Are the SNP now actively trying to thwart independence ?

[Jack]

Who still tests? Buggered if I’m paying for a test at the chemists. I used the last of the ones we had a few months ago when I came down with it. Figures would be way higher than that if it’s based on actual positive tests

The authorities test the waste at the water treatment plants around the country.

You might remember a polio scare in London last year (?). They knew they were looking for about half a dozen cases and roughly where they were. I think they eventually found 3 but said they were looking for the others, something like that.

That illustrates how good the monitoring is.

Edit. They also check for illicit substances.

 

[joethehibby]

Who still tests? Buggered if I’m paying for a test at the chemists. I used the last of the ones we had a few months ago when I came down with it. Figures would be way higher than that if it’s based on actual positive tests

Haven’t a clue how they got these numbers, we need to ask Ryan I think, on the other hand

 

[joethehibby]

Or do they really believe the population will look at things like this and conclude that they are not completely mental, and consequently independence does not expose us to even more mentalness than today;

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I for one am now completely done with them, and indeed this kind of thing makes independence a sideshow; the more important battle these days is for civilisation.

The SNP are like Hib’s managers . They have a direction,plan,system, whatever you want to call it and no matter what happens they refuse to change direction and the inevitable happens,they’re out

 

[Archie]

@Gareth I very much recommend you listen to this. It’s sinister as fuck.

Carole Hooven On Harvard's Existential Crisis

She lost her job as a popular lecturer because she told the truth about biology. Listen now on the Dishcast.

andrewsullivan.substack.com

Interesting piece on the Harvard issue and wider implications.

Plagiarism is not a sin

 

[egb_hibs]

Interesting piece on the Harvard issue and wider implications.

Plagiarism is not a sin

I think the problem with Claudine Gay is more that;

- manifestly she was not qualified for her position, with an incredibly meagre academic record, riddled with plagiarism and focussed entirely on grievance politics. In short, she was manifestly an appointment based on those politics and not qualification.

- the utter mendacity displayed by her and her fellows from the other Unis. I mean you can make a case that academic freedom should include allowing people to call for genocide. But when you are simultaneously purging people for stating empirical biological facts, or for the slightest deviance from holy writ, when you are pursuing thought crimes and eliminating diversity of opinion, an appeal to free speech is completely fraudulent.

- In this context these people were revealed as representing the ideology that gave rise to Gay’s appointment, and that ideology has zero interest in free speech, or free academic enquiry; it’s anti enlightenment, totalitarian and anti semitic.

That’s why she had to go.

I think it could be a real watershed moment. I think the business world was largely naive in respect of what was going on in the campuses they were funding. I think they have now woken up big time, as has the general public I suspect. I don’t think the new madrasahs will get such a free ride going forward.

 

[Smurf]

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