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It's a question I've been wondering too. The only benefit I can think of is paying privately at point of use means while they are well an American doesn't have to pay a regular tax to keep the system funded so if a tax would cost them $120 a year but they only use $40 a year they have $80 still...

I'm going to have to wait for the 16 finalists to be announced. As with anything who's entry requirements are based on how much noise the comminity makes about something, when we have 3 million+ backers but only about 5,000 invested enough at this point (if that) to be on Spectrum and make a...

I do the same with forgetting to unplug the iron when going on holiday. I solved this by stopping using the iron and no longer going on holidays.

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COVID Catharsis Corner - reports from around the world from today, Monday 30th of August: - World: 216,824,792 confirmed cases and 4,506,988 confirmed deaths. - Variants: New strain found in South Africa, currently named C.1.2 - Scientists are working to establish its potency: “this pandemic...

This is where the real tradgedy is. Previously anti-vaxers have only mosty been hurting themselves and no one could deny if they did get sick it was their choice and the consequences of their own conscious actions/inactions - but during a pandemic, that's some real damage they are doing.

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COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Sunday 29th of August: - World: 216,290,483 confirmed cases and 4,499,262 confirmed deaths. - UK: COVID rates are 26 times higher than they were this time last year. “This time last year, the ONS estimated that 28,200 people in...

Lol REC, the last time I was sent some in a subscription the email telling me I'd got my REC was so old it didn't display correctly on my browser. Feels like its not been so much abandoned as totally and utterly forgotten about.

I bought a Swiss multitool off Amazon while in University shared accomodation. I used to collect the things and must admit because of my attitude at the time, that they were tools that happened to have knives in them rather than knives that have tools in them, I didn't think twice about it but...

COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Saturday 28th of August: - World: 215,794,619 confirmed cases and 4,491,330 confirmed deaths. - UK: Large scale study reveals Delta variant has double the risk of hospitalisation from serious illness compared to the previous...

[September '21 sub flair - Avenger paints] Don't have an avenger so i'm going to have to Simon Cowell this one - its a no from me. I like to imagine this is leading up to an Aurora/Mustang paint set as I'd think they are among the most owned craft being the core starter packs... Then again the...

I have no idea unfortunately but it's an interesting thought.

It will be interesting to watch what happens once the precautions are removed. A lot of countries have taken the gloves off only for Delta to take advantage.

COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Friday 27th of August: - World: 214,995,764 confirmed cases and 4,479,629 confirmed deaths. - UK: Research by Oxford University looking at medical records of 29 million people who had received one vaccine injection and 1.8...

COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Thursday 26th of August: - World: 214,275,388 confirmed cases and 4,469,247 confirmed deaths. - UK: Cases and deaths begin to creep back up. Researchers advise a cause may be Vaccine efficiency which they advise wanes about 5...

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COVID Catharsis Corner - Reports from around the world from today, Wednesday 25th of August: - World: 213,551,736 confirmed cases and 4,457,967 confirmed deaths. - World: Scientists warn the Origins investigation has stalled and time is running out: “The window of opportunity for conducting...

Considering DNA is 2.5nm wide, this is pretty big (small?) news!

Here's a strange thing I was once told which might be relevant to Ben Kenobi ageing prematurely: Ran into a guy once who turned out to be a doctor. While chatting about ageing and the ageing process he said he couldn't be one hundred percent sure, but he said an odd thing was he'd never met an...