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A new Dutch study has revealed that there is really no way to avoid a hangover after a night on the sauce.
According to the BBC, researchers asked more than 800 students how they usually tried to beat hangovers - 54% said they ate greasy food after a night of drinking, but admitted that this had little “meaningful” impact on them the next day.
The same applied to people who said they drank water throughout the night, or had a big glass before they went to bed.
Lead author of the study, Dr Joris Verster from Utrecht University, said:
Drinking water may help against thirst and a dry mouth, but it will not take away the misery, the headache and the nausea.
Research has concluded that [a hangover] is not simply dehydration – we know the immune system is involved, but before we know what causes it, it’s very unlikely we’ll find an effective cure.
The only way to avoid a hangover, he says? Drinking less alcohol.
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Ah that’s nonsense we won’t need population control. Automation will improve our resource efficiency. We will need to restructure society though and the teething process will be very painful. Massive unemployment but gradually people will start to grow up knowing menial jobs just aren’t an option ambition to higher callings will be almost universal. We’ll need massive redistribution of wealth to stop people being left destitute. Socialism might be a dirty word in America but its the only answer in a world where the working class is completely redundant.
In short don’t read those damn stones read Ian M. Banks brilliant “Culture” novels
@ciaran how exactly will this wealth be distributed? You think the multi billionaires of this world who discuss issues like this in secret are going to willingly hand over their monopoly of power?
Robots will never be able to take the place of consumers, someone will still have to buy these gadgets and a redundant working class would be counter productive.
Graham they won’t really have a choice but to allow for massive redistribution the majority of businesses would be devastated by the collapse in demand that would be inevitable when hundreds of thousands are made redundant. They need it as much as the people would
It’s all just a stop gap though our ultimate goal should be death of scarcity. When there is no limit to what we can create, no finite resources to compete over then the concept of value as most people see it changes fundamentally. As I mentioned in my last post the Culture series has some great ideas on what a civilisation without scarcity, without restrictions, might look like.
Hi Ciaran. I’ve been banging on about this for years. Iain Banks was a brilliant author and the Culture novels envision a believable future rather than the dystopian stuff that is so prevalent nowadays. As more and more people chase fewer and fewer jobs some employers with the approval of the government and cheers from the right wing press can drive down wages and outsource overseas. There needs to be a total rethink when it comes to protectionism.
And a government with the guts to face reality when it comes to employment would be refreshing.
In the long run, with the advent of more work being automated the ranks of the not working will grow. We need more facilities to help people lead lives where they feel part of society irrespective of whether they are working or not.
Even the word unemployed has connotations of there being employment available.
I remember Bertie Ahern giving a speech about ten years ago about how the population of Ireland would be double by 2020 and that is why we needed so much more housing stock and people from the new EU could tries to do all the crap jobs so we could cream off the rest. We can see how that worked out.
I see no chance of change with the political class we have. There is just no one prepared to admit the truth.
But the future will arrive whether they like it or not.
Iain Banks Culture novels should be required reading for the political classes and a future to aim for. Instead we just get them spouting the same old rubbish.
The reality is that the less human labour involved in production and services means less value is created, which means less money going to workers and therefore an increase in poverty generally. More people more poverty more social decay. I’m all for automation and the reduction of laborious tasks but under capitalism that becomes a negative as wealth in isolated in the hands of the few, therefore we need to do away with this ridiculous system and build a system based on human need not profits for a minority. Capitalism is a rotting corpse the only future for mankind is to break with this antiquated system of greed, war and environmental destruction.
Hmm, why all the red thumbs for full communism and a bunch of green thumbs for anarchy? They essentially mean the same thing. Just goes to show that people don’t understand what communism is
Proofreaders are already going. Web-based media doesn’t think it needs proofers (and it shows) while many newspapers and magazines can no longer afford them.
The shame here though is that while a robot could check for grammar and spelling it couldn’t account for what makes a good sentence andr therefore can’t provide valuable constructive criticism.
I fear for the bus drivers more than these guys. We will have self-driving cars and ships soon. It won’t be much longer before that translates to buses and trucks.
In fact I’d say those jobs will be replaced long before proof readers.
Yea sounds good, robots never go on strike,so no need for unions, will work 24 /7 for peanuts, and when the time comes instead of a huge public service pension pay off, they just head for the recycling centre saving the taxpayers a fortune,and best of all tax rates could be slashed.
The likes of the Dart and Luas could be automated within a few years, the ground work is there, they are on a fixed line so less of a worry for them to stray. As for the Luas though more so that would have to wait because there is a worrying amount of people who for some reason think that they can drive through them still.
Wouldn’t worry too much about jobs being replaced by machines.. People will install machines, people will fix machines, people will invent machines. We might live in an “automated” world, but machines work on logic and cannot fully adapt to the unexpected. Although to be fair.. Machines will “work late on Friday and won’t call in sick on Monday “.. But where’s the craic in that :-)
Foxcom have 10,000 robots for pick and place objects – each robot costs $20,000 which makes them easy to replace humans, they also have larger robots for packaging and shipping perpetration which are more complex and much more expensive. It makes delivery of large quantities of phones feasible and once the production runs are finished they switch of the machines. Brilliant but robots are already causing problems for unemployed unskilled people.
Governments have accepted the system and accepted high levels of unemployment, the rich get richer.
The big corporations are only interested in profits and what better way to boost profits than having machines instead of people, machines that can work 24/7, never get sick, no unions or pay demands, but as a result unemployment will soar and who then can afford to buy their goods.
If the society we live in made any sense at all then increased automation would mean increased leisure time for all, as it should support maintained productivity (i.e. same wages – why not?) with fewer working hours.
Instead, of course, corporation owners & billionaire powers that be show their greed again by deciding this is an opportunity for them to get richer than ever before, disposing of employees as if their only value was as machines all along, and paying those who aren’t fired less than ever just because they can.
This flawed capitalist model makes no sense. Demand is manufactured so that products can be sold to workers persuaded to enslave themselves purely so they can afford to buy said products that were never needed until demand was manufactured.
We should have more free time than ever before. Instead, we have less than ever. We are better equipped than ever to end poverty, instead the gap between wealthiest & poorest is increasingly dramatically all the time.
This system is rotten to the core, and robots are definitely not the problem. It’s time our society separated the value of the human lives that it is made of from their economic work. Economics should support us, and not the other way around!
I remember in the seventies when there was a great fuss and to do about how to prepare the working classes (and others) for the unlimited leisure which was just around the corner as robots were going to all the work “any day now “. The problem was going to be how to prevent boredom and discontent – the good news was all material needs would be met! 8-)
more leisure time, ! less work ! that would make half the contributors on here just like the welfare classes they hate so much !!! what will they have to give out about when that happens ?
and what difference does that make michael ? do you think that big businesses are going to say to their boards of directors and shareholders, “of course you do know we can’t do this sort of thing in Ireland dont you?”, get real man !
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