ThenThreeMore @ andthenthreemore @startrek.website

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Fair. It's hard to know sometimes if someone has English as a first or second language. People can be really technically good, but then not understand more subtle cultural things.

Never know maybe both of our comments will help some people.

It's common in English to refer to a collective like a company or government as though it were an individual. I think it's just a simple short hand really.

Eg "The whitehouse said today...." We know that the whitehouse (a building) doesn't have the power of speech and that really means "a whitehouse spokesperson working in an official capacity on behalf of the government said today".

Really the headline should be something along the lines of "what, exactly, are Xbox business strategists thinking?" But because of the common knowledge of how this shorthand works they can just use the headline they did.

There's probably a fancy linguistic name for it. ¯(ツ)/¯

Chan I love Derek Jacobi in this episode tho

To smoke a fag in British English means a very very different thing to in American English.

70 k = -203 c, -333 f

I think you've misread it. Not that it's that much better.

20 months sentence (though probably half of that will be custodial the rest on licence/parole)

3 years and 10 month ban then an "extended" drivers test to get it back.

Might be worth letting the uni know. Surely they'll want to fix the site!

X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

The Tories haven't recovered in the polls since partygate and Truss, something has finally stuck.

If we banned private healthcare the rich would have an incentive to make socialised healthcare better.

Water is wet, says thinktank.

Yeah which is why the NHS was better under labour, because it was constantly more than 4% above inflation.

A big part of the killer though is the second part. Yeah the overall budget was (barely) above inflation, but the wage cap was often below inflation. During the time Labour were in power the amount of nurses went up by around 80,000. Since the Tories took power over 200,000 have quit. We can only imagine how many fewer would have left if it weren't for the 1% pay cap and Brexit.

The public discourse around the NHS would lead you to think that NHS spending had been squeezed over the last 14 years - but it hasn't.

NHS budget has actually consistently grown faster than inflation under a decade and a half of Tory health secretaries.

It has been squeezed though.

Under labour the NHS consistently received funding around 4% above inflation, under the Tories it was barely clearing 1% most years Fig 1

There's also the other side of it, the NHS was not exempt from the 1% pay cap.

Should always go up above inflation to retain and attract staff as well as morally to improve people's standards of living (and economically to grow tax receipts and grow the economy)

The two things together it becomes clear how the crisis started. Now add to that Brexit and a large reduction of the labour pool, other countries attracting staff with generous packages.

Or the access to a GP. Under the last labour government you could get a GP appointment in 48 hours. So if you had something you were concerned about you could get it checked out. Now it's so hard to see anyone you just give up then if it is something it'll get to the point where you're actually ill.

That works. So it's abortion not murder.

They had a black woman as a high ranking officer on the bridge in the 60s.

And yet I'm DS9 Bashir says that murdering a clone of yourself is still murder. ¯(ツ)/¯ But maybe that was Bayorian law.

The UK doesn't do life sentences with no eligibility for parole. Every sentence will include eligibility for parole, with the maximum period for eligibility being around 25 years.

That's not entirely true. Full life orders do exist.

That nurse who killed all those babies got one last year, that police officer who kidnapped raped and murdered Sarah Everard has one, Dr Harold Shipman had one, and probably most famously Mira Hindley and Ian Brady had them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisoners_with_whole_life_orders

22 years is the minimum custodial part of the sentence, the rest will be 'on licence' so out of prison under set conditions like reporting in at a police station every week. Breach of any of the conditions or breaking any other laws is basically back to prison do not pass go.

They'll be on licence for the rest of their lives following that though. The minimum term on a life sentence is just the custodial part.