If you want to see how a privatised system of health care might work (or not work) in England, you can look at the USA (see earlier post) or nearer to home at the plight of patients seeking NHS dentistry.
The disaster of UK dental care continues to worsen, with little public emergency cover & patients resorting to pulling their own teeth.
Repeated 'solutions' to the dental crisis have failed, leaving us with a brutally dysfunctional dental sector.
#health #dentists
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People pulling own teeth due to lack of urgent NHS dental care in England, watchdog finds
Emergency help should be available, but some being forced to travel 100 miles or go private, says Healthwatch EnglandJamie Grierson (The Guardian)
Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial
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Hong Kong media mogul convicted in landmark national security trial
Jimmy Lai’s trial, conducted without a jury, has been closely monitored by the US, Britain, the EU and political observers as a barometer of media freedom and judicial independence in Hong Kong.Euronews.com
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✨Diana and Callisto✨
Callisto was one of the followers of Diana (Artemis) but when she fell pregnant after an encounter with a god (no prizes for guessing who this was), she was expelled from the group. Virginity was highly prized by Diana and even though some accounts suggest Zeus (Jupiter) appeared to Callisto in the form of Diana, the pregnancy gave lie to all appearances. Things get worse for Callisto though. When Hera (Juno) discovered what her husband had been up to she took her feelings out on Callisto and transformed her into a bear.
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Die bayerische Staatsregierung sorgt derzeit für ordentlich Wirbel: Sie plant, einen Rahmenvertrag mit Microsoft im Wert von schätzungsweise einer Milliarde Euro über die nächsten fünf Jahre abzuschließen – und das ohne vorherige Ausschreibung! 😮
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Cloud: Zoff in Bayern wegen Milliardenauftrag an Microsoft ohne Ausschreibung
Das Open-Source-Lager, Informatiker und IT-Wirtschaft warnen vor Verlust der digitalen Souveränität in Bayern und fordern den Stopp der Microsoft-Verhandlungen.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
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di Antonio Mazzeo
A Messina, nella più totale disattenzione delle istituzioni, dell’amministrazione comunale e delle forze politiche, sociali e sindacali, il ministero della #Difesa sta per portare a termine un programma multimilionario che rafforzerà i processi di militarizzazione del territorio devastando irrimediabilmente la Zona Falcata, area di immenso valore paesaggistico e storico-architettonico.
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Sorgerà a Messina l’Hub di Guerra della Marina Militare italiana
A Messina, nella più totale disattenzione delle istituzioni, dell’amministrazione comunale e delle forze politiche, sociali e sindacali, il ...Antonio Mazzeo (Blogger)
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Political Marxists Create Split in First International: Italian Federation Responds
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15 Dead, 38 Hospitalised in Bondi Attack—Here's How to Help and Get Support
This piece is freely available to read.Mencari Team (Mencari News (Australia))
Rob Reiner mourned by Barack Obama, Jerry O'Connell, James Woods and many others
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Jetzt bin ich wach. Vom Kater gibt es den bösen Blick weil nicht die richtigen Leckerlis da.
So ein Tag ist das heute
@PhoebeEule Ein Foto zeigt eine Katze, die auf einem Fliesenboden liegt. Die Katze liegt auf dem Rücken, die Beine sind ausgestreckt. Das Fell der Katze ist mehrfarbig, mit Flecken in den Farben Weiß, Schwarz und Orange. Im Hintergrund sind Fliesen in einem quadratischen Muster zu sehen, und eine kleine Stufe ist links im Bildrahmen zu sehen.
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South African Lawmakers Seek Halt to Easing Rules for Starlink
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Giornata Nazionale dello Spazio 2025, eventi e mostre da non perdere
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Giornata Nazionale dello Spazio 2025: gli eventi e le mostre in Italia
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 14th, 2025 - 9to5Linux
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 14th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 146, Cinnamon 6.6. pearOS, COSMIC on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, and more.Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)
Write digits in groups of eight by TobiSchluter · Pull Request #4 · vitaut/zmij
Writes the digits in blocks of eight instead of two and then adjust for the triailing zeros only once. They are identified by bit-counting of the eight-digit block. This is an extension of my previ...GitHub
Es wird jeden Tag geruhsamer... Was kann man daran nicht mögen?
