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JoBo

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  • Why aren't "Frontpacks" a thing?

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  • Well, that's kind of the point. Any design that is intended to be worn at the front is either very small or designed to be moved to the side when it gets in the way of what you're trying to do.

    You can wear your backpack as a frontpack if you want to. You'll soon discover why most people don't use them that way. I have done, but only when I have two backpacks to lug some distance and can use the straps of the one worn on the back to help secure the straps of the one worn on the front.

  • Channel 4 presenter among more than 250 UK stars victimised by deepfake porn

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  • Send me a picture of your face, your location, and your employer, and I'll see if I can help you find out exactly how 'cool' it is.

  • HMRC will close tax helpline for half the year

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  • I’ve overheard directors talk about how they purposely didn’t produce a P45 out of spite

    Wow.

    HMRC might be interested in that information (this form might work?) And your MP if you can be arsed. That's criminal behaviour and ought to land them in court. Trivially easy to prove if their actions match their reported words.

  • Women's state pension: Campaigners urge payouts as Waspi report due - BBC News

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  • The article from the Beeb is fine. It's just that it answers the question you asked.

    Thanks for the content tho.

  • Women's state pension: Campaigners urge payouts as Waspi report due - BBC News

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  • Why would you post an article you have not read?

    For years, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has been investigating how the retirement age rise was communicated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to women most likely to be impacted by the change.

    In 2021, its initial finding of maladministration by the DWP centred on a delay in providing direct information to this group of women.

    While some women were aware of the general policy change, they did not know it would affect them personally. The ombudsman said that letters should have been sent directly to these women more than two years earlier than they were. For some, the delay was much longer.

    And, just in case you're feeling all hard done by, pension rights were only equalised in 2005 (because civil partnerships meant the inequality affected men as well as women). It was not retrospectively applied and my mother has retired by then. So her pension scheme will pay the widows of the men in her pension scheme but her widower will get nothing. And the same applies to most of the pension contributions made by women before 2005; top-sliced to subsidise the men in the same pension schemes. Quit your whining.

  • Greggs hit by IT issue affecting card payments - BBC News

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  • The bosses have decided they don't need to pay anyone to maintain their money-printing machines?

  • HMRC will close tax helpline for half the year

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  • The lack of a helpline doesn't make any difference, if you get put on an emergency tax code it'll stay there until the end of the tax year anyway. This usually only happens if your new employer is shit or your previous employer was shit and/or stealing your taxes.

    Not defending this, mind. Underfunding tax collection and making it really hard for people without expensive accountants is ... exactly what we have come to expect of the robber barons who run the country.

  • It’s the right time for austerity

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  • Austerity for who? It's been non-stop austerity for ordinary people since the 2008 crash, and the people who caused the crash have been making out like bandits.

    It's the right time to tax the rich.

  • Why do I get light-headed when watching TV shows or movies?

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  • See a doctor.

    But it might be worth buying a machine to check your blood pressure (they're not terribly expensive) because it's hard to capture it in the doctor's office. Take a measurement or three before you feel light-headed, keep the cuff on and take more measurements when you start to feel light-headed. Keep a record of the measurements (and how you were feeling at the time) to help your doctor rule blood pressure in or out as a cause.

  • Is sexual harrasment really this common on the tube they need so many ads about it?

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  • Yes. How the fuck is this even a question?

    Also, they're not saying "Oi, step in if you see someone being harassed on this train but anywhere else, feel free to cheer the offender on as normal." TFL just have better leadership than the country does, so they're running the campaign.

  • Youngsters who break new smoking ban face on-the-spot fines in UK

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  • Yeah, sorry. I didn't intend it to sound like an accusation.

    Poorly chosen headline, quickly corrected, I assume.

  • Youngsters who break new smoking ban face on-the-spot fines in UK

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  • The actual headline is "Retailers who break new smoking laws ..."

  • “All I’m trying to do is protect women”: Olympian Caitlyn Jenner supports ban on trans athletes

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  • There obviously is a source so could you link to it?

  • Trump's preferred candidate just won the Ohio GOP Senate primary — and Democrats are thrilled

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  • Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

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  • That's a fantastically efficient way to destroy their business. There's no way to get honest reviews of employers from employees who know their identities will be exposed whether they consent or not. Doesn't even matter if the review is after leaving that job, future employers can go nosing too.

    Absolute techbro-brane gold.

  • Kaylee Gain’s family says she still hasn’t regained consciousness after fight near St. Louis high school

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  • Yeah, that's not happening more than in the past either

    Young adults today are less likely to drink than young adults two decades ago – but older adults are more likely to do so, according to Gallup. The share of adults ages 18 to 34 who say they ever drink dropped from 72% in 2001-03 to 62% in 2021-23. (Gallup looked at the data in three-year time periods to allow for reliable age-group analysis.).

    The one sense this generation of parents is more like high school kids is their earnings in relation to housing costs. Parents are working longer hours because they have no damn choice.

    That is at least consistent with the known facts. But it's still a hell of a leap to divine all that from one high school fight which turned out uglier than usual.

  • 8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death

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  • There's no point repeating it. This kind of study is hopeless for answering this sort of question. People go on this kind of diet because they're concerned about their health, often their weight and general cardiovascular health. It's not surprising that they're more likely to die of things related to their reason for going on the diet in the first place.

    It's not quite as starkly obvious as "people who choose to jump out of planes are more likely to die in a parachute accident" but it's close.

  • Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes

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  • Where does the article say the problem started with AI? It doesn't even mention LLMs, just the explosion in grifter apps since it became easier to produce a grifter app.

    If you read the article, you did not read it properly.

  • Kaylee Gain’s family says she still hasn’t regained consciousness after fight near St. Louis high school

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  • Parental age has been steadily increasing for decades, it can't be an explanation for things appearing to have got worse recently. What's your reasoning?