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  1. This is sad to read, and I wonder if there is a vicious cycle going on?

    Employers have too many applicants for each job for them to have the time to review them properly, so they use some BS AI that just rejects most of the candidates and doesn't even let them know they've been rejected.

    So each applicant has to make up for it by applying for hundreds of jobs, making employers even more swamped.

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy915d

    #JobHunting

  2. I honestly don't know what to think about the plan to go ahead with Sizewell C.

    On the one hand, we badly need reliable sources of low-carbon energy.

    On the other hand, it will take many years before it's ready and cost squillions.

    Would we do better spending that money on solar and wind farms with battery storage?

    I don't know the answer to that. I'd be interested to see their calculations.

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20q91

    #SizewellC #NuclearPower #Electricity #ClimateChange

  3. @statsguy

    I thought Harry did that unilaterally by taking his family off to be Yanks?

    If I could only think of a valid use for very large ancient buildings with battlements I might suggest reducing the count of Charles' places of residence - but I fear that short of redefining them all as #greyBelt and converting the sites into new villages for the people there does not seem to be a useful alternative function for them...

  4. Oh, and since King Charles seems to be in the news for his #COP28 speech, another way of putting $400 million into perspective is that it is massively less than the tax that King Charles has personally dodged by exploiting loopholes in inheritance tax.

    Yes, less than the tax that just one person has dodged.

    #BlahBlahBlah #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #RichTaxDodgers

  5. CW: UK Politics

    "Badenoch added the country could not 'afford their fantasy economics'"

    I'm not sure anyone should be taking any lessons on "fantasy economics" from Badenoch, given that she was an enthusiastic supporter of Liz "I crashed the economy" Truss's mini-budget

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd25l

    #UKPolitics #BadEnoch #KemiBadenoch #LizTruss #FantasyEconomics

  6. Trump Fires the Stats Guy, Because Math Hurt His Feelings:

    Trump didn’t like the July jobs report, so he canned the BLS chief.

    When reality doesn’t vibe with the delusion, just delete it. Classic fascist feng shui.

    #MinistryOfTruth #UnemploymentButMakeItSexy

  7. People of Greenland and Panama!

    Worried that the US might be about to invade you? Worry no more. You can sleep soundly in your beds tonight.

    The US have put a complete fucking idiot in charge of running their military. They're not invading anyone.

    #Hesgeth

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd9zp

  8. CW: UK Politics

    Tuesday: government issues a report saying that the reason why prisons are dangerously overcrowded is because of successive governments doing populist policies to increase the length of prison sentences

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8977

    Wednesday: government does a populist policy to increase the length of prison sentences

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g0ld

    #UKPolitics #Prisons #Populism #JoinedUpGovernment

  9. Oh thank God they've got branding.

    I'm sure I speak for all rail passengers when I say we really don't care whether the trains run on time or not, just as long as they have branding.

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9kx

    #Priorities #Trains #GreatBritishRailways

  10. I've had an email from Octopus Energy telling me that because of dramatic falls in wholesale electricity prices, they sadly have no choice but to reluctantly reduce the price they are paying me for the electricity I export from my solar panels.

    Weirdly, they seem very much to have the choice not to reduce the price of the electricity that they sell to me.

    Isn't it funny how that works?

    #Electricity #Octopus #OctopusEnergy #PowerCompanies

  11. CW: Covid-19, cardiovascular risk

    Given everything we now know about how covid-19 infection increases cardiovascular risk in the months following infection, is there any research on how to mitigate that risk?

    For example, it seems logical that taking aspirin for a few months after the infection might reduce the risk, but is anyone looking into whether it actually does?

    #Covid19 #LongCovid #CardiovascularRisk #HeartAttack #Stroke

  12. I've heard it said that last week's summit in Alaska didn't achieve anything.

    That's not true. It's completely distracted the media's attention from talking about the Epstein files.

    For one of the participants, that is probably the main thing he wanted to achieve from the summit.

    #TrumpPutinSummit #Alaska #Trump #Putin #EpsteinFiles #Ukraine

  13. CW: UK Politics

    Your periodic reminder that the UK Parliament has very strict rules about lying. They take these rules very seriously, and you can be kicked out of Parliament and have your pay docked if you break them.

    Oh, but just to be clear, it's not lying itself that's forbidden. Oh no. You can lie to your heart's content. No problem at all

    It's only calling out lying that's not allowed.

    thenational.scot/news/26037761

    #UKPolitics #Starmer #Lying #ZarahSultana

  14. CW: UK Politics

    Your periodic reminder that the UK Parliament has very strict rules about lying. They take these rules very seriously, and you can be kicked out of Parliament and have your pay docked if you break them.

    Oh, but just to be clear, it's not lying itself that's forbidden. Oh no. You can lie to your heart's content. No problem at all

    It's only calling out lying that's not allowed.

    thenational.scot/news/26037761

    #UKPolitics #Starmer #Lying #ZarahSultana

  15. CW: UK Politics

    Your periodic reminder that the UK Parliament has very strict rules about lying. They take these rules very seriously, and you can be kicked out of Parliament and have your pay docked if you break them.

    Oh, but just to be clear, it's not lying itself that's forbidden. Oh no. You can lie to your heart's content. No problem at all

    It's only calling out lying that's not allowed.

    thenational.scot/news/26037761

  16. CW: UK Politics

    Your periodic reminder that the UK Parliament has very strict rules about lying. They take these rules very seriously, and you can be kicked out of Parliament and have your pay docked if you break them.

    Oh, but just to be clear, it's not lying itself that's forbidden. Oh no. You can lie to your heart's content. No problem at all

    It's only calling out lying that's not allowed.

    thenational.scot/news/26037761

    #UKPolitics #Starmer #Lying #ZarahSultana

  17. CW: UK Politics

    If I were #Starmer, and if I were confident that I had acted properly and not misled Parliament, then I would absolutely welcome an inquiry by the Privileges Committee so that I could clear my name.

    The way he is so strongly fighting against this inquiry being allowed to happen tells you everything you need to know.

    bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce35dwddev

    #Mandelson #PrivilegesCommittee #UKPolitics

  18. CW: UK Politics

    Hello Tory MPs.

    You may be feeling very virtuous after voting for the #PartyGate report yesterday.

    But you're not fooling anyone. You don't get to claim to be suddenly in favour of integrity when you were perfectly happy to support Johnson at the time he was lying.

    Waiting until you get caught before you come out in favour of integrity doesn't count.

    #BorisJohnson #Integrity #PrivilegesCommittee

    bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-659

  19. @outsiderhope @statsguy to which you can add this of #Melania and #Maxwell from 2002, but well, other than signing 'X Love' when emailing Ghislaine and seeing her multiple times, it could never amount to anything more than trivial.

  20. @statsguy

    I'm angray as hell and I'm fed up with the nonsense!

    We got rid of the tories! We need to get rid of the Red Tories , the corporate neoliberals and Reform UK!

    Britain is FUCKED UP!!! I'm SICK of it!

    #NoIDCards #StopBitchingAboutTheBoats #KeepUSTechBrosOutOfUKPrivateLives

    #CostOfLiving, #HousingCrisis, #StopArmsSalesToApartheidIsrael, restore #LGBTQIAplus Rights, #SaveAndInproveTheNHS, etc

    Those should be the focus