Idiots? Ai contraire!
If they had solved this years ago none of them would have jobs today.
They just need to keep bread crumbing it. In 30 years they'll tell us the whales also have sounds for consonant equivalents.
They probably did figure it all out generations ago, already have full blown conversations all day with whales, usually their take on the latest Taylor Swift album, but just aren't telling us that.
People buying essentials on credit has been around for a very long time.
Longer than most think.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
-Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford
Are they a university for research and learning or a tax-haven for investments^W gambling.
"Harvard is a hedge fund with classrooms" - Scott Galloway
Are they watching Taylor Swift videos? Complete waste of time.
Are they watching history, science, and other documentary videos? Good use of time.
In general, though, we know from Covid as well as way back when I was in uni and took a few childhood development classes that human interaction is generally a plus and isolation of any sort is generally bad.
There are a small number of anecdotal cases of abused children "raised" in closets or otherwise 99% isolated from all human contact who needed years and years of therapy and training once rescued to advanced beyond basic animal functions.
Video in and of itself is neither inherently good or bad. It's just a tool which can be used intelligently or not which is why this study is so wishy washy about their own results.
Indeed, crime, corruption, FOMO, political distress and other abnormal life events do drive crypto. None of them things non-criminal normal people would "invest" in.
Sir, I salute your brilliantly delivered straight up hard sarcasm. Well done. Few can pull it off like that.
A few things to note...
Over the past couple of decades, more and more roles within the British healthcare system have become able to prescribe - pharmacists (as noted in the summary), nurse prescribers, physicians associates (who technically should be under the supervision of a GP, but the way the NHS has that set up its very much a "PA prescribes, GP actually has little say")...
The role of doctors in the British healthcare system is being diminished and replaced by lower paid, lower trained positions, and GPs are particularly hard hit by it - which is why GPs are retiring or moving overseas at record rates, far beyond the ability for the current GP training schemes to replace them.
The UK is actively doctor hostile these days, and British doctors do not want to be part of it any more.
It's not just in Britain. All across the West, there's a shortage of native-born doctors. The expense and hassle of getting an MD is bad enough. Then you also have the modern stresses of being an MD (which in America, includes a highly litigious culture where doctors have to get maddeningly expensive malpractice insurance). The workload is huge, and the money is only good for the hyper-specialists now. The home-grown family doctor is an endangered species in the US, and we're addressing it in two ways: handing doctor duties to those lower on the chain, and importing doctors from the third world. Every single new doctor at my not-large Southern US hospital in the past three years has come from 3 places: India, Pakistan, or East Africa. This of course, robs those areas of badly needed doctors. And it doesn't really matter if your system is private or nationalized. Look at the ranks of doctors that staff your local services. You'll see similarities everywhere in the West: there's fewer of them, and they tend to come from overseas.
There was an educational movement just after 2000 where for some reason teachers decided that rote learning was bad, so the activists within the ranks of teachers went through and got rid of everything that was strictly memorization and practice-based. This included everything from phonics to flash cards and of course cursive. In fact I think keyboarding was also a victim. My kids didn't take any of these things in school (we're in Ontario, Canada). Their handwriting is awful.
The best schools always included a mix of techniques in teaching. You had "drill 'till it kills" in math, THEN you had logic and reasoning exercises. You had memorization of names and dates, THEN you had deep discussions of historical events. A good education includes both rote and discussion, and always has.
How to watch republicans piss away taxpayer money on utterly useless crap, trying to get back to a past that time forgot...
Oh FFS. There are lots of knowledge that isn't "practical" yet is valuable to our culture. You people piss and moan about children not being properly educated, but when someone suggests that things like cursive writing and other finer points of civilization should continue to be taught, you scoff with bullshit like this.
My mother's generation had mandatory classes in Latin during high school in the early 1960's. As a culture, we're the poorer for having dropped those kinds of requirements. There's a reason the finer schools still require them. I'm all for more of a focus on the practical for kids... more shop classes, more practical math (loans and interest, basic accounting, etc), but to suggest that we should chuck all of the finer points of culture into the trash because it's "trying to get back to a past that time forgot" is complete and utter horseshit.
My adult nephew is super into all things fake coin.
Like all crypto bros he is incapable of describing what drives the daily ups and downs nor long term ups n downs of fake coin prices vs anything else.
The price of stock is closely linked long term to company revenue with news impacting short term changes.
The price of gold is impacted by how much gets dug up, the cost of digging it up, how much use for both industrial and jewelry purpose are needed. Supply and demand. The gold sitting in government vaults is not available to the open market and therefore irrelevant.
The price of real estate is based on location and the number of people who need or want to be in that location and the cost of a loan based on current interest rates, as well as local land use regulations.
The price of the dollar or other currency is based on the stability of the country that issued the currency and the likelihood the currency unit will remain at roughly current value so it can continue to be used in a predictable way as opposed to going to zero like some whack third world country currencies. More stable countries can offer bonds at lower rates than less stable countries. Same is true for municipal and state level bonds in the US.
Everything that has a market has a real world driver that can be used to explain long term price changes as most short term changes. Except fake coins like bitcoin, eth, etc.
There is no real world event or driver that impacts the price of bitcoin. It is driven by unregulated corruption in the market by big players and the FOMO of small players. I've tried several times to discuss and explain this difference to my nephew but like all crypto bros his brain shuts off and he starts spouting crypto bro nonsense when I go there.
Specifically what I ask him is this,
"The price of oranges is almost entirely based on how well the orange crop did in the previous growing season. What is the real world equivalent driver for the price of bitcoin?" He babbles.
Other than being a crypto bros he's quite intelligent, has an engineering degree, makes 6 figures as a well liked and promotes engineering manager at a real company, owns a rental property, has a great girlfriend. Got it all going on. Except he's also a mindless crypto bros who believes in crypto coin magic. It's super weird trying to talk to him about it.
Obviously the answer is there is no real world driver to bitcoin prices. I closely follow the market news daily for the stock market as well as crypto. When I look at news for the DOW or NASDAQ price changes are always based on some news item. When I look at bitcoin news they describe the ups and downs but never give an explanation. They don't even pretend there is a real world driver for cost changes.
All these companies that put money in have their crypto fund labeled as "high risk". They each put in a relatively small amount of money they can afford to lose, just riding the wave. They know there's no there there. If it was real they'd put in money on the same scale they put into stocks and commodities. When the day comes they pull the rest of their money out, the price is crash all the way back to near nothing while the crazy crypto bros scream about buying opportunities and HODL! gOInG to a miLLiOn!!! Poor dumb bastards. Crypto bros do not understand the most trivial basic concepts of the market and real world value.
Anyone think that the picture of the blue sling with the phone peeking out looks like a demented vulva?
You're not Dave. Who are you?
