The cases have been trending up the last three days on the rolling 7 day average, made it weird on the briefing yesterday when they said they are relaxing lockdown as cases clearly trending down and bring up graph showing a clear break in the longterm downward trend. Could be a reporting issue, could be a short term blip, guess time will tell

Have I Got News was hilarious tonight and I normaly find it a bit tedious but they deservely ripped Cummings to pieces and said what everyone has been thinking

If looking at the graphs of eldery deaths make you angry, these two good pieces of journalism from today will have you livid:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/28/government-rejected-radical-lockdown-england-care-homes-coronavirus

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-05-28/itv-news-reveals-plans-to-discharge-covid-19-patients-into-care-homes-nhs-coronavirus/

Most things back to normal in France as of 2/6. It’s up to us now not to be stupid, and wear masks if the local authorities so decide.

Are office workers going back to working in offices or still working from home where possible?

Anyone rate Al Jazeera’s output? I barely see it mentioned on here, whether positively or negatively.

I haven’t read it in a couple of years for no reason in particular but used to find it a decent read on UK issues, obviously more biased when it came to international affairs

FT dissection of his statement and chosen not to put it behind their paywall

https://www.ft.com/video/e82b5a00-3ad5-4d2c-9703-ff14942aa5b1

Whilst watching the news this morning, I’ve noticed the story is slipping down the order. It will be almost gone by tomorrow, mark my words

It is pretty tough to keep it top given everything else going on

How anyone could watch tonights 6 o’clock news and come away thinking the BBC are the problem I have no idea. Clive Myrie’s segment from Royal London’s intensive care unit was one of the most honest and sobering segments you will ever see on a news broadcast.

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/20/dominic-cummings-billion-dollar-brainchild/

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/22/palantir-coronavirus-contract-did-not-go-to-competitive-tender/

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/05/14/whitehall-analytica-the-ai-superstate-part-1-the-corporate-money-behind-health-surveillance/

For excel, look up wiseowl and excelisfun on Youtube, two great channels with loads of tutorials from beginner to very advanced

Today was by far the busiest I have seen it since lock down, like 3x more people than I have seen at any other time, I basically do the same loop everyday. First time I have seen large groups, I assume more than one house, out together and making it hard to keep distant as they spread over the whole path

You could probably find a Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso in that price range as well second hand

Anyone recommened Tool yet? Fear Inolculum is great

That Imperial paper is grim reading, saying this might go on for 18 months until a vaccine is ready, likely rolling social distancing measures as the outbreaks ebb and flow

Flightradar24 has been great viewing today. 3hrs for EasyJet to get from Luton to Stanstead….. unfortunately they were aiming for Inverness (gave up after the second attempt at landing)

This compilation from last weekend is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JARNXVXJ1Dk

I would say a week is pushing it depending on what you enjoy. I would say ten days does it justice otherwise you have to choose between dropping something, you basically have:
Capital – Amman
Historic – Petra and/ or Jerash
Nature – Wadi Rum and/ or red sea diving or dead sea/ Mount Nebo

Each probably is a couple of days with travel between next destination, so to fit them all in will take more than a week, if you only have a week I would drop Amman. It is amazing place and I loved the variety of stuff packed in to a small country.

If the Iraqi government vote to expel the US from Iraq today as is likely then Soleimani will of achieved his end goal. Trump has been saying for years he wants out of Iraq so this wouldn’t be the end of the world from a PR point of view but having invested trillions in Iraq in the last two decades and countless lives, surely it can’t be see as a win as it will hand Iraq over to being a vassal state of Iran for all intense and purposes.

Why don’t you inform the school who the other kid is who is dealing to pupils?

I am also one of those who has seen kids try and self medicate and destroy their mental health to a point it will have life long consquences. I am not against drugs but I don’t think it is OK the way some people are just saying it is OK for kids to do it, some can do but they need to be educated to understand if they are an at risk group and identify risks and how to experiment safely. Also people, saying it is legal in some countries, what countries is it legal at 16?

