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Macrn? Plosi? Rishi?
MACRN is not valid PLOSI is not valid RISHI = X✓XXX
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It's the "we think this tax is crap" versus "we mustn't be seen to profane the NHS God" dilemma.
If you offered the same set of respondents a choice between funding the NHS with an NI increase versus funding the NHS with a 90% super tax on bank profits (and individual bankers' bonuses) then you wouldn't get many votes in favour of the NI increase.
Always the problem with these kinds of questions. Very crude.
Also, a criticism of the raise is partly that it won't really do anything for social care and will just scratch the surface of health care.
Which is why NHS Tax won't stay at 1.25% for very long...
The problem is demographics, with medicine being expensive and mostly on the older population. NHS or private, it is going to have to be paid for.
By the remaining working age population.
Our forebears used to worry that democracy would only last so long as the mass of the poor discovered that they could vote to help themselves to the assets of the rich. What's actually ended up happening is that the mass of the old have discovered that they can vote to help themselves to the wages of the young.
NHS Tax will keep going up and up and up, way past the point at which most of the working poor have been reduced to permanently switching off the central heating and surviving on food bank handouts, until the middle class is being squeezed so hard that they're unable to afford to service their mortgages. Then, and not before, will the reckoning come.
How many people were ever in love with work though? Most jobs constitute drudgery, working with horrid people, dealing with horrid customers, flogging yourself for shite wages, or some combination of all of these things. And even where people don't actually hate work, the vast majority of them would give it up at the drop of a hat if they won the lottery.
Work as some kind of fulfilling vocation is really quite unusual, and even for many of the people for whom this is a reality it's still very hard. For most of us paid employment is no more than a necessary evil. We'd much rather be doing something we enjoy, of course.
I thought that I hated work, but then stopped working for a few months, and I sunk in to depression, inactivity, anxiety and madness. I then got another job. My experience is that the best thing for mental health is to keep working all the time but take all steps possible to reduce stress, and to not take work too seriously, and to avoid sticking to any one employer for too long. Right now I am doing a rather menial job with little in the way of status, but which I enjoy most of the time, can do very well and get very well paid for. I've also got other channels of income which I can spend time working on. All these people around me are pursuing power and status and killing themselves with stress to the point where they seem to be constantly on the verge of a breakdown. They have never stopped to think about what is really in their long term interest.
Yes. Mrs Foxy got quite depressed when starved of adult company after Fox Jr2 started school. She had no desire to go back to nursing, but I coaxed her into giving it another go, and she now works on the day ward 3 days a week. Done her the world of good. She enjoys it again, and it gives her something to moan about.
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Even the French election isn't looking particularly interesting. Might be some interest in second place, or in percentages.
If Pecresse gets to second place the runoff could be interesting. Le Pen is closer to Macron than 2017, though Macron trounces Zemmour in runoff polls
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I have no interest in it. I am even useless at Scrabble. But I thought it might interest the site's wordlers
How about Twister?
Weather forecasting?
Actually, now that I think about it, I do not actually like any games or word puzzles. Probably because "puzzle solving" was my day job for 35 years (analyst/programmer etc).
I prefer to read a book. I find most modern movies and TV series to be tedious in the extreme or bizzarely filmed.
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Even the French election isn't looking particularly interesting. Might be some interest in second place, or in percentages.
If Pecresse gets to second place the runoff could be interesting. Le Pen is closer to Macron than 2017, though Macron trounces Zemmour in runoff polls
I agree. Pecresse into final round means all bets are off.
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Macrn? Plosi? Rishi?
MACRN is not valid PLOSI is not valid RISHI = X✓XXX
NIXON
NIXON = X✓XXX
DICKS
Whether this was meant vexatiously, I can find politicians called DICKS, so: RISHI = X✓XXX NIXON = X✓XXX DICKS = X✓XXX
Terry Dicks. Former MP for Hayes and Harlington before the current one I think.
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Even the French election isn't looking particularly interesting. Might be some interest in second place, or in percentages.
If Pecresse gets to second place the runoff could be interesting. Le Pen is closer to Macron than 2017, though Macron trounces Zemmour in runoff polls
I agree. Pecresse into final round means all bets are off.
