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  • Dogs brains activate the same regions when the see human faces that activate in our brains. These same regions don't activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.

    Dogs are far more in tune with us that they are with their own species.

    Some of the oldest human archaeological sites have dog remains among the humans. Domestication of the dog was going on far far earlier than the first evidence we have for domestication of the first food species.

    We have evolved together as two mutually symbiotic species.

  • Has there ever been a case where online "sleuths" on social media have actually got the right person when the police didn't? And did their "investigations" ever actually secure a conviction where the police originally failed to do so?

    Genuinely curious and not trying to start a witch-hunt.

  • If I'm reading all this correctly and the Guardian's numbers are correct (and given their left-bias they would naturally side with the union against the Government): The union is using RPI, which is outdated and inaccurate, to tell doctors their relative pay has been cut.

    The real figure is that, yes it has gone down but not as much as the BMA are claiming, and since their last pay award is now actually increasing ahead of inflation (when using CPIH as your measure).

    Finally, although we have a large number of training doctors moving abroad, they're relatively well paid compared to most comporable economies.

  • Number of juries isn't the problem itself. It's availability of court buildings, lack of legal professionals to try cases in court, cost of staffing and services for those buildings and the increased time it takes to bring a jury trial to court (it takes on average of 284 days for a case to move through the magistrates court and 695 days through the crown court according to the National Audit Office).

    This particular proposal, part of a range, is to have an extra tier in the crown court to deal with lower category cases, such as fraud and minor theft cases so that the bigger, more complicated violent crimes, rapes and murders can be prioritised.

    Also worth noting, we don't have right to jury trial enshrined in UK law, only the right to a fair trial. I actually think this could help reduce the issue but the biggest problem is lack of funding.

  • Stop giving him oxygen. Liberal Democrats have 18 times as many MPs as Reform yet everyone hangs on Nigels every fucking word making him more influential on policy than he has the right to be.

  • Jazzmataz vol. 1 by Guru

  • So we should just accept every thing that's imposed on us blindly without questioning it?

  • The entire Internet is built on swapping between fibre and copper. There's less and less of it now that fibre optics have reduced in complexity and cost so that they can be run into people's homes but up until probably 10-15 years ago almost the entire world's Internet travelled the last few miles on copper lines while the core infrastructure was fibre. ISDN, ADSL, VDSL are all built on media-converters in one form or another. So is probably around 75% of all LAN technology today because UTP ethernet is so much cheaper and easier to build than fibre ethernet LANs.

  • According to The Big Issue (I can't find where they got their numbers from) there are/were more than 20 million square feet of empty office spaces in London. Which if we extrapolate from data I can find on occupancy rates within just the city of London, equates to around 5% of the total office space.

    Not really a particularly large amount when you also see that roughly 7-8% of residential properties are also currently unoccupied.

  • So what's your point, the world would be a better place if we were all Chinese?

  • And the country's largest project to convert a brownfield site (Teesworks) to housing has sucked up hundreds of millions in public grants and investment, hoarded cash and extracted private profit for one man Lord Ben Houchen.

    Possibly the biggest case of local government corruption and mismanagement in our time.

  • 99% of people on "social media" have never even heard of Mastadon or Lemmy.

    The other <1% are already here so what does this comment add to the relevant point of the source?

    edit: escaped the > to make it not a quote

  • Me and my partner were going away for 10 days. The final task I had to do before coming to get her from work was to turn everything off in the house like the lights and TV so we weren't using any extra electricity or were going to come back to a burned down house from a faulty dryer or something.

    I though, I'll get everything at once and turn the electricity off at the circuit breakers so I don't have to go through the whole house.

    I was very proud of my smart decision so I told her what I had done with a big smile on my face.

    "What about the food in the freezer you idiot" she replied.

    She was laughing all the way back home to do the job properly.

  • And the rest of it is racism, not even disguised by metaphor.

  • The donut shop

  • No, you had it right the first time, they should in fact die.

  • Maybe the idea that Epstein was at the head of a global network of paedophiles, involved with trafficking young girls and boys for the likes of Trump, Clinton and Gates is fanciful.

    Impossible? No. Improbable? Yes.

    The idea that this is all some Mossad psi-op to influence US politics is also bonkers and predictably falls into classic anti-semitic tropes.

    Is it tittilating and fun to speculate about with people online? Sure. Does social and traditional media love a good juicy story like this and will continue to give it play and play? Absolutely.

  • "Did you know salt and malts vinegar's a non-traditional way to dress your French fries in the United States?"

    "The fuck is wrong with them?"

    "Like malt vinegar is not a staple condiment on tabletops in restaurants in the United States."

    "Well figure it out."

    "That's what I says, figure it out."

    "Yeah no vinegar's on the tables, no Kraft's peanut butters, figure it out."

    "Figure it out."

    "Fuckin figure it out."

    "Better not forget those All-Dressed chips."

    "Ain't got no ketchup chips neither."

    "Fuckin figure it out."

    "Someone outta write a letter."

  • I thought it was weird, thanks