@zimpenfish this means there must be part of the country where the Apple app is more accurate than the Met Office.

@zimpenfish this means there must be part of the country where the Apple app is more accurate than the Met Office.

I’ve just noticed something really odd.

The Apple weather app on my phone reports temperatures that are about 2°C lower than the Met Office app. The Met seems to be the most accurate. The Apple app is really good at predicting when it’s gonna rain in the next hour or so.

Why there is temperature difference is a bit of a weird one, and I can’t find an explanation for it.

My child has established “stay whimsical, silly geese” as a gender-neutral way to depart from a group and I have secured their consent to steal it and make it available to anyone else who finds it useful

@markfoden I worked in pre-sales many many years ago. We used to say the clients never bought the product, but instead the PowerPoint presentation. Starmer appears to have bought the PowerPoint presentation and done absolutely no diligence on what nonsense it is.

This is on a par with the previous government making everything digital first. Which in the end made services considerably harder to use and is still causing all sorts of problems.

They claim to be evidence based.

Finally got around to resurrecting my Mastodon instance. Discovered I could pay exactly the same and have 30GB more disk, given how disk hungry it is is a good thing.

The next thing I need to do is find the energy to update, or move it to something that's less resource hungry.

@DrALJONES in the current climate? Have you seen or heard anything that makes those things more likely? Apathy serves managed democracy well.

People privileged by the power structures that systemically oppress you will always tell you to fight against your oppression within that system. That's because they are the system.

@ChrisMayLA6 Starmer said there were “justifiable concerns“. He didn’t combat, he pandered. When they say the quiet part out loud, telling us who and what they are, we should believe them.

The #UK is a hellscape for #disabled people. I extend my deepest sympathies to all of you there. The US isn't much better but we tend to sublimate this stuff a little more.

This story is about UK elites tsk-tsking that disabled people in the UK are helping each other apply for benefits.

Fucking Brits, I tell ya.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

I welcomed sinners, tax collectors and Samaritans, so yeah, I'm okay with diversity and inclusion.

@DrALJONES to be fair, the only choice allowed us is different wings of the neoliberal establishment. Debate is also on this left/right divide where choices about people’s actual needs don’t figure and apathy wins.

To those who see greed as _the_ problem:

Like other evolved human traits that cause problems, we're stuck with the inclination, but we can manage it.

Smallish groups can manage it, eg, by ostracising gluttons & teaching chn to control it in the interests of belonging.

Very large groups need govts to share that job of fostering our best qualities & discouraging the worst.

Neoliberal govts do the opposite.

We keep voting for them against our best interests.

#Greed #Neoliberalism #USPol .

Speaking of, over and over and over and over again it is proven that private healthcare insurance is more expensive for the individual AND the state.

The ONLY argument that holds water for private health insurance is the pure "I refuse to pay for poor people's health" argument, aka "I am actually too selfish to function in society"

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Trump, Musk, etc., are the natural result of a system based on conflating money with success. If you don’t like the fucking gods, maybe stop practicing the fucking religion.

#capitalism

Finally deleted all the accounts I had on Twitter.

Decided that not using them was still giving support to Space Karen Grifters R Us because it counted in the figures.

btw I don't mind Space Karen getting $50bn as long as it's at 95% tax.

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