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by willyt 4y ago
But all those 'Red Wall' Tory MPs representing poor Northern constituencies are going to lose their jobs either way at this rate. They might calculate that they stand more chance of being reinstated under Rishi Sunak (or whoever)
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If you want to have any chance at all of understanding this you probably need to listen to all 250+ episodes of the ‘opposing bases’ podcast. Those ATC guys love TLAs.
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Like the idea, but French in Safari doesn't seem to work either. Edit: When I click the microphone button I get a 'blip' noise and the button goes blue for a short while but nothing else happens and nothing is transcribed whe
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He has been publicly exposed twice as a liar once at the start of his career and once again recently when he was effectively 'fired' from being Prime Minister for telling lies about partying during covid lockdowns. He wrote a whol
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At the altitude they used to fly at there wasn't much air resistance. I think it's more the acceleration and climb out phases when they are using the reheat (aka afterburner). Cruising at ~50-60000 feet, Concorde was pretty effici
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I think it was edited by Boris Johnson at some point after he was fired from the Times for making up sources. So that gives you a clue about thier quality standards.
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The construction market went crazy. Last year, prices for materials were doubling every 3 months, and there were no trades available anywhere to carry out work. Maybe it was used to buy a lot of overpriced back extensions, kitchens, conserv
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by willyt 4y ago
I thought short haul domestic flights were banned in France?
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I wonder why the EU/UK/US don’t just pay Russian soldiers to surrender. How much would it take do you think? $5k each? Might be cheaper than shooting at them.
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Compared to UK trains the TGV is half the price, twice the speed and double the legroom and cleaner. TGV standard class seats are as good as the First class seats on the West Coast main line.
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For sure. That’s the whole basis of healthcare in the US; the more money you have the better it is. I don’t agree with it and I’m glad my country does this differently up to a point but I don’t see why this particular incident is surprising
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by willyt 4y ago
That must be a US thing? I never get spam calls on my iPhone and only very rarely a spam text; maybe a couple of times a year I get the 'you've got a parcel with a fee to pay' scam.
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I agree, it's like clothes, sometimes it is appropriate to dress up if you want people to view what you are saying through a certain lens, wether that is wearing gold cufflinks to your job as a banker or wearing a hoodie to your job at
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From your first source; The combination of a mismanaged economy plus an aging population has meant that the NHS spend is 50BN less than projected but is a now a larger share of GDP compared to other EU economies because the UK economy has p
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by willyt 4y ago
> - Stop setting prices by government diktat for medical professionals' salaries and procedures. Stop preventing private enterprise from building competing clinics and hospitals. Enable public health insurance to go towards the cost
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I expect it would be quite hard to prove beyond reasonable doubt without the security services getting involved in giving evidence but the fact that he lost means that on the balance of probabilities the story is true. Maybe Cadwallr should
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by willyt 4y ago
What is 'red tape' though? No-one ever defines what red tape they would remove. Also, surely the problem at the moment is that energy prices are controlled by series of regional monopoly energy providers, the only thing stopping t
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by willyt 4y ago
Wasn't one of the main leave campaign organisations (Leave.EU?) funded by Aaron Banks who recently lost a libel action against a newspaper that accused him of receiving funds to pay for this from the KGB? EDIT: found a source https:&#
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Lack of qualified staff willing to work at the current pay rates. There are shortages in plenty of sectors at the moment so medical personnel who have had enough are leaving or retiring early and they can’t be replaced because pay rises are
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It’s close to instantaneous on an iPhone SE?
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Concorde only used afterburner(en_us)/reheat(en_uk) for a small part of the acceleration phase of the flight not for cruise.
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by willyt 4y ago
How do these tests work? I can imagine a test where you connect up all the peripherals flash test firmware and observe the results, but presumably that doesn’t test parts of the board that aren’t between io pins and the processor. How do th
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by willyt 4y ago
Really? But they’re used on everything from fishing boats to cruise liners on the ends of heaving lines. You’re not supposed to weight them with lead, and if you’d done this and someone got hurt I think you’d be in trouble with health and s
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by willyt 4y ago
It is better defined as people living within 30 miles of Charing Cross I think. See comment above. I'm not sure about the 20m figure as I can't find the stats just now. But it's definitely greater than 15m so the basic argume
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by willyt 4y ago
Probably better defined as in the number of people living within about 30 miles of Charing Cross. I.e. if about 3m people live in the central belt in Scotland and about 20m people live in the Greater London urban area then you would expect
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by willyt 4y ago
I was surprised by this and it turns out its a bit of a misrepresentation as you get unlimited fee free withdrawals if you meet one of these criteria which, in the UK, pretty much anyone except a teenager with no job will meet: At least £50
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~60m people in Britain. About 20m of then live within 1 hour of the centre of London.
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https://maps.nls.uk/
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The spax screws have all the information given in this video available on their website because they are a German product and EU law (mostly) requires a data sheet for construction products called a ‘Declaration of conformance’. I’m not sur
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by willyt 4y ago
Interesting. Parts of Britain were very similar. Things like every mine union chapter had its own brass band and the mine unions took great pride in thier traditions and thier local communities. Basically it’s neglected miners and steelwork

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