1. It's legal cos it's so fucking weird and new a law hasn't been made against it. Until a crazy man rapes some drunk woman after seeing how vulnerable drunk alone women can be there isn't a law yet

  2. I'd just go to my GP and get all the paid leave I need, no questions asked (for a while at least). 

  3. I'm British and I don't get paid for the first week off sick, then need a sick note and get statutory sick pay, because I've worked there less than two years

  4. 11, I was 11 and I understood my sexuality. I also understood my parents were homophobic and wouldn't accept me, so I hid it. I learned to hide who I was, I was raped at 12 because I learnt to hide I hid that too.

  5. You can't use individual peoples case studies in modern medicine. For example, I was born a woman, had four brothers and didn't really know what gender I was a was a bit confused as a teen why some girls were gushing over boys whereas I had to live with smelly brothers. 

  6. We have also been betrayed with recombinant antibodies that initially said about having multi-species reactivity, and then after a decade of selling it, changing the reactivity to just mouse (as only knowing after a decade that other epitopes have no sequence homology). Oh so now a decade of publications that used to detect the antigens from the other species using that antibody can suck it.

  7. What were they measuring then? Didn't they have controls (wt and kos) in their experiments?

  8. Sadly, companies with extraordinary repute have “errors of judgement” in their QC and QA teams.

  9. Hmmm I do work in a diagnostics company and although we do some r&d it is mostly of our own assays and we trust consumables sold by reputable companies, unlike in academia where you trust nothing and verify stuff. Our company would sue the hell out of vendors selling bad consumables if they had said they had verified them. Someone should have verified them and it is normally clear whose responsibility it is to do so (RUO vs IVD products)

  10. Initial tweet: "The Nazis burnt books on trans healthcare and research, why are you so desperate to uphold their ideology around gender?"

  11. I interpret that as her saying "why are you saying I support the Nazis, you are crazy" not "I deny the holocause happened"...

  12. You don't say "check your source" if you are talking about your own opinion though, you say that when you think someone has not got the established facts of a matter correct.

  13. I guess this is why we need clearer laws so it is easier to tell when someone is committing a crime, rather than whoever has the most lawyers 

  14. So what non wfh jobs are exclusive to london?

  15. I don't know, but there's millions of people living in London, surrounded by friends and family and probably their safety net of people, working minimum wage jobs who could technically move somewhere else but don't want to move somewhere where they don't know anyone. Source: most of my relatives

  16. OK, so if people refuse to leave London, that reduces the reasons for businesses to also leave London.

  17. Unreal. So a woman can move into your home...become pregnant to another man while lying to you that you are the father. Accuse you of DV, then the courts can exclude you from your home while forcing you to continue paying the mortgage.

  18. Because most of the time, it is the man beating/abusing the woman and/or children and the woman doesn't have money of her own, so can't leave or end up homeless. We have OPs side of the story, but every story has two sides and it isn't over until the court case is done.

  19. Imo the reason why people are afraid of GMOs isn't because GM research isn't hidden well enough from the public, but because the public has zero clue about GMOs, and is only informed about it through alarmist journalsits who themselves don't know a single thing about it....(making it an easy way to frighten the shit out of people through insane clickbait fake news about "ThE nEw Catastrophic EnD oF HuManItY™©")

  20. Would people learning about scientists doing development biology experiment on day 10-12 human embryos make them feel fine with it? I doubt it, but it is how we learn about early brain development.

  21. My tldr/point: if you're trying to hide your research, you misunderstand the point.

  22. Many labs doing animal research e.g. using dogs/monkeys/apes have to be secretive and highly secure because of activists who could try to ruin it. I had to walk through protests because of our GM crop work and they did ruin years of work. You can sneer at people, less educated, who don't have the same opinion as you, but they are also adults with valid opinions. Don't infantilise peope if you don't agree with them, they are allowed their own opinion.

  23. Thing is she went to Oxford and did PPE which is notoriously a popular course so it must be hard to get a place. All I can think is. How?!?! She seems thick as mince. 

  24. Book smart and good at exams is different to genuinely intelligent

  25. I agree bringing in fees was a con - I went on those marches when I was in freshers and feel really angry at the lib dems (even if slightly older, more mature me doubts they had the power to change much when in coalition).

  26. I'm not advocating for everyone going to uni, and I still think there should be an academic entry component (although I would also welcome further accessibility here) to make sure the people being accepted are those most likely to finish.

