ThePyroPython

Hopefully before maga picks up a history book and learns about the private fire services that used to exist before.

"The only reason they don't give this job to the service droids is because they've got a better union than us!" - Dave Lister

This is simply incorrect, the guidelines approved and enforced since Victorian times is the man kneels before the woman sat on the bed, they hold hands, the lights go out for a minute, then come back on and she is now with child.

Anyone found breaching said guidelines are roundly shunned through heavy tutting.

That's very interesting, I shall look into that book, thank you for the recommendation.

I think that posting Ken screenshots to this community here kind of fits both meanings of that phrase because:

1. You always get people in the comments questioning should Ken screenshots be posted here as he's not an actual linkedin lunatic, but a satire of one.

2. Ken screenshots are still allowed because if you didn't detect the sarcasm and were as dense as some real people who are posted here, then you could mistake it for genuine lunacy. Therefore he's the single exception of satirical posts amongst a sea of real ones.

Everyone has different preferences, straight man here and I always want cuddles. It depends on what your "love language" is i.e. how you prefer to give/receive affection.

For me cuddles and other forms of non-sexual touch (not that I'm asexual, far from it) are my preference for giving and receiving. Acts of service, like cooking a meal etc. I'm fine with giving but it makes me feel awkward to receive. And gift giving (random flowers, chocolate, trinkets, etc.) I prefer not to do because trying to come up with a good gift stresses me out and I don't like random gifts, I really appreciate the thought but if I don't find a use for it, including being a decoration I like, I don't want it.

But like you said, you find a middle ground with your partner and I do the same as well.

As much as I don't like that anyone would be going and therefore supporting the US whilst the orange is alive... I can't wait to see Americans interacting with pissed English fans because:

1. They will not be able to handle the chants therefore,

2. Large fights will break out in the street and therefore,

3. A good portion of the type of English fans who'd travel to the US now, will get beaten, locked up, and possibly shot by the American police. Oh and hopefully have a pleasant stay in an ICE facility.

These types of fans are aligned politically with trump and farage so it'd give me great satisfaction to watch them suffer the treatment they'd happily wish on others.

And if less comes back than went out that'd be a net positive for our country: a slight reduction in racist attacks and domestic violence.

He's the exception that proves the rule.

UK here, NHS is constantly being underfunded and gutted by contracting out to private companies, it still works but just barely.

For example, ambulance target response time for a cardiac arrest, not a simple heart attack but full on unconscious not beating not breathing, used to be 8 minutes or less. Now they aim for 20 minutes and only achieve that 60% of the time.

I'd much prefer a Norwegian style model where you pay say £30 per doctors/non-emergency hospital visit up to a cap of £150 per year with those who can't afford that getting those fees paid for by the government.

Some additional things I would add would be a slowly increasing VAT on private healthcare until it reaches double the normal VAT, paying student nurses/doctors a full wage and full living cost loan for the duration of their studies, whilst working they do not pay the interest on those loans, then if they move abroad before the university loans are paid back they have to pay the interest back as well.

This would massively increase funding for the NHS by taxing those who can definitely afford the burden because at double VAT the only ones who'd still opt for private healthcare are those who employ workers and therefore no matter how much they try to wriggle out of paying tax they can't avoid this one.

The second would increase the number of medical students and stop the current drain of young medical professionals leaving for other countries.

Middle out maybe?

That sounds familiar, I take it that was in Neuromancer? It's been a while since I read that book and The Difference Engine.

Who do?

Eh can one really copyright the idea of an emergent machine spirit when engineers from the industrial revolution were already ascribing personalities to machines and Assimov had already wrote about machine ghosts?