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Not a lot to say about myself. Worked as GP in valleys, then public health something to do with data of health events. Ignored mainly, you're advised to do the same. Meanwhile if you fancy seeing what I'm thinking this is quite a good place happy to be corrected as I don't know as much as I think I do. It's a common male fault. 🤣

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MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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We all know the answer to this question. They aren't fooling anyone. And it's not just about the immediate increase in profits they get from automation and downsizing. It also weakens unions. But there is one upside to all this: those angry asshole customers are now more likely to have only an inanimate machine to vent their rage at instead of people. And if you're quick, you can sneak out the automated gate behind another customer without paying.

epistatacadam ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor or better still go somewhere where they still value people!

MAJ1 , to weirdfolks group
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#MorningAll & #TZAG G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!

Monday has dawned super bright & warm, like an excited teenager off to the seaside!

Not much on today - I was going to tackle the shed today but it’s going to be stonking hot , I may leave it till the end of the week when it’s slightly cooler.
Anyone accusing me of procrastination will have to wait their turn!

Have a cracking day #Today & remember #RuleNo1: Don’t let ‘em Cash-ew ! 😊🫶🐿️🖖
@weirdfolks
#WeirdFolks #SquirrelsOfMastodon #TheMammutMoves

epistatacadam ,
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@MAJ1 @nigelharpur @weirdfolks hazel nuts here!

epistatacadam ,
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@MAJ1 @nigelharpur @weirdfolks I doubt it, just the nuts are out early this year! Some unripe Apples, and Pears to help with the digestion too!

RolloTreadway , to random
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Morning everyone. It's bright and sunny and polleny and I have too much work to do (my own fault, because I've been struggling to get stuff done of late).

epistatacadam ,
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@RolloTreadway @sheepnik started clear here in S Wales, now mizzling. Very humid indeed! Please take the Irish mist back...

ChrisMayLA6 , to random
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I'm sure you've had enough of 'manifestos' (not least as term-inflation now means any list of proposals seems to be a 'manifesto').... but still, here's one that actually would do something to transform the way politics is discussed both at election times & more generally.

The Royal Statistical Society wants to stop pre-release access to statistics by politicians & have training in the use of stats to try to halt their political manipulation.

https://rss.org.uk/news-publication/news-publications/2024/general-news/the-rss-launches-its-manifesto-for-the-2024-genera/

epistatacadam ,
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@ChrisMayLA6 as a Fellow/member of RSS I do feel RSS has forgotten it's aim of explaining the use of statistics to the public. Even it's teaching stats section tells me it is not interested in teaching at schools only at Universities and then solely to the undergraduates reading statistics.
If the public understood the methods of data collection and analysis, then politicians would be laughed at by the public for some of the rubbish they spout!

PixysJourney , to weirdfolks group
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:bear_love: Ello sweet and lovely Friendos 💜 and 🌶 friends :neuro:

It's just 11 more days till I get the keys! Two more sleeps and we're in the single digits!!
23 sleeps and then it's time to move all our stuffs...
It feels like just a short while ago that I shared I had been offered a small new house... To think that this happened in December! It really doesn't feel like that much time had passed!

So yeah... I'm still struggling with my emotions. I feel excited, but also scared and anxious. I feel motivated to get the job done and to do it right! 💪🏼 But I fear I may not be up to the task...

It's definitely a roller-coaster of emotions and it gets me all wired up. My brain feels all over the place. And my toots will reflect that... Sorry in advance (again 😉) if I may seem a bit weirder than usual.

:bear_nuzzle:

Thanks ever so much for your support 💜 I really appreciate it! And eeeek 😲 just 11 more sleeps...

