ForgotAboutDre

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[–] ForgotAboutDre 3 points 2 days ago

Their isn’t one way to make a flat head screwdriver. Some a chisel and some are slots. The slotted ones are better but more expensive.

Both still slip from the screw and are a pain to manually screw (slotted less so).

Pozi is the best + type screw. It’s pretty much standard for UK construction. The only time a different type is used is sometimes Phillips for plaster board or external hex and internal torx for long or large screws.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 3 points 5 days ago

This is blatant ignorance and misinformation. Infant mortality is and has been decreasing outside the Muslim communities in the UK. The people trying to pass the laws are doing to stop Muslim children dieing.

Not only do children die because of it, they are also more likely to suffer illnesses and disability. Disability that impact their IQ and result in them making comments like yours.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 1 points 6 days ago

The need to transcode is based on the media formats supported by the tv. Only Sony and high end LGs have the right support to play blurays. Some tvs struggle to play files that have many different subtitle formats embedded in them as well which is also common for Blu-ray rips.

The subtitles will be the first file in the list of the media unless you select regular subtitle language in the menu under playback under the account symbol in the top right hand corner.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 3 points 6 days ago

Lots of business logic can contradict the business logic that is applied to government. Often because the people applying it aren’t concerned about efficiency at all, they just want to steal or disempower the government.

Often the government is encouraged to outsource or privatise its services. The most efficient businesses don’t do this. They are vertically integrated, Starbucks makes their own cups and this leads to more profit as they don’t lose out on paying for the cup manufacturers profit. Therefore the government should look to own most of their services not outsource or privatise them.

Highly efficient business use extra cash to invest in the business, to make more money in the following years. They don’t cut and stripe services, unless the business is failing. Therefore the government should use its cash to make its services more effective in the longer term.

Government can be capable and competent. It’ll never be the case when we elect people that think government is inherently inefficient. Ideally everyone gets one vote and so we all have an equal say in how the government handles things. When the government is weak each individuals power is weaker and wealth becomes a bigger factor in how our society is run. I think this is the prime motivation of neoliberals, less liberty for the individual (working people) more for liberty for money.

A good contrast to the approach of delivering government services in the UK is Scotland. Water supply in Scotland is by a company that the Scottish Goverment owns. People in Scotland use more water per person than the rest of the UK, the quality of the water supply is the highest in the UK and the price is the lowest. At the end of the year the Scottish goverment often gets money back from Scottish Water. In England the water companies require heavy subsidies, pollute water ways at a higher rate, limit water due to droughts (their is enough water just the amount of leaks causes this to be lost) and charge based on metered consumption. Privatisation of water doesn’t work for most people. Now in England the water companies have people over the barrel. To such an extent they can extort the tax payer for their poor performance. Business logic wouldn’t tolerate this. They would not source water from such businesses and would become their own supplier if they had the capital to do so.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The UK has seen a rise in infant mortality, which has been linked to this practice among the Muslim communities in the UK. This is probably what motivates this legislation. It is evidence based.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A glass may have a spec that allows it to be filled to the brim. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, especially when you want to run up stairs with it.

Your going to spill water everywhere.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 16 points 1 week ago

His plan was to force Ukraine to agree to the terms Russia sets and loudly proclaim that he did the best deal and made it all happen. Reality doesn’t matter to his supporters.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was caused by lowest bidder decision making. Along with a tolerance for critical systems designed, developed and manufactured outside of North America and Western Europe. If a country doesn’t have a history of liberal democracy, they can never be fully trusted.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 7 points 1 week ago

Because there are so many small parts to a processor you need 99.99+% at most stages to stand any chance of mass production. In this context 60-70% is seriously impressive. Millions of things have to be done right to get this type of yield.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 1 points 2 weeks ago

I assume M$ take procurement out to the best meals.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Your not doing your own research. Your likley not capable of doing such research. Your doctor also isn’t doing their own research. Your doctor does take the knowledge and guidance from those that do research after they’ve done it and it’s be reviewed and validated by national healthcare standards agency.

Much like documentaries much of the available information online that’s accessible and engaging is just entertainment wrapped packaged like your learning something. Especially when your sources lead you to think herbal medicine is a better alternative.

[–] ForgotAboutDre 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The stuff that works in herbal medicine have been studied and improved in modern medicine. The two can’t and shouldn’t be equated. Anyone claiming herbal medicine should be respected and not condemned is a crook and/or idiot. Most proponents are crooks, trying to sell things they know or don’t care if they work.

Things like paracetamol and lithium have a basis in herbal medicine. Paracetamol was improved to stop the horrendous damage the herbal medicine did to your kidneys. Lithium was quantified and controlled to minimise the impact of taking a toxic mental (Lithium was sold as natural healing waters found in springs, it was scientist investigating these waters that identified lithium as an element), newer less toxic medicines are now available for these conditions.

Medicine displaced herbal remedies. The regulation of medicine means the only practionationers of herbal medicines are unregulated crooks.

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