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Here's the translated version I got (GH translate didn't work for me for some reason).

https://pastebin.com/raw/EPtJM5Dp

It sounds like you don't understand what a pub is like.

Whilst this is definitely not what's it's like, this quaint video is all about the lineage of the pub in the UK, and explains the third-spaceness of them, which I'd argue still exists[1].

Pubs are so important for our communities in the UK, whether that's watching the game, seeing a friend's band, celebrating a birthday or just catching up after work.

Many of the parts of my life have been lived in a pub. If it's criminal, I'd happily be locked up. Or maybe lock me in, a sadly rarer occurrence these days.

[1] https://youtu.be/_GCcoaSq3x4?si=QunsiKqk4D4IRV0M

Common Era, a secular alternative to BC and AD.

BCE is "before the common era", and CE is "common era".

I suppose it kind of grandfathers in BC and AD, but I always find it funny that it happens to centre the birth of Jesus anyway.

For me, a fountain pen has fulfilled this function, but in my teens I had a typewriter collection. I still wonder where they all went...

Would be cool to have a sync function that works similar to Gpodders.

Please don't be histrionic, this is the last place that needs it.

Funny to see the discussions of instant pot vs rice cookers in the comments. We use one of each, often in conjunction with each other. Cheap and easy way to make a curry, for example. Never had any problems with the 3rd hand Zojirushi we have. Just follow the instructions and it gets the rice bang on each time.

Crappy course spam, please remove

Bet your code always works on your machine too ;)

How would you reccomend I learn history with spaced repetition? I'm studying a detailed subject independently (I.e. not for an exam with a set curriculum) and I'm finding it hard to atomise the cards down bevond dates and names. I suppose I should start there first and then build more complex cards, but I'm not sure what the best approach for those is. Thanks for the detailed article!

Keep it up! Absolutely smashing it so far mate.

This is probably dumb intervention but forgive me because it made me giddy to find: the pandas drop_duplicates() method is pretty great, if you're in a pinch. Again -- forgive me if you know about it!

What's the stack at Inland Revenue? Must be something pretty old school...

I kind of agree with your assessment, but here's what I know about the UK situation:

Public sector workers in the UK have fought hard for good pay and conditions, but many face worsening conditions and pay today.

In the past 60 years, many formerly public sector industries and sectors have been slowly privatised, such as rail, mail, and telecom, to name the largest examples. These workers have taken real-terms pay cuts during working as "essential workers" during the pandemic, only to face "fire-and-rehire" tactics from employers as we get back to normal -- employers terminating their contracts and then hiring for the same role months later, only with worse conditions and pay.

Those workers who have remained in the public sector also face terrible pay and conditions. Over the past 40 years the public sector has had its funding gradually stripped away, to the extent that teachers, nurses, as well as local government workers have far higher caseloads than ever before.

In the specific instance of these barristers, many are totally overworked, as legal aid -- the funding for public defence barristers -- is once again being cut. Many barristers are surviving on a shoestring, being paid effectively far below minimum wage, all due to their selfless choice to give the right to a fair trial to those too poor to afford their own lawyer. Stories like these are so depressing because the barristers -- many extremely dedicated and highly qualified professionals -- have been left no choice but to protect their ability to feed themselves and keep a roof over their heads.

Furthermore, collective bargaining is not a "privilege" in the UK, it is a right enshrined by law here -- and all workers have this right, wherever they choose to form a union branch. But what has changed in the past 60 years is laws limiting worker's ability to strike. Things like secondary picketing, mass picketing and the like -- tactics where smaller groups of workers can band together and support each other -- means that whilst it's somewhat true that larger public sector unions are more powerful by comparison these days, 60 years ago all unions in all sectors were MORE powerful. This was brought in by several successive governments in the 70s and 80s, but they haven't entirely succeeded in legislating out one of the most fundamental rights that British workers have. Union density stands lower than it ever has, but we're seeing the return of industrial action due to the terrible conditions that many of these workers have.

It's interesting because a lot of the old trade union acts were in response to a similar situation in the 70s and 80s -- public sector workers faced stagnating wages and high inflation. But even when the laws have changed, the workers generally respond only when their livelihood is threatened. It's why I think the analogy of "holding the country to ransom" is wrong, because the shoe is very much on the other foot for these workers, as it was back then -- a few days of inconvenience (or even some rare legal judgements) are nothing compared to what these workers face collectively at the hand of unscrupulous employers and a chaotic economy.

Hackney, and the east end isn't exactly the nicest part of London either.

Are you suggesting that people that because Hackney "isn't exactly the nicest part of London", that people have bad manners? Please clarify, honestly I don't understand this.

What's more likely: millions (tens of millions?) of people are "dicks", "raging hippies", or "noisy shites", for no other reason than the mode of transport they choose, or you're lazily generalising to justify an extremely solipsistic world view?

Very gracious of you to clarify they're "not subhuman" too, that definitely makes clear that you are making a balanced and thorough assessment. Thanks for your erudite contribution to this matter, the Nobel peace prize committee will be getting in touch shortly.

This is cool! Constructive critique: Maybe add some text labels for a11y? From a cursory glance in dev tools it seems a little confusing, looking at the heading and some of the illustrations.

Would you mind expanding on the "ceremony" around Typescript a little, please? Or if there's an article which explains this that'd be great too. That statement interested me, is all!

I agree -- if you hadn't used irrelevant, sexist language, I wouldn't have called you a sexist.

Did you read my post? I'm not trying to defend her actions, just pointing out that her gender has nothing to do with her venality.

Do better, pal.

Yeah, no idea if you're serious or taking the piss, but when the post above is condensed that's kind of what the quote they give is saying.

1. The social justice stuff and "this lady" is clearly the poster's personal view and politics coming to bear. And regardless of it being an illogical argument, it's obviously sexist and culture wars-y etc.

