still_learning

Done some stuff, still learning more, bits drop off the end

Same @ name on Gettr

[still_learning @2still_learning]

Circuit Breaker Benefits Overstated

Following the leak of the SPI-M model to the media, a number of people have focussed on the claim that is could save "up to" 107,000 lives

This is a flawed conclusion. The most obvious and major flaw is that the model stops at 31/12/2020....

[still_learning @2still_learning]

@I_D_A_U_ @7Kiwi So for newer CfD's they get a higher overall strike price and an extra 5 years of subsidy

When the financial model is run, the lower capacity factor has to be compensated by price...

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Vitamin D is misnamed. It's a hormone the body makes from cholesterol when sunlight hits the skin.

Two substances we've been told to avoid for fifty years.

The cholesterol gets prescribed away with a statin.

The sun gets blocked with SPF 50 from March.

When the bloodwork inevitably comes back deficient, you're handed a capsule of synthetic D3, often suspended in soybean oil, and told that supplementing is now essential.

The system removed the inputs. The system then sold you the replacement.

Vitamin D regulates immune function, bone density, mood, hormonal health, and the expression of hundreds of genes. The chronic disease epidemics of the modern era track its decline almost perfectly.

The cure is not a capsule. The cure is the cholesterol your liver wants to make and the sun on the skin it was always meant to meet.

Both are free. Which is the entire problem.

[still_learning @2still_learning]

@memcculloch Surely the grey squirrel would be more reflective of government policy

[still_learning @2still_learning]

@prestonjbyrne Thank you !

[Pete @PeteBritish]

Somebody has taped a powerfully-written letter to the road sign just outside Southampton police station that sends a very clear message about how we feel after the Henry Nowak murder.

Image from @AuditingBritain latest video on his YouTube channel.

[Kathy Gyngell @KathyConWom]

WHAT an awful week. Henry Nowak’s death on police bodycam was terrible, but Labour’s subsequent denial and threatened oppression of dissent feels almost worse.

I naively thought the case had to be a wake-up moment for this government, that with the police race ‘training’ details emerging they would acknowledge their own culpability, or at least the misguidedness of their suicidal empathy.

But what a fool I was. Our oily-quiffed Prime Minister doubled down and shifted the blame onto Nigel Farage, who had correctly called it a moment of reckoning. Later Starmer stood at the despatch box and pointed his outraged finger at Farage, turning him into the guilty party and burying the real problem. Brazen, shameless.

If you had any doubts about Starmer’s capacity for dictatorship, don’t. His is the playbook of oppressors, with the classic traits: an empathy gap, manipulativeness, authoritarianism, sociopathy and hubris.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://t.co/rLLL9vbMHk

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Many suspected Lucy Connolly was a political prisoner.
Newly released documents contain shocking proof that Lord Hermer rushed Lucy’s “emergency” case through. Judges were told the required prison sentence.
Two-tier injustice 🚨
https://t.co/Y6CaZliNn3

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

It's grim; the realisation that your entire career with associated taxes has been to pay for Marxist cunts to infiltrate every aspect of the public services you fund and who actively hate you for your skin colour and privilege. Undoing this will be an immense task, well beyond the capability of the aquamarine besuited crypto crony.

[Ben Pile @clim8resistance]

The Climate Change Committee's longstanding desire to stamp out meat and dairy consumption is back in the news following their publication of the 7th Carbon Budget -- advice to Parliament and Ed Miliband, which they are very likely (they always do) to adopt without meaningful debate.

They have been trying to do this for a long time. And they have for just as long been trying to find ways to make this acceptable. In 2020, this including convening the Climate Assembly on the belief that the Assembly could stand as a focus group or opinion poll to represent the entire public. They further believed that if they could show that the Assembly supported something, then because the Assembly was selected from ordinary people, the public would accept the Assembly's votes on policy options.

But the Assembly's vote on the reduction of meat and dairy consumption was not a vote as we'd understand it. First, only a third of the assembly were present for the vote. Second, the assembly members were not given the option to vote against anything. The 'voting' consisted of a "Borda count" -- a method in which the "voter" ranks options given to them. The policy of reducing meat and dairy consumption only appeared on less than one third (10/35) of that part of the Assembly's orders of preferences, according to the Borda method.

8 policies were put to the Assembly, and reducing meat and dairy was the second lowest preference:

1. Provide support to farmers: 89%
2. Information and education: 86%
3. Use land efficiently: 66%
4. Rules for large retailers/supermarkets: 46%
5. More local and seasonal food: 40%
6. Make low carbon food affordable: 34%
7. Some, just less, meat [reducing meat and dairy consumption]: 29%
8. Part of planning policy and new developments, including allotments: 14%.

Worse for the CCC, though not counted, comments submitted to the organisers were adamant that policies should not coerce, force, or punish -- i.e. tax -- consumer behaviour.

The convenors of the climate assembly, which includes Parliament itself (the offices, not the members), green NGOs and their billionaire philanthropist grantors, civil servants, and fake academics lied about this underwhelming result, and claimed that the Assembly -- and therefore the public -- supported the CCC's ambitions to force us to be vegetarians.

This means two things.

1. The government, MPs, green wonks, civil servants, the blob, all of them, *know* that these policies are unwanted and unpopular -- that they have no mandate.

2. That they will try everything and anything to get the policies they want, all the same, and that includes acts of very obvious bad faith.

Ed Miliband and his crew and the current population of the CCC are even more determined to inflict policies on us before democracy can stop them.