If you are just a bit lazy then this is a good, quick read (it is pretty short):

But what you describe does sound more like ADHD due to your concentration comment so is worth speaking to the doctor about as it sounds like it affects your life (not completing a degree) and they can send you to get tested

Neither of us can say who is correct though.

This is true but when one country has over a million of its citizens from a single ethnic minority currently in labour and re-education centres for the crime of being born Uyghur, it does make it more likely that the prison labour from that country isn’t from a non law abiding citizen compared to the UK

What are the implications of any boundary changes on what labour need to achieve to get into government?

Think it is widely accepted that the changes are detrimental to Labour and Scotland so you can be sure that Boris will get them done as they are oven ready

I wonder why you chose to ring fence paid posts only?

I shared that part as that was the part that was judging the parties and it was the parties we were discussing spreading lies, not their supporters who they don’t have control of.

And if Labour really had a gazillion willing supporters they wouldn’t be losing in the polls would they.

Nah, they’re all doing it. My perception is the Torys have done more of it, but I’ve seen things from all the three main English parties that literally aren’t true. (As opposed to trying to mislead without actually lying which was the game before social media came along.)

This is pretty damning of one party being more dishonest:

It looked just at every paid-for Facebook ad from the three main UK-wide parties run over the first four days of December:

For the Conservatives, it said that 88% (5,952) of the party’s most widely promoted ads either featured claims which had been flagged by independent fact-checking organisations including BBC Reality Check as not correct or not entirely correct. The figure includes instances of the same claims being made across multiple posts. One example was that Labour would spend £1.2 trillion at a cost of £2,400 to every household, which was contained within 4,028 ads. Those sums are significantly higher than others’ analysis of Labour’s plans

For the Lib Dems, it said hundreds of potentially misleading ads had featured identical unlabelled graphs, with no indication of the source data, to claim it was the only party that could beat either Labour, the Conservatives or the SNP “in seats like yours”

For Labour, it said that it could not find any misleading claims in ads run over the period

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/technology-50726500

So how come vending machines are so limited in the UK and haven’t taken off selling a wider range of goods?

Can;t blame people for being terrified of Corbyn
https://twitter.com/Millar_Colin/status/1201581431371247616

Dan Carlin Hardcore History
Radiolab
Revisionist history
Freakonomics
Drilled
Jocko Podcasts where he reviews specific events

Pretty sure Boris was hoping for an easier ride on marr

Surely it should be home secretary making an apperance if it was the real motivation

This is extremely prevelent in the group of children my daughter mix’s with and in her year (year 9) in general, has been multiple suicide attempts both in and out of school that I am aware of, self harm and suicide just seems to of been normalised both on social media and now in real life for them. I have considered moving her school but have no confidence that she won’t just seek out children in the same headspace. It really makes me dispair that many of them are so deeply unhappy.

Welsh water has see a massive turn around since being made a not for profit

we’ll also have to chip in for the capital investment required.

we already do, it’s a regulated industry and it’s how OFWAT decide what water prices we can be charged based on required infrastructure investment each AMP

I like their tool covers

How quickly would the fire services be able to get you out of a car with laminated glass and steel bodywork that is resistant to 9mm ammo, when the lipo battery goes up in flames?

depends how this court case goes maybe:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-driver-killed-fire-doors-model-s-trial-elon-musk-a9169691.html

Timely article today on Mozilla:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/17/firefox-mozilla-fights-back-against-google-chrome-dominance-privacy-fears

Makesure you oil the bolts and lock mechanism, loads of reviews online of people complaining that their ongaurd lock seized and won’t release. I have two and so far so good but don’t want to ever find it needs cutting for the sake of some regular tlc.

E46 M3

What version of excel are you on?

Sadly I have drunk way to many of the drinks listed but the thing that most shops sell and I don’t understand why anyone would choose to drink is Supermalt

Have you tried fare splitting? It often brings the cost down a lot on long journeys. Also have you checked megatrain?