[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Did you have healthcare before Russia invaded Ukraine and started murdering babies? Was it even on the cards?

It's not an economic factor either. US health costs are much higher than other developed nations. It spends 17% of GDP, almost double of Germany (next highest).

Spending is without the positive outcomes. Infant mortality of 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births (17,000 extra dead babies a year Vs an average.rate), for context you are worse than Russia with 4.9 but better tha Chile 5.9). 23.8 maternal deaths per 100,000 births being 3 times higher than most wealthy nations.

The economic considerations are that you have a lot of heath businesses. If you socialised medicine and reduced spend, you may improve health outcomes but how would they pay for the very nice buildings they have loans for?

Finally, US doesn't want universal healthcare as a society. Whilst they may be financially wrecked by costs and live shorter more painful lives, that is far preferential than seeing the low income family get the same free cancer treatment for their child.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Brian Cox was also in d:Ream.

American but E from the eels, his dad came up with the Many Worlds Interpretation

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

What would they do for the hours after school finished normally or if work on weekends?

Sounds like a work / life balance problem. Companies will have to be made to change their working practices, allow more remote, flexible working hours and reduced time.

UK is, very, slowly starting to move to a 4 day week for work (reduced hours, not cramming in 4 days x 10 hours). The productivity increases along with recruitment make it worthwhile. My company isn't there but 35 hours + 50 days holiday so not far.

That would solve the 4 day school day. Also allow for parents to educate their kids for 1/2 a day if needed.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yes but not for long.

As (generally climate denying) people love to point out, wind and solar is erratic power generation. For this reason you need triple capacity Vs requirements.

This means that for a huge amount of time you'll have excess energy, once we start to be predominantly renewables, battery storage is expensive. One of the solutions is to create hydrogen, also pumped hydrogen, etc.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Also when you are paying for those that is after tax as well. So I save about £2k a year just on travel costs, that’s the same as a £3k pay increase.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

She was protesting about the physical and sexual abuse of children by the church. The criticism helped to continue the protection of pedophiles, which continued for decades and still happens.

Joe Pesci (a study in short man syndrome) said on TV he wanted to slap her for ripping up a photo and the audience applauded him for it.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They can also add punitive damages. Didn't seem to be in this case BUT a meal marketed at children shouldn't cause scars.

With the coffee case had lots of damages for this. MacDonalds had been warned that they were serving coffee at dangerous temperatures, had 700 complaints but it was cheaper to pay compensation than fix.

They served the coffee at much higher temperatures than other establishments, so normally you'd have 12 seconds to wipe coffee off your skin but with MacDonalds it was 3 seconds, causing 3rd degree burns.

They lied saying it was done as people wanted to drink after driving for a long time but their surveys showed the opposite.

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I have purchased a larger pot than usual of contact adhesive. My last pot was 1/2 the size and started to thicken after a year (mostly used).

As a hobyiest, I'm wondering if there is a cheap solution to extend the life of the glue or bring it back to life, it's not the cost but trying to reduce waste. Product is a solvent based polychloroprene contact adhesive (EVO-STIK IMPACT ADHESIVE).

To identify if cause was user error - stored in the tin, and I wrapped in plastic as an extra air barrier, it was on a shelf inside.

Would adding solvents work (have Butane and isopropanol alcohol on hand). Happy to experiment but nice to know I'm not creating leather wrapped napalm.

Obviously best plan would be to double my leathercraft output. Any advice on better glue in UK would be welcomed.

Thank you.

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A) first findings are ther cross over between chemists and leather workers seems to be low.

B) Isopropyl alcohol seemed to make it set arder

C) Butane had a slightly better response but didn't really help enough - think it had gone to far to be saved.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Food impacts behaviour of children. Their behaviour will impact on others in class.

Parents happily ship their kids off to school, and expect teachers to deal with their shitly raised kids, pumped full of crap food and having poor behaviour impact on others. Entitled parents then bitch about how it’s their rights to to do a bad job of raising their ~~property~~ children.

but also added a cup of Pringles as she didn’t consider it to be ‘unhealthy’.

This is for a 3 year old! How stupid is she? This kid is really going to benefit from home schooling, yet another future problem for society to pick up the pieces up.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

60 is useful because it’s easily divided by lots of small numbers, 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, other factors include 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60. This is why we can split our day so much.

The Babylonians popularised base 60. The origins of which were possibly derived from 2 separate groups in Mesopotamia, that started trade but one used base 12 and one base 5, multiply together to get 60.

You can count to 5 and 12 on one hand easily (12 by using thumb to count each section of your 4 finger). Using both hands you get to 60.

https://mathsciencehistory.com/2021/11/09/count-to-60-with-your-phalanges/

China also has counting to 10 on one hand, theory being you can indicate quantities with one hand full at a market.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The head of Wagner was unhappy with Russian military leaders and thought he'd take matters into his own hands as Putin was going to support him. Putin did not. Now there are 10,000 men heading to Moscow.

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66006880

BBC correspondent saying his claims of having 25k troops is misleading as most in Africa (down from 50k), may have 10k which is a huge thorn.

More an attempt to take over military than Putin it seems.

Edit: live feed 🍿:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-66006142

[-] UniquesNotUseful@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yes people do like nice design and user interfaces. Apple managed to grab a large market share by understanding that.

It doesn't have to be cluttered but it doesn't have to be ... this.

If you want things to improve, you are going to have to accept criticism that your current crush isn’t perfect. There is already a lot of the toxic Reddit’ness that has come over, we don't need more.

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