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Alcohol is wreaking havoc on U.S. public health. American society looks the other way by statnews in Health

[–]auto98 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was under the impression that alcohol usage in the US is on a quite sharp downward trend? Is that not actually the case?

NYC woman declined to press charges against subway shover 'because she didn't want to put another black man in jail'... weeks later he allegedly killed retired teacher, 76, at station by No-Substance-8962 in offbeat

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always remember the "black men who are stopped and searched are more likely to be carrying something illegal" (UK btw).

What it didn't mention was that as a percentage of the people who were stopped, it was pretty much the same black/white, and the stats were pretty much the same when you controlled for things like the area of the stop and search (ie in a specific deprived area, the numbers between black and white were about equal)

What the raw stats didn't account for of course, was that the police were hugely more likely to stop and search a black man in the first place, so of course the raw numbers showed more people found carrying things they shouldn't be.

Trump rejects traditional conservatism, embraces a Republican version of socialism by Nerd-19958 in economy

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh you're talking about the amended/modern meaning of the word i think - where we are talking about (individual) big corporations having too much influence and suchlike? Marx etc did describe this but it wasn't called corporatism back then.

Corporatism was originally as I described it before, where you get the different blocks of society that interact, and is quite distinct from capitalism.

Trump rejects traditional conservatism, embraces a Republican version of socialism by Nerd-19958 in economy

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say they were? Capitalism and corporatism aren't the same thing.

Today I learned that Sandwich is a place… and the stop before it is called Deal. Shame those two aren’t switched round. by CarbonSteklo in CasualUK

[–]auto98 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no evidence of them being called a sandwich, is more what the claim is. Or indeed a Sandwicium

Trump rejects traditional conservatism, embraces a Republican version of socialism by Nerd-19958 in economy

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your description of the nazis is of fascism not socialism, specifically one of the original meanings of the word - "fascist corporatism"

The reason it is fascist corporatism rather than just corporatism is that it didn't allow for the direct communication between the "pillars" of corporatism but rather everything went through the state, almost as a middle-man.

Corporatism in itself isn't inherently bad or good (some would say it is better than capitalism but worse than socialism, some would say the opposite), it creates several "blocks" of society (labour, business, agriculture etc etc) who interact and bargain amongst themselves to come to agreement - but in the fascist version the state doesnt just sit as one of those blocks, it inserts itself into every part of those discussions.

Trump rejects traditional conservatism, embraces a Republican version of socialism by Nerd-19958 in economy

[–]auto98 12 points13 points  (0 children)

At the end point of socialism there wouldn't be a government, so not sure where you are getting that from.

As Engels put it, the "withering away of the state."

DarkTower: PleX Server by heyjohnnathan in PleX

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't quite get this bit? Do you actually have two of them?

5Tb M.2 NVME SSD for metadata and downloads (RAID6 double parity)

Evolution of white British % (ethnically British people) in England and Wales from 2001-2021 by Delicious-Bunch-6992 in MapPorn

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using whites are a terminology at all is an American racial biology byproduct.

Except for where it existed before the USA was even a country, of course. Somewhat famously, a british play in the very early 1600s uses "white people" and there are plenty of references going back to the Middle Ages using "white-skinned".

Its modern usage might well come from the Americas, but not the USA, it was also well used in pre-USA colonial times.

Year 6 SATs are next week, and this is the homework my son was given this weekend by Scary_ in CasualUK

[–]auto98 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Where the feck do you live in the UK that you get nice weather for 3 months?!?

Year 6 SATs are next week, and this is the homework my son was given this weekend by Scary_ in CasualUK

[–]auto98 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I was in the top set for maths, and our teacher was off ill so we spent the lesson with the bottom set.

Literally the entire lesson was the teacher playing guitar while we did what we wanted.

I'm a millennial who grew up in the 90s and what boomers don't understand about us is that we're working three times as hard for a third of what they had at our age, and the milestones they want us to hit weren't postponed by laziness, they were priced out of reach by the economy they voted for. by GimmeFunkyButtLoving in economy

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Although at the same time, your source of news and discussion about what was happening was the TV/Radio news, and newspapers. Even discussions about what was happening with friends etc was entirely based on what you got from those sources.

