Martin Pollard

@DavidHvit @just_vievie_ @LisaForteUK Nope but GDPR subject access request does

@just_vievie_ @LisaForteUK The Freedom of Information Act does not cover personal data.

So apparently the MRI scan I paid for I’m not allowed to be sent the report!?! They will send it to a Dr but not me. I know some will say it’s for xyz reasons, heard them all, understand them but don’t agree. I paid for it, I want to be able to take it to a dr I pick

@just_vievie_ @LisaForteUK I suspect GDPR subject access request is what you meant?

@LisaForteUK If you are in the UK, you can access it under the freedom of information act. Every hospital has the department. You might have to send them a letter, but you have the right to it.

@prestonjbyrne The only way you might have had a point is if content made available to Netflix US's customers was affected, which the UK government is not stupid enough to do.

@prestonjbyrne The services Netflix provides in the UK is via their UK subsidiary Netflix Services UK Limited. Why should a UK company providing services to UK customers be immune to UK law for its UK activities just because it has a US parent? …te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/090918…

@okwhatever1875 @prestonjbyrne Ever looked into how it works? You are most certainly not hitting a US Netflix server for UK content, the transit costs would be ruinous. You're being served transparently by UK based mirrors. You're also paying a UK subsidiary Netflix Services UK for the services provided.

@TechnicalVault @prestonjbyrne Over simplistic. The internet has no borders and if you visit a US server, it’s still in the US.

@Notaschill @DGClarke1 @adamfare1996 Except they really don't. "NHS England workforce figures show a 33% fall in the number of school nurses between 2009 and 2022" saphna.co/wp-content/upl… And besides I don't think you are you seriously suggesting the nurse is going to be in the classroom monitoring the CGM?

@Notaschill @adamfare1996 What school nurse? Few schools have those anymore. And it's not to make phone calls, the CGM actually streams data and alerts directly to the phone. Jobs would actually be quite proud, the point of iPhone wasn't to be a phone, it was/is your personal pocket computer.

@DGClarke1 @adamfare1996 @Notaschill We send T1D's on rigorous training courses to ensure they know when to treat and how much. It's a personal responsibility because you're trusting the person holding the CGM with their life. Training every teacher in their secondary school to that level is not feasible.

@DGClarke1 @adamfare1996 @Notaschill No, Type 1 diabetics need to know in real time what their blood sugar is. That's what we spend ages developing CGM for. Also you want to make teachers liable for their healthcare of their student? Cause that's what you've just suggested and they really aren't qualified for that.

@BenMFreeman It looks like a derivative of the 2021 census classifications with a few extra ethnicities (notably Scottish). ons.gov.uk/census/census2… Tbh I've always thought these limited lists are problematic. Few people are just one thing.

I visited hospital today (I am totally fine), and when I checked in I was asked by the receptionist to choose my ethnicity. When I said I Jewish, she stuttered, seemed unsure and ushered me to choose from the list on the sign next to her window. With no option, I chose 6Z - other ethnic group . I usually have no problem choosing ‘other’, but Jews are officially listed as an ethnicity in Scotland (being included in the 2022 census) and the rest of the U.K. So, why aren’t we on these official lists ? @NHSScotland

@TweAllthaMatter @UB1UB2 Nope I know that camera it has been there for years and is a standard speed one, there's too many turnoffs down that road to put an average camera in. All the average speed ones in the area are on the A316. All you have here is a malfunction.

@UB1UB2 It is an average speed camera that also checks if the cars wait in the cross-overs - it checks this over 25 miles - the mistakes made earlier are being caught

This single camera is about to pay off the UK’s national debt (Feltham, West London)

@RusGarbageHuman Such a boomer take though. Not everything with a SIM in it is a phone, connectivity is everywhere. E.g. smart watch, tablets, smart meters, bus stops, busses, cars. Each one needs a channel. 5G is crap because the rollout got hit by the Huawei ban, it's still being redone.

