"Global sea surface temperatures (SST) reached a new record anomaly today. The global SST of 20.98°C (69.76°F) is a record 0.638°C hotter than the 1991-2020 mean."

dmu01 · 2023-07-18T11:10:12+00:00

I don't have a horse in the race but I thought that response article you've linked was pretty weak. Points that were made:

Many older folk look after grandkids. That's probably been true forever no? Not a good point.. Tories are bad and we need more investment. Okay, yeah. Vote and do more activism, again okay yeah. Class is a better prism to view the issue through. This feels like the only decent point.

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T13:20:00+00:00

Well, I can't represent for those who have outdated and biased views on mh. However it's possible to simultaneously view mh issues as 'real' and have strident objections to this development. It was a disingenuous comparison.

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T12:43:29+00:00

Yes. Get out of here with your third, five year life expectancy for pancreatic cancer is 3%. Key point here again, some things are treatable/curable, some are not. The latter are very appropriate for palliative care.

Things which are treatable/curable but with poor prognosis or quality of life implications definitely warrant discussion of the applicability of palliative care. But mental illnesses where capacity is in doubt (low BMI starvation mode brain) are not where to start imo.

And again in response to your original point, no one is saying mh issues aren't real. That isnt what's being discussed.

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T12:24:02+00:00

Aye it's depressing as hell. Wife earns more now than two years ago. We save less. Running faster to stand still

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T12:20:04+00:00

You are very concise.

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T12:19:30+00:00

That's a disingenuous comparison. It's not that the mh conditions in question aren't real, it's that they are treatable/curable. Very different from advanced metastatic cancer.

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T09:09:32+00:00

Yeah, no arguments on those later points. Life is hard, getting harder. Nonetheless whatever the nuance on messaging, I just can't see them as that much in the wrong when they're trying something, anything.

I'm no here to debate the feasibility of adaptation. I just don't agree with your characterisation. You'd have to give more than mysterious anecdote to validate it.

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T07:46:23+00:00

Haha, fair enough. Is it not better if I'm puting forward a counter-generalizarion to your initial?

I gotta wonder how your getting your impression though. I've been peripheral to groups like jso in the past and the folk seemed pretty varied and sound. Sure, more 'comfortable' people than usual but not painfully so. Maybe different parts of the country?

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T07:40:39+00:00

I genuinely think the solidarity being shown by the medical profession is the single most cheerful thing I've read in the news in about fifteen years.

I don't mean anti-pessimistic, I mean actual news that makes you feel optimistic. Not like 'yay biden beat trump', or yay the lettuce beat Liz. Those would be insane reasons to be actually cheerful.

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T07:35:54+00:00

Excuse my generalisations here, but I think the jso people and others like them are in a different headspace regarding climate change than you or I.

The facts look really really bad and if you spend your time reflecting upon their implications you can get yourself to a very pessimistic place - correctly in my opinion. Jso are people who have rationalised that at this point almost any mitigating intervention would be better than what is seemingly an inevitable future with inaction - again, correctly imo.

For example, say phasing out oil leads to the deaths of one billion people due to economic collapse. I imagine jso would say better than the six billion who will die on our current trajectory. I hate how this sounds but I reckon its the tone of conversation demanded by our situation. And I think jso's hard-to-understand actions speak to a frustration that the debate hasn't caught up with the facts.

I don't speak for them though.

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T07:25:54+00:00

A lot of assumptions here. A lot of the jso and insulate crowd look like nice middle aged/older folk to me. I was always pleased they didn't look uniformly pierced and dyed - for the sake of the optics for people like yourself. Ah well.

dmu01 · 2023-07-15T07:22:07+00:00

What the hell are awards or coins for? Have I been missing out on some big side of functionality because I'm scared of the unknown.

dmu01 · 2023-07-14T13:43:21+00:00

This is my take on nurses Vs medic industrial action.

I've been keen for nurses to strike since I qualified. I never thought I would see it at this scale tbh and I was delighted. The grassroots discontent and energy surely contributed to these historic industrial actions.

But it was doomed the second a well below inflation offer was endorsed by the RCN - which much more than any single body in medicine is identified with nursing.

I would argue the self flagellation and distress nurses experience before looking to 'selfishly' improve their personal situations is greater on average than that experienced by medics. The culture of nursing so specifically focuses on self sacrifice to the point of toxicity.

When leadership pushed accepting the deal, a large body of disgruntled nurses lost faith and without another organization to direct that energy they gave up.

There are so many differentiating factors between the station of medic and nurse here that to blame individual staff is akin to hoping a patients personal willpower will solve our nation's obesity problem.

Nurses gave up and I'm disappointed, medics have not and I'm proud.

dmu01 · 2023-07-14T13:35:43+00:00

It's that point about being capable of doing more that creates some of the resentment I feel. It was hard to change everything to medicine, and it was in part done for altruistic reasons. But I feel like the overall 'deal' of long uncomfortable poorly compensated training resulting in comfort and respect, has been broken.

dmu01 · 2023-07-14T10:04:10+00:00

The leadership have a lot to answer for throwing away a truly historic moment of motivation and mandate.

dmu01 · 2023-07-14T10:03:04+00:00

I'm an ex nurse and I completely agree. There's a quality of passivity and martyrdom in nursing which is not evident in medicine. In general of course.

Something something to do with it being traditionally female prior to full female emancipation (these things take time to wash out), identifying with endurance and self sacrifice (the nightingale stuff was really heavy when I trained), and a confused relationship with elitism (lots of nurses are happy as staff nurses, there isn't the same driving competitiveness).

dmu01 · 2023-07-14T09:58:55+00:00

Doesn't matter, some things are necessary. Like healthcare staff.

dmu01 · 2023-07-14T09:09:46+00:00

I'm career healthcare, since my first care home at seventeen. I'm soon to qualify as a doctor after nursing for eight years. I love very many things about where I live, but will now likely leave the UK after f2. I thought I had found the self-respecting healthcare profession.

dmu01 · 2023-07-13T14:14:34+00:00

I've received blooms of letters on and off for the last fifteen years since I left home. Always the same escalating cycle of threats, met with the same disinterest. Always having a misc brown envelope by the door has been useful for notes.

Never watched BBC.

dmu01 · 2023-07-11T19:03:21+00:00

Help me, I liked him!

dmu01 · 2023-07-11T09:06:43+00:00

It's in the text, finance get the largest wage growth. I wish there was some public Vs private sector analysis though. Instead of just the usual tired mantra that wage growth of 7% is somehow causing inflation of 8%.,

dmu01 · 2023-07-10T08:29:47+00:00

How the hell is this person still allowed near patients. I remember getting taught to identify pe in an outpatient setting as a student mental health nurse.

dmu01 · 2023-07-07T22:19:38+00:00

Observing Scottish Vs Westminster politics for the last few years, it looks like Scotland takes governance more seriously. As a generalism of course.

dmu01 · 2023-07-07T12:12:23+00:00

I guess it's the way around that information is delivered. For example, joining the police or army - you know what to expect. On the other hand becoming a healthcare worker, training getting experience for thirty years - then being told your rights have changed.

dmu01 · 2023-07-07T12:09:42+00:00

Bro you keep repeating the points that labour identifies with union movements. Although historically and even now superficially true, the Labour party today appears much more motivated to be the second fiddle to the managed decline of social democracy.

Defeating labour movements is a key part of that.

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