iainmacandog.bsky.social
Interested in Medicine, Science, Politics, but mainly larks
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I had always thought that the only rational understanding of the recent decade’s approach to education was to reduce the pool of professionals and increase the pool of indigenous, low skill, low-payed workers.
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Yup, guys like Hannan honestly thought that because they had trod the same halls as their beloved Imperial adventurers, they were made of the same stuff. In fact they are just glib little wordsmiths, rattling around in outsized suits of armour.
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People who actually diligently deliver the main task without seeking promotion or distraction; the under-appreciated engine room of everything.
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It’s a Seize-Fire
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What is the body temperature of a tauntaun?
Luke-warm.
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They obviously both think this is a Finite Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. This is what happens when both sides contain religious maniacs and maths PhDs.
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He was constantly aware that he shouldn’t take his phone out because of a crime statistic he became aware of only on his way home. C- for the public intellectual.
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Did they drop stuff?
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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If it is in someone’s interest to misunderstand you, don’t ever expect to be understood.
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Similarly having progressive views involves having empathy for others and caring, so they are rooted in the same skillset. Against this you have the individual jeopardy of that career which has a tendency to make people more right wing over time.
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I think the first thing is tied up with access to commissioning and contacts. However, I do agree that there is an association with intelligence. I have always thought it is about empathy. You can’t be funny unless you can imagine how another person might feel and therefore react.
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Isn’t “Why are you chasing him?” a better question.
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No, which is why we had a nuclear deal. There was a window where Iran re-entered the world. That could have been good, but Trump broke the deal.
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Watch The Settlers on iPlayer before it gets banned.
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Too many double negatives. It is actually impossible to say.
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How long has he been in that bookies?
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His family certainly didn’t before.
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Yup it is weird how Israel is so dependent on the mad Christian right who fundamentally crave its destruction way more than liberal lefties do.
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Or as it is now known; a landslide.
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It really is as simple as that.
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No one is forced to. Do you honestly think people wouldn’t weigh up these risks themselves. There will always be a degree of uncertainty which the individual will have to take into account
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Why do you think that is?
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The Happy Prince, not The Little Prince; that’s shit.
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Finish your coffee. Have 2 cups. Solving the world’s problems needs a lot of caffeine.
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You want to make about America: Trump is an American problem which hopefully the American constitution is strong enough to resist. Netanyahu is an Israeli problem enabled by its basic laws. Israel has to change more to get rid of extremism than America does.
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Of course I didn’t say you were. Israelis did that though, so it is an Israel problem and given that the people that did it are now represented in government that problem isn’t getting closer to being solved.
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Being pro-independence and pro-Brexit was not all that logical. That was the worst outcome. The pro-independence anti-Brexit position was always framed as illogical, but it was actually just a desire to be in a different union. Farage symbolises much that indies hate. My bet is his ceiling is low
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Obviously some of these polls are counter-intuitive and that might be because people are not honest in the polling or hold contradictory views simultaneously. I think it might be the former as selling an English, public school boy to an independent minded Scottish electorate seems implausible.
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Assisted Dying doesn’t prevent that. It doesn’t exist now and yet the palliative care solution you describe is not there. If anything an Assisted Dying Bill might shake up the torpor surrounding palliative care.
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Again a vote that split on sectarian lines. South Lanarkshire (Hamilton) voted against independence, so you are right this should be Labour/Unionist and therefore Reform, but they only came 3rd. My point is they should do better. This is their Clacton.
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So the choice is suffer or wait for the help that isn’t coming. I don’t see why my choice over my body should be so dependent. And if fixing palliative care happens and that is the solution, people will access it rather than assisted dying.
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The last time the Tories did ok in Scotland is when they were led by an articulate, Scottish working class woman. That stretched their appeal beyond the Landowners and the Headbangers. How do Reform do that with Farage. I don’t buy it.
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If 3.3% behind the leading party is really that close, why weren’t they better than 3rd in an ideal constituency for them? The conditions couldn’t have been more favourable. That’s why I’m sceptical.
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Over the last few decades we have elevated the individual’s choice above all else and yet we are stuck on this. What choice should belong more fully to the individual than what to do with their own body when it is painfully failing.
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It’s the Persian calendar, one week is the same as a hundred years.
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Not sure you really nailed this. 3rd in the most Orange constituency you could imagine. He needs to be first there to be in with a chance.
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Yup. It should be possible to believe all that. I certainly do. I think the scepticism is about how many in Israel are really willing to translate that into reality. After all they murdered their leader who got closest to a 2 state solution.
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“Macadona”. Obviously. I can’t believe I haven’t heard that before. 👏👏
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As I initially read that as Hockney, I was confused.
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He got 3rd in the most Orange constituency you could wish for. I think the Economist is bugging him up a bit too much.
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Yup. Famously Michael Gove, one of our right wing politicians, declared that in Britain we’d had enough of experts. It would appear that RFK doesn’t have enough experts.
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Bluesky wasn’t created to be a nicer form of Twitter, it was created to be a refuge from the psychos and morons on Twitter. Perhaps that is why The Spectator doesn’t find it so welcoming.
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He’s had a Brazilian
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Al Khamenei stepping down in favour of Pope Leo?
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And the post-war consensus that invasion and occupation is not okay looks like it’s about to be abandoned.
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Are you kidding? Give it months of nightly bombing and tens of thousands of civilian deaths and then you are getting close.
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Compared to England
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Is Wales really that massive?
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I have literally called Hamas monsters in our conversation. And if you think I think the mullahs are worse or better than the rabbis forget it pal. Israel is not a democracy, it’s a hypocracy. I’m tapping out. Try and be honest.