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More badgers?

Yours is much better, I'm a total amateur at this.

Nothing wrong with 10 commandments. If only the US government followed them.

Yeah, but of we said too much about it we'd never get another research grant....

Given the lack of BBC coverage of all the really dire Refuk candidates that actually passed their vetting, I'm surprised Farage hasn't tweeted a 'thank you for your inattention to this matter' message.

I'm watching the Jimmy Savile documentary on Netflix and it's remarkable how much it's actually about how Thatcherism hollowed out public institutions such as hospitals so that they came to rely on the largesse of private entrepreneurs who, now being indispensable, were able to act with impunity

It has all become a bit boring. Little debate.

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Interesting. Morning news was totally devoted to the Mandelson business.

I wish they flowered all year😚

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All these so called choices, food, drink, cigs, sedentary lifestyle, need to be understood in the context that bosses need us to buy their products so that they profit. Health is the ideal for them -- they can also sell us products that claim to avoid the consequences of our lifestyles.

To a great extent, money determines the quality of diet & affordability of things like gym membership etc. But I have always believed that people are clever when thinking about how much they should sacrifice in order to live a longer life in poverty

Wealth and mortality among late-middle-aged individuals in Norway: a nationwide register-based retrospective study Our findings suggest that wealth is an important predictor of mortality, even in an advanced welfare state with comprehensive healthcare provisions, highlighting the need to address inequalities in we...

Wealthier people live longer -- not due to genetics either.
Wealth and mortality among late-middle-aged individuals in Norway: a nationwide register-based retrospective study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Its those confounded vitamins *again*

There is a book "The Dark Ages: Life in America 1945-1960." At the end of WW2 the US had the most sophisticated train system in the world, most of them locally owned. There was a trial at some point and the citizens were awarded a symbolic dollar because the damage was too great to correct.

I’m from Jacksonville, Florida. An absolute suburban hellscape. Even Jacksonville had a trolly system back then.

Those companies would literally buy them out and liquidate the assets. GM also did that with very early Electric car manufacturers

Today you see a similar thing with renewable energy. It was always a better thing, but the oil industry has done everything possible to put it in a bad light.

"Big green wants to empty your wallet" and "solar is unreliable"

Meanwhile the oil cartel has driven up prices by lowering production

SO he plugs the panels into the battery and that warms up the greenhouse?

Good! Though I think I'd need professional help🥴

Where do I get these? Happy to pay.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

Enjoying reading this attempt at quantifying evidence triangulation: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Luckily I have French collaboraators😊🇫🇷

For pitys sake, are both our national "news" channels really going to spend the whole morning on this Mandelson business? It feels like being cut off from the rest of what is going on.

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Very good point

I'm old enough to remember when the Blair govt tried to mend the situation where so many kids needing free school meals were hardly learning to read or basic maths. Maybe things have gone too far the other way?