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Bondi Beach Jewish Massacre, Meloni's Europe Warning, More
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⛔️🇺🇸Americans understand Trump walking away from forcing Ukraine’s capitulation is the best case scenario, why can’t Europe and Zelensky see the same? (The Bulwark Media VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #US #UK #EU #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania
Il regista Rob Reiner e la moglie Michele Singer uccisi in casa
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Il regista Rob Reiner e la moglie Michele Singer uccisi in casa
Il delitto nella villa di Los Angeles. Sospettato il figlio 32enne Nick, sotto interrogatorioIl Sole 24 Ore (Il Sole 24 ORE)
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Tag 15 im Dezember bei 3°/-1° in #Aalen. Trocken, zum Tagesbeginn neblig. Die Sonne schaut auch mal vorbei
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Il finale venne cambiato in corsa, aggiungendo il più classico degli happy ending la notte di Capodanno, perché nel frattempo il regista #RobReiner aveva incontrato la donna della sua vita. E insieme, 36 anni dopo, se ne sono andati. Watch Harry, ti presento Sally... - StreamingCommunity streamingcommunityz.digital/it…
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Und denke daran:
der Montag hat auch ein Problem mit dir.
- for(;;) {} (21%, 21 votes)
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I think I'd kind of like to cut a subset of PostScript out and implement it as a reusable foundation for a generic embedded systems language. It's Forth enough to be fairly simple to implement and port, and should fit into tiny systems without too much trouble, but also safe enough to afford to be careless about in contexts where obscure abstraction leaks can really trigger a programmer, like the classic Forths aren't.
The only issue is, original PostScript did a sort of OOP as a bolted-on feature, and it's pretty clumsy in practice. Considering that the messaging facet of OOP is actualy pretty useful in the sort of embeddedd systems that this might work well in, I'd probably have to figure out how to retrofit something like Io's or Potion's object system, or perhaps, Perl's blessings, into the PostScript worldview. I can sort of see how both of these approaches could work, but not yet clearly.
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yea, I have a goodly heritage.
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Hessen: Verfassungsschutz darf Staatstrojaner für Online-Durchsuchung einsetzen
Karlsruhe kippte das hessische Verfassungsschutzgesetz teils. Der Landtag hat eine Reform beschlossen, die dem Geheimdienst neue, weitgehende Befugnisse gibt.
Infinix XPad Edge Launch Confirmed for December 18: Design and Key Features
Infinix confirms the XPad Edge tablet launch for December 18, featuring a sleek metal body, large 13.2-inch display, quad speakers, AI tools and Android 15.
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Infinix XPad Edge Launch Confirmed for December 18: Design and Key Features
Infinix XPad Edge is launching on December 18 with a slim metal design, 13.2-inch display, quad speakers, AI features and productivity-focused tools.Alok Tiwari (Infinix XPad Edge Launch on December 18, Key Details)
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
Russia loses another 980 troops, two air defense systems over past day
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 15, 2025 amount to approximately 1,189,470 personnel, including 980 in the past 24 hours. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
I posted an article on my Substack, sharing some thoughts on how we use language in the context of #artificalintelligence and how to handle possoble negative aspects of using #tech that is all too #human.
Should we created artificial clones of everything now?
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#ai #ml #machinelearning #language #technology #engineering #society
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in reply to AnneH • • •@annehargreaves
possibly... although in my experience optical is nothing like as bad (difficult) as with dental (other than cost, of course). For instance, Specsavers do a pretty good job on free NHS tests.....
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in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •MarjorieR
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •Many people are entitled to both a free eye test and support from the purchase of glasses.
While the cost of the test for those that do have to pay is (about £27) is similar to the cost of a NHS dental check up, there are plenty of (private) opticians you can book with whether your eye test is free or not. Clearly the support offered to Opticians to provide the test is sufficient to get them to provide the service.
This is certainly not true of Dentists. It is basically impossible to sign up for NHS Dental treatment here is Devon.
I do still get NHS Dental treatment, having been a NHS patient for many years, but my family don't any longer as they were with another practice that went entirely private. Even my practice only has one NHS Dentist, I suspect it's basically a job for initiating foreign qualified dentist: all my dentist have had a foreign qualification and once the dentist has a track record they also go private and I (eventually) get a new one.
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Yes exactly the same at the practice where I (unlike my wife) am still an NHS patient - its a slow moving revolving door as the new (foreign) dentist builds up experience/record & moves into the much larger private segment of the practice...
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though whether you'd now easily get back in is another issue....
Different Drummer
in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May • • •The big turning point for downgrading NHS dentistry was during the Covid lockdown under BoJo.
Allegedly NHS dentists were closed due to it being hazardous. HOWEVER post-Thatcher, dentistry had moved from NHS dentists doing some private work to Private Practices doing licensed NHS work.
So all that stopped was the NHS dentistry. The SAME dentists would do the work... if you could pay. Most, like myself, couldn't.
Post-lockdown, a lot simply dumped NHS and went Private only.
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in reply to Different Drummer • • •@DifferentDrummer
Yes, I've occasionally made that point myself - vets are a scary vision of what prove health care might look like