More. I was at a restaurant where I'd been interrogated about my andouillette order and I asked how bad the issue was - the guy said "10 leave the kitchen and 10 come back" and that's after going through the "are you sure? are you really, really sure? have you eaten it before?" process
people lie
It's a disgrace they've referred to this animal as a sly fox without any reference to it going all the way
my "niche yellow powder" of choice is hing - and since Iran is the world's second largest exporter of that I have additional concerns
there's a real shortage of engineers. Apprenticeship system is hard to engage with and construction has its own issues - short term contracts with steep penalty clauses make apprenticeships less attractive and can lead to staff being pulled off them and into FT work
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If states do withdraw from insurance and reinsurance, some of the most lucrative areas of the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia will be devastated: no mortgages and no banks, leading to more ghost towns and villages. ‘It ends with depopulation and abandonment,’ said Agarwala. ‘Climate change reduces the operating space for humanity.’ In the UK, rising sea levels and coastal erosion could literally reduce operating space, putting 200,000 British homes at risk by 2050. There’s no coastal-erosion insurance, which puts more burden on the state, mainly to pay for new defences, but also to help people move.
this is really good but primarily focuses on the impact on insurance coverage from climate. Throw in population ageing & geopolitical fractures and the whole thing looks even shakier.
Our models of society and economy aren't built for this and won't survive as they are
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a picture of the front gate of a construction supplies site alongside the text "But a Guardian investigation has shown the money isn’t necessarily real, the datacentres may not be new, the jobs are unaccounted for – and the supercomputer site 12 miles north of London is still a scaffolding yard"
nice supercomputer we have here
this is so dumb
govt won't confirm investment figures tech firms have produced. Tech firms won't confirm job figures govt has produced.
but it's all the standard industry approach ofc
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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
today
I think it was Andrew Western MP - former Trafford leader
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a colleague mentioned that turnout seemed lively this morning - we may have to factor differential voting patterns between morning and evening voters into this as well.
Unless the govt is going to increase employment in the public sector directly it needs to think more about job creation. Start with the jobs and build pathways to them rather than just push people into the labour market and hope they get hired
Whether this succeeds depends on the ability of local economies to create good, accessible work
At the moment there's a reduction in hiring, a lack of entry level jobs and work is becoming more intense for those in employment
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Very Smooth Chill (in a good way ofc)
It's the constituency next to mine and the Labour candidate is one of my councillors so I've tried to keep up with it but I'm not sure I've seen great reporting so far, especially from people who don't know the area and how it's been changing
this was good though
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I thought this was a good overview - written before the Workers Party decided not to stand
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Ever get the feeling that you've been cheated?
opinion editors in glass houses really shouldn't be throwing stones in this way
maybe we should think about regulating tech firms rather than young people?
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The Schweine Museum in Stuttgart - a giant golden pig
(might just fit in my living room if I move the table - a good conversation piece and I wouldn't be paranoid about damaging it)
Orange album cover
where algorithmic tools can work it's clear that management needs to adapt to ensure they're used well - workers can feel empowered to take on new tasks in areas they're not expert in and that has knock on effects - and risks!
I do understand why this happens though as the gap between on and off the record language is only ever going to reduce trust - someone is being less than truthful. That's probably in the gift of MPs to be braver on the record or more moderate off. Angry rants accompanied by inaction aren't helping
We're paying for a lot of social care through the welfare system and trapping many people in situations where their income is below the living wage. This is exploitative
This slide in particular
Care is work
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A good reminder about how good social care liberates people.
Seeing it purely as a mechanism to enable patients to be discharged from hospital diminishes it but too often that's the focus of policy discourse
Disappointing - the value of this kind of scheme isn't just about the energy created but increasingly the visibility of energy transition to people. Making it part of everyday life
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well, I've had a lot of people laugh at my bids for funding so I might already be there
the Spoons in Spain is mainly near the plane
