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  • Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog

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  • True. But foreign students have always been a huge amount of UK university funding. Basically from as far back as the 1800s.

    Limiting them is not the solution. Nor is it the cause of diploma mills. Reduction in government funded research grants is what forced uni to move to tick box education. And government desire to avoid administration costs is what leads to Unis without the strong educational ethics taking advantage of it.

  • Intervention as one in four school starters in nappies

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  • I'd add the guess. First time parents being older or more to the point the reasons they wait.

    Part of the desire to leave child raising until people are more fiscally secure. (hardly something we can blame younger couples for over the 2020s). Will be that the cost of nappies was often a huge motivator to young, less stable couples in the past. Now it hardly seems like the big cost compared to housing etc nowadays. Back in the 90s when I was at that point. Rent etc seemed high as an expense. But compared to income today, it really represented a much smaller % of every day costs. So other things were more influential.

    Looking on Amazon. Nappies actually seem cheaper inflation adjusted then in the 90s.

  • UK economy continues recovery with 0.6% growth

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  • You may have missed it. But Bojo is no longer an MP. So no one to wear the suit.

  • Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

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  • Divorce her.

    Kidding of course. My partner has the same atritude.

    But I have gotten her to use linux. Mainly by building her a PC and telling her if she wants windows she can sort it herself.

    Mean but works.

  • Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

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  • Bbc funding would make that difficult.

    As it is a licence and a bloody expensive one atm. The % of UK citizens joining are reducing rapidly.

    More importantly for a government system. You can see the BBC requiring a licence to set up an account. This instantly makes it unappreate as a giverment distribution and communications system. As wealth has a huge input on access.

    Honestly the BBC seems to be hanging on by a thread atm. It has lost a huge amount of trust. And many brits just find the cost vs service much more questionable then in the past.

    PS this was the tories intent. But hard to see labour current doing anything to fox it.

  • Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

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  • Agreed.

    Honestly though. For such a service. Id suggest mastidon sorta solves it. as anyone can already post from other servers.

    So all you need is a parlimentary server. That alloows a second account for only MPs or those running for MP.

    That limitation is hard to argue with. Dosent show any political bias. And only allows people like binface or any other nutty runner during an election period.

    But they still have personal accounts they can link that allows them to comment without the parlimentary candidate Accolade during other times. Or with it if we some how end up with PM bin face.

  • Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

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  • I agree. But this is labour MPs. MP != Government even when members of leading party. Only those with ministerial positions are in government.

    As Members of parliament outside ministerial government positions are considered to have free speech and not to be representing the government when speaking, The choice of communication media must be down to the individuals.

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    Should every printer have a easy to disconnect toolhead?

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  • Multihead printing is still in the early days.

    Agreed but then so was 3D printing as a whole 10 years ago. It is open source design started by Rep Rap that put us where we are now.

    Im a about to be beginner. Recently retired through disability. So finally have time to play with the subject. So yes, at some point I'd like to come back to you and take you up on your offer. ATM im saving to buy a Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro. And from there I have some projects to do then will start building my own design based on an open design I looked at in the past. (cant remember the name of my head)

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    Russian Gets 10 Years In Prison For Killing War Critic.

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  • Yeah, unfortunately he is not in prison for murder.

    He was jailed for failing to watch him fall from a window.

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    Should every printer have a easy to disconnect toolhead?

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  • As long as the basic connections are an open design.

    It would be a great step towards multihead printing.

    Lets face it long term to gain the full ability of 3D printing. It will need to move to a multi material design. And that is likely to require the ability to change tool types mid-production.

  • Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control.

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  • I don’t think we need to pay the same as the US.

    The issue with that is at times like this. When economics are bad. The UK has a long history of emigration. And medical professionals are by far the most in demand worldwide.

    If this nation, dos'e not offer a competitive standard of living compared to other nations. Those that can leave will and always have.

    So yes, if you want to keep people in the field. You must either appeal to those from a lessor standard of living. Or raise yours to your competitor's level.

  • Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control.

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  • Actually its been a problem since at least the 1970s. When my father worked for a hospital as a charge nurse. He was paid to travel to nations to hire nurses. Mainly jamaca and a few others at the time. .

    This was a tume when all UK higher education was free.

    The issue is more about how much we pay nurses compared to other nations. Vs how shitty the job is.

    And you will notice we solve it the same way most other nations do. Recruit from nations that pay even less. Just like the US and AUS recruites from the UK we recruit from eastern wleurope africa etc etc etc.

    If you want to fix it without immigration. You need to pay UK nurses etc competitivly with the US.

  • Cannabis: Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets

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  • Worth remembering the UK is one of the worlds largest legal cannabis exporters.

    And a number of MPs are known to be part ofbthe industory.

    So legalising recreational in the UK would also make it easyier for small competitiltors to compete with those larger companies.

    Like much of the restricted product industory. The complexity of licencingbmakes it advantagouse to the wealthy.

  • Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control.

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  • Then don't use terms like "records began" because that goes back to the beginning of the written word. Amd clearly since the invention of the printing press. 1960s is very recent.

    Also any polling is entirly manipulatable by the questions asked. Non of the polls you post are entirly unbiased. And have been used by the very currupt press from the dawn of mass advertising.

  • Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control.

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  • Consistently since records began British people have wanted less immigration.

    Immigration laws only applied to the UK from the 1970s.

    And even at that point it was never a majority that rejected immigration. There was a high anti German immigration movement before the first World War. But far from a majority of people cared.

    And at every point where attitudes to immigration was increasing. Economic issues were also connected.

    The majority of anti immigration event in UK history can very easily be linked to increases in the opinions being shared by newspapers owned and funded by wealthy production owners trying to silence working/poor people showing opposition to them.

  • LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime

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  • Yeah that is often the issue.

    It is rare a single company owns all the IP on code. So its common that companies are not releasing code because they cannot.

  • LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime

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  • Yeah any reverse engineering of closed source code takes time. It's a huge job on its own. Adding the need to avoid actions that may lead to legal issues.

    Well yep, It's very likely this may never round to a perfect replacement product.

    But it still has value. For starters, it will encourage new open source projects to use it rather than the propria try version, long before it's a direct replacement capable product.

    So the effort is worth some excitement. At least a pat on the back and free beer for some of the guys trying.

  • Thousands of counter-protesters take to UK streets as far-right unrest fails to materialise

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  • Hate to give excuses for these people.

    But nothing in these quotes would lead to legal proof that blocking traffic was the intent. It just leads to a group of 200 people trying to be noticed and avoiding police kettleing them.

    The 5 Just Stop Oil protesters were shown to have discussed limiting the travel of vehicles. Heck, as dumb as it sounds. The fact they allowed ambulances through, shows blocking other traffic, was an intentional part of the plan.

    Please remember, this is ion no way supposed to indicate I support the actions of these terrorists. Or oppose the actions of just stop oil. It is just a consideration o the actual legal justification in both cases.

    Some other evidence of the intent of the protests to limit the movement of traffic is needed in this case.

    Of course, with police filming and the number of phone vids made. Plus all the social media discussions leading up to the protests. That evidence may well become clear later on. But running onto the road to avoid police officers restricting their movements does not in itself prove a desire to limit traffic flow.

  • Royal Mint opens factory in south Wales to recover gold from e-waste

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  • Mint is only interested in one metal.

    Others exist in e waste. Somi assume it would just be reduced price.

    Of course I am in no way agreeing the exporting of dangerous heavy metal waste etc is a good thing. Just not likely completely unwanted.

  • Thousands of counter-protesters take to UK streets as far-right unrest fails to materialise

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  • Ok im leaving that typo far to appropriate to fix.