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@rorysutherland As someone who hates queuing even more than printing my own bag tag, I would always welcome a self check in option

I was once at Dublin airport and noticed someone struggling with the screen on the self-tagging machine at check-in. I won't name him, but he held a Nobel Prize in Economics. BA rolled back on this daft idea at LHR. At some point, when you arrive at an airport, you want a human being to say "Right, you're good to go."

@TheBodtrainer @bryan_johnson Does that not apply to all weight loss caused by calorie deficit alone? All methods of weight loss require resistance training to preserve muscle

@bryan_johnson Seventy pounds in 80 weeks. What the headline doesn't say is how much of that was muscle. In my experience with adults over 50, the answer without resistance training is: a lot more than anyone wants to hear.

These numbers are shocking. It's like we got a new frontier AI model but for the body. Lilly's phase 3 results for retatrutide: > highest dose lost 28.3% of body weight in 80 wks > 70 lbs ave > 45% lost 30% or more of their body weight > 65% on the top dose no longer clinically obese Retatrutide is more dynamic than semaglutide and tirzepatide because it targets three receptors (GIP, GLP-1, and glucagon), versus one and two, respectively. Side effects, on the highest dose (12mg), were higher for retatrutide than tirzepatide (nausea and GI), with an 11.3% drop out rate. The lowest 4mg dose still delivered 19% loss with fewer dropouts than placebo.

@anon_opin And it should convince you to drill for North Sea oil

Even if you don't believe in climate change, the ongoing Middle East crisis should be enough to convince all that we're right to move away from reliance on oil and gas.

@gingerb71214461 @Fahadnaimb Yeh but just culture

@Fahadnaimb I can’t believe it’s retraining. BA can dismiss easily if he’s only been on staff for a short time. Leave it until after probation and it’s almost impossible.

Picture this... it's your second day as a British Airways flight attendant and you’re already living the aviation nightmare. 😅 Yesterday afternoon (May 16), on BA217 from Heathrow T5 to Washington Dulles, a brand new crew member on literally his second flight ever heard the captain say 'Cabin doors to automatic' during pushback... and thought it meant 'open the damn door.' Boom... he yanks the handle on Door 3L. Emergency slide deploys full send onto the tarmac. Fire trucks roll in thinking it's a real evac. The 26-year-old Boeing 777-200ER (G-VIIY) sits there for over SIX HOURS while engineers swap the slide and check everything. That one mistake cost BA a fortune... new slides aren't cheap, plus lost slots, crew hours, etc. Passengers were stuck on the plane or gate for ages. As someone who's been through the training, they DRILL this into you: door ops are sacred. One wrong move and you're suspended + retraining. Poor guy must be mortified. * The images are taken from far away and are low quality. These are upscaled images. I'll post the originals in the comments.

@malcolm_reavell I don’t know why they hadn’t thought of this before? We could have HS2 all the way to Scotland and 10 runways at Heathrow and an NHS that is the best in the world!

The UK govt doesn’t borrow that of which it is the monopoly issuer. It first creates and spends money into existence. It then sells bonds to drain the excess reserves its prior spending created. Not a penny is ever “borrowed”. The markets need bonds. Govt doesn’t need markets.

@malcolm_reavell You do read some utter nonsense on this website

No, Neil, you are the one displaying economic illiteracy of Trussian proportions. The UK govt creates and spends money into existence. It sells bonds to drain excess reserves its prior spending created. Not a penny is “borrowed”. The markets need bonds. Govt doesn’t need markets.

@Francis45254788 @ciarancannon As are SUV drivers on their phones

@ciarancannon I’ll give you the average cyclist here, breaking red lights, out in the middle of the road, no visibility, no lights when dark, cycling on roads next to bike lanes. They are a menace to society.

One suburban-based woman told researchers: “I think the majority of Irish drivers do not know what it’s like to be a cyclist in Ireland. I believe if they cycled Irish roads for even just a week, they would understand cyclists much more.”

@mrbunnykelly @ciarancannon Therefore to get cars of the roads we should build bike lanes, in the same way we build footpaths to get pedestrians off the roads

@ciarancannon There’s a reason we don’t walk on roads yet somehow pedalling a metal frame with wheels is seen as a sensible way to travel. Any other activity and it would be banned because it’s clearly too dangerous. Get bicycles off the roads.

@PatriciaNPino @PaulEmbery In that case it’s either money printing or total economic collapse

Stop issuing bonds. See how quickly the bond markets fall in line.

@anon_opin You read some utter drivel on this account

New rule: In any economic downturn, the wealthy should lose everything before the poor lose a penny. Don't like it? Don't be wealthy

@GeorgeWeber147 @KILLTOPARTY By having a hot and feminine wife

@KILLTOPARTY How do you become one of these guys?

Being a wife guy must feel so good

@nicholasrhutch When you go bald, you do all your aging in one go

Tucci’s (lack of) transformation is the strongest possible evidence for a Mediterranean diet

@NoAIControl @JamesOConnorTD And from where do you get the energy to do that?

@rogerc91 @JamesOConnorTD By separating H2O via electrolysis

The Taoiseach’s openness to nuclear power is a welcome development. I will seek time to bring the Bill before the parliamentary party in the coming days.

@OMMFoundation @JamesOConnorTD Where do you get the hydrogen?

@JamesOConnorTD Hydrogen is the currently clean and accessible fuel that in the Netherlands both public transport and some military applications already are occurring Why would you go for a dirty technology? @JamesOConnorTD

@NoAIControl @JamesOConnorTD Where do you get the hydrogen?

@JamesOConnorTD You’re all a bunch of fucking wasters Ireland doesn’t need nuclear You’re all a bunch of wasters We need hydrogen power

@sockfrogg That’s why we invented skiing

The thing about europe is that you get to live like this for 4 months and the rest is just full on depression and amnesia

@MarioNawfal Considering it’s Friday evening, this is just not credible

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Strait blockade just produced its first real result. Tehran has dropped its demand that the U.S. lift the Strait of Hormuz blockade before ceasefire talks can begin. That was the hardest precondition on the table. Now it's gone. Iran is also offering to put its nuclear program on the table in exchange for sanctions relief, and is signaling it's ready to return to negotiations in Pakistan as early as next week. After months of deadlock, this is the first real sign that a deal is possible. Source: Wall Street Journal

@ciarannugent Low effective tax rates, enormous marginal tax rates, due to highly progressive taxation system. Is this optimal?

Which comes to a 31% effective tax rate on 80k (which is higher earnings than 86% of all Irish workers) for this single adult We don't have high effective vincome tax rates in an international context

@BrentHCameron As an American how they’re doing and it’s: “Great!” Or “Awesome!”. Ask a Canadian or Brit and it’s “ Not too bad”

When I go to the States, I find the malls, cars & TV shows more familiar to me than the people. When I go to the UK I find the people more familiar to me than the malls, cars & TV shows. That's the difference.

@morenosarado_rj @rudekyoni999 You can have high DHT and a full head of hair if your hair follicles are not sensitive to DHT. Some people have thick heads of hair and full beards

@rudekyoni999 The DHT dude needs to have a lot less hair for this to be actually accurate

The eyes chico 👀… they never lie.