This is bad for us, and it is bad for UK farmers.

Here is a video I made about it in 2020.

[still_learning @2still_learning]

@7Kiwi Good article

The question which kept coming up however was the old one.

What's the gap between capacity and demand, not on average, but reflective of proper hourly demand profiling and asset retirement

Is it still positive, or will demand destruction keep the lights on....

[David Turver @7Kiwi]

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[still_learning @2still_learning]

@Jenny_1884 Personal circumstances reflect the situation that the country finds itself in

Spending the wealth accumulated in the past, in an attempt to maintain some sensible standard of living, all the while knowing you are eating away at what was created before

[ETHICAL APPROACH UK @EthicalApproach]

Martin Hewitt’s evidence ‘nails’ Operation Talla beyond serious dispute.

This is not hyperbole - It establishes that:

• Talla had command structure;
• Talla had Gold Command;
• Talla was centrally coordinated;
• Talla was run from the centre;
• Talla worked closely with government;
• Talla pursued national consistency;
• Talla integrated all UK policing jurisdictions;
• and Talla represented a nationally managed policing operation during the Covid era.

The constitutional significance of this cannot be overstated because once the public understands that Covid policing was:

• nationally coordinated;
• centrally managed;
• strategically directed;
• and integrated into wider government structures,

the entire constitutional discussion changes.

The issue ceases to be,

“Did individual officers sometimes go too far?”

The issue becomes,

"What exactly was Operation Talla, who authorised its structure, who controlled it, how deeply was it integrated into wider State machinery and why has there appeared such institutional reluctance to openly confront its true nature?"

Martin Hewitt has already provided the central answer.

He was the Gold Commander and he stated,

“we will run this from the centre.”

#OperationTalla #CovidPolicing
@PoliceChiefs @metpoliceuk @MetCC @MoJGovUK @JudiciaryUK @HMICFRS @hmics

[ETHICAL APPROACH UK @EthicalApproach]

The CJSSC was not created during the pandemic - It already existed.

It was a standing cross-justice command structure, designed in advance and activated when authorities considered circumstances required it.

That distinction matters because it means the architecture for coordinated, cross-agency strategic direction across:

• police
• prosecutors
• courts
• government departments
.
was not improvised in crisis. It was pre-built.

The public constitutional question is therefore not why was it created in an emergency, but rather, why does such a command structure exist at all within a system built on institutional independence?

Coordination is understandable. Command is something else.

Independence is not symbolic in a justice system. It is structural and structures reveal intent.

#RuleOfLaw #Constitution #PublicRecord #JusticeSystem #CJSSC #OperationTalla @MoJGovUK

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

If the United States Congress wants to step in to protect the American Internet from becoming a mandatory-ID, privacy-free, censorship hellscape, and prevent our Web from becoming a digital colony of the UK, now would be a very good time to take action.

[still_learning @2still_learning]

@20NPHartleyHare Here's the actual report

What is clear is that the original basis for introducing the 50mph speed limits no longer exists and they should be reverted to 70 & the cameras deactivated. Likely simply fleet improvements not speed

Unless it's about the money

https://t.co/pfmqaYnBk1

[Hartley ap Hare 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @20NPHartleyHare]

In 2018 Welsh Government reduced the speed limit along five stretches of road from 70mph to 50mph
The justification was not the usual road safety reasons but instead it was to try to reduce pollution.
https://t.co/fCi4Td5JSf

[ETHICAL APPROACH UK @EthicalApproach]

Does Operation Talla policing prevent the submission of criminal reports concerning Operation Talla policing itself?

That question would once have sounded absurd, but it no longer does.

The public record now shows:

• nationally coordinated policing structures;
• intelligence-style handling pathways;
• operational directives concerning vaccine-related reports;
• and evidence of citizens being categorised rather than properly heard.

At precisely the same time, increasing numbers of people attempting to report alleged wrongdoing connected to the Covid era appear to have encountered:

• refusal pathways;
• procedural obstruction;
• evidential narrowing;
• and institutional avoidance.

(The same has been experienced in relation to public requests for data, which has been refused by Government-linked organisations and regulators.)

This creates a profoundly serious constitutional question - Can a policing structure remain truly accountable if allegations concerning that structure are filtered through the same institutional environment which created it?

Once a State mechanism begins exercising influence over:

• the handling of complaints;
• the acceptance of evidence;
• and the framing of public concern,

the issue ceases to be only operational and becomes, in addition, constitutional.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

Tax allowances have been stuck in the permafrost, sometimes for decades, reports a study by the Association of Taxation Technicians

Absurdly the £3,000 annual gift exemption for inheritance tax purposes — hasn't changed since 1981. In today’s money it would be worth almost four times as much or £11,800

The inheritance tax threshold has been stuck at £325,000 for 17 years ago and is now frozen until 2031. If it had risen with inflation, it would be around £525,000, 60% more.

The rent-a-room scheme allowance has been frozen at £7,500 since 2016. It should be £10,500 today.

If the higher rate income tax threshold was not frozen at £50,270, it would reach £70,000 by 2030.

All these allowances and thresholds should be legislated with a built-in inflation adjuster such that they increase automatically in line with inflation each year.

US tax thresholds are raised automatically each year in line with inflation. That's a key reason why US thresholds are so much higher than British ones. You have to earn $640,600 in the US in order to pay the top income tax rate of 37%. In Britain, the figure is almost 10 times less. Here earn just $66,000 US dollars (£50,270) and you start paying a 40% tax rate.