willavery.net
Retired IT bod from Bristol.🏳️🌈🇪🇺
Interested in science, open source tech, 中文.
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Brings back memories of a French colleague in Paris who occasionally ate andouillettes for lunch, and would fill the office with his tripey breath in the afternoon.🤮
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It seems to be the preferred method for those who can use it. At my GP's surgery the receptionist fills in the online form on your behalf if you phone.
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When I was in primary school, c. 1970, my class teacher had an ash tray on his desk and smoked while he talked to kids standing next to him as he marked their work.
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In the mid 90s, I used to look out of one side of our offices and wonder what was going down at JH, while watching the ICC rising on the other side.
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I remember the ICL2966 well. The mighty workhorse of the machine room. You could host the GEORGE III tape-based operating system with that. I can show you the MOP commands, but you'll have to run about changing the tapes yourself.😆
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You are very lucky if the religious ones only tell you how to pray.
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Don't worry, your individual decision not to take a flight would not make "a big difference", because the flight would still go ahead. It's more important to vote for politicians who will push for air travel to be fairly taxed, and for other collective measures to reduce it.
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It's not clear to me why he was acquitted. Was he really outside the controlled area or did he have a reasonable excuse for not complying? Magistrate nullification isn't a thing now, is it?
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Reminds me of the client who used to say "asterix", and wanted to know if all the website changes could be made "in one foul swoop."😕
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To be fair, I could use a credit card directly, but it's easier to extend your stay with the app. OTOH, it could be done in a browser, using a web interface, so no real need for an app.
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I have Flowbird, just for the local hospital.😆 It seems to be bigger in France.
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I have installed a couple of parking apps that I've never had occasion to use yet, just in case.
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If you admit that the equation is more complex than simply duplicating the base cost increase due to tariffs, then there's no reason to believe it will be the same. It could be 50% or 150% increase.
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Will also hasten the death of traditional retail. Temu looks ever more inviting, even if you are binning half your order.
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According to your logic, all the benefits, including hourly pay, of retail workers at Footlocker is going to double, because of the tariffs. Do you really believe that?
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Has its own Wikipedia article.❤️
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That's why it will never happen.🤣
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Admitted to taking cocaine "on several occasions."🤣
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Hedged his bets slightly with "Perhaps the administration will blink first."🙄
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It'll be like Brexit: telling the truth will lead to immediate ostracism.
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My previous Labour MP defied Corbyn's whip on invoking Article 50, so I stuck with her. Boundary changes at the last election left me with a much less acceptable Labour candidate.
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Actually a different species of hibiscus, not the big red flower.
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I've not seen one before. I think the ordinary red ones in my sister-in-law's garden will make better tea.😋
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One can only assume that Darren is expressing approved Starmerist orthodoxy. Starmerism is now "We'll be poorer and like it, because there is no alternative." And "investing in" the NHS seems to mainly revolve around getting US private equity techbros involved.
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Just like the anti-immigration voters he panders to, the socialism-in-one-country lexiters will never vote for Starmer.
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Yes. I decided to ignore that inconvenient truth!🤭
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大红化 - "Big red flower" is such a lovely direct simple name, compared with English "hibiscus".
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I wouldn't mind if the UK implemented a Singapore-style withholding tax.
www.iras.gov.sg/taxes/withho...
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100%. Check out the SUV alliance manifesto here
www.suv-alliance.org.uk
#carspreading
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That headline essentially frames this as a parking problem.🙄
I realise that actual text details the more serious problems, but why aren't they front and centre?
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I've lived in a number of countries, and the US State Dept has convinced all of them that they have some kind of 'special relationship' with the US.🙄
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Indeed. It's the subjective feeling of invulnerability that leads to objective dangerous driving.
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Very successful in combatting H1N1 flu in 2009 with masking and sanitising.