Jackthelad @ Jackthelad @lemmy.world

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The amount of time I spent on Twitter had been gradually declining for years, with all the ads and suggested shit I didn't want to see, and I don't like what Musk is planning for the platform. Then I joined Mastodon and I found it was like the early days of Twitter, without half as much toxicity.

So it was quite easy leaving Twitter in the end.

I had to Google this because I didn't believe it was a real product.

Why on Earth would you buy one of these? You can literally wipe your phone screen with a microfibre cloth and you can buy a bunch of them for about £2.

Yes, you can go private in the UK, but it's more expensive than it could be because the private companies have to subsidise the NHS.

They privatised those industries fairly quickly, why is it taking them so long to do it with the NHS, if it's definitely going to happen as people keep telling me?

Let's be honest, it's just scaremongering bollocks that politicians employ to get you to vote for them. Labour do it with the NHS, the Conservatives do it with the economy. It's all shit.

Oh great, this conspiracy theory again.

The one area of public policy in the UK that has unanimity between the parties is the NHS. Any party that "sold the NHS off" would be out of power for a long time. It would be electorally foolish.

Our ambition should be to break down the barriers between private and public provision, in effect denationalising the provision of health care in Britain.

So like the two countries I listed earlier then. Where they have universal healthcare provided by affordable insurance systems. Nothing like the US.

patients, either through the tax system or by way of universal insurance, [should] purchase health care from the provider of their choice

Wow. Patients given choice_? Perish the thought! You should be forced to have mediocre healthcare, peasant!

NHS c. 2009 was excellent. Don't forget that.

Healthcare outcomes for diseases like cancer, heart disease etc were as low as countries in Eastern Europe. I don't care how "efficient" a healthcare system is if it isn't doing it's main job of keeping people alive.

I've never heard anyone say that the American healthcare system is the best in the world. Even from critics of universal healthcare.

The best systems are mixed systems like you see in Germany or the Netherlands. As someone from the UK, don't fall for the propaganda about the NHS. It's really not very good.

Being on Mastodon is great because if your server admin did something like this, you could tell them to get fucked and just move to a different server.

Can't wait for that text search to launch fully in Mastodon. It's pretty much the only thing missing for me.

I've been stuck in a procrastination spiral for a while now.

I want to pursue my dream career, but a fear of failure and worrying I won't be able to learn what I need to means I keep putting it off. But then the act of putting it off makes me feel guilty.

I'm from the UK and the bombardment of adverts you guys have in sports has always been ridiculous, but it's getting even worse.

Anytime there's a break in play, they'll bring up an ad at the side of the screen. And literally everything has a sponsor. They'll show footage of a previous game and tell you it's brought to you by Dunkin' Donuts, or something.

I think it was just because Michael Parkinson was a prominent figure in the UK when I was a kid in the early 2000s, and Muhammad Ali was also the most prominent figure who had Parkinson's disease.

And seeing as Michael Parkinson conducted some famous interviews with Ali in the 70s and 80s, I assumed he must have caught Parkinson's from him. 😂

I used to think Parkinson's disease was named after TV chat show host Michael Parkinson.

But I don't have one.

Ha! Joke's on you, car!

When people use the argument of "oh, he does a lot of philanthropic work" as a means of defending someone, I just counter it by pointing out that Jimmy Savile did too.

The EU deal was nothing to do with Thatcher. She never wanted the UK to join the EU and vehemently opposed the Maastricht Treaty.

She supported economic union, not political.

God forbid anyone suggest an alternative to rejoining, eh?

If we'd joined the EU and then after four years, people were complaining and calling for us to leave again, they would be ridiculed for not giving it the opportunity. But because it's the other way around, it's apparently sensible. 🤷

Seeing as we were in the EU (and EEC) for almost 50 years, surely it's only fair to give it time to see what the long-term effects are, positive or negative.

Governments can renegotiate elements of Brexit over the years which could improve things anyway. Maybe one day a government will be sensible enough to join EFTA, but I won't hold my breath on that.

I almost never see friends in person since Covid. Not because I'm paranoid about Covid, we just lost contact during that whole period.

So now I have two gaming friends I speak to regularly from different parts of the UK, and the rest are friends I've made online.

I live in the UK so this would be greeted with suspicion. 😆

Why would they not be fun as an adult?

This is why I just stick to the subscribed feed.

I already had to put a filter on Mastodon to stop seeing their creepy posts on my timeline with a #gaming tag, even though it's got nothing to do with gaming. Bluesky is also full of them and one of the main reasons I barely look at it.