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The American Chopper meme is always topical on this. At least where I live, it's the Conservatives (no longer really the "Tories" of a generation ago, now they're a farther right team that's wearing the Tory party's skin as a suit) who brand anything to the left of hunting the poor for sport as "socialism" and therefore exactly the same as sending kulaks to the re-education camps.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/31/higher-obesity-levels-linked-to-lower-productivity-in-england-research-shows

So now they're going to blame the obese.

These things ARE linked, they are both symptoms of poverty.

Higher obesity levels linked to lower productivity in England, research shows

Report by former government adviser says plan needed to tackle obesity, thought to cost UK economy £27bn a year

The Guardian
‘Moral duty’ to allow family and friends to make big life choices, says Cambridge philosopher

‘Self authorship’ is a right, argues Dr Farbod Akhlaghi, and people should make their own decisions on new jobs or having children

The Guardian
Here’s a poem called ‘The Only Way is Ethics’.

#pmqs Sunaks wife used her no don status to escape paying tax. Rees Mogg shovels all his profits from companies offshore. Zahawi ‘claims’ carelessness over his taxes.

Meanwhile, a quarter of children aren’t eating properly and live in cold damp homes.
Third world #BrexitBritain

Yes, if you keep him in London, he must. And the night sky won't be the only thing he's missing out on.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/24/as-a-girl-i-was-thrilled-by-the-night-sky-must-my-son-grow-up-without-seeing-the-milky-way

As a girl, I was thrilled by the night sky. Must my son grow up without seeing the Milky Way?

I love the idea of my boy and his dad peering through a telescope together, writes Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett. But what will light pollution leave for them to look at?

The Guardian
And my reading of the report, as a sometime scientist, suggests that industrial toxin is way more likely than 10%. Never the less, calling <10% "very unlikely" is, in this context, absolutely ridiculous.

Norh East Crab massacre report

Novel pathogen: evens (33% to 67%)
Algal bloom: 2:1 (under 33%)
Industrial toxins: 9:1 (under 10%)

This does not "effectively rule out" dredging as the lying Tory scum (apologies for the threefold repetition) are claiming.

This is my Friendica server. Left to right, the boxes are: Power over Ethernet splitter, Raspberry Pi 4b (2 gig) in official case, 256 gig SATA SSD in a USB3 to SATA enclosure.

That’s it. That’s what this post you’re reading federated from.

https://www.joe.co.uk/business/man-gets-immediately-rejected-for-job-after-interviewer-poses-as-receptionist-373361

People aren't "always assessing you" but they are usually aware of you being a dick. The take home isn't "you never know who people are" but simply "don't be a dick" and it applies whether you are going for a new job or not.

Man gets immediately rejected for job after interviewer poses as receptionist

Man gets immediately rejected for job after interviewer poses as receptionist

JOE.co.uk