private providers can have different staff mixes, so you might have more healthcare assistants and fewer nurses. You might have more unregistered nurses and fewer registered nurses. You might find more staff are
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by DanBC 4y ago
You don't have to blindly trust him, but so far he's provided a bunch of data to support his position and you've provided nothing. Show me the data.
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by DanBC 4y ago
What would collapse look like? If people are queueing in an ambo for 12 hours why isn't that a sign of collapse? If people are dying of stroke or heart attack at greater rates, because they can't get ED care, why isn't that a
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by DanBC 4y ago
> the NHS as it is constructed doesn't allow for this. This is simply untrue. (What is Livewell South West?) We've had private provision of NHS services for years and the Lansley reforms explicitly embed privatisation (state fu
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by DanBC 4y ago
For years people have been raising the warning about the pressures on healthcare system, and for years the conservative party have asked the NHS to do more with less. What does collapse look like? Well, in the early days, it looks very gent
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by DanBC 4y ago
It's complicated. In England social care (care homes) are funded by local authorities, not the NHS, and are overwhelmingly provided by private providers. We've had decades of under-funding of local authorities, and the Conservativ
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by DanBC 4y ago
Your dentist example is a bit weird - you're comparing private provision with NHS provision, and that doesn't work. If you want a private dentist, or a private psychiatrist, you pay and get rapid access. If you can't afford p
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by DanBC 4y ago
> why did vaccine companies need absolving of any liability by govts? We know some people will be harmed by vaccination. Despite that, we need to vaccinate as many people as possible. Because of that, we make it easy for people who&#x27
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by DanBC 4y ago
We've had privatisation experiments in English healthcare for years. Dentistry is a fucking mess. Eye care is a fucking mess. Care and Nursing homes are a fucking mess. Large private provision of GP care? They can't do it and they
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by DanBC 4y ago
We've had privatisation experiments in English healthcare for years. Dentistry is a fucking mess. Eye care is a fucking mess. Care and Nursing homes are a fucking mess. Large private provision of GP care? They can't do it and they
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Meanwhile, there's some private healthcare available in the UK, its much cheaper than in USA, but only covers certain things, its not comprehensive. Also, in the UK we have NHS funded but privately provided healthcare. That'
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by DanBC 4y ago
I mean, you're making the same three claims as if they're magic gotchas but you don't understand what you're saying. 1) Care at tavistock is bad Yes, everyone agrees, that's why people are pleased that Cass recommen
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by DanBC 4y ago
Why link to wikipedia and not the court judgments? Almost no healthcare is harmless. Anyone can sue for almost anything, there's a low threshold to bring a case. Notably she didn't sue for a personal injury case because she knows

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