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Lemmy is just a forum set to sort by new posts, not new comments.

Perhaps find like-minded folks and start one?

Andrew Tate is a gateway drug to a world of shitbaggery.

I’d be interested to see who is pulling the strings and where the money is coming from. There seems to be various levels of scheming to bring over right wing ideas from the States, whether it is think-tanks or more street level.

Quick! Buy a lottery ticket! The Gods are smiling on you today.

Perhaps there is a market for Hula Toobs?

Alternative headline: Brits not quite as fat as Yanks, and slightly less deluded about it

The numbers don’t make for great reading for either side of the Pond and there’s a lot of things we, as individuals, can do to help ourselves and free up NHS resources for those that can’t.

They are not being as used as I expected/hoped.

Have you considered it’s because of this?:

My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

I wouldn’t run an instance that didn’t allow users to sign up as it would impede growth and uptake.

It also would have the interesting effect of pushing a lot of the load onto other instances, which doesn’t seem true to the Fediverse spirit.

Pinning threads is buggy across instances.

When, in 2009, the government’s chief drugs adviser, Prof David Nutt, evaluated the relative harm of different narcotics, he was sacked.

That struck me as stupid at the time and only gets worse over time as more evidence emerges for the use of cannabis for epileptic kids, the success of prescribing heroin to addicts, using Ecstasy for PTSD, etc all of which have faced a real uphill fight and usually failure. All that before we even get around to decriminalising softer drugs.

Successive home secretaries have a terror of even discussing the issue. Tony Blair delegated drugs – as so much of his policy – to the Daily Mail and the Sun.

The right wing press have pretty much had every government running scared of the subject but their influence is waning. However, I can’t see Starmer doing much except in the edge cases where there is clear medical benefit.

All a bit sad but heroin addicts tend to be self-destructive at the best of times - half the smackheads I know managed to kick the habit and go on to lead productive lives but I still see a few around begging (when they aren’t banged up) and they are getting on a bit now.

Add in bad advice, likely a few parasites putting their hand in his pocket and this isn’t a huge surprise.

We welcome robust debate here but let’s not make it personal - play the ball, not the player.

Elon Musk buys a pub

To make it clear we’re talking about this dystopia we’re living in now.

As opposed to dattopia, I presume.

Especially as it has happened already:

Tommy Sheppard, MP for Edinburgh East is involved and has written to the government asking them to take urgent action to extend energy price caps for these residents whose homes are heated through district heating – which are now being charged at commercial rates.

Residents in Edinburgh East who receive their heat and hot water from district heating have experienced eye-watering energy bill increases on unit charges when the UK Government’s Energy Bills Discount Scheme concluded at the end of March.

Residents in one 2019 newbuild development in Greendykes, built by Places for People, have said bills having skyrocketed with some experiencing overnight price increases well in excess of £1,200 a year for heat and hot water alone.

That’s it, their main problem is their messaging and the story they are trying to tell is dreadful.

It should have been about spreading the load, everyone doing their bit according to their means - so tax winter fuel payments so you get most of it back from wealthy pensioners but also take a big chunk off millionaires and companies not laying their bit. Then invest that in growth, a Green New Deal helping insulated poorer housing stock which would help boost the green energy industry bringing prices down for everyone while generating more skilled jobs.

At the moment they seem to think that, if they cause the pain now, people will forget about by the time of the election if we are out of the current economic dire straits. Which is foolish as the Tory press will just store this kind of thing up to use as sticks to beat them with later and people just don’t forgive or forget easily (especially if there is a cold snap and the papers fill with stories of pensioners dying because they can’t afford to turn the heating on).

Bankside Yards is using a “fifth-generation” combined heating and cooling network that can balance energy within each building and then between buildings by collecting unwanted heat, say from a refrigerator in a restaurant or a piece of office equipment that needs to be cooled, and carrying that heat to somewhere that needs hot water or domestic heating.

Electric-powered heat pumps on building rooftops and in each apartment or commercial space then adjust the temperature of the water by withdrawing or injecting heat into the pipes to provide the heating, cooling and hot water needed in each place.

Makes sense, especially when you have a mixed use complex - a shop may run a large refrigerator and you could use the extracted heat in homes.

A friend installed air conditioning at an air force base to cool down the supercomputers running the fighter jets and I presume that heat was just vented out, where you could make use of it to heat barracks and offices.

“online choice architecture”

“dark pattern tactics”

It all feels very dystopian.

At no point did I say it was a bad argument (I think the guidelines should be adjusted to just specify amounts of protein, calcium, fibre, etc), I’m just pointing out that he is not without bias in this debate.

Why not mandate that 3 meals a week have at least X g of protein and Y g of fiber?

This seems like the most sensible option. I’m sure the guidelines seemed reasonable when they were first drawn up, presumably to stop cults and shysters feeding the kids inappropriate food but if turkey twizzlers met the meat requirement then the guidelines weren’t really doing their job.

So they need guidelines on the amounts of protein, fibre, and calcium, as well as a restriction on UPFs.

Ofsted inspections now check what food is being offered, so it would be easy enough to ensure children are getting a healthy, balanced diet without being so proscriptive as to the sources of the nutrition.