cook_pass_babtridge

joined 2 years ago
[–] cook_pass_babtridge 3 points 4 days ago

Damn I miss Brown, it's sad to think what we could have had if he'd won that election.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I remember when that came out, it was really ahead of its time! Whatever they did with Gov.UK in the beginning should be the model for how government does online services.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge 20 points 4 days ago (7 children)

If this NHS data is properly anonymised, why not open it to everyone instead of just select "researchers and innovators"? (And how do I know that "researchers and innovators" just means Microsoft and Google?)

This just seems like a multi billion pound gift to US tech companies. We're still effectively in austerity and this is what they're spending money on.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge 6 points 1 week ago

Maybe they also saw what happened when Hitler tried to invade Russia. In my hindsight it's obvious why they made the choice they did. Trying to start a new invasion of the Soviet Union in 1945 would have been insane.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That stage of life is pretty difficult work-wise. Up until then most people's lives have been on rails: go to school, do exams, go to university, do exams. Now you've got all this choice, but also the idea that the "wrong" choice will affect your life in a negative way.

My advice is just to try out lots of things. At this age you're not locked into anything, you can spend a few years doing something, decide you don't want to keep doing it, and it's not time wasted. I'm 35 and I've got friends my age who are changing careers now. You'll never know if a career is "for you" until you've tried it.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge 7 points 2 weeks ago (54 children)

What's left-wing about Russia right now?

[–] cook_pass_babtridge 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Talking about trains with my fellow train drivers:

Talking about trains with those fucking idiot bus drivers who don't know shit:

[–] cook_pass_babtridge 2 points 4 weeks ago

Don't tell them that or they'll back a military coup on us!

[–] cook_pass_babtridge 1 points 4 weeks ago

Mine was similar, but my RS teacher was a cool goth lady. Also perfect for RS.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge 1 points 4 weeks ago

You're on a UK politics community lol

 

I've been loving the Private Eye podcast, but they only seem to do about one episode a month. I sometimes listen to The Rest Is Politics but I find it quite hard not to hate Alastair Campbell and Rory Stuart.

Any other good UK politics podcasts out there?

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