jibberjim.bsky.social
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Ah, think how more persuasive it will be "Mark, you haven't closed the door properly, your ice cream is melting" rather than just a beep, beep, beep. That's so annoying, you'll never forget again.
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How many prosecutions have happened because of those dupes? How do those honest businesses do PAYE for these bogus individuals without it being obvious to HMRC? It doesn't feel very credible to me.
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It's true though - no-one wants to cold call people, no-one wants to be cold called, so this does seemed to have solved half the problem - now I need to get funding and launch my AI bot which gets cold-called, and can hang up on this one. Everyone's then happy!
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They're advertisements for AI companies, convincing you "everyone" is using it, to create for of missing out and generating use to justify the valuations. Occasional use on make-weight essays is completely different to the implied use...
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Too many bars in the UK refuse to take cash now, just credit/debit cards, nothing else, probably the biggest non-cash sector.
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But it would get lots of comments from rural North Americans going who wouldn't?
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Starmer will convince some UK university to do a "deal", just like he did for Trump on trade...
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I think we clearly do have an AI industry, loads of lobbyists and PR people, and media-types, are making all sorts of money from AI, don't undervalue their hard work in the grift.
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Exactly, now you've got the obese mouse or a cheese obsessed massive semi-aquatic killer on your conscience, it's not good, these scientists are crazy.
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Don't give them ideas!
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Get rid of employee NI entirely, roll it into income tax - exempting pensioners who got their wealth because of being under-taxed in the past in unconciousable, and there's no argument for income from labour to be taxed at a much higher rate than other income.
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To me it's more like Reform are the reaction to that politics, the failure, lack of competence and own chasing of attention of the existing parties over the recent past, have set the framework for reform to work in. Simply compentent other parties would not have give rise to protest parties.
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Of course there's no resistance, it's a thing any country wants to do, it's why Brit's already use the e-gates in Canada say. To me it's *bad politics* still, just claiming as a political triumph what should be a boring technical agreement between a couple officials on documentation formats.
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Remember 2nd order impact too, the plumber/electrician taking the contract from the bod who works in the corporate office needs to keep doing a good professional job 'cos they're a massive contract for them. Hobby landlord they can dick around/cheap out on knowing it don't matter.
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But he wouldn't, he'd pay huge amounts more than it's worth to water shareholders, maintain the current CEO's, increase their bonuses, and then put up bills on the poorest. He (and his advisors) are just incompetent, so doesn't matter the policy.
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No use in teens here either - I think there's either a lot of use in US (continuous assessment where your GPA matters more maybe?) or there's a deliberate push by AI boosters to make out that everyone is using it, to get everyone to use it... I suspect the latter.
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Too right, they'll get way too invested in synth-pop, stop going on about generational politics and start moaning about the scene's not the same since the Hacienda closed.
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If it could work for Tom and Barbara in Surbiton in the Seventies, I'm sure it can work today! You just need some faith.
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Ireland's 54% vs the UK's 51% is pretty much just age demographics isn't it? As a younger country, the higher proportion of older people who didn't have the chance to get a degree reduces the UK's. "Have a degree" stat is mostly just a proxy for age in the wards here.
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In the UK where Van Tulleken is, normal table salt is not iodised at all, and most supermarkets wouldn't stock any that was even - although you can buy it if you really want to - it's a lot more expensive.
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c'mon, where's the corks on the hat? Where's the "kangaroos at polling station" photo? Were they really trying?
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No, increased income tax, income from work should not be taxed higher than other income, and certainly no reason at all that age should impact tax rates.
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Indeed, stockpiling normally increases GDP by bringing the activity forward into the current quarter - as we saw pre Brexit - with companies bringing forward production to build the stockpiles, and extra shipping, unloading etc.
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Nah, UK drones can stay airborne for 20 hours and have "full sensor suite, with targeting, daylight TV and infrared capabilities" www.raf.mod.uk/aircraft/rea... dunno why they're talking about crushing the vehicles though, there's 4 missiles right there...
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I fear the political parties are captured by polling and focus-groups, and the polling and focus-groups are captured/influenced/unconciously biased away from actual reality so you just get this nonsense.
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IAG are in a revenue/cost sharing deal with American Airlines for all TATL flight though, so the losses will be shared a bit...
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I saw this one! youtu.be/piSpHDPT5UU
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Actually more of a negative for me I'm afraid, whilst I 100% agree it's wrong to play loud music, the liberal party becoming more authoritarian is the negative, I don't want authoritarianism more than I dislike having to go "could you turn that down?" or tutting annoyingly.
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What happens when you take a 30day rolling average or something so that you're not comparing "easter 2025" with "irrelevant time 2024" (and the reverse before) ?
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Instant coffee is a different drink to coffee, it tastes sort of similar for sure, but it's not the same, so yes coffee made from fresh ground beans in the espresso machine, or instant coffee in 1 minute. I'm in the UK though so only a bit European
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I keep thinking I should re-subscribe to the economist, and your words often encourage it with insightful thoughts, and then there's just credulous AI boosterism, and I quickly stop myself.
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I think in all optimist/pessimist questions though women report to be more pessimistic (e.g. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), so there may be that men are more pessimistic about this than they normally are about things?
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In en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somethi... the main character does at one point have trouble "being intimate" with her husband due to the readers of the book reading. Fortunately the chapter ended though...
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McDonald has an island now? Did the seas rise and cut off his farm? Understandable that he diversified into penguins, but I really don't know the noise they make.
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I assume the old vs new is actually just a reflection of age of the voters?
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Yes, a depressing piece, straight up only talked to LLM salesmen and grifters clearly.
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It'll achieve stories in the media and votes from pensioners who believe that "young people" are malingerers. Purely the aim.
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Ah but Termination Shock was more successful, so maybe it depends which solar engineering fiction you choose...
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Nope, it destroys his credibility, the electorate think Trump is an idiot, that he doesn't says he's incompetent, it will prevent him doing anything in the UK. A good politician would say those things in private to Trump (if they were necessary), not be made to look like an idiot, or a fool.
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It would certainly be worse, *but* you can't blame people for not rewarding failure, or a conclusion that getting rid of the current party appratus, could lead to a change in those parties. A "it would be even worse with them" is an abhorrant political strategy.
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A Mayor does not close the beaches for shark activity! There's been oscar winning documentaries filmed about it. So even if they said shark activity, it must be something else!
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At least it's a quick escape!
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I think it's just every political party wants to do lots of authoritarian shit, probably a focus group told them it was really popular.
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Good job by the 20pacer this week though
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The point was to share it with others, so as to advertise the service, it was also probably a fun hack for a dev for a week or so, before the endless product management meetings...
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We had one in our hallway too, I will have to investigate if my dad still has it, or if he shipped it to Canada at some point in the past.