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In many non-Anglo-Euro countries, drinking is seen as moderately aberrant behaviour akin to frequenting sex workers or doing drugs.

I remember that everyone would whisper about an uncle of mine who "drank".

The poor man had around 5 or 6 drinks a week and has a moderately successful career as a lawyer at my country's Supreme Court.

But he was still the one who "drank".

Necessary, but no community wants one.

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Evil always finds new acolytes.

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eventually discovering that a game by Google could be used to fetch data in bulk"

I want it because LLMs make it easy to do without having to think.

One in 10 Blacktown emergency patients waited more than 43 hours to be admitted or transferred.

...while almost 9 per cent give up and leave without completing treatment.

NSW has not met any of its access targets for emergency wait times, which stipulate that at least 80 per cent of patients should be admitted or transferred to another hospital within six hours, according to Bureau of Health Information data published on Wednesday.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/revealed-the-sydney-h...

But it is cheaper and and easier sell to the gullible public than providing more funding and facilities.

"Woman found under coat in Nottingham A&E died days later

An investigation has been launched after a woman died days after being found unconscious underneath her coat while waiting in A&E for seven hours.

The 39-year-old woman is understood to have first attended A&E at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham on the evening of 19 January complaining of a severe headache. She was triaged and then observed by nurses three times. Her case was escalated but she was not seen by a doctor before being discovered.

When the woman was called to see a doctor, she did not respond. It was assumed that she had left A&E because she had waited so long. She was discovered and transferred to intensive care but died three days later on 22 January.

A source familiar with the hospital told LBC, which first reported the incident, that the A&E department could have up to 80 patients waiting at a single time and that wait times could be as long as 14 hours"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/10/nottingham-i...

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But a federal investigation found that firewall is often ignored.

And The New York Times reported that health care workers in several states said they had witnessed procurement staff members “persuading hospital clinicians to administer morphine, propofol and other drugs to hasten the death of potential donors.”

A former Obama White House official testified before Congress that she had heard directly from whistle-blowers at procurement organizations that they were trained to target inexperienced physicians, especially in rural areas, who may be less likely to push back."

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Might improve it a little bit.

Meanwhile as his company craters, Mr Knight gets a building named after hi.

"The University of Oregon ranks 301st to 400th nationally for engineering according to Times Higher Education World University Rankings"

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Us rusted on Toyota customers are moving to Chinese EVs

My family's last 6 cars were Toyota hybrids. But as a corporation, Toyota is notoriously anti-electric.

Tomorrow I am test driving a Xpeng G6, a Zeek X and a BYD Atto 3.

No more anti-electric Toyotas for me.

( And of course no cars from fascist countries like the USA, that goes without saying )

On the other hand, Australian cybersecurity is so pathetic that without the email they would never have known.

I wonder how many state actors (US, Russia, China, India, Germany, probably even Laos ) have already breached Australian government security but have not been polite enough to email the relevant departments to let them know.

"OpenAI breached Medicare’s portal on June 18, but did not notify the government until September 10 via an email to Medicare’s public mailbox, a delay Albanese described as unacceptable.

Five days after the September 10 email from OpenAI, Services Australia, which administers the portal, reported the breach to the Australian Signals Directorate. The government was informed of the incident at the end of last week."