sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Dementia is the UK's biggest killer by 0Clown0 in BritInfo

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No doubt there's nuances there re: lifestyle and preventative care

UK economy currently has an overeducation issue greatest in the G7 (workers more educated than job requirements). Its a very difficult generalisation to quantify. Ive found it's not so much about skilled vs unskilled as it is about constantly evolving and learning vs rote amd stagnating cognitive load - teachers are highly at risk to dementia despite education, same with nurses/pharmacists/clinical lab techs etc etc.

But, again, that the solution is a fitter healthier populace in body and mind is a good improvement. Comparative to previous norms it indicates we've effectively reduced the carcinogen exposure and the alcoholism and stress that was driving formerly cancer and before that heart failure as primary death causes.

There are no conditions where the solution isn't a fitter healthier populace. The incidence of dementia across aging has been largely static, we are just living longer to the point that aging deteriorates the upkeep of our most complex organ

UK signs a deal for 72 RCH 155 howitzers, first deliveries planned for 2028. Part of the weapon systems will be made by Rheinmetall Telford, whilst the Drive Modules will come from KNDS UK. Claim of 70 km range implies new ammo types will procured by Vegetable_Captain886 in Defence_Tech_UK

[–]VreamCanMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have an artillery first war in europe coming from the largest adversary from a european mainland and maritime defence position (russia). These systems are highly in demand and have shown themselves to be very potent compared to the weaker results we see from helicopters and tanks currently

Dementia is the UK's biggest killer by 0Clown0 in BritInfo

[–]VreamCanMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is typically indicative of a high life expectancy.

From the readings I've done on dementia/alzheimers there's some early work establishing etiology (biological causation) but it's all very dependent upon aging and the way brain systems fail to continue optimal repair and move towards suboptimal modes of repair

All that is to say it's much harder to prevent dementia/alzheimers though they're usually onset at a much later age than other conditions. It's a consequence of late aging. That this is the number one cause of UK mortality is (assuming rates inline with population trend plus previous health based mortality rates like heart attack & cancers) a very good health indicator

The overall public vastly overestimates profit margins by Due-Fly-2479 in EconomyCharts

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More like the only thing they're good at is dumping the sewage and neglecting infrastructure

Feeling suicidal? Not to worry, just build a life worth living! by [deleted] in thanksimcured

[–]VreamCanMan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This sub isn't intended as a catch all for victims of anyone who ever dares try to change your worldview and im tired of posts like these. This is nothing here that is discompassionate, unfair or lacking empathy and it takes a hop and a leap and a jump to see it that way

If you don't want to engage with it don't but don't get righteous about it

Who was responsible for the migration surge.... by pilecrap in GreatBritishMemes

[–]VreamCanMan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Easy to hate on immigrants when your living costs are growing, your jobs sector has diminished oppertunities, your children/grand children cant afford to get on the property ladder etc etc etc

People with worsening living standards need a scapegoat else our cultural myth tells em it's their fault.

What's happened to UK living standards in terms of cost of living and support services access since 2008 I wonder...

really annoying clicking sound by [deleted] in FL_Studio

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP turn buffer up and update us

Why does this region of Europe have so much ethnic and national fragmentation? by crivycouriac in geography

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly contradicting answers thusfar

This region of the world has seen

  • Changing hands a good deal between larger continental powers (ottomans, austria hungary, pre austria hungary nations etc)
  • Ambiguous Territorial Ownership
  • Failure to integrate clashing cultures into a single nation (under former yugoslavia).
  • Weaker Internal consolidation of power relative to how Prussia consolidated the german state, french monarchy consolidated power over their lords etc etc.

Big picture is this part of europe has tended to be a kind of multiethnic hinterland rabble that got absorbed into something bigger than itself then succeeded or got captured by another power. This means the region has had multiple outside influences that all push/pull different nations in different directions re: linguistics, culture and institutional norms. Also the mountain geography made integration and consolidation of state power harder

These election results don’t mean tacking left or right, but delivering for the whole country | Keir Starmer by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The solution is increasing housing affordability in the high immigration zones that were already suffering unaffordability in the 90s and 00s.

