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Occasional reminder that until very recently the telephone network was designed to continue running uninterrupted in the event of a mass power cut.
Choices were made.
🚨 NEW: The Government's "Black Sky" contingency plans for a national water or power blackout
- Around 100 BBC staff would be deployed to run an emergency RM radio studio stocked with enough food, water and fuel to keep it running for 3 days
- The BBC would broadcast pre-written Government scripts through the studio, including how to ration water, what to do if toilets stop working and which food to eat first (see scripts below)
- Radio masts would switch to diesel generators to keep broadcasts going for up to 72 hours without electricity
- BBC teams would use satellite phones to stay in contact, with agreed meeting points and backup arrangements if those phones stop working
- They would also report from emergency centres across the UK using satellite-equipped BBC vehicles to help keep information flowing to the public
- Emergency services would have alternative ways to communicate if mobile phone networks stopped working
- The Government is putting £70m towards aircraft that could restore mobile phone and internet coverage across the UK for over a week
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Insane soft launching
🚨 NEW: The Government's "Black Sky" contingency plans for a national water or power blackout
- Around 100 BBC staff would be deployed to run an emergency RM radio studio stocked with enough food, water and fuel to keep it running for 3 days
- The BBC would broadcast pre-written Government scripts through the studio, including how to ration water, what to do if toilets stop working and which food to eat first (see scripts below)
- Radio masts would switch to diesel generators to keep broadcasts going for up to 72 hours without electricity
- BBC teams would use satellite phones to stay in contact, with agreed meeting points and backup arrangements if those phones stop working
- They would also report from emergency centres across the UK using satellite-equipped BBC vehicles to help keep information flowing to the public
- Emergency services would have alternative ways to communicate if mobile phone networks stopped working
- The Government is putting £70m towards aircraft that could restore mobile phone and internet coverage across the UK for over a week
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What happens if the internet goes down? BlackSky - the UK's emergency backup plans bbc.in/4BLDC3u
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The fact they avoid northern France but visit southern England is not mere happenstance. The French have no doubt done something terrible to the Raven which we are not privy to
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my favourite thing about rescued baby walruses is that its geniunely critical to their health that they are cuddled 24/7 for like two years
just clinically clingy blobs
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There is a common view that medieval people adapted to high child mortality by becoming more emotionally distant from them.
Modern scholarship has demolished this: medieval people loved their children just as much as us, made vast sacrifices for them, and expected little in return.
So the @SevaUT is directionally right here in saying that medieval people went about permanently traumatised. Most people had three or four children, of whom one or two died. This was torment for them.
The shadow of death over English childhood did not lift with the passing of the Middle Ages. My great-grandmother, whom I knew well, was born in 1906, when 15% of children died in their first year, against 25% in the Middle Ages. My grandmother, who is still alive, was the only one of her several siblings to survive her first year. The past is very near.
Recent essay on this by @SCP_Hughes worksinprogress.co/issue/did…
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"increase burden on firms"
And it's simply stating the wage in a job advertisement.
What a genuinely pathetic boot licking take to have
Got my visit to my central London optician in to get my old lady glasses ordered and back in time to not get fined at the Sainsbury’s car park. A win, honestly.
Why would you buy this for your kid in the first place? It looks like shit
AI teddy for three-year-olds makes unprompted 'I can't help with killing you' remark bbc.in/3WosDgo
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The idea that the Chinese thought 19th c Brits were born and lived their whole lives at sea is very funny
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"He committed rape and sexual assault and he's been sent to prison. This is political correctness gone mad" writes a walking red flag
