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The Times are doing multiple stories on a daily basis. It's fucking horrendous what was going on in Downing Street.

How anyone in the Tory party ever thought that Johnson was fit to lead is mind-blowing. His record in pretty much every job he had before that were massive red flags.

The Narcissism of Cummings though is also astounding, he obviously just thinks that he is so much better than everyone else and had never made a wrong decision in his life.

I often struggle with some of my friends who are quite hardcore vegan from an animal cruelty direction and also do a lot of drugs to the point of microdosing and most activities requiring some form of drug to enjoy it. They just completely disconnect from any of the trade side of it/have a view that humans make the choice to get into the industry whereas animals don't which I tell them is bullshit but it wont stop them.

The animals born on a farm have about as much of a choice as the people born in narco territory, and they’re all viewed as consumables by their respective overlords.

That's mental, Mach 1 is 666.7knots or 1234.86kph.

aka almost the speed of sound

Mach 1 is 666.7knots

At sea level. It’s about 574kt at 39,000’.

However, the speed of sound is relative to the local air mass so a strong tailwind doesn’t make a difference.

Yes, but they obviously won't get close to Mach 1 air speed because they're in a massive tailwind.

The record for a 747 seems to be 825mph / 1328kph ground speed, but they obviously didn't pass Mach 1 air speed.

https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-747-825-mph/

Air speed not ground speed though...

Mach 1 delivery services?

Not likely to admit to fuckups that could land you in trouble though are you? Nobody is that dumb.

I'm loving that what used to be undocumented face to face conversations that could easily be denied as ever having taken place are now fully discoverable thanks to government by Whatsap.

Sky News had a recently retired after a 30 year career at the Foreign Office civil servant who was wondering why no-one remembered the "never write anything down you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the Daily Mail" advice he was given at the start of his career.

Johnson not fit to lead is a surprise? After his mayorship of London?

Proof that with the media behind you...

Exactly. If the covid enquiry achieves anything it will be that these conversations go back to happening in a non dredgeable way.

I'm a civil servant - all the juicy chat happens on Teams - which deletes after 5 days.

Oh really? NHS Teams chats do not delete at all and we are all under the same instance of it.

It deletes from your end…

I don’t even use WhatsApp with close colleagues, to say anything I don’t want to have to defend.

Since you mention NHS Teams... I was gobsmacked last week to discover my brother, an NHS physio, can login to his NHS account and see all kinds of confidential patient information with only a username and password. WTF?

Just double checked the data retention policy, it's 15 days rather than 5 - but says after that it's deleted and can't be accessed under FOI requests etc.

Its a feature not a bug. I'm in finance so no patient records for me, but it would be the same role based access to patient records you have on the main hospital system just in Teams instead.

https://support.nhs.net/knowledge-base/viewing-patient-records-in-microsoft-teams/

But you can get into a lot of bother if you look up patient data that you are not legitimately allowed to within the remit of your role.

I'm a civil servant - all the juicy chat happens on Teams - which deletes after 5 days.

Is it gone for ever? Presumably it's archived somewhere. Our chat (corporate) has to be kept for n-number of years for audits

It absolutely does not delete!

Its been used to provide evidence in grievances etc at work and that was way, way over 5 days.

But where is the MFA to make sure it is actually my brother accessing the account and no someone that has got hold of his password?

I'm not worried about my brother but someone getting his password, perhaps some sort of social engineering attack, and then doing naughty things.

It's mandatory on all new NHS mail accounts set up from October and existing accounts have to enable by Mar 24.

I enabled it on my account a while ago.