That would be a bit of a bugger if you've bet on Pecresse.
How many people were ever in love with work though? Most jobs constitute drudgery, working with horrid people, dealing with horrid customers, flogging yourself for shite wages, or some combination of all of these things. And even where people don't actually hate work, the vast majority of them would give it up at the drop of a hat if they won the lottery.
Work as some kind of fulfilling vocation is really quite unusual, and even for many of the people for whom this is a reality it's still very hard. For most of us paid employment is no more than a necessary evil. We'd much rather be doing something we enjoy, of course.
I thought that I hated work, but then stopped working for a few months, and I sunk in to depression, inactivity, anxiety and madness. I then got another job. My experience is that the best thing for mental health is to keep working all the time but take all steps possible to reduce stress, and to not take work too seriously, and to avoid sticking to any one employer for too long. Right now I am doing a rather menial job with little in the way of status, but which I enjoy most of the time, can do very well and get very well paid for. I've also got other channels of income which I can spend time working on. All these people around me are pursuing power and status and killing themselves with stress to the point where they seem to be constantly on the verge of a breakdown. They have never stopped to think about what is really in their long term interest.
It's an interesting discussion. I don't think I've ever felt stressed about work (love, health, etc., certainly, but work?) - there are ups and downs and occasionally I'd lose one (e.g. in 2010) and have to do something else, but in the end it doesn't feel personal enough to be stressed about. Most people I know seem to feel the same - they'd rather be doing their favourite hobbies, but they're apparently OK with working. Clearly if one got sacked and couldn't find another job that'd be mega-stressful, but that's relatively unusual in all walks of life. I don't recognise, and feel saddened by, Andy's grim description, and wonder how usual that is.
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Unfortunately you need to build the gas-fired plant anyway to run when the wind isn't blowing. And you have to pay the operators a capacity payment to sit there not doing anything when it is windy.
Build the gas-fired plant with carbon capture and you get decarbonised power whenever you need it.
The more intermittent renewables we install, the greater the cost of providing decarbonised power.
Laters...
Capital costs for CCGTs (and even more so for OCGTs) are simply not that high. Maintenance and other operating expenses are also really low.
Except they cannot get staff for CCGTs. All the youngsters are training on turbines and solar, and not going into that side of the industry, which is seen as 'bad'.
Salaries have gone through the roof for good CCGT engineers. It's a great business to be in atm.
While I'm sure that's true, you also simply don't need many people. Operating costs for CCGTs (and even more so OCGTs) are miniscule compared to Nuclear, Coal and even Wind.
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Watching Guy Garvey: From the Vaults. Sky Arts series - has a collection of rarely seen TV music from obscure late-night music shows. The 1987 episode has, amongst others, Depeche Mode.
Just to repeat an earlier piece of advice: don't plan on going anywhere in southern Britain on Friday and don't expect to have a train service this weekend.
Storm Eunice looks very severe across a huge area.
Unfortunately you need to build the gas-fired plant anyway to run when the wind isn't blowing. And you have to pay the operators a capacity payment to sit there not doing anything when it is windy.
Build the gas-fired plant with carbon capture and you get decarbonised power whenever you need it.
The more intermittent renewables we install, the greater the cost of providing decarbonised power.
Laters...
Capital costs for CCGTs (and even more so for OCGTs) are simply not that high. Maintenance and other operating expenses are also really low.
Except they cannot get staff for CCGTs. All the youngsters are training on turbines and solar, and not going into that side of the industry, which is seen as 'bad'.
Salaries have gone through the roof for good CCGT engineers. It's a great business to be in atm.
While I'm sure that's true, you also simply don't need many people. Operating costs for CCGTs (and even more so OCGTs) are miniscule compared to Nuclear, Coal and even Wind.
You do when there's work being done on them. A couple of hundred people on one shutdown. Not all need to be knowledgeable on the plant, but many do.
Unfortunately you need to build the gas-fired plant anyway to run when the wind isn't blowing. And you have to pay the operators a capacity payment to sit there not doing anything when it is windy.
Build the gas-fired plant with carbon capture and you get decarbonised power whenever you need it.
