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No Platform For Mad Men. Lockdown Sceptics Are Getting Far Too Much Airtime – politicalbetting.com
No Platform For Mad Men. Lockdown Sceptics Are Getting Far Too Much Airtime – politicalbetting.com
A certain professor's been on TV this evening saying it'll all be over by September. Cool. Super credible. pic.twitter.com/XWrf0cgxbk
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Then, at the rally, he went on another of his narcissistic tantrum rants.
I'm beginning to dare to hope that the Democrats might just win both run-offs. Early voting begins a week tomorrow.
Climate change: Lower Thames Crossing CO2 impact figures revealed
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-55202801
They simply don’t understand their role in a pandemic, far too many people are paid to have an opinion, without any thought as to whether widespread broadcasting of those opinions has a negative impact on the spread of the pandemic.
They obsess about banal trivialities rather than asking sensible questions, are are way more concerned with tripping up politicians than eliciting information that can save lives.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2010/feb/05/private-eye-magazines
Meanwhile Wakefield, who is another loony narcissist, is making hay while the sun still shines in the US. He's gained traction with just the sort of Trumpites who lap up this stuff. Oh and Elle Macpherson, obvs.
That’s likely to be a hard problem.
For a start, who gets to define information/misinformation ? And to what media would such rules apply; what might be the sanctions etc ?
And with such a structure in place, how do you prevent government from using it to abridge free speech ?
That’s obvious now - would you have been able to say so back in the summer under Alastair’s proposed regime ?
The assessment doesn't seem to take into account either savings from reductions of congestion elsewhere, or the increase in ZEV - traffic emissions count for more than half of it and we will be overwhelmingly ZEV for perhaps 45-50 years of the 60 year calculated period.
One of a smallish number of BBC stories where I have seen a link direct to What Do They Know.
What a disastrous state this country is in, when virtually no decision is taken in the national interest, only a narrow (often completely ignorant) partisan calculation. And where all that matters is not the actual real world outcomes but “who can be given the blame”. (And you would have thought they might have learnt their lesson about blaming everything on “the intransigent French” after the Iraq war...)
I foolishly tried to engage some MAGAites on Twitter.
The issue was about postal votes and how she signatures didn't match, and there were all going to get thrown out, and therefore Trump would be handed the State by the courts.
First, I pointed out that - even if some votes were found to have been fraudulently cast - you couldn't know who they had been cast for.
Secondly, I pointed out that if 11% of postal votes were fraudulently cast, you didn't need "an audit", you just needed to speak to nine people who were supposed to have voted, so as to find the one who didn't.
And those people are publicly listed. It would literally take twenty minutes to find enough evidence of people who didn't actually vote.
I've deleted Twitter from my phone.
It's insane, and it's a testament to this site that - even when there are people one disagrees with - the arguments are normally civil and fact based.
Nuclear is not renewable, and is Zero Emission.
There are also times when it's more efficient for the grid to generate power than not.
F1: race looks intriguing all through the points position. May make tipping tricky. Time to find out...
And are these projections for the use of Dover? I thought the waiting period might be longer, but a significant reduction in traffic?
But only if you want me to point out that (over sufficiently long timespans) coal, gas and oil are renewable too.
Uranium mining is CO2 intensive, as is construction.
Edit; FFS.
Concrete for wind turbines? Steel? Purifying silicon?
He'll probably win as he'll either be up against whatever is left of Biden's brain in a jar hooked up to a car battery and Hunter's laptop or Kamala Harris.
You would have thought that the headlines about the military flying in vaccine supplies to get round the border problems would have made them question what they were doing. That such a thing would be necessary. There is no situation where needing to rely on the military should be seen as a “good news story”. Relying on the military for civilian roles is about the biggest admission/evidence of the failure of the state that you can get. It’s no surprise it’s been cited as a potential backstop so often in recent years.
One thing that will be amusing amid the madness is how they will explain away the fish shortages.
The extent of our unpreparedness for something that has been four and a half years coming is truly staggering.
The legal troubles will only burnish his credentials as a righteous man beset on all sides in the addled eyes of the Maga Army.
