@JeremiahDJohns The Afroman court case. TBH much better than most narratives on this place
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DecaffVodka
@decaffvodka
Actually a (mostly) real Tweetist. Just an account with a mostly bot following. Follow for follow.
Katılım Aralık 2023
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What was the main topic on your timeline yesterday? Who was the main character?
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@willsolfiac I think the Twitter right massively overstated the general willingness to end the concept of asylum.
Regardless of the caveats you've put here this is incredibly unpopular
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Thinking about how governments set the wrong goals on asylum. Obviously Labour's efforts, from getting China to promise export restrictions on small boat motors (remember that?) to 'one in one out' are futile. But based sounding things like leaving the ECHR isn't really the right goal either (though I'm not against it as part of the solution).
The correct goal is to end the asylum system entirely, due to it having become a total farce. To be replaced by two mechanisms:
1. Temporary protection for groups via act of parliament (e.g. Ukrainian refugees)
2. Some rare mechanism for figures like Lee Hsien Yang. Say it has to be personally enacted by the Home Secretary.
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@nikicaga Also why the fuck is Gracie Abrahams the poster child for white Fremen fantasies?
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The Fremen are clearly not meant to be very white??
Severus Chud@SeverusChud
I'm sorry, but this is the most ridiculous shit ever. Race swapping Chani has killed all immersion in Dune. Arrakis and the Fremen were never written as a melting pot. Frank Herbert gave them clear ethnic logic. Changing Chani’s heritage breaks the story, the Fremen culture, and internal world consistency. You destroyed that world when you chose tokenism over storytelling. Dune deserved a better adaptation.
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@brumbitcoin Indefinite leave to remain should go. Most would agree changes shouldn't be retrospective
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So how TF are the Pakistani families around me buying up street after street of 1930s semis & then extending them?
There are some massive shadow funds that they must have access to, all whilst claiming benefits. £100s of Billions of fraud.
Financial Reporter@F_Reporter
The figures estimate that an annual income of £56,476 is now needed for a single person to comfortably afford the mortgage repayments on the average UK house price of £270,000. financialreporter.co.uk/just-one-profe…
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@s8mb It's a bizarre system where important technical ministries like economy, health need to be MPs who can lose their seats and should be concerned about waste collections.
Rather than just appointing qualified people like the Presidential system.
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We should give MPs large caseworker teams (like 25 people each) who can be professional social workers for them and stop the MP themselves having to do it. It’s one of the only things I can imagine that would be popular *and* make it less bad to be an MP.
Sasha Swire@SashaSwire
Never were truer words said @WilliamJHague
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@monkeybr0ther @gem_ste Every empire in history involved slavery. We were the first empire to remove it
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@gem_ste The British are so proud of abolishing slavery they forget they ever partook in it in the first place
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>be British Empire
>decide that you want to end slavery
>compensate slaveowners to the tune of 40% of your entire 1833-35 budget
>finance it with long term loans, only finally being paid off in 2015
>give former slaves nothing
Templarpilled@Templarpilled
>be British Empire >decide that you want to end slavery >no, not just in your own lands, that would be nothing special >slavery is so evil it needs to go worldwide >unleash the Royal Navy >show everyone who rules the waves >countless brave sailors now won't return home >but it's worth it >the future generations will be thankful for their sacrifice, right? >right?
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@OliDugmore @novaramedia Saying otherwise would be self fulfilling
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The Greens have a 70% chance of taking David Lammy’s seat at the next election, according to recent polling analysis.
But Lammy insists there is “no prospect” of Zack Polanski’s party winning in his Tottenham constituency.
“I don’t think the political class have been shaken out of their delusion yet. They don’t understand the extent to which people feel failed by the kind of politics they represent,” says @DaliaGebrial on Novara Live.
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@London__Smoke The one shot style is gimmecky and doesn't lend itself here where the events shown would have taken hours.
So it ruins the immersion.
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"Eat yer Anniversaries, son"
Thing is, aside from the PM getting way too into it, it's not very good. Like it's of a type of show but not well done even of those, like a bad episode of Cracker or one those beige-grey detective dramas that you see advertised on a bus for Ch5.
Netflix UK & Ireland@NetflixUK
Adolescence launched on Netflix one year ago today!
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2 Coops near us close.
Why? Industrial scale shoplifting by large groups of people in halfway houses nearby.
Their ‘treatment’ fails them. Now business & jobs are gone too.
But the Telegraph editor is writing about… saving US empire.
Why Hannah Spencer won in Gorton folks…!
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@PolitlcsUK Imagine if the gov was actually any good at presenting the benefits of this
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@tomhfh We saved money and didn't align ourselves with the consequences an a failed war of a superpower who is clear they see us as disposable.
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@neontaster Okay, what is the possible good outcome here?
