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Having been accused of being ‘virtually anonymous’ by a respondent accusing me of making Twitter arguments (🤷♂️):
I’m a retired hospital pharmacist in Yorkshire. My wife was a GP so we think we have a little insight into health care.
Probably a bit woke.
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Just had an AI interaction about our trains.
Apparently our next one was half an hour ago.
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Nor did we. And yet historically we’ve put so much faith in our American offspring.
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Badly disciplined toddlers cause many problems for their parents wherever they are.
Americans voted for this.
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It’s an interesting report though it seems to revolve around theoreticals rather than actual data. That’s fine but I’d like to see confirmatory evidence to support it.
This discussion makes similar points whilst simultaneously acknowledging the nuances:
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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What odds that Trump claims not to remember ‘agreeing’ this?
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Wow, indeed.
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Just as the local election successes gave a signal but not one yet to worry too much about Farage in No 10, so too is the departure of the Reform chairman and apparent disintegration of Farage’s tram not yet enough to get excited about.
But we can hope….
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Thank you. I’ll study this report.
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I can see the logic of this argument. What I’m asking is if it is based on reality rather than theory.
I’ll be very happy to hear that what are suggesting is borne out in practice.
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All of which is entirely laudable and positive. But only if those skills are not in as short supply as they are here in the UK.
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But these skills are very much a limited resource here in the UK.
Otherwise we’d have less need to recruit from other countries.
Would we?
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So Kerala has a surplus of healthcare professionals?
Is that true of all the countries from which we import skills?
I’d be entirely happy if this were/is the situation.
I am absolutely not averse to immigration and there can be no doubt that we have a need for the skills they provide.
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I wish the public were as politically savvy as politicians like to pretend they believe. Or indeed that politicians were as intelligent and upright as they would have their electorate believe.
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All probably true. But there is the consideration that if these ‘migrants’ possess- as they must- skills which are beneficial to us then we must be depriving their home country of those skills. Unless they come from a place with a surplus of skilled workers.
Is this latter possibility the case?
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Hmmm! So 17.4m people voted to stay *in*!
🤔
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Can’t we just get rid of the ridiculous USA?
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Is it the media? There are two clues in this headline that mean the problem is not the article but the reader:
Use of he past participle ‘dropped’ and the subheading which clearly dates the act to 2023:
www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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If everyone followed your lead and sought true expertise then the world would be a better place but it requires that level of interest and a degree of understanding to pick out the scientific wheat from the chaff.
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‘Journalists’ with a scientific/medical background can be good but this rarely seems to be an available resource. Having non-specialists writing about science/medicine is little better than having no expertise at all. They will seldom pick out the salient science and are likely to mislead.
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(Caveat: It’s 50yr since I started work as a healthcare professional- but I’ve been retired for the past 13)
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I agree. I often thought that there should be a blanket ban on health related articles in public newspapers/forums.
I accept that would not be popular (cries of ‘cover up’ and ‘keeping public in the dark’).
But I think they rarely give a truthful picture and are likely to do more harm than good.
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50 yr working in Healthcare underlined for me that *any* discussions in newspapers (not just the Guardian) about health issues should be treated with extreme scepticism. They are almost universally inaccurate and sensationalised. These days few people read papers (good) but SM is far worse (v bad).
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…. the relative pay rises between sectors is only ever referred to on the rare occasions that public sector awards exceed those in the private sector.
All is silent when the reverse, the norm, is true. ifs.org.uk/publications...
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As a retired NHS professional, I find two things irksome about these ‘Gold plated pension’ discussions.
Firstly, PS pensions are contributory and, arguably, deferred salary awards.
Private sector employees frequently argue they can’t ’afford’ to have pensions.
Secondly…
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I agree. I think the most alarming thing about AI right now is not the tool itself but the willingness of people, who really should know better, to put their absolute faith in it as an effective and trustworthy instrument.
The future is a little worrying.
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You really are not able to read and interpret what anyone writes or says are you?
Your life must be terribly tricky.
But I wish you well.
Bye.
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As a man who has a wife, two daughters and a granddaughter, I can assure you that the last thing I ever wish to do is denigrate any woman or womankind as a whole.
That you interpret my words thus I find very worrying. And sad.
For you and all those you encounter.
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Imagine how much worse it would have been if we hadn’t taken back control.
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If you think that is what I have said then I’m afraid this discourse will never reach a satisfactory conclusion. At least for you. But have a nice day anyway.
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OK. I hope you won’t find it too tricky. I said I didn’t want to take anything away from the undoubted talents of the two athletes in the clip but that they might just not be wholly representative of *all* women.
But perhaps you believe every woman you know is just as capable?
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I don’t suppose you’d care to read my comment again, would you? Just, maybe to put your own comments into a little perspective?
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Please explain how what I’ve said fits with what you believe I’ve said.
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I certainly would! Wouldn’t you?
Will you be jogging along, too?
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Without wishing, in any way, to denigrate these two impressive athletes I feel that the word ‘some’ could probably be reasonably employed in your reminder.
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Who’d have imagined it?
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There must be a term for governments which fail to learn from their errors especially recent ones
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Objectively, the argument that Israel is a civilised democracy - or even pretending to look like one - has been difficult to accept for well over a year.
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But if an individual is wealthy enough for it to be obvious to others- there cannot be much advantage in this respect to getting ever more wealthy. Can there?
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It’s wealth accumulation and the obsession therewith that puzzles me. Once you have enough money to live (very) comfortably and no longer need to worry about money or making more to live, why do people wish to continue building up their wealth?
What do they want to do with it?
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This sentence works even without ‘of the judiciary’.
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Arguably, such fees and loans rather than grants stems from the explosion of university places which made/makes the funding of tertiary education so much more costly. Couple that with provision of sometimes questionable degrees and influx of non-academic students and hey ho, see where we go.
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Maybe training people in practical skills appropriate for every locality might just keep local economies afloat?
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Well as I understand it, many universities are currently struggling financially anyway. But that aside at least one of these ‘blue Labour’ characters is advocating a change of role rather than complete elimination.
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…practical skills and I interpreted this suggestion - of establishing more vocational training as an alternative. I think that’s a sensible way forward.
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I struggle with the idea that everyone who is above average academically will automatically be best suited to higher education and no less with the suggestion that those with below average academic ability shouldn’t be better encouraged through different routes. We can and should better respect…