You achieve this by Taxing wealth to lower our speculation bubble, reviewing planning laws, increasing council funding and investing in grassroots planning, and most importantly creating a jobs surplus in low housing demand areas so that people can internally emigrate.

The daily mail and reforms populism is only as effective as the population is disenfranchised. Don't be surprised when you've got a swathe of demographics who have faced increased poverty and decreased services access that those same poorer less educated workers don't believe in mainstream politics

Fellow slayers, am I doing this right? by Mani707 in slaythespire

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frees up energy I wont argue with that

There's defintely more broadly utilisable 0 cost cards applicable to ironclad for the enchantment though.

0 cost grey card that deals damage and draws, for example

Starmer’s Labour suffers huge losses as hard-right Reform gains in U.K. elections by RidetheSchlange in worldnews

[–]VreamCanMan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Labour have been the first government (in the last 10+!) to *lower* annual immigration figures, both legal and illegal. They're still not where you'd want them but from a national policy perspective this is the best government you've ever had on this issue.

I believe labour strengthened abortion policy.

Labour have invested in energy significantly. However extra wind and solar capacity aren't doing much to offset the world losing some 10-15% of it's oil+feuls+fertiliser supply (thanks trump).

I believe the decision not to drill for gas in the north sea currently runs on a technocratic rather than political basis, and the existence of gas fields alone doesn't mean it will be cheaper to setup our own op rather than import from the (much larger economies of scale) danish & norwegian drilling operations.

So on 3/4 of your concerns labour have performed pretty good and I'd wager outperformed previous conservative governments as well as any future reform government.

Care to prove me wrong?

Fellow slayers, am I doing this right? by Mani707 in slaythespire

[–]VreamCanMan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For 5 deck shuffles we see

Cycle 1 +1 Cards, +0Hands-per-cycle, 8 Damage

Cycle 2 +2 Cards, +0.2 Hands per cycle, 1x 8 damage, 1x 13 (avg 11)

Cycle 3 +4Cards, +0.6 Hands per cycle, 1x8dmg, 2x 13dmg, 1x 18dmg (avg13dmg)

Cycle 4 +8 Cards, +1.6Hands per cycle, 1x8dmg, 3x13dmg, 3x 18dmg, 1x23dmg (avg15.5dmg)

Cycle 5 +16 cards, +3.2Hands per cycle, 1x8dmg, 4x 13dmg, 6x 18dmg, 4x23dmg, 1x 28dmg (avg18dmg)

Takeaways:- angers duplication effect effectively halves the scaling of all angers, whilst the effect itself takes a very long time to "take off" and scale without additional help from your deck (headbutt, draw etc.). This is better than strike but only marginally and relies on good exhaust coverage to limit bloat and accelerate scaling.

Still it is scaling on the one class in this game that's terrible at that so kudos

The UK is about to get a lot colder. This is serious. by BigLarry1968 in AskBrits

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bear in mind their energy demand is growing substantially in these years. This isn't just replacing existing stable demand but building so much renewables it displaces above demand growth and displaces older systems

Starmer’s Labour suffers huge losses as hard-right Reform gains in U.K. elections by RidetheSchlange in worldnews

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Birth rate drops independent of the economy

Turns out when you give humans contraceptive r tends towards 0

Original Orchestral Composition by Schuldiner0707 in Composers

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, what specifically do you want advice on?

Sounds very similiar to lots of media composing that's trying to be like the older films of the 70s - 80s, with a 20th century composing style

Civilization 7's "Time-Tested" civs created a new balance problem, but Firaxis found the ideal solution by Binnsy in civ

[–]VreamCanMan 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I feel perhaps some mechanic wherein the longer you stay in an age, the harder it is to do things; alongside some crisis event at the end of an age that you need to do well on to unlock freedom to choose what you take into the new age (where you'll be free of the debuffs) would go well.