Because there's a lot more evidence for terrible outcomes as the worst of all worlds
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"Any international involvement that doesn't resolve all problems instantly and results in zero US casualties and zero dollars of lost hardware is a failure."
Can we stop playing up to the stereotype that third world shitholes have of us, please? We have a stiffer neck than that.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
"Never start a bombing campaign that will completely halt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz" is right up there with "never get involved in a land war in Asia” in terms of the classic blunders.
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@BDSixsmith Regime change without ground troops...just crippling the state sounds even worse.
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I don't know what's going to happen in Iran, for sure, but I submit that regime change in the Middle East has a less than 50% chance of positive outcomes.
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Konstantin Kisin@KonstantinKisin
I am glad everyone is 100% sure that the war in Iran is the end of the world/a genius move/the end of the American Empire/the begining of a new age of American greatness/insert other opinion here. But could you just acknowledge for a moment that you don't actually know how this is going to go because no one does? It's a gamble which could go either way. And all I see is people doing the usual "Here is my baseless opinion expressed with 100% metaphysical certitude followed by the typical "I hope I'm wrong" disclaimer which allows them to simultaneously harvest the clicks of people who wanted to have their retarded opinion reflected back at them while having plausible deniability for when that retarded opinion turns out to have been completely wrong. The coin is in the air and we don't know how it's going to land, but the internet is full of people screaming "IT'S GOING TO BE HEADS" arguing with people screaming "IT'S GOING TO BE TAILS". Stfu.
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@wallaceme How exactly does this lead to a democratic free Iran, and without crippling the world economy and a massive refugee crisis?
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Impressive speed with which “free Palestine” protesters have switched to “don’t free Iran”.
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@robprogressive Reform also want to offer incentives to leave. If it saves money overall and is more efficient what do you want?
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Britain is offering up to £40k to failed asylum seekers to encourage them to leave the country
For many working people, that amount is more than what they earn in an entire year of going to work every day & it’s coming out of your taxes
Is Labour destroying the country?
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@worstall I'm well in favour of this, the weird license fee model is bizarre.
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Oh, how nice of the BBC. "BBC open to replacing licence fee with tax" It's just that the licence fee is a tax. Brown, G, declared it to be so, so it is. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/0…
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@Osinttechnical Don' t suppose there's any available investment opportunities?
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The Pentagon and at least one Gulf government are in talks with Ukraine to buy Ukrainian drone interceptors -FT
The countries are looking to Ukraine's low-cost options for shooting down Iranian attack drones.
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Its difficult to know what provoked this change of heart from Musk (possibly a personal intervention from new Ukrainian Defence Minister Fedorov, with whom Musk had pre-existing relationship) but it is incredibly welcome.
Yoni Appelbaum@YAppelbaum
"The SpaceX team behind it received clear instructions from its bosses: “‘No limits. Take off the gloves; use Starlink for anything to help Ukraine.’”"
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If you've tested positive for familial hypercholesterolemia, the recommendation is to take statins (and potentially additional cholesterol medication) to reduce cholesterol levels aggressively.
There are rare risks, such as muscle weakness/loss, though, but for most people, the benefits outweigh them.
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New episode of HARD DRUGS!
Should everyone be taking statins?
Statins have revolutionised heart disease and they're one of many reasons for the long-term decline in cardiovascular mortality.
Clinical trials suggest that the more you reduce LDL cholesterol levels, the more you reduce the risks of heart attacks and strokes, with no signal of harms even at the lowest levels. So scientists recommend the earlier they're taken the better, and the lower LDL levels you reach the better.
Statins do have some rare side effects – such as muscle weakness and muscle loss in rare cases – but meta-analyses of RCTs find that most other side effects listed on statins' labels do not actually have higher risks than placebo.
In this episode, @JacobTref and I chat about all this and much more!
- Why it took almost a century for scientists to come to consensus on "the lipid hypothesis": that higher levels of plasma LDL cholesterol causes higher risks of heart disease and that reducing it saves lives.
- Drugs that effectively reduce cholesterol levels beyond the effect of statins, such as PCSK9 inhibitors, most of which are monoclonal antibodies, as well as newer siRNA drugs and the macrocyclic peptide enlicitide, which recently completed phase 3 trials, and Lp(a) drugs.
- What the future holds for cholesterol drugs
Timestamps:
0:00:00 Introduction
13:35 The decline in heart disease mortality
31:02 Surprising cholesterol trivia
55:40 The lipid hypothesis: 7 lines of evidence for the harms of LDL cholesterol
1:22:15 How cholesterol works
1:30:40 The discovery of statins
1:48:44 Should everyone be on statins?
1:57:10 PCSK9 drugs and beyond
2:22:56 Summary: how we got here and the future of cholesterol drugs
Watch, listen, or read wherever you get your podcasts.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0vIXXO…
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YouTube: youtu.be/qieKVGF8r-Y
Transcript: harddrugs.worksinprogress.co/episodes/shoul…
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