  27. I have an idea that every ten years, say when you're 30,40,50,60 you get free training in something for say 3 months full time, and your old job covered. People of all ages could retrain, people could change their mind in later life. I don't mean do a new degree in 3 months, I mean builders could learn to be book keepers, drivers could learn to be call centre operatives and work from home if they want, people could have a go at being an HGV driver. You could target areas with shortages. Why all this huge decision making when you're 18-21 no one has life experience or understanding of the world of work?

  28. Kids don't learn social skills from kids that have none. At best, they learn how to defend themselves, which as a daily activity doesn't help them in the least.

  29. All kids learn social skills through experience, including dealing with bullies, how to make friends, helping slower kids, learning to share, learning to not be the centre of attention, learning how to focus on themselves even in a busy environment. Teachers especially in younger years focus a lot on these extra skills even if you didn't realise it was happening to you.

  30. The problem is, these environments are no longer structured, because the disruptive elements can't be/aren't properly contained. The stories I've heard from some teachers are enough to make your hair curl.

  31. Some of my housemates are teachers, of year 2, year 6 and high school/A levels. They have all been doing it a few years (lots of trainee teachers don't make it past year 2) and prefer the kids to the parents, or god forbid, the Senior Management Team at each of their school.

  32. Unless you have a mortgage, in which case she shot your foot too.

  33. Or rent and now you pay your landlords higher mortgage amount for them

  34. Microbiology is learning about living things tiny enough to see down a microscope, or smaller.

  35. Oh yeah, London has an affordibility problem for sure.

  36. Im a foreigner, the north os not really an option for me 😅 I don’t think i could survive the weather

  37. I'm guessing you're not Canadian or Swedish or Norwegian or Russian then XD

  38. Medical diagnostic certified labs tend to have the specific robot model, automation scripts, consumables and data analysis pipelines bundled together to make sure every sample gets treated in GLP/ISO/IVDR approved testing.

  39. You'd need to release insane amounts to get to any bacteria killing concentrations tho. A sewage cleaning plant can clean 200 000l/h water, you'd need to release two metric tons alcohol to even get the concentration to 1%.

  40. I used to work at a research institute that was geographically near the waste water treatment centre (sink water didn't really get diluted before going straight into the ponds) and someone did put something toxic down the sink (I forgot what) and killed a treatment pond. Institute had to pay a fine for breaking the rules and the cost of damaging the centre, that employee was in a lot of trouble for not following rules.

  41. NHS employees have taken a +30% real terms pay cut since the Tories came in, with pay rises being either frozen or well below inflation.

  42. "NHS employees have taken a +30% real terms pay cut since the Tories came in" Isn't think for UK employees in almost every sector, not just healthcare

  43. Can I use diluted baking soda or bleach instead of vinegar? Have none to hand

  44. Don't use bleach, you might poison yourself if it doesn't washed out. I'm British and everyone uses kettles often, some people use 1-2 teaspoons of baking powder and boil a whole kettle of water to clean out the limescale every month of so.

  45. Youtube videos are great often if your lab mates won't give you ten minutes if you ask politely what they're doing and why.

  46. How do you think this relates to the point we’re actually discussing?

  47. At this point I have no idea what you're arguing.

  48. It’s all pretty clear if you read back. I am simply disputing this claim:

  49. I agree with that claim. If on average, private school students are getting higher grades than state school students, is it because they are genetically more intelligent children?

  50. But nhs staff have to pay for parking. When I used to be able to drive (pre epilepsy) me and my wife (who is also a nurse) had to pay £30 each a month to park at the same hospital as we did different shifts

  51. I never heard of any employer who pays the commute fees for employee, including NHS. Harsh but true

  52. They are not talking about commuting fees, they are talking about NHS staff having to pay to park in the NHS carparks of the hospitals they work at. (And all streets anywhere near are likely to be residents' permit parking only otherwise they would be permanently clogged with people - staff, patients and visitors - trying to avoid the NHS parking charges.

  53. A parking fee is part of your commuting fee, you don't pay for parking if you walk to work. NHS staff don't get free buss pass, wouldn't that be better than free parking?

  54. Just raise the productivity of our workers and that will solve the issue!

  55. Productivity of companies doesn't mean how hard employees work, it means for every £1 invested into a company how much profit does that company make.

  56. I know, but they were in charge of looking after the victim following his release on bail.

  57. I'm not sure the police are in charge of looking after a victim unless they're on some kind of protection scheme (does that even happen in this country?)

  58. Not that it matters but it’s Kilometers per hour not mph. Still close to 110mph

  59. It's not 110 kph I can do that in my ford fiesta, in UK we use MPH. Rude boys listening to rap in German Whip aint bothered about 110mph

  60. I would be interested to know as well. I don't know why he films the bidets

  61. Because the taps have giant tacky glass jewels on the handles XD

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