As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all.
Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.
If you have just enough professionals to deliver at 100%, you don’t have enough professionals.
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Watch all the latest episodes of Robot Chicken now over on All 4 🇬🇧: http://bit.ly/robchic#RobotChicken #Babar► SUBSCRIBE to Adult Swim UK: http://bit.ly/1...YouTube
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Funny how Brexit was the nation defining act we absolutely had to see through to it's bitter end (which will never be in sight) and now in General Election 2024 nobody wants to talk about it, and those whose identity is forever entwinned with the thing are shunned (like David Frost) or are fucking off out of politics (like Brexit 'Hardman' Steve Baker)
But don't anybody talk of undoing the mess, how dare you, ....unperson! unperson!
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What happens after the end of the second year of hormonal transition, once all the doctors say you've seen everything you're going to see. Why is it that basically everyone sees... well, a heck of a lot more?
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're talking about Transition Timelines, and the science--and lack thereof--of later transition!
#Nonbinary #FtM #MtF #Trans #Transgender
stainedglasswoman.substack.com…
The long, slow tail end of hormonal transition when you're an adultDoc Impossible (Stained Glass Woman)
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@valdelane THAT HAPPENED TO A CIS FRIEND OF MINE TOO!!
Literally, flat as a board her whole life, and then at 30 she went from A's to DDD's in a single year. She was thrilled by it, just mystified.
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Five years ago, the East Of England Liberal Democrats posted a photo of two transgender women, me and @Zoë O'Connell, wearing “Bollocks to Brexit” T-Shirts.
It is a sign of how far UK politics has fallen that that is utterly unthinkable now. Both the total erasure of transgender people’s existence and acceptance of Brexit are utter orthodoxy across the political spectrum there now.
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People always point to ghouls like Musk when they say that money can’t buy happiness.
Counterpoint: Enya. She made a load of money. She bought an actual castle. She retired to said castle to become a reclusive cat lady.
Inspirational!
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The people that say "money can't buy happiness" always have some stupid hobby that makes them sad instead of happy.
People with creative hobbies get happier with more money they have.
I have a dozens of things i want to do that i can't because i don't have money.
Elon bought a social media because people made fun of him there.
Mark spends his time stalking millions of people and running psyops with CIA.
Bill Gates is testing how awful a OS can be before people stop using it.
Remains to be seen if this was a one off but the first water quality test by the Environment Agency in the River Cam found E-Coli was offscale high.
Most other sites the graph only goes up to 2 000cfu/100ml. Cambridge levels are 2 700, and the limit for bathing is 900. environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/pr…
Hats off to the Cam Valley Forum for campaigning to get this monitored!
Details of the current observations of bathing water quality, with additional profile information describing the bathing water siteenvironment.data.gov.uk
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Suspect it might make the papers, if only because it's hot and the picture editors will love photos of undergraduates punting.
They'll just happen to be ligher-skinned, probably blonde but definitely predominantly women of course...
I see the current lot in power can't even get reimplementing section 28 right without effing it up. They're de-facto section 28ing the straights too.
No discussion of sexual assaults and consent until MINIMUM age 9. (Some kids will be 10)
No discussion of actual sex or the negative effects of porn until MINIMUM age 13. (Some kids will be 14)
Have they actually ever met a teenager? Do they think nobody experiences sexual harassment or assault before they're 10?
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Tory policy soundbites are designed to motivate Tory voters in the coming election.
Tory voters (and brexiters) tend to be older and poorly eduated: the average Tory party member is over 60.
So no, they mostly don't know any current generation kids/teenagers, don't understand the cultural changes of the past 30-50 years, and they resent the young and educated.
So this policy is working precisely as intended (not to fix anything, just to energize Alf Garnett and make him vote).
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"Who's been a naughty Gosling!!!!!"
[Graylag Goose and goslings from Furzton Lake today]
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK
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JUDGMENTS IN THE NEWS
Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Re Application for Judicial Review
[2024] NIKB 35
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(Re Declaration of Incompatibility - Illegal Migration Act 2023 - Art. 2 Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol (Windsor Framework) - s.7A EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 - Sections of IMA Disapplied in Northern Ireland)
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Today's new word is "zemiotics" which is apparently the study of social harm and loss, though this is unknown to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Me, in southern Portugal: you seen that Spain and Morocco are contemplating a rail tunnel?