The more intermittent renewables we install, the greater the cost of providing decarbonised power.
Laters...
Capital costs for CCGTs (and even more so for OCGTs) are simply not that high. Maintenance and other operating expenses are also really low.
Except they cannot get staff for CCGTs. All the youngsters are training on turbines and solar, and not going into that side of the industry, which is seen as 'bad'.
Salaries have gone through the roof for good CCGT engineers. It's a great business to be in atm.
While I'm sure that's true, you also simply don't need many people. Operating costs for CCGTs (and even more so OCGTs) are miniscule compared to Nuclear, Coal and even Wind.
If you want to talk operating costs....you need about 27 people to operate a tidal lagoon power station that produces as much power as Hinkley C.
Just to repeat an earlier piece of advice: don't plan on going anywhere in southern Britain on Friday and don't expect to have a train service this weekend.
Storm Eunice looks very severe across a huge area.
Unfortunately some of us have to get to work!
My fuel consumption was down by about 20% this morning due to the strong tailwind. Going back home, however...
How many people were ever in love with work though? Most jobs constitute drudgery, working with horrid people, dealing with horrid customers, flogging yourself for shite wages, or some combination of all of these things. And even where people don't actually hate work, the vast majority of them would give it up at the drop of a hat if they won the lottery.
Work as some kind of fulfilling vocation is really quite unusual, and even for many of the people for whom this is a reality it's still very hard. For most of us paid employment is no more than a necessary evil. We'd much rather be doing something we enjoy, of course.
Have to say I enjoy mine and it is well paid
I would say I'm pretty fortunate with my work myself, in many ways - but none of that means that I wouldn't retire straight away if presented with a sufficiently large wad of cash. As it is, I'm saving assiduously with a view to going part-time as soon as I think I can afford it.
Most people nowadays aren't that lucky, of course.
I love my job. It’s exceptionally varied, I get to help train future pharmacists and chemists, get to do serious science and get a decent wage. If I won a substantial sum of money I’d carry on the research by funding others. Life is too short not to enjoy doing the things a lot of money would allow...
Yes, mine is a great job too. A really interesting cocktail of science, human contact, problem solving and teaching.
Though one gains the impression that people who work in call centres, clean bogs or flip burgers for a living are under-represented in the PB demographic.
Unlike people who sit watching the sunset over the Indian ocean sipping a bucket of gin whilst typing the odd line of a new book?
And what is wrong with buckets of gin overlooking the Caribbean? It's not even too hot right now.
israel is blocking us transfer of iron dome missile defense system to ukraine (has to be approved by both countries) because they don’t want to antagonize russia.
one of closest us allies…least aligned with americans on a core national security issue.
system is jointly developed by us and israel, so israel has every right to block.
but it’s a fully defensive system. feels like a bigger story than germany blocking estonia sending german-made weapons to ukraine.
Israelis have a very smart understanding about world threats. Much, much, smarter than the Americans (and Boris obvs). There are far more dangerous regimes and threats than Russia.
Keep Russia close. Turn a blind eye here or there. Throw them a few scraps.
It's pragmatism. It's expediency. It's disingenuous but the pathway to world peace is not made by moral crusading. The world was a far safer place before idiots like Tony Blair decided to go around removing every dictator they didn't like.
Just to repeat an earlier piece of advice: don't plan on going anywhere in southern Britain on Friday and don't expect to have a train service this weekend.
Storm Eunice looks very severe across a huge area.
Looks like us up in the north are going to miss the worst of Eunice, hope everything is okay for all our southern contingent.
Just to repeat an earlier piece of advice: don't plan on going anywhere in southern Britain on Friday and don't expect to have a train service this weekend.
Storm Eunice looks very severe across a huge area.
No need to wait until Friday - there have been no trains through Airedale since early afternoon. Good job I was WFH.
Israelis have a very smart understanding about world threats. Much, much, smarter than the Americans (and Boris obvs). There are far more dangerous regimes and threats than Russia.
China, yes but they are further away. North Korea, maybe but it's hardly any power projection at all.
