DreamsOfGerontius
@dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social
Games and puzzles hobbyist for life at https://dreamsofgerontius.com/
Physicist and European Patent Attorney for the last 25 years, currently in the nuclear fusion industry
Physicist and European Patent Attorney for the last 25 years, currently in the nuclear fusion industry
I can't confirm this is true, but here's some retrospective attempts to research this memory:
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I hoped someone might remember better than me, but it seems not and I didn't want to leave it hanging without evidence, so tried tracing it back.
I can't find anything that backs up my "uninsured are excluded from the data" claim, but it seems complicated enough I won't delete entirely
Sources:
I can't find anything that backs up my "uninsured are excluded from the data" claim, but it seems complicated enough I won't delete entirely
Sources:
December 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I can't confirm this is true, but here's some retrospective attempts to research this memory:
bsky.app/profile/drea...
bsky.app/profile/drea...
And the original assertion about how bad the NHS is compared to US private healthcare, appears to have come from then MEP, now life peer, Daniel Hannan, a free market zealot and one of the main architects of Brexit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
Daniel Hannan - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
And the original assertion about how bad the NHS is compared to US private healthcare, appears to have come from then MEP, now life peer, Daniel Hannan, a free market zealot and one of the main architects of Brexit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_...
www.forbes.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I hoped someone might remember better than me, but it seems not and I didn't want to leave it hanging without evidence, so tried tracing it back.
I can't find anything that backs up my "uninsured are excluded from the data" claim, but it seems complicated enough I won't delete entirely
Sources:
I can't find anything that backs up my "uninsured are excluded from the data" claim, but it seems complicated enough I won't delete entirely
Sources:
December 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I hoped someone might remember better than me, but it seems not and I didn't want to leave it hanging without evidence, so tried tracing it back.
I can't find anything that backs up my "uninsured are excluded from the data" claim, but it seems complicated enough I won't delete entirely
Sources:
I can't find anything that backs up my "uninsured are excluded from the data" claim, but it seems complicated enough I won't delete entirely
Sources:
I vaguely recall from the Obamacare "debates", republicans comparing US cancer survival rates with UK rates, saying US rates were better, therefore socialised (NHS) healthcare was terrible. Except US rates excluded those unable to get insurance because they'd previously had cancer. Sound true?
December 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I vaguely recall from the Obamacare "debates", republicans comparing US cancer survival rates with UK rates, saying US rates were better, therefore socialised (NHS) healthcare was terrible. Except US rates excluded those unable to get insurance because they'd previously had cancer. Sound true?
I think you may have landed upon the one and only reason to have a Trump Presidential Museum
December 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I think you may have landed upon the one and only reason to have a Trump Presidential Museum
I'd rather UK media had you to call on than the carousel of fedsoc members and former trump campaign advisors.
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I'd rather UK media had you to call on than the carousel of fedsoc members and former trump campaign advisors.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume you're insufficiently "racial" to be profiled
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume you're insufficiently "racial" to be profiled
Windmilling your arms for a few years takes a lot of effort!
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Windmilling your arms for a few years takes a lot of effort!
I'm no expert, but isn't Dredd generally a moral officer in a corrupt system? In which case: yes, more Dredd's please because maybe they'll be willing to say no to the systemic corruption
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I'm no expert, but isn't Dredd generally a moral officer in a corrupt system? In which case: yes, more Dredd's please because maybe they'll be willing to say no to the systemic corruption
In this case, it's worse than you think. There was a whole right-wing "Thanos was right" movement. This wasn't an inability to understand the message of the Avengers films, but an explicit rejection of that message because they want the alternative and voted to get it.
December 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In this case, it's worse than you think. There was a whole right-wing "Thanos was right" movement. This wasn't an inability to understand the message of the Avengers films, but an explicit rejection of that message because they want the alternative and voted to get it.
Noteworthy that Farage would target the BBC despite the R4 coverage I've heard having interviewers repeatedly interjecting that "it has to be said that Farage denies the claims"
Funny how premature capitulation, once again, doesn't work with bullies...
Funny how premature capitulation, once again, doesn't work with bullies...
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Noteworthy that Farage would target the BBC despite the R4 coverage I've heard having interviewers repeatedly interjecting that "it has to be said that Farage denies the claims"
Funny how premature capitulation, once again, doesn't work with bullies...
Funny how premature capitulation, once again, doesn't work with bullies...
Farage when he says he doesn't remember any of this:
a man in a red uniform stands next to a woman in a red dress who says " but for me "
Alt: Raul Julia as M Bison in Street Fighter on his past atrocities: "But for me... it was Tuesday "
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Farage when he says he doesn't remember any of this:
Don't let the people who really did vote for this off the hook by saying it's all Twitter bots and foreign interference
November 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Don't let the people who really did vote for this off the hook by saying it's all Twitter bots and foreign interference
It's still a must listen and it's a whole lecture series not just a speech
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Even censored (to remove criticism of Trump without the listener being aware of the edit) this is a must listen
A Time of Monsters:
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman asks what can be done to counter the moral decay of today's un-serious elites.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
A Time of Monsters:
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman asks what can be done to counter the moral decay of today's un-serious elites.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It's still a must listen and it's a whole lecture series not just a speech
bsky.app/profile/drea...
bsky.app/profile/drea...
... it's a total gut punch because we know what's in store for Spike, and it's maybe worse than any infected/zombie.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
... it's a total gut punch because we know what's in store for Spike, and it's maybe worse than any infected/zombie.
... the murky undercurrents hinted at in the commune, deliberately represented as an historic ideal, suggest this darkness has always existed: it's not some symptom of modern society to be blamed on immigrants or whatever the target of the hour is.
Finally...
Finally...
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
... the murky undercurrents hinted at in the commune, deliberately represented as an historic ideal, suggest this darkness has always existed: it's not some symptom of modern society to be blamed on immigrants or whatever the target of the hour is.
Finally...
Finally...
I thought it was brilliant in that it put the rest of the film in a new light. Jimmy Saville represents not just the worst human individual, but the worst of society allowing him to get away with his abuse for so long. It's saying, first, this darkness will always exist in society, second...
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I thought it was brilliant in that it put the rest of the film in a new light. Jimmy Saville represents not just the worst human individual, but the worst of society allowing him to get away with his abuse for so long. It's saying, first, this darkness will always exist in society, second...