Especially as he’s now repudiated the WA anyway.
And a lot of the people who will suffer would be more accurately classified as their victims. And also a lot of people will suffer who could see all along what lunacy it was, because in this world there's a limit to how far you can protect yourself against other people's stupidity.
A huge problem of modern TV media, as dicussed in the header, is that everyone involved is obsessed by what’s trending on Twitter. David Cameron was right about it.
Headline:
"Military planes to fly vaccines in to Britain to avoid ports hit by Brexit"
Reality once you read the story
There is a contingency plan.
but there is plenty of evidence that talk about suicide acts as a cue in the suggestible.
Absolutely. I went to a conference on suicide at Network Rail a few years ago. One of the presenters explained how they'd tried to persuade Coronation Street to not do the Hayley Cropper suicide story. They weren't successful in getting it stopped, but they managed to convince the producers to limit what they showed. Also, did you know that there was a spike in suicides when Robin Williams took his own life?
This should apply post-COVID. We need the media to STOP TALKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH. It makes things worse, not better.
It's also Zero Emission - until it spectacularly isn't.
*Chernobyl and Fukushima wave*
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/11/05/deal-oven-ready-get-brexit-done-take-country-forward/
Betting PostF1: backed Sainz to be top 6 at 2.8. He's achieved that in 4/5 recent races, and was a tenth off top 6 pace in qualifying. Reckon he has a decent shot.
As an aside, also done a little bit more hedging on Bottas/Verstappen. I'm ahead on the win market whatever happens now.
Pre-race ramble here:
https://enormo-haddock.blogspot.com/2020/12/sakhir-pre-race-2020.html
Whatever happens we are going to be poorer, less free, less united and more peripheral, but without a deal it will be so much worse. The problem is that I just do not see how one can be done as there is no deal that will satisfy the people whose political acquiescence (the ERG) or irrelevance (Farage) Johnson needs to stay in power. And given that Johnson will always put his own interests first, how can he sign up to anything that will inevitably cause apoplexy among both groups - small as they are in the great scheme of things?
You’d probably do it with one plane in less than a week.
My dad's observation about the hospital was that, whilst most - but certainly not all - staff were wearing masks and temperatures were being checked, they seemed rather relaxed about COVID. It seems beyond bizarre that they went through to all that effort only to have someone (presumably more senior) veto surgery. I've been concerned about COVID preventing other stuff being done by the NHS. But what my dad went through shocked me. Surely you get the key decision maker involved straight away so that you don't waste time and increase risks of COVID being spread.
Bozo seems more interested in finding someone to blame than actually getting a deal .
But while @Foxy would know more than me, friends in the NHS are saying what’s causing major problems is not the infections but the isolating contacts (as it is in schools). That may be why they tried to hold the senior person back to the last minute.
Current Betfair prices:-
Biden 1.03
Democrats 1.03
Biden PV 1.02
Biden PV 49-51.9% 1.03
Trump PV 46-48.9% 1.03
Trump ECV 210-239 1.06
Biden ECV 300-329 1.06
Biden ECV Hcap -48.5 1.05
Biden ECV Hcap -63.5 1.05
Trump ECV Hcap +81.5 no offers
AZ Dem 1.05
GA Dem 1.05
MI Dem 1.03
NV Dem 1.04
PA Dem 1.03
WI Dem 1.04
Trump to leave before end of term NO 1.11
Trump exit date 2021 1.06
Then again, if you sufficient have surplus electricity, you can use it to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.
I have a conspiracy theorist amongst my outer Facebook circle now (for the first time), though more of the Ga-Ga-Glastonbury variety.
Like the story of someone willing to have sex for £1M, but not for £5, the principle of allowing EU boats to fish in UK waters has been conceded, we are just haggling over the price...
Or are they going to accuse somebody of sabotaging the Australia deal?
In civvy street they have around five crews per airframe, with FTLs of 100hr/month and 900hr/year.
Just hoping that by early/mid Jan, when my vaccination course is completed, I'll be able to go and see them again.