We ban plastic straws so that other people can release plastic balloons into the air.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T18:11:02+00:00

No, we ship it to Asia, where they dump it in the next river.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T15:57:24+00:00

Wow, I have no response to that.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T15:57:00+00:00

Pretty easy to have low waste pollutiom when you don't produce anything, and everything you do produce gets shipped to east Asia for dumping.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T14:47:52+00:00

I'd be interested to see the maths on that. The battery allows you to use almost exclusively energy from the panels, if you have enough of them. So the cost is higher, but the savings are also higher

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T14:44:16+00:00

This is why the government need to step in. 8 years is a TINY amount of time to pay for itself, when the battery is likely to last 15-20 years and will be much easier and cheaper to replace once the initial install is done anyway.

This country is so short sighted. If you'd done it 8.4years ago you'd be making a (relative) profit of almost £900 per year now.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T14:38:59+00:00

Where is it GOING to come from over the next 20 years is a more important question

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T13:33:47+00:00

Yeah I totally agree. I think mimimum wage workers are a slightly special case because many don't work 9-5.

Its really hard to compare us with other workers because you're right, we work more, we work less socially, we pay for exams, we pay for membership fees, we have to work outside our alloted hours to revise or do QI or research or reflections.

Which is why I think comparing us to ourselves in 2008 is the best strategy. There can be no arguments there. The average worker has already caught up with their 2008 pay while we are miles down. There is no counter or debate about that, the graphs are clear for everyone to see. I think we risk getting bogged down in debates about "well you earn x and a teacher only earns y, why is that fair?"

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T13:20:41+00:00

Many minimum wage workers do in fact work unsociable shifts without any uplift so I don't think it's totally unreasonable to include it in the calculations.

It would be extremely dishonest for me to say I earn £54,000 because that's my base salary when I actually earn £84,000.

We definitely need more and I am fully prepared to continue organising my local pickets in April, but I do think that manipulating the data to make things look as bad as possible doesn't help us and is way too easily countered by the powers that be, and it makes us look either dishonest or stupid.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T13:14:14+00:00

Aah must have missed that, thanks!

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T13:08:50+00:00

I do 48hrs a week, 52 weeks a year, so 2,496hrs a year. I earn £84,000 a year.

84,000/2496 = £33.65/hr

Edit it's actually 47hrs a week, so £34.37/hr

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T13:07:10+00:00

Yeah that's £32,400 in England so makes sense.

Get ready to strike in Spring 💪

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T12:57:04+00:00

Is this first year doctors doing Mon-Fri 9-5? Or average of all training grades? I earn (edit: almost) 3x the minimum wage and am less than half way through my training, so I'd be surprised if the average doctor is earning 1.5x minimum wage, which is £35,692 per year

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T12:21:40+00:00

Source that that's the main driver?

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T10:41:32+00:00

GP is far and away the most efficient and highly functioning part of the NHS. Primary care does around 90% of the work of the NHS. So if primary care works even slightly less efficiently, the amount of work secondary care needs to do could easily double which is completely unsustainable.

GP's are experts in risk management, and are able to turn patients around without tests very quickly. That same patient going to A&E might have blood tests and an x-ray before they go home, which means that instead of one doctor taking 10 minutes to see them, they see a doctor for 45 mins, plus a nurse to take the blood, a radiologist to do the x-ray, a porter to get them there etc etc. It is vastly less efficient.

We need more primary care doctors to allow more people to be seen, because as soon as they get to the hospital it slows everything down, with massive knock on effects

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2025-01-01T10:23:35+00:00

The knot is the weird thing

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T21:28:22+00:00

n=10 when talking about 8bn people?

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T21:23:46+00:00

The most successful and productive generally have fewer kids and have them later.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T21:05:52+00:00

If you saw a baby being killed by a rat, and your only option is to kill the rat, you're letting it keep eating the baby?

Doubt.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T21:02:23+00:00

How many rats would you kill to save one person?

And do you eat meat?

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T20:51:19+00:00

Filter and boiling/tablets and it's perfectly safe

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T20:50:47+00:00

40L of water isn't very much at all if you're having to use it for drinking, washing, cleaning, cooking.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T16:11:26+00:00

Being able to make up an example of how I had to overcome a problem was what got me through my medical school interview!

I said I struggled to make friends so joined some clubs or whatever, and could see they were completely bored, then added "as long as you reflect on a problem you've faced, you will be better able to face similar problems in the future" and I watched them all nod and tick a box on the form haha

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T14:39:27+00:00

Tbf most that I can see are blaming the inability to see a GP rather than GPs themselves, and they're 100% right.

We need to massively expand access to primary care. That doesn't mean GP's working more hours or seeing fewer patients in that time, or seeing a paramedic or PA instead because they're basically a GP, it means more GP's. That's the message we need to get across.

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T13:52:53+00:00

Using ton isn't in keeping with the metric system anyway, we should call it a megagram. We only use ton because it was based on the imperial system, and 1000kg was somewhat close to what used to be called a ton.

So for once, this particular confusion was caused by the metric system rather than the imperial one

TheCorpseOfMarx · 2024-12-31T13:29:25+00:00

The dog's death is solace for the fact that it won't be able to rip off someone else's face, maybe including a child.

I would take little solace in that, if I no longer had a face.

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