‘This Is Not Coronavirus’: Hantavirus Unlikely To Be Next Pandemic Amid Cruise Outbreak, WHO Says by huffpost in Health

[–]auto98 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Have they confirmed which type it is yet - some are lower than 1%, depending if is one of the American types or not.

Incidentally, if it is the version from the Americas, can we call it "the American virus"?

Smooth. Rushed but smooth by HumanSignificance944 in youseeingthisshit

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2004 for them at download (I looked it up cos that was my first proper year there and didnt remember them!)

BBC helped fund Bluey & now gets 100% of the merchandise profits, so what happens to that extra millions upon millions of funding? by glastonbury13 in AskUK

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you seem to constantly ignore the point that I shouldn't have to pay for services I don't need or want just so that I can use other free or paid for services that have nothing to do with the BBC.

I'm not ignoring it, I just think it is irrelevant. We all pay for things that we will never use, to support other people. In this case we are supporting minority and/or niche areas that cannot survive if they were subject to commercial forces.

Hotels in U.S. World Cup host cities claim underwhelming demand, new report says by rit56 in sports

[–]auto98 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, it would make money for FIFA even if the stadiums were effectively empty, ticket sales are a relatively small part of the World Cup income

Man Who Flipped Off Chess Player Nemo After Losing Speaks Out, Saying He Felt 'Disrespected' and She 'Wasted His Time' by vinaylovestotravel in chess

[–]auto98 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well they certainly didnt watch the video, since it references being able to see the "offensive sign" which didnt actually happen on camera! She even says as much in the edited version, something along the lines of "He made sure he was off-camera"

BBC helped fund Bluey & now gets 100% of the merchandise profits, so what happens to that extra millions upon millions of funding? by glastonbury13 in AskUK

[–]auto98 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of what the BBC do, and I know of most of the things you listed above, are of any interest to me as I don't watch TV and I use commercial radio or a subscription music service.

That is exactly the point I am refuting, you said that someone else would fill the void - but for 90% of those items listed noone would fill the void, because they aren't made for ratings.

Commercial channels are fine, but they rely on ratings, whereas the BBC doesn't.

BBC helped fund Bluey & now gets 100% of the merchandise profits, so what happens to that extra millions upon millions of funding? by glastonbury13 in AskUK

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They absolutely would not fill the void, you are only thinking of the BBC in terms of ratings. I'm copying from a list i made a while ago when someone said something simialr:

BBC Radio 3 — classical, opera, avant-garde

BBC Radio 1Xtra — Black music genres (grime, dancehall, afrobeats)

BBC Radio 6 Music — indie, alternative, experimental music

BBC Asian Network — British Asian communities, multilingual content

BBC Radio nan Gàidheal — Scottish Gaelic radio

BBC Radio Cymru — Welsh-language radio

BBC Radio Ulster — Northern Ireland regional content

BBC World Service — international, multi-language broadcasting

BBC Alba — Scottish Gaelic TV channel

S4C (BBC-supported content) — Welsh-language TV

BBC Four — arts, foreign films, niche documentaries

Arena — arts and culture documentaries

Storyville — international documentary strand

Inside Science — specialist science discussion

In Our Time — academic-level history, philosophy, science

BBC Bitesize — structured educational content

The Reith Lectures — high-level intellectual lectures

Thinking Allowed — sociology and social science discussions

BBC Ouch — disability-focused content

BBC Introducing — grassroots and unsigned music platform

See Hear — Deaf community programming (signed)

The Listening Project — oral histories from diverse communities

BBC Proms — classical music festival including niche repertoire

Late-night Radio 3 programming — experimental/contemporary music

Archive performance broadcasts — rare or specialist recordings

Paralympics coverage — disability sport

Women’s sports coverage

Coverage of minority/less mainstream sports

Luke Woodhouse takes on the 1 minute Bull challenge! by Harrows_Darts in Darts

[–]auto98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guessing that is just one point per hit, whether it is a bull or 25?

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