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  • I don’t know, I think the nuclear promise can almost safely be ignored. Largely unpopular, costs too much money and time. I wouldn’t mind seeing it happen, but it’s whatever at this point.

    The other promises though? To me it sounds like a lot of big things without having the gov pay for it (in fact the government would be cutting taxes and investment). It’ll be through private investment, which could be okay, or it could be a disaster with investors wanting high returns from the homes they build, for example.

    And then we come to…

    Scotland’s first NHS appointments app and AI-driven diagnostics in the NHS

    Now this is where I instantly draw the line. I like the app idea, that’s fine; I wish I didn’t need to call and gamble at 9am for an appointment. AI diagnostics though? What kind of AI? Because I can’t help but assume generative AI and that’s an insane concept that means I reject everything else he’s saying outright. Even outside of genAI I’m not aware of machine learning applications that would help reliably enough.

    Smells a lot like “we’ll have our cake and eat it too”. I might vote for the Scottish Labour guy in my constituency since they’re much more on the left, but I’m not inspired to vote for Scottish Labour as a whole.



  • I’m seeing this post a bit late, but I feel like I have to weigh in slightly, though it’s not my research area.

    Note that my information extends more to academic studying, don’t know if it’s quite as true for learning more physical skills.

    The main concept for learning is deeper learning. Which basically just means actually using your brain to think about the material. Things like connecting it to other ideas, pondering different implications, that sort of thing.

    The reason flashcards work is because you think about what questions you could ask about the material. The reason you write by hand vs type is because it’s slower and you have to think about what’s more important or how you’d summarise the information.

    I believe reading aloud typically works because it forces you to be slower and more deliberate, giving you time to actually process what you’re reading.

    That said what you’ve written is helpful and mostly correct, I’m just not so certain about the framing. It could mislead some people into just rewriting notes while reading them out, for example, which is inefficient and not very helpful for learning.

    A very easy-to-read source with practical tips:

    • Optimizing Learning in College by Putnam et al. (2016) (Look it up on Google scholar for a free pdf)

    Also as a final tip, my favourite exam prep technique: do a past paper without having looked at any notes or done any prep. Answer as much as you can just thinking about what you remember. Then go through with notes. It primes your brain for processing and storing the information.




  • Awful. Especially the stats about GPs not providing proper care, and trans people not wanting to go to A&E out of fear of discrimination.

    And to be fair I do know people who have/are coming to terms with being trans but not willing to approach their GP.

    Recently seeing a (very feminine) trans woman having to use the men’s bathroom was also just an upsetting reminder of the legal and political state of things. It’s very understandable that they’re worried.

    The lack of empathy towards trans people is staggering. Honestly, towards people in general too.



  • I think this is the second article from Novara that I’ve seen on the most recent YouGov poll. I wish they linked to the source. It’s not difficult to find, but it just seems like a basic thing they’re missing.

    More on topic though: I do hope this keeps up and they actually overtake Reform overall. It’s a breath of fresh air to see a party actually on the left/progressive side gaining popularity. And right now I actually think they’ll do at least some of what they promise.



  • It’s right there in the article, first paragraph:

    Being overweight or obese causes hormonal changes, which accelerate children’s development. Obese children grow faster, so they tend to be taller than their healthy-weight peers. But obese children have a greater risk of disease in later life, including diabetes and heart disease.

    Without further research on my end what this means to me is “poor children are more likely to be obese and reach their, presumably shorter, adult height earlier in their childhood”.


  • Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: "Weight loss drugs can be a real game changer for those who need them. I’m determined that access should be based on need, not ability to pay.

    What a novel idea. I wonder if this could be applied to other drugs and treatments. I don’t know, something else that maybe has to do with not being in the right body for you. Or maybe mental health conditions.

    This currently benefitting one company also really doesn’t help me not be cynical.


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    Just to nerd out a bit: I think this is justified. He has nanomachines, son. His eyesight is probably perfect, but he adopts a different persona most of the time. He’s a puppeteer and a politician most of the time.

    This is when he gets his actual boss theme lyrics too and he finally treats you as an actual fight. No more metal gear, no more speeches. You get the treatment of an equal rival.

    Or: Rising Revengeance might like symbolism, but it prefers the subtlety of a giant boulder and memes, and him taking off his glasses just fits the rule of cool.



  • Not OP, but I’ll answer from my own perspective. Note that Discord terminology can be a bit weird, since a server is just a unique shared group space, but hopefully makes sense.

    So you can:

    • Have private chats with one or multiple individuals.
    • Start audio or video calls through those chats, and screen share/stream in them.
    • I’ll also mention the ability to send not just text, but images, videos, embedded GIFs, files, so on.
    • in servers you get the same thing, broken into text and voice channels (the latter allowing the full range of audio, video, and screen share).
    • in servers each user can be given roles to determine which channels they can see and use, or edit, among various other permissions.
    • Pinned messages, @ mentions for roles.
    • Though I don’t use it much anymore, the option to effectively subscribe to a channel on another server to have messages from there propagate over (e.g.: a uni club server announces an event and you see it on another server in an events channel)
    • also servers don’t have any upper limits on members, at least not one I’ve ever seen hit
    • Bot integration via API.
    • oh, also it all works on desktop or mobile (because it’s mostly just a web app, but still)

    And key thing is: all very easy to get started with, whether you’re just wanting to join a server, or start an entire community.

    Big deal for my uses currently is voice chat and screen share in one place, while still being able to organise stuff into separate channels, pin messages in them, etc.

    I think right now if I had to replace it, assuming I could get the people I interact with off (which is either 20 or 1500 people, depending on how much I’d want to carry with me), it’d have to be a mix of Matrix/Stoat and probably Steam’s built-in features. Maybe a classic forum. That is, if I wanted to have all the features I use. I could do with less, but it’s frustrating.

    I think the alternatives will get there eventually, self-hosted even, but self-hosting also has a hardware cost.

    That said, I really don’t know why software stuff was ever moved on discord. My uses are gaming and university community-related.


  • It sounds like they asked about specific parties being banned. 16% even said Labour…

    Without seeing the full survey it’s hard to gauge, but seems like it might’ve been odd phrasing.

    Disregarding that, I think I agree with the majority here. Reform are, sadly, a legitimate political party in the UK, who even have seats in Parliament. I don’t feel we should be targeting individual political parties with freedom of speech restrictions, at least not on a national level. Students and staff getting their universities to bar them would be fine. Perhaps an odd distinction, but I think it’s an important one.