🧚🏼‍♀️ 🍀 💜 🐾


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epistatacadam ,
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@PixysJourney @Cbfoley @weirdfolks don't we all do that?

epistatacadam ,
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@PixysJourney @Cbfoley @weirdfolks both to be honest. I like my routines, if they are disrupted I get crotchety and snappy. I also write lists half of which are things I can say I've done, of the rest about half will get out in tomorrow's list but once an item has Ben on three lists it gets removed as it clearly did really need to be done!
Well that's my routine for lists

ZLabe , to random
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Well now I can finally share - I just started my first day as a federal scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

I'll be continuing research on improving our understanding of climate prediction and projection, especially with data-driven approaches for high-impact extremes.

epistatacadam ,
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@ZLabe congratulations, I hope your career goes from strength to strength and you never loose the curiosity you had as a child as that is what drives good science

uspolitics Bot , to random
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Trump threatens to cut US aid to Ukraine quickly if reelected

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-ukraine-russia-war-threatens-cut-aid-election-2024/

epistatacadam ,
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@mastodonmigration @uspolitics then the USA.

RolloTreadway , to random
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Morning everyone. I dreamt about sleeper trains as a metaphor for death. No, I'm not entirely sure what that means either.

epistatacadam ,
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@RolloTreadway a bit different from my usual falling from a cliff ones!😉

appassionato , (edited ) to palestine group
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Israeli settlers cut down olive and citrus trees during their assault on the town of Qusra in the occupied West Bank.

@palestine

epistatacadam ,
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@appassionato @palestine that's pure evil, olives take years to reach full productivity. So do citrus trees. The farmers will be without a cash crop, nor the staples of life for several years. And the occupying forces did nothing to uphold the law regarding occupied territories.

Natasha_Jay , to random
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‘What am I going to do with my life?’ Mhairi Black on quitting the ‘depressing’ Commons at 29 – with no regrets

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/03/what-am-i-going-to-do-with-my-life-mhairi-black-on-quitting-the-depressing-commons-at-29-with-no-regrets

"... she provoked anger when she dismissed gender-critical feminists as “50-year-old Karens”, she says she is proud for “sticking up for trans people. I think that I will look back on it in years to come and think: ‘Fair play to you, that wasn’t easy, it wasn’t popular, but it was the right thing.'

... she says it is the responsibility of politicians to challenge “people whipping up hatred and spreading disinformation"

epistatacadam ,
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@simon_brooke @Natasha_Jay I wish every MP had half as much honesty and determination as she had. A great loos to us all I hope she finds other ways to lead us all.

parismarx , to random
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In 1922, Thomas Edison predicted motion pictures would “revolutionize our educational system.”

I can’t get over how Muskian he sounds (particularly on “efficiency” claims) and how — a hundred years later — we still haven’t learned not to fall for this kind of tech boosterism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/books/chapters/the-flickering-mind.html

"I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system," Thomas Edison said in 1922, "and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. I should say that on the average we get only about two percent efficiency out of textbooks as they are written today." A decade earlier, Edison had been even more pedagogically expansive, saying that film makes it "possible to touch every branch of human knowledge." Now he added: "The education of the future, as I see it, will be conducted through the medium of the motion picture, a visualized education, where it should be possible to obtain one hundred percent efficiency." Three years later, Edison's vision was undiluted: "In ten years textbooks as the principal medium of teaching will be as obsolete as the horse and carriage are now.... There is no limitation to the camera."
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    • epistatacadam ,
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    @parismarx why do tech people not understand that due to the variability of people (& all living things) striving for efficiency ironically means processes become in efficient (due to mismatches) and more seriously ineffective.
    Let's push for effective teaching, health and social care, food and water supply!

    Natasha_Jay , to random
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    Sunak is now almost literally role playing the plot of Starship Troopers ... "We need you all. Service guarantees citizenship"

    "Would you like to know more?"

    epistatacadam ,
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    @Natasha_Jay I'm guessing NHS recruitment is on hold for ever then, unless WS has privatised it by then.

    luckytran , to random
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    Republicans are trying to take away and criminalize the right to make decisions around our own health, whether that’s the right to wear a mask or the right to have an abortion. Unacceptable.

    https://www.wral.com/amp/21433199/

    epistatacadam ,
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    @luckytran good luck controlling spumtum positive TB then.... airborne infection is remarkably common. If people with one of them wears a mask they become almost unifectious. Silly to prevent that simple cheap public health measure, but for some reason many in USA think spreading diseases is an inalienable right!

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