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Gen Z: No one is coming to save us. It’s time to unionize.
  • The students union exists to put pressure on the university, but at least in the UK it is essentially toothless, as the only thing universities care about is fees being paid, and if you don't pay you are kicked out.

    Anything they do at the request of the SU is essentially voluntary on the part of the university.

  • Pointers for writing software tutorials
  • That's why showing the expected outcome is also very important. It can feel very verbose, but the number of times I've been unclear as to if something worked because the documentation goes on immediately to the next step without demonstrating the success/failure states is extremely frustrating.

  • ELI5: Why should a minimum wage worker care about GDP growth?
  • Makes sense, but to me going from 1.5% to 1.3% on a prediction for 3 years in the future seems like a pretty insignificant difference, especially since it will probably change between now and then.

    £22B for the NHS is the best news I've heard in a while, and even then it is only barely keeping it in line with previous investment as a % of GDP. This investment is sorely needed so if taxes have to go up to pay for it they have to go up. If we want growth rejoin the EU and then our taxes can come down again, but none of the major parties are willing to have that conversation.

  • ELI5: Why should a minimum wage worker care about GDP growth?

    Following the budget announcement in the UK, why is the media obsessed with the predicted growth being 0.2% lower, instead of applauding the much needed investment in our public services? Does it really matter that much?

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    Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’
  • One of Harris and Trump is going to be the president. Sorry but that is the reality, the time for getting a better candidate has passed.

    It is time to pick which one you want. If you don't vote you don't care so you accept either outcome.

    Voting is not and should not be wholly endorsing the person, but securing the best outcome from the options. You want better options then go into politics yourself.

  • Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’
  • I get your frustration, but it is really important to keep spelling it out. I find it very frustrating to be on the receiving and of lines like I'm tired of explaining it to you people when I am earnestly engaging in a conversation for the first time, so I think it's best to give people the benefit of the doubt that maybe they really don't know, especially on forums where people other than those commenting will read it also.

  • Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’
  • Because Harris is open to ceasefire pressure and Trump want's Israel to 'Finish the job'.

    One's hands aren't morally clean if you don't vote and Trump wins. Not voting is functionally equivalent to voting for whoever wins, and if he does win with a low turnout then those who didn't vote are responsible for whatever happens.

  • Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’
  • You seem to be in the camp of believing the hype. See this write up of an apple paper detailing how adding simple statements that should not impact the answer to the question severely disrupts many of the top model's abilities.

    In Bloom's taxonomy of the 6 stages of higher level thinking I would say they enter the second stage of 'understanding' only in a small number of contexts, but we give them so much credit because as a society our supposed intelligence tests for people have always been more like memory tests.

  • Chris Kaba shooting: Firearms officer not guilty of murder
  • If the immediate danger is the car, couldn't they shoot the tires instead of the driver? I don't understand how you can claim to not have intended to kill a person whom you aimed a firearm at and then pulled the trigger.

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