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  • Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK, study finds

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  • Brexit was dumb.

    That said this sounds like an overstatement.

    We average between 550k to 600k deaths a year. So 1.5k is well under 0.3%.

    Add the fact it is almost impossible to put such deaths down to 1 cause. They were after allin NHS care.

    And it very much sounds like the usual press over enthusiastic support for a small comment in the data. Not something clearly identified by the study authors.

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  • The US is run by a man, who randomly adds tarrifs to nations he has signed free trade agreements with.

    No point worrying about upsets and sanctions from a nation that is totally beyond trust trade wise anyway.

  • Harry Potter creator goes on rant about asexuals for some reason 🤷🏽‍♂️

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  • Honestly I don't understand it. Most likely don't. But it's also it's none of my business what consenting adults choose not to do.

    Really the arguments are no different to any sexual interest. As long as the people are happy and consenting adults. I do not need to understand.

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  • And the acceptance that the EU is a priority is also acceptance that none of trump's desires can happen.

    Us downgrading to accept any US standards that are not already EU accepted. Means we will not be able to sign a simple deal with the EU.

    As soon as we accept multiple incompatible tradeing rules. Trade with the EU becomes more complex and expensive.

    And trump etc have absolutely no interest in adapting to any standard but their own.

    Besides this. Trump has already proven no deal signed with the US is not worth the paper it is written on. Even his own deals signed with Canada are worthless as soon as he decides he doesn't like them.

    And we can never trust the nation not to vothe narcissistic idiots in again. The US is just not trustworthy as a trade partner.

  • Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says

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  • We awoke to finally find ourselves entering a little light. Then just as we were starting to celebrate. We forgot the folks in the back.

    And suddenly those folks shouted, grabbed our ankles and dragged us back into the dark brambles of bigotry.

    The fear was more than they could handle. And our lack of far was more than they were willing to tolerate.

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • slackware followed by red hat mothers day 2.0 also used LMDE for several years

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • Agreed. As I say blender is less fast on amd. Atm

    I don't play games much. 0ad being the main exception.

    But yeah I'd never advise a non blender user to go Nvidia.

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • Yeah. Unfortunately blender is still noticably faster on Nvidia cards. Due to cuda and optic support.

    I only have a 4060 though. Next time I upgrade, give. How bad the 50s release is. I will look again and compare higher end amd stuff. Likely a few years away though.

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • i been linux only for over 30 years now.

    I tend to use Debian stable. At least for the last 15 or so.

    The reason is simple. I use it as my main PC and the stability is my main priority.

    The only negative is software in the repos is often out of date.

    But honestly while that was a pain in the past. Now for the vast majority of things I use. I find flat pack or appimage downloads work perfect ally.

    The only exception is ham radio software. Here I tend to compile later versions if I need/want them.

    Other negatives

    I'm really not hugely into gaming. But use blender a lot. Due to this I use Nvidia cards as they are far better supported by blender.

    Installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers is a bit of a pain on Debian for newbies. But once you know the process its simple enough. Just not obvious for beginners. The community drivers are still very limited thanks to Nvidia s weird ideas.

  • Compilation of Protests Against the Supreme Court – What The Trans!?

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  • The protest need to be aimed at parliament.

    While laws are prown to interpretation. Interpreting the laws parliament passes is all the power the court has. Parliament is responsible for wording laws that force their planned interpretation.

    To prevent this requires the sovereign parliament, to word the law in a non questionable way.

    The only way this gets fixed. Is to convince parliament to change the GRC law ro clearly state that sutch operations make the recipient legally the sex chosen. And to address the intersex issue by stating such people are the sex they identify with as an adult.

    The actual science only matters if parliament chooses to make it so. Even then the law tends to apply to the science at the time of passing.

  • British Steel tries to reverse ‘sabotage’ of Scunthorpe furnace in the UK: Chinese companies should be blocked from critical infrastructure, MPs told

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  • That inflated panic started.

    When a Chinese company refused to work with the UK gov to keep a plant they own running. Even when the UK offered to cover the costs of doing so. They demanded much higher payments and still refused to guarantee to keep[ the plant running and not destroying the plant by refusing to feed the furnaces. .

