They’re also comparing total appointment numbers from a time period where there was a lot of Nurse/doctor strike action against a time period where strikes had stopped and NHS staff were working through a backlog.

It seems insane to measure air pollution by this metric rather than, you know, actually looking at air pollution levels.

Arguably. Or it’s just what the dev team was used to. Or a bunch of other explanations.

I just don’t find “a historic Germanic group of settler’s that immigrated to medieval Britain are purposely neglecting unicode support as a means to suppress people that aren’t part of their group.”

Going through their post history, they seem obsessed with the “Anglo Saxons”.

Just a bizarre conspiracy theory from a one day old account that’s also advocating for genociding everyone in the middle east lol

To be fair, the term “AI” has always been used in an extremely vague way.

NPCs in video games, chess computers, or other such tech are not sentient and do not have general intelligence, yet we’ve been referring to those as “AI” for decades without anybody taking an issue with it.

Anglo-Saxon? Lmao what a bizarre way to talk. Not that it even makes sense considering Anglo-Saxon settlers in the US weren’t even close to being the majority.

It’s down to unicode support. Not a plot from “Anglo-Saxons” to keep others in their place lol

There are already travel warnings issued for the US.

And unfortunately, the UK cannot go about starting international spats and trade wars with the US. That’s a one way ticket to heavy recession and mass poverty.

The most we can realistically do is travel warnings and publishing stories like this.

I don’t think that’s true in the slightest. A phone 2.1" smaller in diagonal length than my current one would be smaller than a Nokia 3310.

That’s exactly my point.

Presumably you’re paid for the work you do, and you shouldn’t have to do it for free, yes?

I imagine you wouldn’t be saying this if it was your work being used.

If you went through the painstaking effort or writing a book or something, I imagine you’d be pretty unhappy if nobody wanted to reimburse you, and you were called a cunt for wanting to be paid for your labour.

Why is Polution per GDP a better measure?

They wanted a measure that makes China look better.

Like I just said, my current 6.3" display phone is almost identical in size to my old 4.2" one.

Do you have confirmation that they require US permission, or is it speculation? Because people have been saying similar things about things like Trident and F35s for years and they’ve been proven incorrect.

And that’s just one thing. Broadly speaking we absolutely are reducing our reliance on them. Pointing out one area where we aren’t isn’t proof of a trend.

We’ve been ramping up UK production, BAE has been pushing to open more European factories, we’ve signed multiple defensive pacts, there’s the European weapons programme, we’re looking into adding more partners to our upcoming sixth-gen fighter jet programme, etc.

This is more about retailers selling stuff that doesn’t comply with existing safety standards. It’s not a plot from big auto to ban bikes and scooters.

Very few people are cross shopping between a new Honda, for example, and a £169 e-scooter from Amazon that doesn’t abide by standards that govern safe charging.

Honestly the amount of people I see, particularly in cities but sometimes in normal towns too, whizzing around on an e-scooter or e-bike on pavements/the wrong side of the road, or abruptly darting across the road without even looking, wearing a balaclava in the middle of summer is bizarre.

That absolutely cannot be comfortable. Why would someone want to wear a balaclava like that, other than to avoid being noticed by cameras or the police?

Fair do in the middle of winter, but it was 28 degrees and humid the other day, yet I still saw a few people like that.

Unfortunately the pragmatic move given the orange toddler could crash our economy with just a single deranged tweet.

It is not worth it for Starmer to treat Trump like the piece of turd he is – crashing our economy and causing a rampant increase in poverty in the process – just so he can look based on twitter and Reddit for a few hours.

Wooing Trump while simultaneously becoming less reliant on the US and growing closer to the EU again is genuinely probably the only thing Kier is doing exceptionally well in right now, so I won’t complain.

Still, I hope we see the return of that giant baby Trump balloon lol

You are genuinely the first person I’ve seen online who understands screen size != Phone size, because bezels exist and are different sized from phone to phone.

My current 6.3" screen phone is virtually identical in size to the 4.2" one I had in 2012.

Qualcomm will have to change that, what with the EU now mandating a minimum of 5 years of updates after the phone is no longer sold.

So if Qualcomm expects their SoCs to be on the market for 2-4 years, like they do right now, they will have no choice but to provide updates for 7-9 years.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, given this development, Fairphone turn to the more conventional chips other OEMs use, which would likely also be a win for battery life.

Would be a good feature if it works and is private.

I’m in multiple group chats and often open WhatsApp to see 800 unread messages in a single chat. I don’t want to read through all of that, but I do want to know a high level overview, so I can see if it’s something I actually want to scroll back to and have a proper read.

However, I’ve seen multiple AI summaries missing out important stuff, so that’s almost certainly going to be an issue here too.

I also want it to be completely private. They say it is, but who knows? The fact it’s not on-device is a bit of a red flag to me.

So a “phone” without any ability to connect to mobile networks or to WiFi?

You don’t have to buy a new fair phone just because you bought the last one.

It’s doubtful that someone buying a new phone now would want to buy the fair phone from 2+ years ago.

Agreed. But this isn’t a blanket ban on protestors.

This specific organisation operates in cells, has caused and advocates for violence.