America - The Official Thread

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UKMikey
When my mum came out of hospital her assigned social worker was ill and didn't contact us for two weeks so wasn't able to arrange any follow on care after the one week discharge-to-access she received from the hospital. Luckily she didn't require it and decided to waive the extra care as she figured others needed it more. On the other hand she did require constant visits from the district nurses and community visitors from her clinic for medical problems. I'd hate to think that the latter would have been compromised because resources were allocated instead to something that wasn't essential to her needs.

I doubt the people advocating for spending less cash on the NHS would intend for that money to be reallocated to social care anyway. The cynic in me suspects the government need it for tax cuts instead.

Fund both.
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But isn't funding "both" the answer to the crime problem too?

My point is we are talking about resource allocation (i.e. how to get the most bang for your buck), and social care has been starved of funds under the Tories with only recent steps taken to address this. By diverting more of the portion available to social care you can see improved results in patient outcomes. Take for instance A+E wait times. A big problem with that is a lack of beds taken up by so called "bed blockers", a lot of whom are elderly people who are MFFD (medically fit for discharge) but aren't discharged because of a backlog in social care. So patients unable to go "home" leads to no space for those in A+E needing a bed leading to longer wait times. That then leads to another knock on effect - ambulances queuing up outside A+E, unable to hand over patients creating longer ambulance response times for everything, including Category 2 calls (which includes heart attacks and strokes). Obviously the ideal solution is to fund more infrastructure upgrades in the NHS and inject more cash into social care, like it would be with the police and crime preventative measures, but there seems to be a different perception on how these two issues should be treated, or at least the discussion looks that way.
 
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But isn't funding "both" the answer to the crime problem too?

My point is we are talking about resource allocation (i.e. how to get the most bang for your buck), and social care has been starved of funds under the Tories with only recent steps taken to address this. By diverting more of the portion available to social care you can see improved results in patient outcomes. Take for instance A+E wait times. A big problem with that is a lack of beds taken up by so called "bed blockers", a lot of whom are elderly people who are MFFD (medically fit for discharge) but aren't discharged because of a backlog in social care. So patients unable to go "home" leads to no space for those in A+E needing a bed leading to longer wait times. That then leads to another knock on effect - ambulances queuing up outside A+E, unable to hand over patients creating longer ambulance response times for everything, including Category 2 calls (which includes heart attacks and strokes). Obviously the ideal solution is to fund more infrastructure upgrades in the NHS and inject more cash into social care, like it would be with the police and crime preventative measures, but there seems to be a different perception on how these two issues should be treated, or at least the discussion looks that way.
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I don't believe the two situations are analagous. Funding crime prevention is supposed to reduce the overall crime rate. The police are seen as overbudgeted by its proponents with little effect on overall crime rates.

Funding social care won't improve general health. The health service still needs the money for people who are sick and need those beds. Their respective mandates don't overlap to the extent that money can be taken from one to fund the other without the situation worsening, because unlike the above their aims aren't the same. Money used to reduce bed blocking should come from somewhere else.

I'm pretty sure health cuts aimed at reducing bloat and inefficiency in health care are a thing. I'm not sure governments have a similar appetite for doing the same with law enforcement budgets or at least not to the same extent.
 
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More details on the lay-offs:
www.platformer.news

Twitter, cut in half

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If it was terrible to be laid off from Twitter on Friday, many employees found also that it felt terrible to remain. Aside from the email informing them of their continued employment, they had received no communication from Musk and his small council. Half of their colleagues were gone, but no one knew which colleagues. An internal directory had been made inaccessible, and in any case it had not been updated to reflect anyone’s employment status.

And yet still, there was Twitter to run: systems to maintain, code to write, projects to sync up on. And so workers began to create Google Docs listing who they could confirm was still employed at the company. They messaged colleagues on Slack to see who would message back. If the person responded, they got added to the doc.

“We’re basically messaging all our coworkers trying to figure out who’s left, like after a disaster,” one employee told us.

The confusion has made the company vulnerable should systems begin to break down or suffer an attack, employees said.

“It’s extremely unclear who still works here,” another worker told us. “Lots of ‘everybody left raise their hands’ in project channels.”

We asked remaining workers about the likelihood of an extended Twitter outage in coming weeks as the company adjusts to the loss of so much institutional knowledge. Opinions varied, but everyone we talked to said the concerns are valid and some said they expected that the service would suffer downtime in the coming months.
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I can't verify any of this (who can?) but one outlet is reporting that Musk simply listed all employees by amount of code written, sorted it, and fired the bottom [arbitrary] percent.

Another is reporting that some fired employees are now being approached to be unfired.

Edit: Oh, and another reporting Twitter will implement a "reasonable" fee for "messaging your favourite celebrity".


It's an Onion article come to life.
 
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Famine
I can't verify any of this (who can?) but one outlet is reporting that Musk simply listed all employees by amount of code written, sorted it, and fired the bottom [arbitrary] percent.

Another is reporting that some fired employees are now being approached to be unfired.

Edit: Oh, and another reporting Twitter will implement a "reasonable" fee for "messaging your favourite celebrity".


It's an Onion article come to life.
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Reasonable fee that will go into the pockets of Twitter (aka Cameo) and almost nothing to the celebrity.

We are truly speedrunning how quick Twitter can be sunk.
 
So the Kaz Hirai Twitter account


Is significantly worse for the platform and the concept of free speech as an inalienable right than political figures attempting to overthrow the US government or repeating Nazi propaganda about the Jews.
 
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I was expecting him to introduce a special "parody" check mark at the low, low price of $12/month.
 
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There's hundreds of accounts using my screen name as their screen name, and not a one of them is marked as a parody.
 
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Looks like Elon doesn't have a sense of humor:
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Someone got butthurt real quick, but impersonating was an issue people literally brought up to him.

I was curious to see what would happen if someone started impersonating Ben Shapiro & someone else AOC, just to see how that would be handled. Actually, now that he's laid out a rule, I want to see it even more to see if consistency is there.
 
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I completely forgot about this statement Elon made back in May regarding Trump.
“I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump, I think that was a mistake,” Musk said. “I would reverse the perma-ban. … But my opinion, and Jack Dorsey, I want to be clear, shares this opinion, is that we should not have perma-bans.”
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Wonder how quick Elon will block someone if they ask what's the difference between a perma-ban & permanently suspended? 🤔
 
Maybe I missed something about this Twitter meltdown, but how is the little symbol formerly known as “verified” supposed to be helping to reduce the impact of bots on the platform now that anyone can get it by just paying for it? Is the logic there that people who create bot accounts won’t be buying the little symbol?
 
eran0004
Maybe I missed something about this Twitter meltdown, but how is the little symbol formerly known as “verified” supposed to be helping to reduce the impact of bots on the platform now that anyone can get it by just paying for it? Is the logic there that people who create bot accounts won’t be buying the little symbol?
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Nope. There is no logic. If Musk REALLY wanted to, he could have justified keeping the current system but adding more features to explain the cost. The problem is he defeated the entire purpose of the "verified" account and this will just allow for more misinformation.
 
eran0004
Maybe I missed something about this Twitter meltdown, but how is the little symbol formerly known as “verified” supposed to be helping to reduce the impact of bots on the platform now that anyone can get it by just paying for it? Is the logic there that people who create bot accounts won’t be buying the little symbol?
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The logic is that he is massively overleveraged after paying 60% too much for something that's undoubtfully worth far less than it already was so he needs to get revenue on the platform fast and everything else is meaningless pap meant to garner support from idiot Trump voters.
 
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