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10 minutes ago, whelk said:

Are you trying to steal my identity TIm?

Alternatively i messed up a quote

9 minutes ago, whelk said:

Are you trying to steal my identity TIm?

I want to walk like you and dress like you, Follow you home and sit in your car. 

53 minutes ago, whelk said:

I've been posting piss takes of 'Liberation Day' and criticisms of Trump's tariffs on X today. They've been getting a lot of new likes and follows - which is new for me, I don't post to be popular. So intrigued by who was liking me i looked at the profiles. Really surprised to see that around two thirds were obvious Trump supporters. He's losing the room

 

A lot of this discussion is pissing against the wind anyhow. At some stage soon we will need to have a much wider debate about who lives and who dies. 

As medical treatment advances more and more people can be kept alive for longer. That means more people kept alive to draw more pension and to still be alive to later contract a new illness that also needs to be treated. Whilst ability to treat disease increases our capacity to pay for it doesn't - so instead we just make everyone wait. All rationing by waiting does is lead to ever more people disabled by illness and claiming benefits which in itself reduces society's ability to pay for healthcare and benefits. 

When I worked for the NHS we experimented with QALYs - a measure to prioritise access to treatment by gauging how many more good quality extra life years a treatment would bring - but politicians bottled difficult choices then. Its bound to come around again. 

Countries across the globe are battling the same aging and sick population issues. The difficult choices that will throw up will make the right to die controversy pale into insignificance.  

2 hours ago, egg said:

Of course wars have to be funded, but russia are a largely self sufficient communist state,

That's the most bizarre statement I've read here for ages - against stiff competition. You know its not 1967 anymore right?  

4 hours ago, egg said:

Russian gains accelerate. Troop losses estimate is interesting when compared to some of the numbers on here. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c20726y20kvt?post=asset%3Ab4159790-b901-4f6d-9db5-f835d865071c#post

 

 

Not really. The BBC and mediazone only cite numbers where the can certify a death from publicly available sources - againsta backdrop of the Kremlin doing everything they can to hide losses - including mass unmarked burials on the battlefield

On 11/08/2024 at 20:01, egg said:

I'm not sure anyone outside Russia or Belarus think that way mate. I just find it surprising that people convince themselves of what they want to believe. If you follow some foreign media outlets, including msm like CNN, or even Al Jazeera (they have no skin in the game in this dispute), you get a more open picture.

I'd love Ukraine to be pushing Russia back and reclaiming their land, but they're struggling. This incursion into Russia could be a masterstroke, or we could see jets and missiles taking loads of Ukrainians and their gear out. Let's see what happens. 

The strategy for at least the past 18 months has been to extract a high price for every square Km occupied with the intention of gradually bleeding Russia out. That seems to be working. Yes Ukraine is gradually losing land, but not that much and at incredibly high cost to Russia in terms of men and materiel they cant replace at anywhere near the rate they are losing it. Economically Russia is running out of money too. With interest rates at 21% much of Russian industry cant afford their loans and people cant afford their mortgages. Tax base is down expenditure way up. 

The unspoken plan seems to be to get Ukraine to survive until the end of 2025, at which point Russia wont be able to sustain its war effort. It's also important to remember Ukraine hasnt even introduced conscription for 18-28 year olds yet. They have a big chunk of manpower they can call on in reserve

14 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

You seem to have completely missed the point.

I asked if any (and if so how much) fossil fuel is used to CHARGE the battery not make them.

Unless you're claiming they never need to be charged?

Also, does the capacity reduce with age (I know the battery on my phone does), so whilst it may last 200k miles, does it need to be charged more often later on its life (and maybe use more fossil fuels that created the electricity to charge them)?

Ah fair enough, i read it as change. Still a flawed point though because 60% of UK electricity comes from renewables + nuclear and that figure is growing year on year by around 3%. That autocar link gives a battery decline rate of 73% of life left after 200k - which is way more than I thought it would be. 

That said i do think hydrogen will be the long term solution, not battery

47 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Is it produced from renewable resources?

The UK still relies on over 50% of energy from non renewable...

As Lighthouse says its a nonsense point. EV battery life typically exceeds the engine life of a hydrocarbons car. The US mandates a minimum life of 100,000 miles but typical usable life is nearer 200,000

How long do batteries last in electric cars? | Autocar.

25 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

No sign of a £22 billion black hole according to the OBR either so that was a load of bullshit as if we weren't already aware. 

True. It's a £129 billion black hole deficit this year alone. Way bigger

4 hours ago, Guided Missile said:

Truth Social now 51.94 you total losers.

How much for Agform now? Still holding out for that big bucks deal which is imminent? 

40 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

Another case of people choosing the exact interpretation of the exact moment in history which they feel they’re the victim of. As has been pointed out we can reasonably demand reparations from many European nations, not to mention the Catholic Church, so where does it all end? If we can trace homosapiens back to east Africa, are they ultimately responsible for the whole worlds colonialism?

