chrismwheeler.bsky.social
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I also think age of platform comes into this. Twitter has been going so much longer that when you see X followers it might be only 1/4 X that are still on the platform, but most followers on here are still here due to being a younger platform. As you say, it’s number of reads that matter
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Clearly hiding behind the camera's shooting the clips.
That'll be why ICE was shooting at people recording them.
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Even if they could manage x10 Russia wouldn’t believe it, so could invade anyway. It wouldn’t be a deterrent.
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And at a similar time, more than 100% of Britons where white.
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On the plus side, at least I can see the attempts by the router to call in and register that there is a phone, and the 50x server side errors when it tries. So pretty clear issue isn't this end!
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Meanwhile, phone line is dead, no route to fix it.
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Since then I've been a Quality Engineer (Rubber component company), then lots of different IT jobs (project management, support team lead, IT manager, programming, networking, infrastructure, consulting). So many different products and skillsets!
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In school I specialised in Maths, Physics and Technical graphics. I then planned to do an Engineering degree, but spent a year off first to work in computer graphics at a research company. After the degree, where I specialised in Computer Engineering, I was unemployed for 15 months ('92 recession).
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My view has always been that in most education, you get taught some fundamentals, and how to learn and evaluate, but once you start working you'll be learning stuff you've never encountered before within days if not hours.
These days you probably also won't be using the same skills in all your jobs
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To make sure Russia knows, so will have to search all containers/trucks continuously, when they don't plan to use this tactic again (unless Russia doesn't search).
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And then work out how to turn it into one that will check executive power.
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And yes, I know NHS would prefer to treat those in greatest need first, but this way you end up treating more of those in greatest need.
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It won't be a traditional approach, but I'd start with those not currently working for the NHS who have medical skills, but have treatable health issues that prevent them working, and put them absolutely front of the queue for NHS treatment to increase capacity.
Repeat for each in demand area.
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Labour need to step up, particularly the poorest, and need to work out how to deliver better lives even if growth doesn't happen.
That might mean tax changes, but honestly, stop thinking about the money and think about people. If we don't have the people with skills we need, how do we get them?
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In 1800 we were on the edge of starvation constantly, riddled with disease, and a lot shorter. We'd basically been there for thousands of years. Basically worse than the poorest now, but it was most of us. There is no guarantee those times can't return.
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To be fair, he is also making it clear that Fraud shouldn't be a crime, which would get him out of a load of legal cases.
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High power word prediction doesn’t reason
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So as far as I can see the best parts of AI are the medical screening ones, which don't hit the copyright issues. This seems to be arguing about making a better crap image or unhelpful chatbot, or some prose that seems to make sense until you think about it. Which doesn't sound worth the sacrifice.
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Would also be good if public toilets didn’t keep getting closed after 5pm or closed entirely!
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It is the way to reduce migration however.
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But none who have also left once
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But no one in their right mind would default on US debt and give up all that hard won reputation!
Hang on a moment.
Sorry, my mistake, nothing to read here.
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We aren’t back in the EU til all the major UK parties (and EU) want us back. That will be a while . . .
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I’m guessing yes, because according to US law not selling to Isreal leads to being blacklisted by the US, which is a huge potential loss of sales for UK arms manufacturers. And yes, this is the only third party that the US protects in this way.
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It is a chance towards a richer and/or more fulfilled life, but not a guarantee.
Not a criticism of your post, just a personal bugbear.
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It’s one of those weird prosperity things. We don’t eat the local produce (oily fish) as much post war as we can afford foreign produce (white fish). The opposite is true in some parts of EU.
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There is some truth to it. But foreign states trying to destabilise us don’t just argue these positions, they srgue as extremists on both sides to the arguments to fuel them.
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Most fish caught in UK waters was (is?) sold in the EU. Most fish sold in the UK is bought from the EU. We don’t eat much oily fish, but that is what is found in our waters. The white fish we eat comes from warmer climes.
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It is amazing that it wasn’t until after Brexit that people pointed out that most fish caught in UK waters was sold in the EU, and that most fish eaten in the UK comes from EU waters. We just don’t eat much oily fish!
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The day after the vote the first thing I hoped would happen was a discussion.
Do we want to be part of a major trading block? If so, which one?
Still waiting . . .
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Long term we need to hope that investment and technology lets us do more with less. as well as training becoming more available, especially post 25 (as many jobs don't last a lifetime any more).
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Maybe. Or maybe solar/wind just being so much cheaper than other power sources will win anyway.
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They do find those people via social media, and social media then amplifies the clips from those broadcasters/media.
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In the UK at least there is also the main broadcasters / media approaching everything by speaking to the most extreme people on each side of subjects, and just listening without criticism or correction of lies. If you don't push back on lies, the liars win, as they have simple messages.
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They've supressed the news well that the UK is putting critics in gulags and killing them.
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Shame a 90 day pause also just puts any investment or purchasing decisions where the period that matters is greater than 90 days (ie most of them) on hold for an extra 90 days!
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I regret to inform you that blaming immigrants for the situation of the working class has a long history in Labour.
I've still usually voted for them, the parties are broad churches and all have their undesirable parts.
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On a rewatch it also has some surprisingly tight writing. Especially Luke doing exactly what he said Rey was asking of him that he rebuffed early on. I was shocked how much I enjoyed it the second time around. The first time it just seemed to be breaking expectations, predictably.
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Unless his plan is to go full anti-migrant and collapse the economy entirely followed by a backlash against these policies that destroys Reform, Tories and Labour for a generation, I can't see how this helps anyone other than Reform.
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I think we were good at things, it's just that being early to do things (like industrialisation) means you get the infrastructure from before lessons were learned. It also means it's older. So you need to invest to bring things back to everyone else's level of above. And we haven't.
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It’s really hard to judge from traveller data, because most people that arrive leave, and visa versa. Millions of passengers a week, compared with immigration at hundreds of thousands per year. The data just isn’t accurate enough.
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I think it was more that there aren’t checkpoints between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Which of course is true. But not where most migration comes from by a long way! (Which is working visas)
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Or if they do, it'll put some out of business, others will just cut back on investment or staff, or reduce choice, or just stop selling anything low margin.
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No, it's one of the reasons it's frequently inaccurate. They do however monitor people coming in and out of major ports and airports (at least during busy periods - they save money by not covering quiet periods).
If you want a non-government organisation to monitor people, what do you have in mind?
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Someone other than the government tracking people's movements in and out of the country? And who is and isn't paying taxes, and working, etc.
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On the plus side, we've had an extra river down our road from burst pipes around once a week across that whole time.
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That isn't a plus side is it?
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I'm just troubled by the fact that no one linked to the Mitchell and Webb conspiracy theory video on YouTube.
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I'm mostly looking forward to the time there is no longer churches covering up abuse, and promoting the people that covered up abuse, to the extend that one of them becomes Pope.