Chomper Higgot

Odd then that it’s manufacturers that lobbied the Government to retain the CE mark and ditch the UKCA.

He’s a problem for your claimed ‘research’, objections to ‘averages’ and surveys of 1000 people. The Central Limit Theorem. You cast your net around regional towns catch a few outliers on the price index, as you have done, but in order to demonstrate the prices are indicative of real experience in those areas you need more samples. The more samples you get the closer to the mean your results will become, and therefore closer to the actual experience of most people in the market. The other problem is despite claiming to have undertaken ‘research’ you have done nothing of the sort. You have started with a premise and then set about seeking confirmation of your premise, in doing so demonstrating a classic example of that other issue you mention ‘bias’, or more specifically, active confirmation bias.

Rather unlikely unless there’s a profit in applying a second layer of certification and adding costs of higher quality for a fractional part of the market.

The UKCA mark might have an application, it could be apply to products manufactured in the UK that meet lower UK standards but fail to meet EU standards. The mark of lower quality goods for the UK market. A real BREXIT benefit.

That only makes sense of you believe manufacturers are going to be applying two sets of standards, by definition an increases cost and paperwork. Clearly this is a significant BREXIT U-Turn, the Government have given in to industry lobbyists. It’s another of those steps away from the impacts of BREXIT.

Wonderful news.

It’s not a ‘Domestic Arrangement’ it’s the continuing implementation of the EU CE mark by the UK, as lobbied for by UK manufacturers. And the ditching of the proposed UKCA mark. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/ce-ukca/

Maybe someone knows something you don’t: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/property/what-farmers-insurances-exit-means-for-florida-insurance-market-452475.aspx

Nonsense, accurate reliable temperature measurement was achieved and has been standard for well over a century. And the understanding of the impact of measuring conditions is also well established measurement science.

Accurate temperature measurements where achieved and standard technical ability well before 100 years ago.

Middle aged men fixated on a teenager and fanaticizing over her being ‘handled’. Give that the thought it deserves.

Isn’t that the kind of personal experience/anecdote of the kind you yourself so often base your posts on?

The interesting thing about this latest BREXIT climbdown is the fact that keeping the CE certification requires keeping the laws, regulations and standards upon which the CE certification is founded.

A Grief Observed, C S Lewis.

The failure in care provision continues apace: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/31/families-caring-for-dementia-patients-in-uk-reaching-crisis-point-says-charity

Well yes of course, that’s how cults are.

Wonder if Donny will get the Pool Guy to run as his VP?

Did I say I have no experience of care services? I don’t think I did.

Biden isn’t ranting day and night on Twitter, I’ll give you that.

I suggest observing carers at work before imagining robots doing the caring. However, AI is already reducing job opportunities, particularly amongst office based and professional service workers, perhaps in the future these people might move into care work. However, those same jobs lost to AI are also a loss to income tax receipts, so how would care be paid for. There is a clear need for a radical rethink on how care is provided and funded. Care work is an essential function within society, it’s high time it got the political attention and funding it deserves.

Did I say it was?

Indeed, many do, and many do not. Very many carers are unpaid and receive no benefits, and are often not family members but friends and neighbours.

More on the impacts of failing care provisions on the NHS: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1716772/social-care-crisis-hospital-beds-NHS-crisis-ambulance/amp

I think I’d watch the program before deciding what an eye, trained or otherwise, sees.

You’ll not get any arguments from me regarding one’s responsibilities to one’s parents. Though I have observed it’s not something all agree with: