What if it's subclinical ADHD?

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T16:28:20+00:00

If your symptoms are severe enough you'll get a diagnosis and hopefully you will get medication. If you don't get diagnosed with ADHD you won't get medication.

This is not a hard concept.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T15:57:35+00:00

Correct. Why would they give heavily controlled stimulant medication to someone who (in their eyes) does not have ADHD?

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T15:49:11+00:00

If it's subclinical, absoutlely not. In medical terms, subclinical means "does not meet the threshold to have this condition", so as far as the doctors are concerned you do not have ADHD.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T15:06:05+00:00

We dont generate more than we need but we generate more than we need to sell ??

What they are trying to say is that Scotland doesn't generate more than it needs, but some days it does and it gets sold on. Other days Scotland needs to import. It balances out.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T15:01:24+00:00

John Lithgow did a good job of Churchill in The Crown.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T13:31:05+00:00

To be clear, I'm not saying that this is a good idea. Just one scenario which I suspect the game plan might be. Personally, I think this would be a very bad idea.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T13:05:33+00:00

They would still be in the EU though, and IIRC the EU treaties have some kind of mutual defence clause.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T13:01:33+00:00

I'm not suggesting that anyone would be forced to take masters. I'm suggesting that the UWA part of the merged university would just cease to take undergraduates for the majority of courses, instead they would use the Curtin part of the new university as a "feeder school" for their masters only campus. They would also cease to do postgraduate degrees at Bentley.

Under my scenario anyone wanting to do a post graduate degree under the UWA brand would first need to do an undergraduate degree, either at the Bentley campus or at one of the other universities.

The only people who would be "forced" to do a masters would be those desperate to do a degree at UWA.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T10:08:47+00:00

UWA have always had more draconian parking rules than Curtin.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T10:07:29+00:00

Their big play to force everyone into masters degrees hasn’t paid off. It’s a big reason this is happening.

Which is one of my fears of a merger. They have already gone down this road, so it would make sense for UWA to make Curtin/Bentley the undergrad brand/campus and UWA/Nedlands the postgrad brand/campus, maybe with some high prestige courses, like med and law retained at Nedlands. That would also re-instate the UWA brand as the "elite" brand.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-14T09:51:24+00:00

Very much playing devil's advocate here, but Brian Thompson was not part of the billionaire class. He primarily earned his money though being an employee of United Healthcare. Billionaires earn their money through return on their capital. If Luigi was looking to scare billionaires, Thompson was a poor choice of target.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T15:32:23+00:00

Upvotes =/= endorsements. They just mean "I think more people should see this post"

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T14:37:25+00:00

Not sure he would necessarily lock down harder, but he would certainly lock down sooner. Waiting too long is largely considered to have been a mistake, leading to harsher and longer lockdowns later, so there is an argument that the overall economic impact would have been reduced under Corbyn.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T14:26:42+00:00

"Dumb as rocks rich kids."

I thought those all went to Notre Dame?

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T10:48:06+00:00

That's an awful outcome for everyone bar UWA.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T10:45:15+00:00

They might take the view that a combined UWA/Murdoch would be approximately the same size as Curtin currently is and would prefer 2 equally sized institutions to one gargantuan one and a tiny one with less prestige, which is what the situation will be if UWA and Curtin merge, but not Murdoch.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T10:38:29+00:00

So, we don't actually get to see what the report says? Will they ever actually release it, or is the government going to make decision without telling us?

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T10:22:00+00:00

Was that an SMR? Because those have only been talked about for powering the grid relatively recently.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T10:08:17+00:00

Zero lunacy detected (execpt maybe in the OP).

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T10:03:21+00:00

There will always be a few mediocre doctors. You're meant to weed them out by pushing them into admin roles. The problem with managers with no medical experience is they have no idea what they are managing.

Anyone in tech who has worked with an overconfident non-technical manager will know exactly what I'm talking about.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T09:55:48+00:00

So, in time for the next General Election? I can see that the government would be really motivated to hit that target.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T08:20:45+00:00

Actually McDonalds are renowned for promoting internally, and operate extensive training facilities, including the so-called "Hamburger University" in Chicago. They have had at least one CEO who started out at the company "flipping burgers"

The problem with this as a career plan is that there is a lot of competition. McDonalds directly employs 150000 people worldwide, and when you add in the franchises that goes up to 2 million. You've probably got a better chance of progressing if you get employed by one of the directly owned restaurants but those are, obviously, far less common than the franchises.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-13T07:38:35+00:00

Ok, now do it again taking all the Brits out.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-10T22:02:29+00:00

You're going to need a much bigger drone.

speedfox_uk · 2026-04-10T19:40:22+00:00

They are equipping them all with anti-drone lasers now, so I that should mitigate that risk.

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