So no. Russia is the UK's number one threat. After France, of course.....
israel is blocking us transfer of iron dome missile defense system to ukraine (has to be approved by both countries) because they don’t want to antagonize russia.
one of closest us allies…least aligned with americans on a core national security issue.
system is jointly developed by us and israel, so israel has every right to block.
but it’s a fully defensive system. feels like a bigger story than germany blocking estonia sending german-made weapons to ukraine.
Israelis have a very smart understanding about world threats. Much, much, smarter than the Americans (and Boris obvs). There are far more dangerous regimes and threats than Russia.
Keep Russia close. Turn a blind eye here or there. Throw them a few scraps.
It's pragmatism. It's expediency. It's disingenuous but the pathway to world peace is not made by moral crusading. The world was a far safer place before idiots like Tony Blair decided to go around removing every dictator they didn't like.
I don't think the world was a safer place in the 1990's than it is today. We had several brutal wars in former Yugoslavia, genocide in Rwanda, the first Gulf War, war in Chechnya, South Ossetia, and Trandinistria, two civil wars in Liberia, two civil wars in the Congo, war in Timor, etc. etc.
In fact, the USA has handled Russia very well in the current dispute.
israel is blocking us transfer of iron dome missile defense system to ukraine (has to be approved by both countries) because they don’t want to antagonize russia.
one of closest us allies…least aligned with americans on a core national security issue.
system is jointly developed by us and israel, so israel has every right to block.
but it’s a fully defensive system. feels like a bigger story than germany blocking estonia sending german-made weapons to ukraine.
Israelis have a very smart understanding about world threats. Much, much, smarter than the Americans (and Boris obvs). There are far more dangerous regimes and threats than Russia.
Keep Russia close. Turn a blind eye here or there. Throw them a few scraps.
It's pragmatism. It's expediency. It's disingenuous but the pathway to world peace is not made by moral crusading. The world was a far safer place before idiots like Tony Blair decided to go around removing every dictator they didn't like.
Also they may not want it falling into Russian hands if the invasion takes place and is successful. Probably don't trust Ukraine in terms of stopping spies and technical leaks.
There's going to be massive damage across the southern half of Britain on Friday.
It will dominate the news over the weekend.
It will if it is in the south as the south and London dominates the news anyway
Not to worry we have now had a red warning for Friday and it will feature on Welsh news hopefully
Friday's forecast round this way (near Cambridge) doesn't look very much worse than tonight's, which isn't nice but is nothing to write home about. Hopefully this means that my walk to and from work on Friday won't entail gales throwing horizontal rain in my face...
Might be more drama down on the South coast though?
There's going to be massive damage across the southern half of Britain on Friday.
It will dominate the news over the weekend.
Just like Storm Arwen did...
Quite. Barely a murmur.
Although it did feature on our local news.
Jolly windy tonight, and this isn't the big one. Driving past Manchester Airport earlier, I noticed a distinct lack of activity. Just checked on flightradar 24 - not much coming in. And some of what is coming in clearly thinking better of it - this fella from Geneva had a couple of goes and then clearly decided Birmingham would be the better bet: https://www.flightradar24.com/EZY358Z/2ad79577
There's going to be massive damage across the southern half of Britain on Friday.
It will dominate the news over the weekend.
Just like Storm Arwen did...
Quite. Barely a murmur.
Although it did feature on our local news.
Jolly windy tonight, and this isn't the big one. Driving past Manchester Airport earlier, I noticed a distinct lack of activity. Just checked on flightradar 24 - not much coming in. And some of what is coming in clearly thinking better of it - this fella from Geneva had a couple of goes and then clearly decided Birmingham would be the better bet: https://www.flightradar24.com/EZY358Z/2ad79577
There's going to be massive damage across the southern half of Britain on Friday.
It will dominate the news over the weekend.
Just like Storm Arwen did...
Quite. Barely a murmur.
Although it did feature on our local news.
