These sewage discharges in the UK are the result of increased extreme storm flows and decades of underinvestment by the water agencies Margaret Thatcher privatized in the late 1980s. Instead of reinvesting revenues in maintaining and upgrading infrastructure, they paid out billions to their shareholders while increasing their debt.
@AnthonyFStevens Oi tell oos summat we doan't know
There's a maxim in medicine: When you hear hoofbeats, look for horses, not zebras. That's useful to remember as we wait for more info on childhood illnesses in #China. This sounds more like the legacy of its zero Covid policy than a new disease threat. https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/23/surge-of-respiratory-disease-in-china-triggers-anxiety-but-experts-see-likely-explanation/
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And this is why I will continue to say that the Republicans would wrestle to be the one to take-away Tiny Tim’s crutch and deny Oliver Twist a second bowl of gruel.
Cruelty is the point.
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@randahl Stop changing your socks for heaven's sake.
@somafm You don't really expect us believe it's an outage; it's got to be a message to the resistance in the auditory equivalent of invisible ink.
@Fife4Europe What a badly-written review. Scattered focus, often illogical, full of phrasing that manages to be at once awkward and trite, and basic grammar failures everywhere.
@gcluley it's just occurred to me that Russell Tovey would be ideal to cast as Turing.
@alexf24 @globalmuseum Snobbery aside, it does no harm to help people visualize it easily in terms of a familiar frame of reference.
@Lyr1cal @carlysagan
The debris didn't enter orbit in the first place and you haven't personally got any information about what they learnt.
@Popehat @matt @MiriShuli @Pope
"A man's calibre is the inverse of that of his detractors. Therefore strive at all times to make utter tossrags disparage you."
@virtuous_sloth @Popehat @MiriShuli @Pope
Paradoxically, if being a dick is called for under the circumstances, then being a dick isn't being a dick.
@MiriShuli @Pope Outstanding job of making his point for him.
@openculture The lyrics for the ending theme song for "WKRP In Cincinnati" were also deliberate gibberish noises meant simply to sound like rock lyrics.
@kaminenmosher Perhaps the pins were too pointy?
@kaminenmosher On reading those two articles, I can only suppose that customs duty wasn't paid on it but they let it in anyway.
Consulting SW Engineer, mostly Pacific Northwest these days.
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
"Millions for nonsense but not one cent for entropy."
Will code for pie. 🥧