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National healthcare, UK

vendredi 6 janvier 2023 à 11:31

Staff of the UK's NHS say that the fewness of staff and lack of facilities is overloading them unbearably and driving them to quit.

I say "fewness" rather than shortage because Tory policies preclude having more staff.

The House, a Republican fiasco

vendredi 6 janvier 2023 à 11:16

*The House speaker fiasco shows that Republicans are unable to govern.*

Their approach to governing is the terrorist's approach: "Give us all we demand or we will wreck everything we can reach." Now 20 Republicans, the extremest of the extremists, are using that approach against against the not-quite-so-extremists.

Does the US Constitution give us any recource against terrorists that control the House of Representatives, before the next congressional election?

UK adults struggling

vendredi 6 janvier 2023 à 04:46

*More than third of UK adults would struggle to find extra £20 [per month].*

Noise pollution

vendredi 6 janvier 2023 à 02:46

Aquatic plants have a sense of hearing, which they depend on for simple orientation. Loud noises generated by human activity can damage their hearing and perhaps kill them.

Loud sounds can also kill zooplankton and fish embryos.

Since any additional fossil fuel reserves are useless (to extract all the reserves we already know about would be suicidal), and since mining the sea floor causes other dangers, Prohibiting seismic surveys in bodies of water seems indicated as a first step. Other not-quite-so-loud sounds may also require action.

Covid imports

vendredi 6 janvier 2023 à 02:46

Scientific advice on what countries should do to avoid being harmed by Covid-19 cases imported from China.