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Nicovel0

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Family man. Bicycle obsessive. Nerd. Colander. He/him.

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ShredderLivesOn, to random
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The fact that the press is waiting in front of the door to 10 Downing Street in the rain for Rishi Sunak to announce the General Election, makes me wonder whatever the Hell happened to that press briefing room that they spent £2.6 million on?

Oh that's right. BoJo the Clown decided he didn't want to do 'White House' style press briefings after he kept getting awkward questions.

Nicovel0,
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@ShredderLivesOn such good value for money the Tories

futurebird, to random
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If we have so much good AI tech why can't anyone make a spell check that I can't stump?

A few times a week I must go to the dictionary (like a cavewoman!) or search the web since I've mangled some word in such a way that there are no suggestions. It's just "wrong" what's wrong with it? Who knows!

Could it be a scientific name and just not in the dictionary? Maybe! Could it be an obscure word with a pretentious UK spelling? Probably! Could it be wrong? Also probably.

Do this first AI lords.

Nicovel0,
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@futurebird the logical end to being a product

Nicovel0, to random
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Alf Dubs: we need to learn from my experience as a child refugee fleeing the Nazis
UK gov: so reject more family reunions yeah?
Alf: I said learn from not emulate the Nazis

The UK’s broken refugee policy is delivering vulnerable children into the hands of people smugglers https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/15/uk-broken-refugee-policy-children-people-smugglers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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meanwhile in there US, Boeing's troubles look to be about to get (even) worse.

After the two 737Max fatal crashes, the US Dept. of Justice agreed not to prosecute if it addressed the issues that had led to the engineering mistakes that causes the crashes... some saw that as letting Boeing off the hook.

Now the DoJ has decided that the agreement is off because Boeing had not honoured the 'deal'; might we now see major prosecution of Boeing?

#boeing #airplanes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2x2rxdlvdo

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6 they’ll be kept afloat by their military contracts. They make very, very expensive bombers.

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 @ChrisMayLA6 nah Boeing is at another scale altogether. They provide strategic weapons systems, at least that bit of the company will be kept alive. There will be almighty legal action with Airbus arguing that the military contracts are essentially subsidies, but they’ve gone in the same business themselves. The wheel will carry on grinding.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Why We're As Bad As The Tories, part 21902

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wes-streeting-suella-braverman-child-benefit-cap-b2543738.html

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 WTF the two child cap and the bedroom tax were identified as two major reasons for pushing people into poverty. I guess that’s not a priority for “Labour” anymore.

fkamiah17, to random
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A full page advert in today's edition of Haaretz.
via Yesh Din, an Israeli Human Rights organisation

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 all of them antisemites no doubt

fkamiah17, to random
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I guess this is why they had to shut down Aljazeera. Can't go last stage genocide when someone might actually tell the world about it.
Aljazeera: "Gaza aid halted as Israeli tanks take control of Rafah border crossing"

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 shutting out the UN too, which is definitely what you do when you’re following all the rules and respecting people’s human rights

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 oh good as long as we create value for shareholders then all is fine

fkamiah17, to random
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Chief of NYPD cops clearing campus protesters: "You're dealing with children, or teenagers slash young adults, that aren't at the mental capacity you are at as professional police officers."

Nicovel0,
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@RosePuckey @fkamiah17 look there are plenty of issues with standardised IQ tests, but I still would like to highlight this: https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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And the lolz just keep on comin'

From the Sky Local Elections liveblog

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 those polling station staffers are heroes

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 “I’m sorry sir but I need your ID”
“I’m Boris Johnson, you must remember me from have I got news for you, being London mayor and prime minister?”
“I’m sorry sir but I have no idea who you are, please come back with ID”

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 31: 🧐

https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/02/columbia-crackdown-university-nypd/

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 she’s so disingenuous I’m surprised she didn’t self combust: “That’s not somebody who I would want necessarily influencing my child”
So the students are old enough to join the military, get into 000s in debt, and get charged by riot police but they need to be protected from anti colonial words? Despicable.

jon, to random
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I’d have been happier had Schreiner (Berlin’s transport senator) gone because she’s awful. But you can’t have it all, and that she has gone is the important bit.

(It’s because her PhD had major flaws)

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/verkehrssenatorin-schreiner-cdu-tritt-nach-aberkennung-von-doktortitel-zurueck-100.html

Nicovel0,
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@jon that seems to be a recurring theme in German politics

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Here comes John Redwood with his latest fact-repelling rage wibble.

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 well at least the music will be good

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 him too? FFS

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 eye rolls in French

fkamiah17, to random
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Dunno which Churchill he's talking about. How is this guy still considered a historian??

David Starkey: "When human rights were invented by Churchill, they were intended to protect the individual against the state. The left has redesigned them to protect minorities against the majority."

TalkTV yesterday

#RageWibblersRUs #UKMedia

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 WTF he was always a RW and Churchill apologist but that’s pure fantasy

fkamiah17, to random
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Morning.

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 ah yes the International Court of Justice and the World Health Organisation are famously incompetent when it comes to identifying genocide and famine. It must be their antisemitism.

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2024 Extra Days 26 April - Valenciennes - Quiévrain - Gussignies - Aulnoye-Aymeries - Paris - Nuits-sous-Ravières

Crossing these borders:
Blanc-Misseron 🇫🇷 - Quiévrain 🇧🇪
Bettrechies-Bellignies 🇫🇷 - Mons 🇧🇪

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#12/50.3640/3.7038

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-extra-days-2024_1030682#11/50.3036/3.6839

Nicovel0,
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@jon this end of thread toot popped up in my TL and by the second line I went “oh Jon is in Paris”

fkamiah17, to random
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mOsT MoRaL aRmY

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-itamar-ben-gvir-calls-execution-palestinans-ease-overcrowding-prisons

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 I hope the ICJ has big hard drives for all that evidence

girlonthenet, (edited ) to random
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UK millennials: if someone handed you a wooden recorder, could you play a song?

(Bonus points in comments if you can tell me which one. This Q brought to you by my confident assertion in group chat that even after 25+ years, I could still smash out Lord of the Dance)

Nicovel0,
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@girlonthenet not British or a millennial, but I can still play a perfect rendition of “this tune will make you want to stab your ears with knitting needles”

fkamiah17, to ukteachers
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So the president of Columbia University is being questioned by Congress today about pro-Palestine protests and "antisemitism on campus". This is the calibre of questions she's being asked 🙄

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 christofascism strikes again

Nicovel0,
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@fkamiah17 sometimes it feels like we’re not going back to the days of WW2 and the Cold War, but to the wars of religion and crusades with nuclear weapons added.

davemark, to science
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New vaccine strategy eliminates need for boosters:

"RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised"

  • "one and done" approach
  • targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of a virus
  • tested in mice

Details here...

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/15/vaccine-breakthrough-means-no-more-chasing-strains

Nicovel0,
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@davemark interesting, but very preliminary. They’ll have to show effectivity in better models, like ferrets for flu.

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