Jolly windy tonight, and this isn't the big one. Driving past Manchester Airport earlier, I noticed a distinct lack of activity. Just checked on flightradar 24 - not much coming in. And some of what is coming in clearly thinking better of it - this fella from Geneva had a couple of goes and then clearly decided Birmingham would be the better bet: https://www.flightradar24.com/EZY358Z/2ad79577
I don't know where he's heading for, but it doesn't look like Birmingham.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/16/missouri-senate-poll-alarms-gop-00009317
RISHI = X✓XXX
NIXON = X✓XXX
DICKS = X✓XXX
My first 2 guesses are:
PUTIN
HAYES
NIXON = X✓XXX
DICKS = X✓XXX
PUTIN = XX✓OX
HAYES = XXXOX
Our forebears used to worry that democracy would only last so long as the mass of the poor discovered that they could vote to help themselves to the assets of the rich. What's actually ended up happening is that the mass of the old have discovered that they can vote to help themselves to the wages of the young.
NHS Tax will keep going up and up and up, way past the point at which most of the working poor have been reduced to permanently switching off the central heating and surviving on food bank handouts, until the middle class is being squeezed so hard that they're unable to afford to service their mortgages. Then, and not before, will the reckoning come.
Actually, now that I think about it, I do not actually like any games or word puzzles. Probably because "puzzle solving" was my day job for 35 years (analyst/programmer etc).
I prefer to read a book. I find most modern movies and TV series to be tedious in the extreme or bizzarely filmed.
NIXON = X✓XXX
DICKS = X✓XXX
PUTIN = XX✓OX
HAYES = XXXOX
BIDEN = X✓XOX
NIXON = X✓XXX
DICKS = X✓XXX
PUTIN = XX✓OX
HAYES = XXXOX
BIDEN = X✓XOX
NITZE = X✓✓X✓
He may even have been as noisy.
Or Cressida and a mirror.
Anyhoo. Supper just called
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-rv4YiTg8U
NIXON = X✓XXX
DICKS = X✓XXX
PUTIN = XX✓OX
HAYES = XXXOX
BIDEN = X✓XOX
NITZE = X✓✓X✓
TITLE = O✓✓X✓
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Witte
I made that hard.
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Clue - also relevant. Ish.
Storm Eunice looks very severe across a huge area.
My fuel consumption was down by about 20% this morning due to the strong tailwind. Going back home, however...
Keep Russia close. Turn a blind eye here or there. Throw them a few scraps.
It's pragmatism. It's expediency. It's disingenuous but the pathway to world peace is not made by moral crusading. The world was a far safer place before idiots like Tony Blair decided to go around removing every dictator they didn't like.
He has done very well for himself, they haven't. He played them for fools.
CLEGG - XXXXX
North Korea, maybe but it's hardly any power projection at all.
So no. Russia is the UK's number one threat.
After France, of course.....
Although how long he will be relevant-ish for is unknown
BORIS - XXXX0
MINSK - XXX0✓
It will dominate the news over the weekend.
Seems a tad quiet at the moment, things will have to start happening soon on that front 🤔
In fact, the USA has handled Russia very well in the current dispute.
Not to worry we have now had a red warning for Friday and it will feature on Welsh news hopefully
My sister and her husband have just moved to a house on a northern facing slope, so they should be OK at least.
BORIS - XXXX0
MINSK - XXX0✓
STACK - 0X0X✓
(With that C, you need to check your reasoning)
edit - doesn't fit
This way lies madness...
Although it did feature on our local news.
Read here if you can leave aside your sneering for a minute:
https://www.netweather.tv/weather-forecasts/news/11305-major-storm-eunice-this-friday---synoptic-analysis
This one is really serious
Might be more drama down on the South coast though?
BORIS - XXXX0
MINSK - XXX0✓
STACK - 0X0X✓
(With that C, you need to check your reasoning)
SUNAK - 0✓X✓✓
(Clue 3: How to contain the West)
Of course it is serious and not just for the south but very much for our coastal communities in North Wales and Northern England and Scotland
Well done.
(A little off topic)
Perhaps on edge of nuclear war this evening, this thread is how the world ends.
Driving past Manchester Airport earlier, I noticed a distinct lack of activity.
Just checked on flightradar 24 - not much coming in. And some of what is coming in clearly thinking better of it - this fella from Geneva had a couple of goes and then clearly decided Birmingham would be the better bet:
https://www.flightradar24.com/EZY358Z/2ad79577
Well done!
Had got to "probably AILR in there", and looking for an answer !
A coach up the motorway awaits.