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  • Warning after people fined because they used Royal Mail stamps

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  • who the fuck keeps receipts for stamps?

    They're charging (fining) the recipients £5 to collect the post so the people they're robbing couldn't possibly have the relevant receipt anyway.

    They better have some very good evidence that the problem is not with their stamps given the decades-long saga with the Post Office (which started years before Royal Mail was sold off as a separate entity).

  • Renewable energy overtakes gas in the UK, analysis shows

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  • It's good news but the hype is nonsensical. Domestic energy generation has shifted a lot but the primary driver of lower emissions is exporting our manufacturing jobs. And now they're polishing their halos while wagging their fingers at China.

    The decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions: UK evidence . Figure 10 is the quick way to grasp the point.

    The UK economy gradually shifted from a carbon-intensive manufacturing-based economy to a less carbon-intensive services economy after-1986. The gap between the consumption-based and territorial-based emissions started to widen. By 2007, the consumption-based CO2 emissions reached their peak and were 37% higher than the territorial CO2 emissions. This implies that the absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) from territorial CO2 emissions in 1986 was not solely because of policy impacts, but also because of the outsourcing of the production of manufactured goods to developing countries.

  • ‘She still carries an aura of spectacular failure’: why hasn’t Liz Truss gone away?

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  • The attempt to attack Corbyn by drawing comparisons with Truss is bizarre. I can only assume that a mildly conscientious sub-editor inserted the bolded bit because it contradicts everything else he has to say about that particular analogy:

    In her mix of utter conviction and utter obliviousness to how she might come across to anyone who doesn’t see the world the way she does, the politician she most resembles is Jeremy Corbyn. Like him, Truss is convinced the policies she advocates are popular with a majority of the public. For Corbyn it was nationalisation of the utilities, more money for the NHS and cheaper housing, all of which poll extremely well. For Truss it is secure borders, lower taxes and an end to burdensome environmental restrictions. In both cases, the explanation for why the things the public want never come to pass is the same: the system is stacked against the preferences of ordinary people.

  • Laurence Fox’s London mayor hopes end after errors filling in forms

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  • London Elects said: “The Reclaim party candidate’s representatives met with London Elects for the first time on Tuesday 26 March, less than 24 hours before the close of the nominations deadline. At that time, the paperwork was incomplete.

    “Mr Fox’s representatives were advised to ensure that completed forms were submitted well before the Wednesday 4pm statutory deadline. The paperwork was submitted very shortly before 4pm.

    “Upon inspection, the nomination forms contained errors which – the deadline having passed – were too late for Mr Fox’s team to correct.

    Monstrously unfair to disqualify incompetent fascists simply for being incompetent. Can democracy survive this outrageous attack?

  • Sleep scientists reveal how often to exercise to reduce insomnia risk

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  • The study is massively confounded. Did exercise cause good sleep, or did good sleep provide enough energy to do exercise?

    They have not found evidence that doing exercise even when you are exhausted from a lack of sleep and are struggling to do everything else that has to be done will cause you to sleep better. They haven't done a study which can find causal effects, only associations.

    I don't think it is bad advice; for people who are struggling to sleep well enough to keep up with the demands of daily life, trying to find the time and energy for more fresh air and walking is very unlikely to do any harm.

    But, it is harmful to imply that people who are struggling are struggling because they're lazy when it may well be that they appear lazy because they are struggling. Doctors are already fucking terrible for this kind of thing and doctors who do research should not be presenting it this way when, if they are qualified to do the research, they know they have not defined the causal pathway or even the direction of the causal arrow.

  • Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’

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  • Yes, that and increasing conditionality of benefits (which were originally designed to place a floor under which no employer could sink).

    Minimum wage is a neoliberal policy, necessitated by the fact that capital would happily starve its own workforce to death and only then wonder why it could not find any more workers to exploit.

    The Scandinavian countries are, I think, the only wealthy countries left with no minimum wage. Because sectoral bargaining still works there (hence Musk's travails in Sweden).

    I haven't read this report but any research like this needs to also look at the proportion of the workforce who are at or close to the minimum wage, which has steadily increased since 1999. It has undoubtedly improved things for the most easily exploited workers but it has also meant that wages in general have pancaked downwards. Overall inequality has increased even as minimum wage improved things for the very lowest paid. This headline is reporting the good news while ignoring the bad.

  • Opinion: Why I’m resigning from the State Department

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  • "Someone else will do evil if I don't agree to do evil so I might as well do evil myself" is a bullshit argument. And your point is directly addressed in the article:

    By resigning publicly, I am saddened by the knowledge that I likely foreclose a future at the State Department. I had not initially planned a public resignation. Because my time at State had been so short — I was hired on a two-year contract — I did not think I mattered enough to announce my resignation publicly. However, when I started to tell colleagues of my decision to resign, the response I heard repeatedly was, “Please speak for us.”

