BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[BoldonLad]

I'll admit that I avoid the French subjunctive as much as possible. I think it'll die by itself in both languages in 30 years, as my generation pops its clogs.

I think I avoid the subjunctive, but, not knowing what it is, I am not certain 😊

 

[First Aspect]

Subjunctivitis is a painful but treatable condition.

 

[briantrumpet]

I think I avoid the subjunctive, but, not knowing what it is, I am not certain 😊

So be it.

 

[briantrumpet]

Subjunctivitis is a painful but treatable condition.

Not so, it's just a con.

 

[briantrumpet]

Discuss.

 

[All uphill]

Discuss.

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Imo GDP per capita in the UK is less than that of the US because we still have a reasonably civilised society that doesn't require 50 working weeks per year, 70 hour weeks.

 

[First Aspect]

It is about as easy to comment on the UKs growth and productivity being held back because it has one city region that is too large and unfragmented.

They can't both be true.

 

[Pross]

Discuss.

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From the mention of Cambridge in the same breath as London plus the hailing of the US as something to aspire to and I thought I knew who’d written it. Then I realised they were talking of trying to build the north and realised it couldn’t be.

 

[briantrumpet]

Could be interesting:

https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers

On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000 the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times. Max Schrems: “Given that there are no independent authorities in the US anymore, we call on the European Commission to orderly withdraw the adequacy decision on the US.”

 

[Pblakeney]

Donnie doesn’t understand the concept of actions and consequences.

 

[briantrumpet]

A little bit of context in this TES article about the proposed cuts in Humanities at Exeter University:

https://archive.ph/FBSGU

She said there feels like there is a “split” between academics and management, and that academics feel “cheated” as “we’re very successful in terms of what we were hired to do: delivering research outcomes, writing books…but the managers aren’t concerned with those metrics”. Instead, “they’re concerned with student recruitment and reaching particular targets, so it’s like we’re speaking two different languages,” said Maguire, who herself is at risk of redundancy.

David Miller, a former head of marketing at Exeter who now works as a consultant, highlighted how undergraduate numbers studying history at Exeter have dropped by a quarter and languages enrolments are down by 37 per cent. “If anything, Exeter has made the call to reduce staff numbers in these subjects later than other universities. All they are doing is aligning resources with demand”, he said on LinkedIn.

But Maguire said she believed that the government could be doing more to protect humanities subjects, and that government’s own strategic priorities could be fuelling the cuts.