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revisesociology (82)in #life • 20 hours ago
The Trouble with Turning Everyone into Investors
Britain has one of the lowest personal savings rates among rich countries now, and possibly the way we tend to talk about financial risk is part of the problem. If you try to…
$7.00
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Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 58.33 HIVE, 58.33 HP
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revisesociology (82)in #runningproject • 2 days ago
Weeklyish Running update - Going steady
I did three pretty solid runs in the last week: A tempo park run at 24 mins A Monday easy run at a 6KM per minute pace, just under A Wednesday track session A…
$4.73
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Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 39.42 HIVE, 39.42 HP
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revisesociology (82)in #life • 3 days ago
Why AI Could Change What Matters for Big Brands
David Wighton wrote a piece in The Times recently, asking a question that’s not going away: what happens to brands when AI starts making our choices for us? For years, the…
$7.82
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Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 65.16 HIVE, 65.16 HP
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revisesociology (82)in #cars • 4 days ago
On the backlash against Low Traffic Neighbourhoods...
Personally I love the concept of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - creating more spaces for pedestrians and bikes and funnelling cars onto fewer roads should just make life more…
$8.20
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Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 68.33 HIVE, 68.33 HP
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revisesociology (82)in #uk • 5 days ago
Profiteering on the Back of Public Need
Hettie O’Brien’s recent article in The Guardian focuses on a part of capitalism that most of us barely notice.... private equity firms snapping up everyday services like…
$7.19
Pending payout amount: $7.19
Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 59.88 HIVE, 59.88 HP
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revisesociology (82)in #life • 6 days ago
Shoplfiting is out of Control...
Shoplifting has traditionally been treated as a low level crime that doesn't really matter that much, something businesses can just sort of scuk-up and a low level crime with not…
$8.89
Pending payout amount: $8.89
Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 74.09 HIVE, 74.09 HP
Payout tomorrow
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revisesociology (82)in #pollutions • 7 days ago
A technological solution to plastic polllution...?!?
Everyday somewhere between 30-50K tonnes of plastic are dumped in our oceans. That's a staggering 11-12 million tonnes annually. Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, the founder of The…
$8.63
Pending payout amount: $8.63
Breakdown: 0.00 HBD, 71.89 HIVE, 71.89 HP
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revisesociology (82)in #hivegarden • 8 days ago
Allotment update... waiting game and alien tomatoes?
So we had a great start to the allotment this year, compared to last year certainly. Just last weekend we managed to get a good 30% of it planted up.... We've got brassicas…
$6.61
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- Author $3.31
- Curators $3.30
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revisesociology (82)in #cent • 9 days ago
Surge Pricing Is Coming for Everything — And People Are Going to Hate It
The industry probably wants us to think of it as dynamic pricing, but I personally prefer the name surge - it's a slightly less polite sounding way of describing something we're…
$6.71
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- Author $3.36
- Curators $3.35
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revisesociology (82)in #life • 10 days ago
Is Our Great Divide Really That Wide?
The Left in the UK seem to think that the UK is massively unequal and that wealth inequality especially is one of the root causes of most other social ills. However maybe…
$6.99
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- Author $3.50
- Curators $3.49
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revisesociology (82)in #free • 11 days ago
Rethinking Free Trade Assumptions
There's been a strong free trade narrative around at least since Reagan and Thatcher, with the 'free' standing broadly for 'tariff' free - the neoliberal theory being that…
$7.38
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- Author $3.69
- Curators $3.69
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revisesociology (82)in #china • 12 days ago
On Chinese Robots...
China is apparently now leading the way in robotics tech, so much so that it's changing the way even capitalism works! According to the International Federation of Robotics…
$6.08
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- Author $3.04
- Curators $3.03
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revisesociology (82)in #uk • 13 days ago
Turning Our Woodlands Into a Dump
George Monbiot pulls no punches in his recent Guardian column, “Turning our woodlands into a tip.” He takes a hard look at the mounting crisis of illegal waste dumping across the…
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- Author $2.71
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revisesociology (82)in #life • 14 days ago
Weekly ish Running Update - Best ParkRun Time in 6 years!
On it! 22.59 Park Run... So I headed off at a 4.40 pace for the first K intending to run the last couple of K faster if I could, but I ran it slightly faster at a 4.33…
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- Author $3.50
- Curators $3.49
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revisesociology (82)in #uk • 15 days ago
A good couple of days for the Green Party, and the other one±
So it's a pretty radical shift in UK politics this week... With Reform gaining over 1400 seats and the Greens gaining over 300, with MASSIVE losses for Labour and also big…
$5.07
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- Author $2.54
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revisesociology (82)in #uk • 16 days ago
The gold-plated problem with Infrastructure development...
People love to blame “red tape” for everything wrong with construction and infrastructure in Britain. Politicians keep promising that if they just cut a few regulations, suddenly…
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- Author $3.85
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revisesociology (82)in #uk • 17 days ago
Allotment about to go BOOM!
So we've had a good start with the sewing and early stage development of LOTS of plants for the allotment... Corn, Tomatoes and courgettes Which we are currently hardening…
$6.75
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- Author $3.38
- Curators $3.37
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revisesociology (82)in #uk • 18 days ago
On the Energy Crunch...
A lot of people these days feel just stuck in a cost of living crises, increasing energy costs aren't helping that. And it's difficult to see how the government can carry on…
$6.72
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- Author $3.37
- Curators $3.36
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revisesociology (82)in #running • 19 days ago
Weekly ish Running Update...
I've just realised I've missed out one random inteerval session I did about 10 days ago, but the last three runs as follows: Hereford easyish 6K I wasn't in the mood for…
$7.69
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- Author $3.85
- Curators $3.84
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revisesociology (82)in #life • 20 days ago
Ahh The Snooker and May Bank Holiday!
So I did something proper self-indulgent this last week, well suited a bloke in his 50s - I watched somne damned Snooker, live from The Crucible, in Sheffield... It's a funny…
$7.81
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- Author $3.91
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