Imaglr is a relatively new one, part of the still attempting to migrate from the original Tumblr Exodus 😂

Interesting to see down vote swarms on a pretty simple and straightforward article from a reasonably respectable source (not unbiased, but certainly generally journalistically integral). I wonder why that might be 🤔🤔🤔

Approximately the duration of her PMship

Everton better fucking win this like.

In central Europe:

Alza is a great alternative for a reasonably wide range of products. Started as electronics and computer hardware so that’s the majority, but have hugely expanded over the years.

Nothing is marketplace so it’s all handled by them afaik. (Which is a huge plus imo). Which means they don’t have quite the insane variety.

I know them from when I was in CZ, but now they have expanded to Germany I use them here. I think they also do Austria and Slovakia.

Generally speaking, I strongly disagree with the idea of complete one stop shops. But for sort of generic household/adjacent consumer goods it’s fine.

The problem is that nurses and doctors aren’t having “easy days” and if they are understaffed because of something that is not plannable, eg illness or mass casualty events, then it is critically important that they are not expected to be overworked.

Healthcare staff are already (for the most part) being pushed to their absolute limits, with very high rates of burnout.

I think the point of the OP is not to advocate taking away people’s healthcare, but rather asking for society to be more understanding of healthcare professionals when delays are necessary to save other people’s lives.

Remember that we generally as a society are fighting an uphill battle to even pay decent wages to the few staff we do have, let alone expand staffing. So while we should fight for adequate staffing, that requires people to be prepared to pay for it (through healthcare cost or increased taxes/insurance fees), and in the meantime, don’t blame doctors and nurses when they don’t have time in their 12 hour+ days for every elective procedure because someone in the unit got sick.

Because society has decided that we need to shame women for everything they do. Particularly as related to sex.

On the one hand, a paternity test is pretty reasonable, especially at a young age where it can have massive implications.

On the other hand, they are often weaponised to use as accusatory slut-shaming.

The only thing you did wrong was maybe not being careful enough, but God knows we’ve all been there, and it’s always possible even if you are very careful.

Best of luck and most importantly, keep your head high.

We’re gonna win the lot. HTL

(I think we have a good shot of making it decent way in, but it depends which version of the team is playing and if we can keep up our intensity)

Thawing is the act of allowing it to warm up from frozen.

In this case, she is saying “unthaw” instead of “thaw”.

Apparently they self-reported during the takeover in 2022. Probably the new owners found it in due diligence and wanted to report it so they wouldn’t get done

In other words, likely there will be no consequences.

This makes me irrationally angry

They did make a rally inspired version! Although I think it’s more racey than longer suspension.

That Peugeot would be brilliant. I want more hot hatch electric cars. Instead of all these fucking SUV mimics.

See the new Renault 4 and 5

To clarify, it is a significant stretch that under British law Palestine Action committed any acts of terrorism.

It is mostly an authoritarian overreach.

And the reason that people are protesting so vehemently is two-fold:

Firstly, it is critical for the functioning of our society, that the government is not able to freely carry out gross abuses of power such as the designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Secondly, it is relatively trivial for the government to use their proscription of Palestine Action as a basis for the proscription of subsequent protest groups, and they have also already used it to arrest people simply for signs which say things like “free Palestine”.

In other words, protestors are able to make twice the impact with a single protest.

You are correct that the protests are specifically about the group Palestine Action. Which while they have committed crimes within the UK haven’t committed any acts of terror. And therefore should not be classified as terrorist.

The terror act was extremely controversial when it was enacted because it grants the government far reaching authoritarian abilities which are fundamentally against our standard of human rights.

It is only acceptable for extreme cases of groups which are in fact committing acts of terror against civilian population.

Therefore, it is protesting against the decision to designated a group which is not terrorist as terrorist

Kneecap have been getting massive publicity because of their pro-palestine/anti-genocide stance. I haven’t listened to much to their latest stuff, but I should re-explore them.

Sometimes yes, sometimes it is correct to use murder.

But I was just using it as well known an example of how even a short sentence can have implicit bias while appearing to be simply factual. Not referring to anything specific.

Sometimes using killed is the most factual, sometimes it isn’t. Saying someone died is often factual as well. It’s really dependent on context what word to choose and they can create a very different narrative.

It also can simply be passive versus active voice in sentence structure.

There was an interesting case where Reuters headline was about police in South Africa killed protesting miners. They had a headline video that showed the police opening fire and an officer getting them to stop shooting. And a second “uncut” video on their RSS feed that wasn’t published in any headline that showed the miners were actually a giant mob carrying machetes, sticks, clubs and a few had guns which were fired into the air. The mob started charging the police line and when they opened fire the mob scattered. There was no mention of the police officer that had been beaten to death in the same area the night before by the protesters.

Both were completely factual reports, but they lacked context, and were subsequently widely used to demonise the police.

(Now, don’t get me wrong, cops are usually at fault, and the wider situation of why did those miners need to protest etc is a different topic. But in that specific instance there was a lot of context missing to the individual actions)

Since they generally report in a shorter format, they tend to not provide much context.

On the one hand, one could say this tends towards less bias, but on the other, context is absolutely critical to assessing a situation.

I think they have their place in the news cycle, and they are a useful source. I think that if they report an event you can be confident it has occurred, BUT they are very, very good at putting spin in only a few words, e.g. “murdered” vs “killed”. They also leave out extremely important context when it doesn’t fit their narrative/bias/click farming.

I am extremely critical of Reuters. But if they are one source amongst many they are useful. Particularly if you look at local news sources or other Reuters news snippets for context around the event.

The others have put good descriptions of why calories are an accurate measurement for food energy.

However, you are absolutely correct that calories are not a perfect measurement, and different types of foods are not one to one replaceable. 1500 calories of sugar is NOT the same as 1500 calories of protein!

Burning the food produces a reasonable and useful approximation of the available energy.

Does the human body burn food? Of course not. We transform food into useful components and then pump them around the body to be used by cells.

If you eat 1500 calories of protein, your body will use some of those calories simply as proteins, rather than breaking them down into energy (via sugar). Which means you will have less food-energy in your system and are more likely to run a deficit.

Again with protein, the transformation of protein into sugars which can be used as energy takes energy, so you end up with a smaller amount of calories actually being available.

TL;DR Calories are not perfectly interchangeable. However, they are our best, and most useful, quick way of approximating energy intake from food.

As most have said:

Underlying issues, sleep hygiene and doctor are all first port of call to check out. Some herbal remedies/melatonin can also help. For me sometimes taking a bath and having some lavender scent helped just in promoting calmness.

I haven’t seen much mention of mindfulness for sleep, and for me nothing has been as effective other than prescription sleeping pills.

Medito is a FOSS app, backed by meditation guides from universities.

https://medito.app/packs/2adEdsVRJwmU27G8

Body scan is a great first place to start, or try some of their “starting guides”. Meditation is a skill that needs time and practice, and sometimes you won’t be able to, but that just means you need to do something to reset your brain and try again.

They also have some sounds and sleep stories which are nice if you are into that sort of thing