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  • Yes. Did you forget how to quote your whole post?

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  • You stated it very much as a set of rules that should exist. Twice.

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  • Who do you imagine is (or should be) making these rules for the Fediverse?

  • 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals

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  • It's a discussion of the polls of farmers, which fluctuated a great deal above and below 50% support.

    I posted it because Remain fucked up the campaign and now blames everyone but themselves. Which is exactly how and why they lost in the first place. Astonishing arrogance and spite.

  • 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals

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  • There is one sentence which makes passing reference to the stereotyping of various groups of people who Remain insists on blaming for its own mistakes. And you decided the only reasonable response was to reassure us that the stereotype was true for one of those groups, according to your inevitably limited experience of individuals you have encountered.

    Astonishing.

  • 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals

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  • What does an article from a publication called West Country Voices entitled "Challenging the myth that farmers voted for Brexit (and therefore deserve what’s coming to them…)" have to do with Nissan workers?

  • 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals

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  • What do Nissan workers have to do with this thread?

  • 'Slaughtered': UK farmers protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals

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  • Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record

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  • Maybe we need to look at what France and Germany are doing with their system and copy them.

    They're funding theirs.

    The Tories (and Labour) are trying to privatise ours. Which obviously won't make it any cheaper because idle shareholders will be siphoning off a hefty chunk into the tax havens that neither the Tories nor Labour will shut down. In the meantime, they're pulling the same trick they did with British Rail: underfund it until it's easy to kill off and sell cheap to their rich backers so they can charge us more for less.

  • Russell T Davies says end of BBC is ‘undoubtedly on its way’

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  • More people care about climate change than you think | The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.

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  • Powerlessness

  • No10 slaps down Chancellor Jeremy Hunt for claim £100,000 is 'not a huge salary'

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  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Call connection services: 'A 39-minute phone call cost me £119'

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/uk-wales-66529264
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    New footage disproves Spanish FA president's World Cup kiss claims

    metro.co.uk /2023/08/29/new-footage-disproves-luis-rubiales-claims-over-world-cup-kiss-19413100/
  • Science @lemmy.ml
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    Good bit of science detective work (image manipulation, paper now retracted)

    www.pnas.org /doi/10.1073/pnas.2313213120
  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Bibby Stockholm: Migrant barge faces legal challenge over fire safety

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/uk-66636547
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    Abandoning a wealth tax is a ruinous Labour strategy. It’s ‘Blairism without the cash’

    archive.ph /LRBTc
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    10 day old context for the Hermoso/Rubiales dispute

    Spain set gold standard amid cheers for the players and boos for the coach

    archive.ph /atoFj
  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Top economists pile pressure on Keir Starmer to reverse Tory cuts

    www.independent.co.uk /news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-policies-benefit-cuts-reeves-b2399406.html
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Luis Rubiales’s mother goes on hunger strike over ‘inhumane’ treatment of son

    www.msn.com /en-gb/news/newslondon/luis-rubiales-s-mother-goes-on-hunger-strike-over-inhumane-treatment-of-son/ar-AA1fSBL4
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    The mobile game funding a revolution in Myanmar

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/world-asia-65906961
  • Politics @beehaw.org
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    The Dark History ‘Oppenheimer’ Didn't Show

    www.wired.com /story/the-dark-history-oppenheimer-didnt-show/
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Sevilla stars wear t-shirts in solidarity as Iniesta joins support of Jenni Hermoso

    talksport.com /football/1547426/sevilla-t-shirts-support-jenni-hermoso-andres-inesta-luis-rubiales/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    ‘Knowledge is power’: new app helps US teens read books banned in school

    archive.ph /Rl5A4
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Google search is over

    mastodon.social /@rodhilton/110894818243613681
  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    Keir Starmer urged to defend lawyers after Tories’ ‘targeted campaign’

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2023/aug/14/keir-starmer-urged-to-defend-lawyers-after-tories-targeted-campaign
  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    First (I repeat, first) test of menstrual products using actual blood published last week (I repeat, last week)

    mastodon.social /@BethanyBlack/110886684776659288
  • News @lemmy.world
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    S.B.F. is leaving campus. But Stanford’s ties to his case are deeper than previously known

    stanforddaily.com /2023/08/13/s-b-f-is-leaving-campus-but-stanfords-ties-to-his-case-are-deeper-than-previously-known/