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  • I've only skimmed the abstract, but it makes me think antibiotics aren't effective. I'm basing that on combining two findings that are explicitly stated there: cranberries don't work, and cranberries are no different to antibiotics. Transitive inference would imply that this means antibiotics don't work, although I'm surprised the authors haven't been more explicit about this, given they've left it ambiguous and it seems like an obvious question

    Edit: there's slightly more detail at the bottom where it says "Cranberry products were not significantly different to antibiotics for preventing UTIs in three small studies." It looks like cranberries and antibiotics were only compared in a very limited set of studies, so perhaps take the comparison with a pinch of salt

  • TBF other country's politicians* don't tend to go around pushing the interests of the car industry quite so much

    *except America, obvs

  • This is a good point, but the issue is that vendors have abused this need by not just pushing security updates, but also regular rewrites that make the products more invasive/full of language model shit - Exhibit A being anything at all from Microsoft

  • The same way a layperson knows how to get any medical intervention: taking the advice of a reputable qualified professional

  • For context, UK domestic energy suppliers don't actually do any generation or distribution - they just retail electricity produced and distributed by others. So they can buy wholesale energy and attempt to compete on price, customer service, or other innovative products (eg Octopus's dynamic pricing).

    Normally I'd expect Tesla to do an Uber-style approach of subsiding the prices for the first couple of years to try to capture market share, as well as the more obvious vertical integration with their cars. But in this market, switching suppliers is too easy to make that worthwhile

  • For years, successive governments have been in thrall to the large housebuilders. These businesses are incredibly bad for our society, building soulless estates with no facilities and with car-dependency baked in, all the while keeping supply deliberately short to inflate prices. Yet government always thinks these guys are the future of house building for some reason

  • Probably classed as a magazine rather than a newspaper?

  • A possible protection for OP and anyone else reading this could be to upload a draft of a report to a repository at osf.io (Open Science Foundation). You can keep the repository hidden for now, but it'll be there with a date stamp on it should the worst happen and somebody rip off the work

  • Solar and AC is a great combo. Almost by definition, when you need AC you know the sun is shining and so the energy to run the AC is therefore free

  • Yep. I'm using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream

  • Because they tried leaving it to the private sector and people got unhealthy from eating cheap refined carbs?

  • Hi-viz, you say?

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  • I was questioning the use of the word "prolly"

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  • "Prolly"

  • What conversation do you believe you're in? This is for UK chat about fish and chip shops.

    And the answer to the question should have nothing whatsoever to do with a "fish guy" (FFS), but rather is a chip butty or chips and mushy peas

  • Bran flakes have a lot of sugar in them. I'm sure Special K does too, but I love it too much to risk checking