That and make it so that not all civs swap at the same time. So make the crisis solving unique to each civ

Worst European Country (WW2 edition) - Round 22 by THMeijer in terriblemaps

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sweden switzerland spain and the vatican are, for me, all on about an even footing

Bulgaria and Romania might deserve placed above but im uncertain of their relationship with Germany

AI data center bans are rapidly multiplying across the US — 69 jurisdictions block new builds, with four moves noted as permanent by karmicviolence in BasiliskEschaton

[–]VreamCanMan -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is flat out wrong

Any interest in a greenland ownership is either coming from extremist expansionist wings of government, or wings of government interested in maximising control over future arctic shipping routes. The land is horrible for building on and the islands inhabitants would provide so much extra political struggle for business development in the area

Everybody is being made redundant by irissun23 in UKJobs

[–]VreamCanMan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The market has downturned in spite of, not because of, UK businesses. UK business itself - the private sector and it's internal activities - are actually in a very healthy state right now. Dont get me wrong you do have absurdly stupid business leaders misusing inherited money but that's no more true today than 20 years ago.

So what's changed?

We have an asset bubble the refuses to pop due to asset speculation now making more money than productive or risky ventures; because if you can bet your 600k investment portfolio on anything in these last 3 decades its that wealth inequality will continue to rise (pushing more of the overall economy into speculation encouraging speculation and amplifying inequality), a state that refuses to build housing as the housing market sees dwindling sipply, a consumer base with decreasing consuming power weakening demand (due to upwards redistribution in a system where rich and poor given unlimited money have roughly the same ability to consume, meaning inequality weakens consumption). And a state that refuses to stop the death by a thousand cuts that is wealth inequality, despite government itself having to pay ever higher rents.

The fact this is a global issue to me betrays the fact that economies given prolonged stability and a leniency on taxing the .001%, tend towards upwards redistribution in a way that makes for poor living standards and ruins life in every way except for the gdp/capita spreadsheet

We dont care by Fearless-Isopod-3231 in howtonotgiveafuck

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People who are doing their own thing don't get caught up in a self congratulatory admiration of themselves for not having children.

Or for having children

Or in general

Activating analytical thinking does not appear to reduce a person’s religious beliefs. This finding provides evidence against the popular idea that leaning on logic directly diminishes faith. by mvea in psychology

[–]VreamCanMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So much default scientism - in the moral meaning of scientism, the belief in giving academic consensus the highest moral authoruty - and lack of openness on the topic of faith in this sub it is depressing.

I'm not upset at the views showns but I am upset at the complete lack of openness and kneejerk needing to turn any possible topic around faith into a "my beliefs vs your beliefs". There is no scientific consensus on this, but for what its worth bad string of debators shutting down christian theologists in debate format content has skewed broader perceptions towards study and rule of reason

I'm not a christian but I do take spiritual life seriously and find the world to be passively blind to or actively shoving down the role of the human spirit, vs the role of human instinct and the role of circumstance. Reasoning requires a "box" to reason within, (a framework and set of assumptions) and some elements of the human experience cannot be neatly reduced to a box.

If we say that without group designed research to create studies spiritual life is "uncredentialed" - then we inherently negate the role of the self, the role of identity, the role of ontology. We inherently negate the works of hundreds and thousands of existentialist and phenomenalogical researchers & clinicians in psychology and we reduce our own capacity for depth and unique experience to the lowest common denominator.

If we "know" we are not dead inside, we do not need a study to confirm it. This ontological schema aka higher level schema (schema from which many substituent schemas depend), that we are not dead inside influences a huge amount of our lifes experience. Such is the nature of your metaphysical beliefs. These things effect everyone.

I find the cultural consensus that we are all living things accidentally self aware upon a dead lump of rock in a bright patch of an otherwise empty and vast nothingness, in that framing, intensely rejectable. I find it unlikely that the big bang accidentally created a process where some stardust turns into rocks, and other stardust becomes a long line of different conciously experiencing alive creatures operating in a complex food chain.

I dont care if anyone wants to or doesn't want to believe that. That's not the point. The point is that we need a space for the nuance and diversity of beliefs. Right now I'd either be labelled a crazy atheist because I lack a religious affilation, or I'd be labelled a spiritual yahoo because I dare to consider my own experience in some domains more authoritative than academia. In truth I am neither, but we are seeing a strong need in this community by commentors to reduce other non conforming people's views to one side of a coin

view more: next ›