Because there are far more people in Britain than the official census shows. The third worlders are usually on mobile data and not using broadband/WiFi as their stay in Britain is illegal and they hide within ethnic enclaves, sheltered by their community. Swathes of Bradford, Birmingham, Blackburn, Manchester all have unusuable 5G because of the congestion. Pre-Boriswave, 5G was actually amazing. I remember being at a rally in London with tens of thousands of people around me - and having usable internet where I could even load the livestream of the event. This was unheard of in the 4G era when I could barely use my phone for internet in London at all. The Boriswave pushed many pieces of national infrastructure beyond a critical point of failure though. Not just mobile networks.

@RealismHelps @AaronBastani Population shrinkage is as you say not always a bad thing, but how fast you do it can create problems of it's own.

@RealismHelps @AaronBastani Interestingly India's FR is now 1.98 aka below replacement level (which would be ~2.1) if all things stay the same they hit peak in the 2060s then decline. Africa's FR is def high but varies by region and has been falling. E.g. Nigeria was 6 in the 1990s, now it's about 4.8.

Most people still don’t grasp mathematics of declining fertility. TFR of 2.1 = standing still. TFR of 1.4, like Britain, means population contracts to 70% of its size each generation. Over 4 generations, without migration or emigration, the country has 16 million people. >

@RealismHelps @AaronBastani Look at Japan you can see what happens when a population starts shrinking by insufficient reproduction. Villages dying out, culture being lost, and then there's the economics. You end up with more and more economically inactive and unhealthy elderly and less young and active.

@AaronBastani Why is a smaller population a bad thing? OK,we don't want a 'hole' in numbers of a particular age band, but less people relives many of society's pressures?

@Nationalism__TV @Landeur @GoodwinMJ The problem is the UK asylum system costs £5.4b + £10b spent for non UK citizens on UC = ~£15.4b saved vs £32b for adult social care. You'd have to somehow find another £17b from the UC budget spent on UK citizens if the bottom dropped out of the housing market.

@TechnicalVault @Landeur @GoodwinMJ I didn’t look that close at your picture boomers sold you out too then. Get rid of illegals then more people go to work. With the extra savings in welfare that can pay for the elder care. Also it would improve the culture back to normal because everyone would be the same.

The UK birthrate is now 1.4. The replacement rate is 2.1 The answer to this riddle is not—as elites suggest—mass immigration which erodes what is left of the nation and pushes us into a population trap of never-ending migration (migrants get old too) It is to prioritise British families, reshape our housing, economy and culture (as we did on recycling, environment, smoking, etc) around pro-family policies, starting from school, with massive tax incentives for BRITISH families, and prioritise a culturally coherent and stable nation It is deeply unethical and immoral to import people from low-income nations because our leaders cannot be bothered to invest in our own people

@Nationalism__TV @Landeur @GoodwinMJ Hah, I think you might need to go to SpecSavers old chap. I'm a freakin' millennial, there's two generations between me and boomers. And nothing you said actually suggested any practical solutions, just a load of anger and yelling.

@TechnicalVault @Landeur @GoodwinMJ Another stinking ass boomer talking about why they need cheap labor and curry. Maybe your generation shouldn’t have sold their soul and bloodline for cheap labor then your kids and grandkids could take care of your old ass.

@Nationalism__TV @Landeur @GoodwinMJ Not really, half our local government funds old age care provision from selling old people's houses their value would collapse so they'd go broke. Most of the old people are British and the cheap labour who provide their care are foreign so costs would go up too.

@Landeur @GoodwinMJ I did the numbers for America 40 million illegal aliens gone would add 1.2 trillion dollars in the budget. 0 percent unemployment rate. Would be smaller number for England but probably the same results per capita.

@Landeur @GoodwinMJ So a collapse in the value of houses, without a meaningful reduction in the number of old people. Every council in the UK would go bankrupt due to inability to fund their social care budget And that's ignoring the reduction in income tax take due to new older population pyramid.

@GoodwinMJ And remigration will free up a lot of housing stock. About 15m people should do it.