    While we have critical infrastructure owned by multiple nations.

    We have never had a situation where that infer structure risks being destroyed and the companies have refused to work to keep it effective. Or by some (rational) interpretations attempting to destroy it.

    Such a situation will naurally cincentrate initial anger on the nation acting.

    Yeah, we are at fault for-ever allowing it. But the panic about china, perceived intent, is far from invalid.

  • British Steel tries to reverse ‘sabotage’ of Scunthorpe furnace in the UK: Chinese companies should be blocked from critical infrastructure, MPs told

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  • While i agree.

    This whole article is based on nothing but gueaes and suspicion.

    China has no duty or moral obligation to run british steel infrastructure at a loss. And if the UK wants to keep the plants running (at £700k a day while not being able to sell that ateel. Its rather presumptuous to expect chinese companies to do it when UK ones were nott able to do so profitably.

    Nationalise and accept that is the cost of keepinflg a steel inferstructure when most of the developed world is also so and selling steel cheap.

    Anything else is expecting china to fund our steel at a loss to their own.

    It was a dumb choice to start with. We pay now.

  • 3D Printed Milling Machine Is Solid As A Rock

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  • Don't give up so easy. Pretty sure it can be expanded to fit you on the bed.

  • Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

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  • Agreed.

    But the issue is with both the words extremists and religious. No extremists thinks they are. Heck I can assure you most think our rejection is extream. And religiose people rarely admit their restrictions are religion. Even when using the Bible to justify shit. They will argue it is science or common sense.

    Their is a need to term unacceptable laws in a way that forces them to openly argue their restrictions do not apply. Or actually are religious extremism. The latter is close to impossible.

    Be honest with ourselves. I agree trans equality laws should exist. But only 20 or 30 years ago society as a majority society considered them extream. Some off us remember it even if we disagreed.

    Gay marriage was def extream when I was in my teens. Gary rights at all in my parents teens. (They also disagreed)

    And a very small % of any of those considered their religious ideals as a significant element.

  • Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads

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  • Unfortunately it requires our government to take a strong position. To actually stand up publicly and tell the people of the UK. We will not tollerarate this return to the fascist playback used before ww2.

    Without that librarians and soon store keepers etc will constantly face the threats and attacks of extremists groups. Claiming the same anti DEI and equality shit happening in doge.

    Much like anti abortion protesters try to intimidated those that disagree with them protesting clinics etc.

    That is exactly what is being attempted here. Racism prejudice and fear for the future is being weaponised by the right. If our gov dose not stand up to the actions now. The attempts in the US to override the legal system etc will follow. Reform or a reunigghting of the people who support it will turn into a trump like administration.

    We saw the start of this when Boris tried to shut down parliment illegally. The attacks on the echr are the UK equiv of the claim we saw leading up to trump 1. IE the supreme Court has become political. Gaining the power to take control. Our right is doing the same by trying to eject us from the courts mandate.

  • Trump exempts smartphones from reciprocal tariffs after market rout

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  • After 2 180s you are pointing the right way or never were.

    Given at some point trump was not in charge. Seems another angle is needed for them all to be idiotic.

    They are idiotic just not 180s

  • Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer

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  • And yet they won’t endorse Buy British.

    The issue with buy British is, it equates to an anti all foreign trade message. Where we actually need a stronger trade link with nations other then the US.

    "Don't buy US" is more effective

  • Trump raises China tariffs to 125% but announces 90-day pause for others

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  • I can def believe he thinks that is what he is doing.

    But by putting world tarrifs on hold. He is just giving Europe 90days to worry and discuse China. While giving China more reason to consider deals with Europe.

    Add to that China has been building deals with most of the world for over 20 years.

    China has less to lose then the big US corp owners that back trump and depend on China for manufacturing and parts etc.

  • Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe

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  • In the US most equipment suppliers have raised loading unloading for contractors.

    So the big pickups are designed to be a similar height to low loader semis in the US.

  • Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe

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  • Thanks due to vision loss I've not been able to drive since 2010ish.

    So have not been paying attention to the market.

    Oops.