Honestly I think we need to understand that this is no different to sticking a photo of someone's head on a porn magazine photo. It's not real. It's just less janky.
I would categorise it as sexual harassment, not abuse. Still serious, but a different level
It's more interesting to ask if " Death to Hitler" would have got you this reaction in the 30s. By the 40s we were at war with him and his followers. In the 30s he was in power, but there were still diplomatic relations.
I lot of therapy is taking emotions and verbalising them so that the rational part of the brain can help in dealing with things. Even a journal can help with that, so talking to an inanimate machine doesn't seem stupid to me.
However therapists guide the conversation to challenge the patient, break reinforcing cycles, but in a way that doesn't cause trauma. A chatbot isn't going to be the same.
Watching Hong Kong get amalgamated into the rest of China after it was returned by the British has been so sad. They've raged. They've fought. But slowly they've been consumed.
Interesting that asthma attacks are up so sharply, but I'm unconvinced it's down to "Toxic air". Generally things seem to be on a improving trend, so getting a 45% increase in health issues would suggest something else at play.
There were on average 6 days of ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution at urban pollution monitoring sites in 2024, down from 9 days in 2023.
The number of days with ‘Moderate’ or higher air pollution at rural monitoring sites peaked in 2018. Levels have fluctuated since then, with noticeable drops in 2021 and 2024, when the number of days with 'Moderate' or higher air pollution fell to the lowest level since 2016.
Since 2015 the mean number of days of ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution has been higher at rural sites than urban sites due to ozone pollution. There were on average fewer days of ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution at rural pollution monitoring sites in 2024 compared with 2023 (19 days in 2023, 11 days in 2024).
In 2024, as in previous years, ozone was responsible for a large proportion of the ‘Moderate’ or higher pollution days at rural sites. The increase in ozone pollution in most years since 2018 was in part due to the prolonged hot and sunny conditions experienced in the UK in the summer of these years.
After Fight Club I went on a spree of reading this guys work. Survivor was the last of his written before the Fight Club movie made it big. It was also released a couple of years before 9/11 which killed its chance of being made into a movie.
I think it highlights how being passive in the world isn't enough to avoid doing bad things. You have to make your own choices to avoid a bad result. Interesting story structure and has some dark comedic moments too.
Add Brave New World by Aldous Huxley to the list. I think he actually managed to get closer to where we were heading before Trump. Things took a right turn though.
Dumb.
The problem isn't that they come from overseas to get trained, it's that they got back overseas after they are trained.
Other than that, if you want to rebalance the intake, raise the UK intake. Don't slash the non-UK intake.