@Zoë O'Connell, also in southern Portugal: But they won’t build a rail line to here? WHY EVEN IS SPAIN?
Me: That would be HARD, Zoe. They’d have to build a rail line over at least THREE KILOMETRES of line across land nobody lives on and construct a bridge of about TWO HUNDRED METRES.
So difficult.
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Eurostar, you have competitionLiv Kelly (Time Out)
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Spanish railways were originally built to six (Castilian) feet. Portuguese ones to five (Portuguese) feet. These are, however, only 8mm different - Portugal being 1664mm, Spain 1672mm.
When the two networks joined up (1880s), they agreed a compromise "Iberian" gauge of 1668mm, and gradually all track was switch to that, which was officially completed in 1955.
So yeah, they already fixed *that* problem 70 years go.
Possible UK aurora tonight!
There is a decent chance of seeing the #aurora tonight, over a huge chunk of Northern Europe (perhaps as far south as Switzerland) - space.com/solar-storm-coronal-… - the sun is having a major geomagnetic event. #space #science4 large incoming solar bursts could supercharge the auroras this weekend
Increased solar activity has prompted the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) to increase their vigilance heading into Mother's Day weekend.Meredith Garofalo (Space)
The 3D printed arcade cabinet's been completed & it does look beautiful with it's resin coating
#computerSpace #arcade #rmc #arcadeArchive #retroGaming #3dPrinting
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In this post, our commercial director, Richard Horne shows the steps of how to design, 3D print and build a full sized replica of the worlds very first video arcade machine (Computer Space) from 1971.Heber Shop
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In relation to this: 404media.co/google-delists-sit…
I offer this: inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1120-prog…
“In the short term, they will be left with no healthcare at all. However, they will find alternatives, as they always have.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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in reply to Simon McGarr • • •Trixter of the Moon Council
in reply to Simon McGarr • • •Christian Kent
in reply to Trixter of the Moon Council • • •@trixter I’ll distinguish between financialisation culture and product people. Some people want to play Jenga with society, safety and quality; there are others who designed and made the products and prototypes in the first place.
Plenty of “businessmen” fail and only half of small businesses succeed in their first year. A respect for numbers is needed — nothing complex, just arithmetic, percentages, etc. And alongside that, energy, bravery, tenacity. And some luck.
“Opposite” 🤷♂️
Brendan (he/him)
in reply to Simon McGarr • • •@kagan
I think this bears repeating - and more generally.
If you have JUST enough staff to deliver - at 100% - then you do NOT have enough staff.
the Amygdalai Lama
in reply to Simon McGarr • • •.
Capitalism is a dollar store where nothing is real.
Summer Jo ☀️
in reply to the Amygdalai Lama • • •@punishmenthurts see: HS2
cc @yassie_j
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in reply to Summer Jo ☀️ • • •the reason why the state is “wasteful” is because contractual stuff goes to the lowest bidder, not the most cost-effective. Therefore everything is done on the cheap at first, then the cheapness shows up and has to be fixed.
What could have been 500 billion done well, is now 300 billion done poorly and an additional 600 billion of papering things over that still doesn’t do the job.
Alastair McKinstry
in reply to Simon McGarr • • •Daragh Ó Briain
in reply to Alastair McKinstry • • •@amckinstry One of the best books I have read in business is this one amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burno…
Key principle: we need to allow for slack in processes so they can absorb delay, prevent burnout, but also have some reserves in the tank to deal with crises.
If @Tupp_ed wants to borrow my copy this can be arranged.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Daragh Ó Briain • • •@DaraghOBrien @amckinstry
Another factor infecting taxpayer-funded public services is the Toyota Production Method (called Lean in North America).
It's predicated on minimalism in everything. Flat management. Limits on staffing. "Just in Time" Processes. Employee training replaced by manuals. Making the staff do the janitorial work.
Unpaid overtime to make up for inadequate staffing during vacations season, flu or hurricane season, or other "unexpected" events like pandemics.
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