It sounds like you don't understand what a pub is like.
Whilst this is definitely not what's it's like, this quaint video is all about the lineage of the pub in the UK, and explains the third-spaceness of them, which I'd argue still exists[1].
Pubs are so important for our communities in the UK, whether that's watching the game, seeing a friend's band, celebrating a birthday or just catching up after work.
Many of the parts of my life have been lived in a pub. If it's criminal, I'd happily be locked up. Or maybe lock me in, a sadly rarer occurrence these days.
Funny to see the discussions of instant pot vs rice cookers in the comments. We use one of each, often in conjunction with each other. Cheap and easy way to make a curry, for example. Never had any problems with the 3rd hand Zojirushi we have. Just follow the instructions and it gets the rice bang on each time.
How would you reccomend I learn history with spaced repetition? I'm studying a detailed subject independently (I.e. not for an exam with a set curriculum) and I'm finding it hard to atomise the cards down bevond dates and names. I suppose I should start there first and then build more complex cards, but I'm not sure what the best approach for those is. Thanks for the detailed article!
This is probably dumb intervention but forgive me because it made me giddy to find: the pandas drop_duplicates() method is pretty great, if you're in a pinch. Again -- forgive me if you know about it!
I kind of agree with your assessment, but here's what I know about the UK situation:
Public sector workers in the UK have fought hard for good pay and conditions, but many face worsening conditions and pay today.
In the past 60 years, many formerly public sector industries and sectors have been slowly privatised, such as rail, mail, and telecom, to name the largest examples. These workers have taken real-terms pay cuts during working as "essential workers" during the pandemic, only to face "fire-and-rehire" tactics from employers as we get back to normal -- employers terminating their contracts and then hiring for the same role months later, only with worse conditions and pay.
Those workers who have remained in the public sector also face terrible pay and conditions. Over the past 40 years the public sector has had its funding gradually stripped away, to the extent that teachers, nurses, as well as local government workers have far higher caseloads than ever before.
In the specific instance of these barristers, many are totally overworked, as legal aid -- the funding for public defence barristers -- is once again being cut. Many barristers are surviving on a shoestring, being paid effectively far below minimum wage, all due to their selfless choice to give the right to a fair trial to those too poor to afford their own lawyer. Stories like these are so depressing because the barristers -- many extremely dedicated and highly qualified professionals -- have been left no choice but to protect their ability to feed themselves and keep a roof over their heads.
Furthermore, collective bargaining is not a "privilege" in the UK, it is a right enshrined by law here -- and all workers have this right, wherever they choose to form a union branch. But what has changed in the past 60 years is laws limiting worker's ability to strike. Things like secondary picketing, mass picketing and the like -- tactics where smaller groups of workers can band together and support each other -- means that whilst it's somewhat true that larger public sector unions are more powerful by comparison these days, 60 years ago all unions in all sectors were MORE powerful. This was brought in by several successive governments in the 70s and 80s, but they haven't entirely succeeded in legislating out one of the most fundamental rights that British workers have. Union density stands lower than it ever has, but we're seeing the return of industrial action due to the terrible conditions that many of these workers have.
It's interesting because a lot of the old trade union acts were in response to a similar situation in the 70s and 80s -- public sector workers faced stagnating wages and high inflation. But even when the laws have changed, the workers generally respond only when their livelihood is threatened. It's why I think the analogy of "holding the country to ransom" is wrong, because the shoe is very much on the other foot for these workers, as it was back then -- a few days of inconvenience (or even some rare legal judgements) are nothing compared to what these workers face collectively at the hand of unscrupulous employers and a chaotic economy.
> Hackney, and the east end isn't exactly the nicest part of London either.
Are you suggesting that people that because Hackney "isn't exactly the nicest part of London", that people have bad manners? Please clarify, honestly I don't understand this.
What's more likely: millions (tens of millions?) of people are "dicks", "raging hippies", or "noisy shites", for no other reason than the mode of transport they choose, or you're lazily generalising to justify an extremely solipsistic world view?
Very gracious of you to clarify they're "not subhuman" too, that definitely makes clear that you are making a balanced and thorough assessment. Thanks for your erudite contribution to this matter, the Nobel peace prize committee will be getting in touch shortly.
Would you mind expanding on the "ceremony" around Typescript a little, please? Or if there's an article which explains this that'd be great too. That statement interested me, is all!
Yeah, no idea if you're serious or taking the piss, but when the post above is condensed that's kind of what the quote they give is saying.
1. The social justice stuff and "this lady" is clearly the poster's personal view and politics coming to bear. And regardless of it being an illogical argument, it's obviously sexist and culture wars-y etc.
2. Having said that, bosses taking pay rises while workers is laid off is shit, and when they say it's to remain "competitive" I want to scream. Competetive to who? Who's to say that the same pool of people have to be interchangable between any one job at the same time? Who says we need these people running organisations anyway, especially non profits?
3. Seriously though, hope FF pulls through. But also I'm so so sad about MDN, and would want Mozilla foundation to shape up and be ok too so that they could bring MDN back.
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