davefernig.bsky.social
Biochemist, views entirely unconsidered and my own.
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12-18 months is likely enough to gain full control, or at least shift the ground to an extent that controls is never fully lost, regardless of elections, due to destruction of constitutionalism.
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Echoes of 'we don't need experts'.
Always ends well...
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Conclusion: don't waste time on ChatGPT
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Another mansplaining then
Exactly my point
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Very poor graph IMO - should be number of recalls/vehicle sold to provide an insight into reliability of manufacture 😂
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To understand see China's Cultural Revolution. There are deep parallels.
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All true, but ethics do not exist in fascism.
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Request $500 per minute for completing the survey 😂
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Indeed, a colonial power that has yet to look that in the face.
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Decades of data demonstrate GoP always worst for economy, similar to Conservative party in UK, yet voters swallow the propaganda in bucketloads.
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You have never had a revolution - the country was built on an extension of the Cromwellian revolution, which was never a revolution. This provides for exceptionalism and the allied uncritical swallowing of propaganda over decades.
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Sort of. He failed singularly to lead on Brexit, as did a significant portion of the Trade Unions.
He was pretty silent on, e.g., Syria, as were much of the so-called 'left'.
The economy Blair inherited was a disaster, and infrastructure far more worn out due to length of time of Tory power.
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Indeed they do - those canny foreigners not only chlorinate their water but we have to import considerable amounts of the treatment chemicals from them.
See also Singapore , Korea, Japan, though in considerable parts of Asia the water is not treated and not safe to drink.
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Interesting no comments about swimming pools, where there is far more chlorine...
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Also important for watering some house plants!
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Letting your water sit for 5 minutes after getting it from the tap clears the chlorine (which is important in water treatment).
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3/ The drop demonstrates that against the current background of chlorinated water being constant, there are far more important environmental factors being reduced.
I again note that the importance of cancer, heart disease etc. is only apparent because we have clean water to drink.
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2/ The most important point is the headline is statistical nonsense. Bladder cancer rate is ~1.5%.
33 % increaser means 1/3 more, so a 2 % rate.
In addition, the rate is dropping substantially www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-profe...
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1/ Only ways I know of are to sterilise at point of use (large energy use or use of filters (made from fossil fuel-derived polymers with release of nanoplastics), ozone (very limited lifetime, so water will be contaminated before it reaches your tap.
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A minion of our glorious Prez, @darthputinkgb.bsky.social , a master strategist never known to lie
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1945 Lab govt did far more, far quicker, with a country in a far worse state.
Blair govt also moved pretty fast, shift to investment, training and of wealth from rich to poor measurable after a year.
Credibility is achieved by leading, not by waiting.
e.g., 1st 'Green' chancellor, Reeves, is a joke.
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Without any action on press ownership and associated propaganda Labour are going nowhere - Leveson II is not even on teh legislative calendar.
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So slow that it will be right up agains the next GE, benefits will only be felt after by an incoming Tory govt.
the level of incompetence is mind boggling.
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A pile of crap headline - water borne diseases kill from birth, kill efficiently and on a very large scale.
The relative risk posed by chlorination is likely similar to that of bacon, a few fractions of a %.
Guardian has not been worth reading for a long time, innumerate and often illiterate.
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It also confounds two important things, Napoleon's intelligence and the stupidity of Trump and his entourage.
The former's regime led to many innovations, the latter none.
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Sympathy when they are out on the streets and being shot by the security services of the oligarchs.
Until then, tough luck.
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My point being- that I wouldn't put it below this "administration" to put a "freeze" on US vaccines...
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One of countless examples that illustrates why families ties and inheritance should provide zero social advantage...
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We don't need to 'bring back' we need to vaccinate all who can be.
Prevention works 1000x better than treatment.
Note that the propagandists against vaccines are all well vaccinated, as are their families.
So the anti vaccine propaganda is about social control and political power, not medicine.
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We just need to bring back vaccination passports - a common thing half a century or more ago, and remember that with freedom comes responsibility.