2. Having said that, bosses taking pay rises while workers is laid off is shit, and when they say it's to remain "competitive" I want to scream. Competetive to who? Who's to say that the same pool of people have to be interchangable between any one job at the same time? Who says we need these people running organisations anyway, especially non profits?

3. Seriously though, hope FF pulls through. But also I'm so so sad about MDN, and would want Mozilla foundation to shape up and be ok too so that they could bring MDN back.

Saving this for later. Thanks for the informative post!

Why?

Whilst this is good on paper, this is actually pretty bad, and GMB should be treated with more scrutiny. This seems to be working better for the employer and the union than the workers.

The fact is that Uber workers who are members of the App Drivers and Couriers Union, one of the smaller UK unions, got recognition in the UK Supreme court that drivers are employees. They brought an effective legal challenge against Uber that made the firm recognise contractors (in name only) as employees. This was a landmark win that made a real difference in the worker's lives. Clearly Uber was under threat, since this effective challenge by a smaller union built a lot of momentum for a muscular recognition deal. So they jumped before they were pushed, and recognised GMB, since it was the best deal for them as the employer.

ADCU's statement: https://www.adcu.org.uk/news-posts/statement-on-uber-respons...

If you read the FT report, GMB agreed with Uber that there will be no right for the workers to negotiate over pay or minimum wage, which is one of the key reasons (and benefits) of having a recognised union in the workplace. True, the conditions of precarious workers are terrible, but also the pay and minimum wage is abysmal, and the employers in these situations are basically only operating the way they do because of the terrible wages they pay their workers. Uber drivers have to pay for their car and fuel out of their own pocket, so in this case the employer has every interest to not negotiate wages, since they pay little to no operating costs.

(Snippet quoted: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2WG95hXoAIl12J.jpg)

The Uber workers are now in a pickle. Due to UK trade union laws, if they wanted to switch unions to a better more militant one, they would have to wait til the recognition agreement's been in place 3 years, and then wait 3+ years until they can apply for recognition with another union, which is a condition baked in to all recognition deals in the UK. This kind of inertia is the death of any organised labour movement amongst workers. As is clear, this is what the trade union act of 92 was supposed to do -- make it impossible for workers to quickly build momentum when advocating for better conditions for themselves.

So in signing a bad deal for a bit of press coverage, GMB are hanging Uber workers out to dry before they've begun, potentially for 6 years if the workers dislike the deal. Precarious workers aren't served by a yellow union rearranging deckchairs with the employer, they deserve to It's potentially a worse situation than doing nothing at all, or waiting for better terms from the employer. Workers deserve a militant, fighting union.

In fact, in "big three" GMB are far less militant than even their counterparts, Unite and Unison. In 2019, Unite and Unison both balloted 245 and 234 times respectively, while GMB only managed a bit more than half that (125).

Now, GMB have half the members (roughly) of those two, 600k compared to the 1.2m and 1.3m of the other two. But then you have the case of smaller, more militant unions, like the RMT, who did 126 ballots in the same year, with only 80k members!

Data: https://airtable.com/shrEgY32g6wTezsmV/tbl92F0cWh74D8al3

Proportionally it's not about size of the union. GMB is, for my money, deserving of a spot in the "big three". And indeed is of a size where it should be holding more ballots and sticking up for it's members more. Even if Unite or Unison had signed this deal, they wouldn't have signed away one of their workers key demands: the right to be paid a living wage.

GMB should be congratulated for it's recent work on "fire and rehire" campaign at British gas, but in this cynical expansion into new industries, it's proving itself woefully inadequate to represent workers in the 21st century, and could turn into another "yellow" union which exists only to serve it's own bureaucrats and robber baron patrons.

You gotta be kidding me... this "Centre for Union Facts" is a 501(c) doesn't disclose it's donors. I'd bet dollars to donuts it's funded by businesses like Amazon and Walmart to do in their employees who want to collectively bargain. Probably a terribly biased source, for anyone who wants the real facts about unions.

IWGB and UVW (International Workers of Great Britain and United Voices of the World) are examples in the UK. IWGB in particular has done great work representing some of the most precarious workers in the gig economy, a risk that bigger unions cannot or will not take. Partly this is due to the UK unions playing it safe with direct action such as strikes, since labour laws in the UK were made rather stringent since Thatcher and the NUM had it out in the 80s.

This is a great article about them. Maybe paywalled, sorry!

https://www.ft.com/content/576c68ea-3784-11ea-a6d3-9a26f8c3c...

If you Google "IWGB deliveroo" or "UVW St. Marys" you will find interesting case studies where each have represented delivery riders and nurses and won concessions where a bigger union wouldn't have bothered cos of the risk involved. Echoing the comment a few levels up, this can definitely be seen as a "disruption" of what a union is or is expected to do.

I think this is something the author knew, but this is not an uncommon and painful thought many people have. It's exactly the falsity of this that makes it more painful. Of course life is far more complex than just picking, but this is a perfect example of that painful fantasy.

What makes it a better solution? Albeit a bit "life hack"-y, this is something that requires no technical skill or support, and is easily assembled from household items, so very little outlay.

I don't think I'd concede that webcams are a better solution, when thinking as an underfunded body such as a school district who may have to provide support for potentially thousands of these webcams to work for all their teachers.

Furthermore, I don't think this is something that we should hold the individual teacher responsible for: teaching is already a full time job, and workers should not have to buy their own equipment to do their job with, something that already happens too much in that field.

I did also think the writing on the keyboard might prove problematic, but also the teacher could theoretically remove the notepad and place it back if they wished. It's a relatively "open" technique.

Very generous of you, thank you! You've helped a lot of people out with this I'm sure. Wishing you the best.