Also, whilst some Britons were making money from the transatlantic trade, it was Africans who were capturing and selling the slaves. Hows that going to work

Harris has averaged a c2.5 - 3% lead over Trump for the past months but that has gradually narrowed over the past couple of weeks to 1.8% with most of the swing states polling as even. Its super tight. Interesting though in the Senate race the Democrats have started to pull away in nearly all of the swing states. It could be Trump gets elected but both the Senate and and the House are Democrat controlled and completely tie his hands.  

On 07/10/2024 at 12:43, Gloucester Saint said:

I’m personally a bit uncomfortable, I wonder whether the existing right to cease treatment/DNR could be adapted rather than a brand new bill? I sadly had to deal with this issue in the family a few years back and it is highly triggering just discussing this. But too important to put away in a cupboard.

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On 17/10/2024 at 21:41, hypochondriac said:

So winning the popular vote but narrowly behind in the swing states she needs to win the presidency? My point anyway was that she is clearly not doing as well as she was previously so you would imagine she would take any opportunity to get herself out there in order to persuade voters to come out for her. 

So you're preferring to believe the findings of one poll on one day over the far far far more accurate poll of polls aggregating literally hundreds of polls. That figures.  

3 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

From USA today a couple of hours ago:

Harris has narrowly trailed in battleground-state polling throughout October.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/polls-president.html

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/

8 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

Duped in what way? I think she should do a long form interview with time. I don't think it's a good look to avoid it and she's losing in the polls so you'd think she'd be up for it. 

She's not losing. She is consistently ahead in the national poll of polls and crtitcally important, ahead in most of the swing states  

16 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Potential opportunity to defect - 18 already did https://kyivindependent.com/18-north-korean-soldiers-already-deserted-positions-by-ukraines-border-intelligence-sources-tell-suspilne/

If hundreds or thousands of them defect it could well have a domino effect on Russian troops. This just as likely to be a catalyst for defeat as it is a bolster to the front line 

On 28/09/2024 at 13:16, Lord Duckhunter said:

Mr Rules does seem to have a problem with his declarations doesn’t he, strange because he told Boris in parliament they were “clear”. Fresh from declaring his Mrs’ clothes late after releasing he’d made a “mistake”,  he’s now had to correct the record for his “office expenses”. 🤔 Wonder what made him suddenly realise  he made  a mistake again. Strange a top lawyer struggles with these details. Fucking hell it’s 32k in office expenses, sorry clothes, now. Fucking hell, he’s a very expensive shoe in for best dressed parliamentarian. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/27/peer-gave-keir-starmer-more-clothes-worth-16000-declared-as-money-for-private-office

Agree he has shot himself in the foot. The underlying issue though is how ridiculously low the PM's salary is. Should be around £300k imo - which is what it was in the 60/70s in real terms.  £800k in 1937 according to wiki.    

3 hours ago, hypochondriac said:

I don't think he ever believed what he said. Just played a part to get people to give him money. 

Makes it worse, not better. 

6 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

I’ve heard of blackouts but not brownouts.

Agree Trump has lost what little he still had.

Brownouts are where there is too much demand for available power supply so the voltage drops and appliances dont work properly, as opposed to blackouts where the supply stops completely. They are a thing in the US, partly because they mostly dont have the interconnecting electricity grid - meaning an area is reliant on only one, two or a few power stations.    

20 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Cant say I have 😅

I definitely have. The large Tesco I use most often is continually running out of stock with the staff  saying "we haven't been able to get that for days / week / weeks" delete as app. There are also often gaps in supply - when the season for one supplier ends it seems like they arent able to source another. Not only perisihables either, they didnt even have salt for three weeks apart from pink salt crystals.   

3 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022yv2?at_mid=9ugXTb4Q2f&at_campaign=The_Coming_Storm_Series_2&at_medium=display_ad&at_campaign_type=owned&at_audience_id=SS&at_product=sounds&at_brand=w13xtvmt&at_ptr_name=bbc&at_ptr_type=media&at_format=image&at_objective=consumption&at_link_title=The_Coming_Storm_Series_2&at_bbc_team=BBC

I know somebody, ex work colleague of 10 years, who witnessed the plane crash into the Pentagon. The Pentagon is surrounded by busy multi lane roads and it happened during rush hour. Thousands of DC commuters witnessed the crash. Yet if she ever mentioned it she'd frequently get berated by conspiracists who lived hundreds of miles away and weren't there. Their claim to absolute truth, denying the reality of eye witnesses is bizarre.    

2 hours ago, Jimmy_D said:

A weapons store only built in 2018, supposedly to a standard that could withstand nuclear weapons, one of the biggest they had. Russia are now claiming that it wasn’t enough to protect the stored munitions (including ballistic missiles) from debris from shot down drones(!)

Unconfirmed, but reports suggesting that Russia were using it to store and refurbish expired missiles, and that correct storage protocols weren’t being followed.

In any case, it sounds counterintuitive, but weapon stores are generally extremely difficult to cause to completely go up like that (assuming they’ve been correctly designed, built, and used.) It wouldn’t be a surprise though, if corners have been cut and corruption has affected every stage of that.

If you look at it on google maps the design looks fine - maybe 100 separate buildings spaced out on a large site about 4km by 1km.  Yet it looks like most of them have gone up. Either they were built of cardboard or somebody left all the doors open